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On This Day in Sport (29 March 2011):
1890: Blackburn's William Townley became the first man
to score a hat-trick in an FA Cup final, as Rovers trounced Sheffield
Wednesday 6-1.
1980: Three-time world champion Nelson Piquet won his
first grand prix, in the United States at Long Beach. It was the
first of 23 wins for Piquet who went on to win the world title in
1981, 1983 and 1987.
1981: The first London Marathon was staged. Britain's
Joyce Smith won the women's race while the men's title was shared by
American Dick Beardsley and Norwegian Inge Simonsen, who crossed the
line hand in hand.
1988: Lloyd Honeyghan became the first British boxer
since Ted `Kid' Lewis in 1917 to regain a world title, beating Jorge
Vaca of Mexico with a knockout in the third round of their WBC
welterweight bout at Wembley.
2000: The Football Association dished out record
£150,000 fines to Leeds and Tottenham for misconduct in their
Premiership clash in February.
2001: Sprinter John Skeete was banned for two years by
UK Athletics after failing a drug test, even though the governing
body accepted he was ``morally innocent''. Skeete's dietary
supplement had been tampered with.
2003: The Zimbabwe Cricket Union confirmed their tour
of England from May to July that year would go ahead, which allayed
fears of any tit-for-tat retaliation for England's decision not to
play their World Cup match in Harare earlier in the year because of
security fears.
2006: Liverpool confirmed talks with a number of
parties regarding future investment, with the club admitting that may
include a takeover bid. |
