# ACHIEVEMENTS / HISTORIC EVENTS
1949 - West Indies batsman Everton Weekes set a world record scoring 101 runs in Calcutta to complete a sequence of scoring a century in each of five consecutive Test innings
1981 - American golfer Johnny Miller wins the sport’s first $ 1 million tournament when he beats Seve Ballesteros of Spain in a playoff in the inaugural ‘Million Dollar World Challenge’ at Sun City, South Africa
1991 - Wayne Gretzky becomes fastest and youngest player in National Hockey League (NHL) history to score 700 goals at the age of 29 years and 342 days
1997 - Zimbabwean seamer Eddo Brandes took 5/28, including three in three balls, against England in Harare as Zimbabwe sealed the One-Day International (ODI) series 3-0
2003 - Steve Waugh, playing his last Ashes Test, brought up his hundred off the final ball of the day, becoming only the third player, after Sunil Gavaskar and Allan Border, to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket
2016 - Jimmy Butler breaks Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls record for points in a National Basketball League (NBA) half, scoring 40 of his 42 points in the second half, to lead the Bulls in a 115-113 victory over Toronto Raptors
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Jimmy Butler (on right) breaks Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls record for points in an NBA half, scoring 40 of his 42 points in only the second half[/caption]
# UNUSUAL
1902 - Reggie Duff, who usually opened batting, hit 104 runs coming in at No. 10 to help Australia beat England in Melbourne. Only twice Test centuries have been scored by a No. 10 making his debut. He and fellow debutant Warwick Armstrong made Test cricket’s first century partnership for the last wicket
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Reggie Duff who scored 104 runs coming in at No. 10 on 3 January 1902 against England in Melbourne[/caption]
1929 - In Melbourne, Don Bradman made his maiden Test century, one of 19 against England, a record for any batter against any one country
2016 - Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow’s 399-run stand in Cape Town set a new record for the sixth wicket in Tests
# TRAGEDIES / ACCIDENTS
2008 - Death of South Korean boxer Yo-Sam Choi. On 25 December 2007, he successfully defended the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) intercontinental flyweight title. After the fight he dropped unconscious and later succumbed to the injuries
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South Korean boxer Yo-Sam Choi successfully defended the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) intercontinental flyweight title but after the fight, dropped unconscious and died later due to injuries[/caption]
# BIRTHS
1886 - Birth of Australian leg spinner Arthur Mailey, still the only bowler to take nine wickets in a Test innings for Australia - 9/121 against England in Melbourne
1969 - Birth of German Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacher