On this day: Tiger Woods won US Amateur Championship - Scotsman
1859: The world’s first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake. 1916: Italy declared war on Germany. 1955: The first edition of the Guinness Book Of Records was published. 1958: USSR launched Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard. 1960: Britain’s Anita Lonsbrough swam a new world record time of 2:49. 5 for the 200 metres at the Olympic Games in Rome. 1962: Mariner 2, the first space probe to fly by Venus, was launched. 1784: James Tytler, from Forfar – editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica – became the first person in Britain to fly in a hot-air ballon when he rose 350 feet and travelled half a mile from Holyrood Park, Edinburgh. 1990: BBC Radio Five, Britain’s first new national radio station for 23 years, began broadcasting. 1991: Moldova declared independence from USSR. 1995: The International Rugby Union Board, meeting in Paris, ended 125 years of amateur rugby and sanctioned payment to players and officials at all levels. Source: www.scotsman.com
