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1976:

Cheating is as old as sport itself.

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1974:

At 4.45am on October 30th 1974, Muhammad Ali delivered the punch that secured him sporting immortality.

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1972:

The murder of 11 Israeli athletes by terrorists at the 1972 Olympics was the bleakest day in the history of the Games.

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1970:

Who was the greatest footballer of all time? George Best is one of the few genuine contenders.

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1968:

Neither the match – Nottinghamshire v Glamorgan – nor the location were the most glamorous, but the achievement was.

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1968:

Bob Beamon’s gravity-defying leap in Mexico City is one of the enduring moments of any Olympic Games.

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1966:

English football’s greatest achievement engulfed the nation in a tide of unrestrained joy.

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1933:

Bodyline is the ruthless and aggressive bowling tactic England used to beat the Australians on the tour of 1932-33.

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1963:

Stanley Matthews was the first recipient of the European footballer of the year award . . . aged 42.

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1958:

A gifted Manchester United team were on the threshold of greatness when tragedy struck on a runway in Munich.

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1956:

Not even the great Shane Warne came close to emulating Jim Laker’s achievement of taking 19 wickets in a Test match.

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1948:

Sir Donald Bradman – “The Don” – is unquestionably the greatest batsman ever to grace a cricket field.

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1936:

The triumphs of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics made a mockery of Adolf Hitler’s claims of Aryan superiority.

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1923:

Wembley's status as the home of English football was sealed with its very first match, the 1923 FA Cup final.

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1922:

Johnny Weissmuller, the most famous Tarzan of all, was also an Olympic champion who set 28 world records.

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1914:

Football played a crucial role in recruitment for the British war effort in 1914.

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1896:

Some 1,503 years after they were banned by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I, the Olympics returned.

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1895:

Rugby's split into Union and League in 1895 was all about money.

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