This day in history: 4th July

Alfredo di Stéfano was born on this day in 1926

Football

1926: Two-time Ballon d’Or winner and five-time La Liga top scorer Alfredo di Stéfano was born in Buenos Aires.

2007: After 12 years at Atletico Madrid, striker Fernando Torres, 23, left his boyhood club for Liverpool, where he took the No. 9 shirt made famous by Ian Rush and Robbie Fowler before him.

Cricket

1987: Imran Khan takes 300th Test wicket to become the only Pakistani to do so at that time.

1922: Birth of Ghulam Ahmed, one of India’s premier spinners in their formative years of Test cricket.

1959: Birth of the highest run-scorer in women’s Test cricket history. Nobody can match Jan Brittin’s 1935 runs made in 27 Tests for England between 1979 and 1996. Her five hundreds are also a record.

Tennis

1962: Birth of Pam Shriver, Balt MD, tennis star (1991 US Open doubles/Oly-gold-88)

1963: Henri Leconte, France, tennis player (French finalist 1988)

1978: Tatyana Jecmenica, Novi Sad Yugo, tennis star (1995 Futures-Novi Sad)

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