On this sporting day... Wednesday, July 28

Famous sporting events and news from yesteryear that happened on this day
If it's your birthday - which sports stars do you share your special day with?

1936 Cricket. West Indian cricketing legend Garfield Sobers was born.

1966 Horse racing. Florence Nangle was granted a licence to train racehorses - the first woman to be allowed to do so. But the fight had taken her 20 years, so she was 70 when the ruling was made.

1984 Olympics. The Los Angeles Games opened, but were boycotted by the USSR and many eastern European countries.

1985 Football. Years after scoring a hat-trick in the World Cup final, Geoff Hurst repeated his performance in a charity match between the two 1966 finalists.

2003 Cricket. Nasser Hussain announced he was to quit as captain of England's Test team. He had already stepped down as one-day team captain.