1965 - Birth of Kenyan seamer Rajab Ali who inspired probably the biggest shock in cricket history - on Leap Year Day in 1996, he took 3/17 as Kenya astonishingly bowled out West Indies for 93, to beat them by 73 runs in their World Cup match in Pune, India
[caption id="attachment_174543" align="alignnone" width="454"] Rajab Ali (facing camera) who took 3/17 as Kenya bowled out West Indies for 93, to beat them by 73 runs in a 1996 World Cup match in Pune[/caption]1978 - Sunil Gavaskar makes 137 but India fell apart at the hands of Sarfraz Nawaz (5/70) and Pakistan completed an eight-wicket win when they chased down 164 with seven balls to spare to clinch their first series victory against India
1986 - Ultimate boxing legend Muhammad Ali (44) weds Yolanda Williams
[caption id="attachment_174544" align="alignnone" width="455"] Muhammad Ali with wife Yolanda Williams[/caption]1989 - German tennis No. 1 Steffi Graf regains the her World Tennis Association (WTA) Tour Championship in New York, U.S.A. beating Martina Navratilova 6-4, 7-5, 2-6, 6-2
2000 - An emotional day for Allan Donald, who became the first South African to take 300 Test wickets, during the first Test against New Zealand
2017 - Death of Czech Republic tennis player Jana Novotná, who ahd won the women’s singles title at Wimbledon in 1998. She was aged 49 when she died of cancer
2019 - LeBron James hits 25 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 assists as LA Lakers beat Oklahoma City Thunder 112-107 to become first player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) history to record a triple-double against all 30 franchises
[caption id="attachment_174546" align="alignnone" width="358"] LeBron James (on right) hits 25 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 assists as LA Lakers beat Oklahoma City Thunder in 2019 NBA[/caption]20 November
1918 - Birth of Dora Ratjen in Germany, a man posing as a woman high jumper who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
[caption id="attachment_174545" align="alignnone" width="356"] Dora Ratjen, the German ‘gentleman’ who posed as a woman high jumper at Olympics[/caption]1955 - Polly Umrigar scored India’s first Test double-century in the first Test against New Zealand in Hyderabad
1969 - A century on debut for the classy Gundappa Viswanath, against Australia in Kanpur
1969 - Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1987 - Birth of Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon
1991 - Another West Indian birthday. The aggressive Jermaine Blackwood is born today
2009 - Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first man to make 30,000 international runs, on the final day of the first Test between India and Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad