In a notable event of the tour, the touring side presented the Currie Cup to Griqualand West, the province they thought produced the best performance on the tour.

In the following season, he was a regular appearing in all eight Currie Cup matches plus being part of the Benson and Hedges Series winning team, scoring 73 as an opener in the final.

In 1989-90, despite playing all the Currie Cup matches, he failed to make a century, and averaged only 19. 76 ; however, in one-day games he averaged 60. 12.

In 1995-96, he finished the season top of the batting averages in the Currie Cup, his top score of 158 helped Free State chase down 389 to beat Northern Transvaal.

Major domestic competitions include the Top 14 in France, the English Premiership in England, the Currie Cup in South Africa, and the ITM Cup in New Zealand.

* Currie Cup – Transvaal

* Currie Cup – not contested

* Currie Cup – not contested

* Currie Cup – not contested

* Currie Cup – Transvaal

* Currie Cup – Transvaal

* Currie Cup – not contested

* Currie Cup – Transvaal

* Currie Cup – not contested

* Currie Cup – Western Province

* Currie Cup – Transvaal

* Currie Cup – not contested

* Currie Cup – undecided

* Currie Cup – Transvaal

The match also marks the beginning of first-class cricket in South Africa where the Currie Cup is inaugurated as the premier domestic competition.

* In South Africa, the inaugural Currie Cup is won by Transvaal

* Currie Cup – Transvaal

* Currie Cup – not contested

* 1871 – Lorne Currie, British sailor ( d. 1926 )

* 1875 – Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian soldier ( d. 1933 )

* 1946 – Susan Kyle ( aka Diana Palmer, Susan S. Kyle, Diana Blayne, Katy Currie ), American writer

* 1964 – Justin Currie, Scottish singer and songwriter

* 1967 – Currie Graham, Canadian actor

* 1960 – Nick Currie, Scottish musician

For example, in Spitting Image, Major's puppet was changed from a circus performer to that of a grey man who ate dinner with his wife in silence, occasionally saying " nice peas, dear ", whilst at the same time nursing an unrequited crush on his colleague Virginia Bottomley – an invention, but an ironic one in view of his affair with Edwina Currie, which was not then a matter of public knowledge.

The party ultimately nominated the former civil rights campaigner Austin Currie, a respected new TD and former minister in Brian Faulkner's power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland from 1973 – 74.

* 1939 – Austin Currie, Northern Irish politician

* 1946 – Edwina Currie, British politician

* October 11 – Austin Currie, Irish politician

* June 20 – Austin Currie, Member of Parliament ( MP ) at Stormont in Northern Ireland, along with others, squats a house in Caledon to protest discrimination in housing allocations.

* December 5 – Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader ( d. 1933 )

* November 30 – Arthur Currie, Canadian military leader ( b. 1875 )

* January 20 – Finlay Currie, Scottish actor ( d. 1968 )

* Ernest George Bock ( 17 September 1908-5 September 1961 ), a South African cricket player in one test ( 1935 / 1936 ), who once held one of the top Currie Cup bowling averages and was also a Griqualand West cricket and rugby player, relocated from Kimberley, Northern Cape, to Springs.

* 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.

* 1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany

* 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

The club is one of the five teams that has earned the right to keep the European Cup and to wear a multiple-winner badge ; they won consecutively in 1971 – 1973.

They are also one of three teams to win the treble and the Intercontinental Cup in the same season / calendar year ; This was achieved in the 1971 – 72 season.

They have also won the Intercontinental Cup twice, the 1991 – 92 UEFA Cup, as well as the Karl Rappan Cup, a predecessor of the UEFA Intertoto Cup in 1962.

Played against Rangers, winners of the 1971 – 72 European Cup Winners ' Cup, it actually went ahead as ' a celebration of the I Centenary of Rangers F. C.

In 2004 – 05, they reappeared in the UEFA Cup tournament, advancing to the semi-finals.

sc Heerenveen managed to do the same in 2008 – 09, though their away victory at Feyenoord was a KNVB Cup match ( Heerenveen had drawn 2 – 2 at De Kuip in the Eredivisie match ).

* 1993 – All members of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal.

On the European stage Roma won an Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1960 – 61, coming close to European Cup victory in 1983 – 84 ( lost the one-legged final played at home against Liverpool after a penalty shootout ), and finishing as runners-up in the UEFA Cup for 1990 – 91 ( two-legged aggregate defeat against Internazionale ).

Their first honour outside of Italy was recorded in 1960 – 61 when Roma won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup by beating Birmingham City 4 – 2 in the finals.