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On This Day - 30 August

29 Aug 2021

     

1921 - Birth of American boxing trainer and cornerman Angelo Dundee. He was the trainer of Muhammad Ali during 1960-81 and 15 other world boxing champions. Dundee passed away in 2012

[caption id="attachment_157976" align="alignnone" width="424"] American boxing trainer Angelo Dundee (on left), the iconic trainer of Muhammad Ali (right) during 1960-81[/caption]

1967 - Birth New Zealand mistral sailor Barbara Kendall. She won Olympic gold 1992, silver 1996, bronze 2000

1972 - Slalom canoeing was introduced at the Munich Olympics with East Germany winning all four events

1979 - In that wild US Open tennis encounter, John McEnroe beats former Romanian world No. 1 Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Yet Năstase was defaulted by the chair umpire before he was reinstated by referee in a bizarre sequence of events

[caption id="attachment_157978" align="alignnone" width="461"] The wild encounter at the 1979 US Open. In the fourth set, Nastase (on left) inexplicably flicked off the cap of the net-cord judge. When he continuously refused to resume play, chair umpire Frank Hammond forfeited the match to McEnroe, setting up a firestorm within the crowd. In the end, Hammond was removed from the chair. McEnroe (2nd from right) won. Nastase was given a reprieve[/caption]

1979 - On this day against India, Ian Botham scored his 1,000th Test run to go with his 100 wickets. It was his 21st Test, making him the fastest to the double. He broke the record of India’s Vinoo Mankad, who got there in his 23rd

1987 - Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman’s record 2.09 m (6’ 10½”), one of the most long-standing records in athletics

[caption id="attachment_157979" align="alignnone" width="422"] On30 August 1987, Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria set a long-standing high jump woman’s record of 2.09 m[/caption]

1997 - At US Open, Greg Rudaski became the first to serve two 141 mph serves in a match

2012 - Andy Roddick announces he will retire following the US Open. Incidentally, the 2003 US Open champion was born on this day in 1982

2017 - Bangladesh won their first Test against Australia in a thrilling low-scorer in Mirpur. Shakib Al Hasan, the No. 1 all-rounder across formats at the time, became only the second player after Richard Hadlee to score a half-century and take ten wickets more than once in Test cricket

 

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