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On This Day in Sport (26 December 2009):
1908: Texan Jack Johnson became the world's first
black heavyweight boxing champion. He was not allowed to fight in his
native America because of racial prejudice but travelled to Sydney
where he beat Canadian Tommy Burns when the referee stopped the fight
in the 14th round.
1935: Tranmere beat Oldham 13-4 at Prenton Park - a
record Football League scoreline. Centre-forward Bunny Bell also went
into the record books by scoring nine of Tranmere's goals, but that
mark lasted only four months before Luton Town's Joe Payne scored 10
against Bristol Rovers.
1963: A phenomenal 66 goals were scored on one day in
the First Division of the Football League.
1970: Track athlete Lillian Board died of cancer, aged
only 22. Board had been a 400m silver medallist at the 1968 Olympics
and won the 800m European title in Athens the following year.
1979: A crowd of 49,309 for the Sheffield derby at
Hillsborough became a record for the Football League's old Third Division.
2005: Hernan Crespo scored a spectacular late winner
to earn Chelsea a 3-2 win over Fulham and keep them on course for the
Premiership title.
2006: Australian leg-spinning great Shane Warne became
the first bowler in Test cricket history to claim 700 wickets, when
he dismissed England's Andrew Strauss in Melbourne. |
