On this day in:

• 1939 Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st HR

• 1950NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat Syracuse Nationals, 110-95 to take series, 4 games to 2

• 1954 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 1st of his 755 homers

• 1958 Gil Hodges hits his 300th HR & Pee Wee Reese plays in 2,000th game

• 1969 LA Laker Jerry West scores 53 points

• 1983David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* v Sri Lanka

• 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker

• 1991 Björn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after an 8 year lay off without practising or playing any exhibition matches

• 1991Gordon Greenidge scores 223 v Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home

• 201238,000 London Marathon entrants have their home and email contacts published in a data protection breach

• 2013 West Indian cricketer, Chris Gayle, smashes the fastest century in history (30 balls)