1980
Canadian athlete Terry Fox embarked on an east-to-west "Marathon of Hope" from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a prosthetic leg to raise funds for cancer research
Moments & milestones
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1992
1992 Football League Cup Final — won by Manchester United F.C
Born on this day
- 1978 Fahed Al-Mofarij Saudi Arabian footballer Saudi
- 1989 Abdulaziz Alsibyani Footballer Saudi
- 1986 Naif Al-Balawi Association football player Saudi
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1992
Rebin Sulaka
Iraqi association football player (born 1992) Photo: Explicit / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 Arab
- 1982 Tamer Bayoumi Taekwondo practitioner Arab
- 1992 Mohammad Al-Dawud Jordanian footballer Arab
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1954
Noureddine Kourichi
Algerian footballer Photo: The original uploader was Sandervalya at French Wikipedia. / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5 Arab
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1981
Qusay Munir
Iraqi footballer Photo: Mahdi123456 / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain Arab
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1948
Marcello Lippi
Italian association football player and manager Photo: International Journalism Festival / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 World
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1990
Hiroki Sakai
Japanese association football player Photo: Светлана Бекетова / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 World
Died on this day
- 2025 Abubaker Kaki Khamis Athletics competitor, middle distance runner Arab
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1981
Joe Louis
American boxer (1914-1981) Photo: Associated Press / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain World
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2001The Australia national men's soccer team sets a world record for the largest victory in an international association football match, winning the game 31–0 against American Samoa at the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers for OFC. Australia's Archie Thompson also breaks the record for most goals scored by a player in an international match by scoring 13 goals
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1997In golf, 21-year-old Tiger Woods became the youngest player to win the Masters Tournament, breaking the record for the lowest four-round score