Andrew Watson’s father, Peter Miller Watson, was the manager of a sugar plantation in British Guiana while his mother was a local woman called Anna (or Hannah) Rose.
On the 8th September 1888, the very first Football League games were played in England.
Shortly after midnight on the morning of the 6th September 1972, nine Israeli Olympic athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group in the Munich massacre.
The first ever women’s cricket match was played on Gosden Common near Guildford in Surrey.
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci scored the first ever perfect 10 in Olympic history on the uneven bars at the Summer Games in Montreal.
The 9th July 1877 saw the world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begin at Wimbledon in London.
On the 1st July 1903 the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages.
Chile and Italy met in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, which resulted in ‘the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football possibly in the history of the game’.
The first Formula One World Championship Grand Prix race took place at the Silverstone circuit in England.
On 28th April 1923, the original Wembley Stadium in London opened with the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United.
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