Golf Central

The first Ryder Cup was held in Scotland on this day in 1973. The US won its eighth competition in a row with a 19-13 victory, memorable for Bernard Gallacher pulling out with food poisoning when Great Britain were 51/2 to 2 ½ up. Peter Butler was summoned as a replacement to partner Brian Barnes and became the first player in Ryder Cup history to record a hole-in-one. Still lost though…
On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free from the first day of 1863. In 1955, the future wealth of Ant & Dec is secured with the launch of the first independent television station, the ITA.
It’s tillukku vid fodingardegnum! as they say in the Faroe Islands to fading Brazilian netbuster Ronaldo (31), Nigerian juju music legend King Sunny Ade (61), goth icon Nick Cave (50) and suffragette Dame Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of Emmeline, who would have been 127 years-old today, had she not passed away in the US in 1958.