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Monday, 8 July, 2002, 23:05 GMT 00:05 UK
Happened on this day - 9 July
1982: Ian Botham scored 200 runs in 219 balls against India at The Oval.
1954: Peter Thomson won the first of his five Open golf titles, and the first of three in successive years. 1922: Eighteen-year-old Johnny Weismuller became the first swimmer to cover 100 metres in under one minute when he set a new world record time of 58.6 seconds. 1877: The first Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship was held. The only title being played for, the men's singles, was won by Spencer Gore who beat his fellow Briton WC Marshall 6-1 6-2 6-4.
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