Author: Margaret Roberts

17th – The first British Golf Open Championship was played at Prestwick in 1860. Eight men...

10th- In 1892 the entire Hong Kong National Cricket Team died in a shipwreck off Taiwan when the...

3rd – The first Inter-county women’s cricket match took place in 1811 when Hampshire and Surrey...

26th – Australian Test Cricketer Ian Chappell was born on the day in 1943. The older brother of...

19th – Czechoslovak athlete Emil Zatopek was born in 1922. An outstanding distance runner, winning...