1932 - The first use of the word “bodyline”, on the first day of the first cricket Test at the Sydney Cricket Grounds. Hugh Buggy sent his copy to the Melbourne Age using the phrase “body-line bowling” and his sub-editor, Ray Robinson, appeared to shorten this to one word. It was quickly picked up on. In the match itself Australia batted, and the sixth ball of Harold Larwood’s first over -to an orthodox field- almost took Bill Woodfull’s head off. Bill Ponsford and a padded Jack Fingleton also took painful blows

[caption id="attachment_176926" align="alignnone" width="457"] Australia batsman Bill Woodfull loses his bat whilst playing a delivery from England fast-bowler Harold Larwood during the infamous “Bodyline” series in the January 1933 photo[/caption]

1945 - Birth of the first man to take a One-Day International (ODI) cricket wicket. Australia’s Alan “Froggy” Thomson has Geoff Boycott caught by Bill Lawry at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds in 1970-71

1950 - South African world bantamweight boxing champion Vic Toweel sets a record for knockdowns in a title fight against Englishman Danny Sullivan in Johannesburg by flooring the latter 14 times in 10 rounds before the fight stopped

1973 - Birth of Yugoslavian-American female tennis legend Monica Seles who won nine Grand Slam singles titles, eight of them as a teenager representing Yugoslavia

[caption id="attachment_176927" align="alignnone" width="420"] Aged 16 and 6 months, Monica Seles became the youngest Grand Slam singles winner in the Open Era (since 1968) by winning the 1990 French Open, only to be surpassed by Martina Hingis seven years later[/caption]

1979 - Birth of a Pakistani all-rounder Abdul Razzaq

1993 - Houston Rockets score a 94-85 win over the Knicks at New York’s Madison Square Garden, recording their 15th straight National Basketball Association (NBA) win

2008 - Manchester United’s Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo wins his first FIFA Ballon d’Or while Barcelona forward Lionel Messi came in second

2019 - Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wins his record 6th FIFA Ballon d’Or