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On this day in 1970, Lee Trevino finished the season as the PGA Tour's leading money winner with $157,037. He also started a run of three consecutive Vardon Trophy wins, awarded to the player with the lowest scoring average ...

Trevino won a total of $3.4million in prize money on The PGA Tour and $9.8million in his Seniors career. For more comprehensive details of Trevino’s rags-to-riches story, click here.

Meanwhile, on this day in 1958, Gordo the bushy-tailed monkey was lost in the South Atlantic, having been catapulted on a 300-mile journey into space by the US Army.

In 1995, riots broke out in Brixton after the death of 26-year-old Wayne Douglas in police custody, while in 2000 Republican George W Bush finally claimed the Presidency and Al Gore conceded defeat after the voting fiasco. Bush claimed the Oval Office 36 days after Election Day despite the Democrat Gore receiving 543,816 more individual votes than Bush. That’s democracy for you…

So it’s deiz-ha-bloaz laouen deoc'h! as they say in Brittany to the king of mockney Dick Van Dyke (82), gun-toting heavy metal monster Ted Nugent (59) and actor Robert Lindsay (58) who we like to remember as the star turn in Citizen Smith and GBH, rather than the tedious My Family.

Light-heavyweight boxing champion Archie Moore would also have been celebrating his 94th birthday had he not been TKOd in 1998. Owner of one of the most curious nicknames of the time – The Old Mongoose – he holds the record for the most career knockouts, with 145. On the downside, Moore was knocked down five times by Rocky Marciano in Rocky’s last fight before his retirement in 1955.