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American Rod Curl of the Wintu tribe was the first Native American to win a PGA Tour event on this day in 1974. Curl won the Colonial National Invitation by one stroke over some bloke called Jack Nicklaus. His Indian name, Yoso, means Johnny Comes from Behind. Stop sniggering at the back there…

On this day in 1935 Gene Sarazen missed The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool in Hoylake having missed his connection in New York following a tournament in Pittsburgh.

Meanwhile, it was on this momentous day in 1873 that Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a US patent for the manufacture of blue jeans with copper rivets. You can keep your Wrangler, your Diesel and your G Star as far as we're concerned (although we do have a soft spot for One True Saxon).

In 1940 the first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and 1983, the discovery of a virus that caused AIDS was published in the journal Science.

It's veels geluk met jou verjaarsdag! as they might bellow in certain Indo-European parts of South Africa and Namibia to actress/singer Cher (62), TV gaffer and Brentford fan Greg Dyke (61) and shouty rapper Busta Rhymes (36). It was also the day that Jon Pertwee, aka the Doctor and Worzel Gummidge among others died of a heart attack on this day in 1996, aged 76, in Timber Lake Connecticut.