On This Week in Sport & Leisure History
23rd-29th September 2019
23rd Today at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 – among the events were the women’s Marathon and...
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Author: Margaret Roberts
On This Week in Sport & Leisure Leisure History
~ 9-15th September 2019 ~
9th English-American fencer Arthur Fox was born on this day in 1878 in Cowes on the Isle of Wight....
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On This Week in Sport & Leisure History
2nd-8th September 2019
~Cricket~
2nd Lily Poulett-Harris, who formed one of the first women’s teams in Australia and was...
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On This Week in Sport & Leisure History
~26th August-1st September 2019~
26th The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Serbia, was achieved in 1778,...
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On This Week in Sport & Leisure History ~ 19-25th August 2019
19th The Weisshorn was first climbed today in 1861 by the Irish physicist John Tyndall,...
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