Golf Central

It's a momentous day in the golf calendar. Not only did Gay Brewer win the 1967 Pensacola Open with the then third-lowest score in PGA Tour history (a 26-under score of 262), but it's also the birthday of Rolf Muntz, who was born in Voorschoten, Holland on this day in 1969.

Rolf who, you say? Shame on you for not instantly recalling Muntz's achievement in winning the Qatar Masters in 2000, the first Dutchman to win a top professional event since  Joop Rühl won the 1947 Dutch Open.

As the spiritual home of the cheap gag, we once joked about asking Muntz to contribute a regular blog on the site titled InRolfWeTrust. You never know, it might just happen one of these days...

In the real world, meanwhile, East Pakistan became the independent state of Bangladesh on this day in 1971, the London Stock Exchange opened its doors to women for the first time in its 200-year in 1973, while Israel and Egypt shook hands on a peace treaty in 1979.

Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson also hit the headlines on this day in 1992 for all the wrong reasons, after being sentenced to six years in prison following a conviction for rape.

Finally, it's Eku Ojobi! as they say in Nigeria to the curiously one-dimensional actor Leonard Nimoy (77), skeletal pop-soul diva with enormous hair Diana Ross (64) and Keira Knightley, who was so wooden in the ridiculous Bend It Like Beckham that she required treatment with linseed oil.

We're now assured she's the most adept female actor of her generation, but as you can probably tell, we're yet to be convinced, even after the slip dress and the soaking incident in Atonement.