ON THIS DAY
1869: Ernest Michaux of France won the first international cycle race, held at Crystal Palace.
1962: Accrington Stanley were forced to withdraw from the Football League with 13 matches left of the season due to financial problems.
1971: American-born driver Mario Andretti claimed the first of his 12 grand prix wins, driving a Ferrari to victory in South Africa.
1976: Wilfredo Benitez of Puerto Rico became the youngest world boxing champion at the age of 17 years and 176 days when he beat Antonio Cervantes to win the WBA junior-welterweight title in San Juan.
2000: John Hartson's proposed £6million move from Wimbledon to Tottenham collapsed over doubts about a knee injury.
2004: World rugby champions England crashed to a shock 19-13 defeat by Ireland which ended their 22-game unbeaten run at Twickenham.
2006: Sunderland sacked manager Mick McCarthy, with the club bottom of the Barclays Premier League.
2008: England head coach Brian Ashton axed Danny Cipriani from his team to play Scotland for disciplinary reasons two days before the game, after the 20-year-old was photographed leaving a London nightclub at around 12.30am.
2009: David Beckham agreed a 'timeshare' agreement between LA Galaxy and AC Milan that allowed him to spend a large chunk of the following 15 months playing for the Serie A giants.
2012: Former England captain Lewis Moody, who was a World Cup winner in 2003, retired from rugby at the age of 33.
2015: Katarina Johnson-Thompson won gold and claimed the British record in the pentathlon at the athletics European Indoor Championships in Prague.
BIRTHDAYS
Dick Fosbury (athletics) - American who revolutionised high-jumping by leaping backwards over the bar to win 1968 Olympic gold medal, launching the term 'the Fosbury flop', born 1947.
Toni Schumacher (soccer) - Former West Germany goalkeeper, who dramatically collided with France's Patrick Battiston in the 1982 World Cup semi-final, born 1954.
Alison Nicholas (golf) - English winner of 1997 US Women's Open and Solheim Cup captain in 2009 and 2011, born 1962.
Shaquille O'Neal (basketball) - One of the most dominant players in NBA history, winning four championship titles with Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat, born 1972.
Giorgos Karagounis (soccer) - Former Fulham and Greece midfielder, born 1977.
Tim Howard (soccer) - Everton and United States goalkeeper, born 1979.
Charlie Mulgrew (soccer) - Celtic and Scotland midfielder, born 1986.
Kevin-Prince Boateng (soccer) - Former Tottenham and Portsmouth midfielder, currently with AC Milan, born 1987.
Simon Mignolet (soccer) - Liverpool and Belgium goalkeeper, born 1988.
Agnieszka Radwanska (tennis) - Polish player who was Wimbledon runner-up in 2012, born 1989.
Nathan Redmond (soccer) - Norwich's England Under-21 winger, born 1994.
QUICK QUIZ BLITZ
1 Who were the 2003 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winners and who did they beat?
2 Who scored Arsenal's first goal in their 2015 FA Cup final victory against Aston Villa?
3 Name the manager and captain of Derry's National GAA Football League-winning team of 2000.
4 In what year did Tiger Woods last win a golf major?
5 Who is the current London GAA senior football manager?
SPORT ON TV
Today
GAA: National Hurling League, Kerry v Wexford - TG4 1230; National Football League - Kerry v Donegal - TG4 1430.
SOCCER: Premier League, Crystal Palace v Liverpool - Sky Sports 1 1230, West Brom v Manchester United - Sky Sports 1 1530; Scottish Cup, Celtic v Morton - Sky Sports 2 1130; Primera Division, Real Betis v Granada - Sky Sports 5 1055, Sporting Gijon v Athletic Bilbao - Sky Sports 2 1710; Ligue 1, Marseille v Toulouse - BT Sport/ESPN 1300, Rennes v Nantes - BT Sport 2 1600, Lyon v Guingamp - BT Sport 2 1945; Eredivisie, Willem II v Ajax - Sky Sports 5 1320, Feyenoord v SC Cambuur - Sky Sports 5 1535; Serie A, Atalanta v Juventus - BT Sport 2 1345; MLS, Chicago Fire v New York City FC - Sky Sports 1 1905, Portland Timbers v Columbus Crew - Sky Sports 1 2155.
TENNIS: Davis Cup, Great Britain v Japan - Eurosport 2 1245.
CRICKET: Twenty20 international, South Africa v Australia - Sky Sports 3 1225.
RUGBY UNION: Aviva Premiership, Leicester v Exeter - BT Sport 1 1400.
GOLF: World Golf Championship, Cadillac Championship - Sky Sports 4 1700.
CYCLING: Track World Championships - Eurosport 1 0955 and 1355.
MOTOR SPORT: World Rally Championship, Rally Mexico - BT Sport 1 1800.
BASKETBALL: NBA, Los Angeles Clippers v Golden State Warriors - BT Sport 1 2030.
WINTER SPORTS: Alpine skiing - Eurosport 1 0815 and 1115; Biathlon - Eurosport 1 1230; Snowboarding - Eurosport 2 1000.
Tomorrow
SOCCER: A-League, Perth Glory v Newcastle Jets - BT Sport 1 0900; Primera Division, Espanol v Rayo Vallecano - Sky Sports 1 1925.
BASKETBALL: NBA, Indiana Pacers v San Antonio Spurs - BT Sport 1 0000 (Tue).
QUICK QUIZ BLITZ answers: Tyrone, they defeated Armagh 0-12 to 0–9, in front of a crowd of almost 80,000; 2 Theo Walcott; 3 Eamonn Coleman and Anthony Tohill, Derry beat Meath 1-8 to 0-9 in final replay in Clones on May 20 2000; 4 2008; 5 Ciaran Deely.
