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Cricket
first cricket match in sydney -
Melbourne cup
first melbourne cup raced and won by "archer" -
ashes
Ashes came into existence (aug 28-29) -
rugby union
rugby union players defect to become professionals. the game of rugby league begins/ -
Sir Donald Bradman
don bradman scored a century on his debut game for grade cricket. he is well known to australia for his batting average of 99.94%. his was the an australian icon for that but also the bodyline series.don bradman is very significent to austalia for being in that even though the english bowling tatics got him out and he had no answers for there bowling. it is significent becasue the bodyline series is oner of the most important sporting events. and austalia were particpating. -
bodyline series
"bodyline" Ashes series played using tatics to stop don bradman. the laws of cricket were changed to prevent it occuring again -
tv introduced/melbourne olympic games
tv was introduced in australia for melbourne olympic games -
Americas Cup
austarlia wins americas cup with austarlia II and its space age keel.
