Happened on this Day - 24 May

2000: England midfielder Steve McManaman scores a second half volley to help Real Madrid beat Valencia 3-0 and win the Champions League final.

It was the eighth time the Spanish side have lifted the European Cup.

1999: Lawrence Dallaglio quit as captain of England's rugby union team and pulled out of the squad to tour Australia following allegations of drug-taking.

1984: Alan Pettigrew sets a world record by throwing a haggis 180ft 10in at Inchmurrin, Strathclyde.

1899: French tennis star Suzanne Lenglen, the first non-English speaking winner of the Wimbledon ladies' singles, is born.

She won the first of her six Wimbledon singles titles in 1919.

The loose, short-length dress she wore revolutionised fashion in the ladies' game. Five of her six titles were won in consecutive years, 1919-23.

1877: The MCC and Ground cricket team dismiss Oxford University for 12 runs at Oxford.

The total remains the lowest for a first-class innings, although this unenviable record was later shared by Northamptonshire in 1907.