Golf Central

On this day in 1999, David and Bob Duval became the first father and son combination to win professional golf tournaments on the same day. First off, former club pro Bob beat Bruce Fleisher to win the Senior PGA Tour's Emerald Coast Classic by two shots, then kicked back in the clubhouse to watch his world No. 1 son David on TV, as David captured The Players Championship by two over Scott Gump ...

Bob Duval had been the only golf coach the enigmatic David has ever known. But the night before their father-son wins, David Duval, then 27, had given his 52-year-old dad some sound advice: "Go out and play. You can't control anything that happens out there except what you're doing" ... Nice tips, young man, now if young David could just work some magic on himself again ...

Today was also a birthday for the beefy, brawling Jerseyman Ted Ray (1877-1943), who was one of Britain's best players in the early professional years, winning the Open Championship in 1912 and the US Open in 1920. Ray also features prominently in Mark Frost's book The Greatest Game Ever Played, which chronicles Francis Ouimet's shock 1913 US Open victory over Ray and Harry Vardon, and the 2005 film, which features Stephen Marcus in a memorable turn as Ray ...

In the real world, it was on this day in 1965 that Martin Luther King led a crowd of nearly 25,000 people to the steps of the state capital of Montgomery, Alabama. His aim was "not to humiliate and defeat the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding."

Strangely enough, there were other motives on this day in 845 that the city of Paris was sacked by a horde of Viking raiders led by warlord Ragnar "Hairy-Breeks" Lodbrok. It is said that Hairy-Breeks demanded and received a huge ransom for leaving Paris ... which is odd because we would leave Paris for free, actually ...

Finally today we say Philip Walton! as they say in Dublin to chat show legend Michael Parkinson (73), hairy-breeked English cricketer Nasser Hussain (the big 40); wedding crasher Vince Vaughn (38); and to foxy-but-creepy Bourne series starlet Julia Stiles (27), of whom co-star Stockard Channing said: "She has a quality that is almost feral, something that can make people uneasy." ... And we agree ... 'Til tomorrow!