In a rain-hit series in 1926, England managed to eke out a 1 – 0 victory with a win in the final Test at The Oval.

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

Cricket Australia proposed that the 2010 – 11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

President Kennedy meets with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in the Oval Office ( October 18, 1962 )

From 1960 these were replaced with Stainless Steel ID Tags on a Green Nylon Cord, 2 circular & 1 Oval, the Oval was withdrawn around 1990

He also fell out publicly with other players, including fellow England opener Geoff Boycott, Somerset captain Peter Roebuck, and Australian batsman Ian Chappell, with whom he had an altercation in an Adelaide Oval car park during the 2010 – 11 Ashes series.

Major then famously announced to the press that he intended to go with his family to The Oval to watch cricket.

By the 1880s the tradition of England-Australia cricket tours was well established, with a total of eight Tests having been played, five of them at the MCG, two at the Sydney Cricket Ground and one at The Oval in London.

Lewinsky alleged that between November 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-President Bill Clinton that, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts in the Oval Office, but that none of them involved sexual intercourse.

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During the 1960s, cartoonists of military comic strips went to the White House and met with Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office.

In 1882, the club amalgamated with the Hotham Cricket Club and moved into the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve ( Arden St Oval ) which has remained as the home of the club up until this day.

The Swans share a long and storied rivalry with St Kilda which dates back to the days when South Melbourne played at the Lake Oval on the other side of Melbourne's Albert Park Lake, not far from St Kilda's old home ground, Junction Oval.

They are standing in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama Bin Laden hanging on the wall and an American flag burning in the fireplace in the background.

In late 2010 the University opened an $ 8 million Sport and Recreation Learning Centre in partnership with the Western Bulldogs Football Club at Whitten Oval in West Footscray.

In the 1990s, Bill and Hillary Clinton refurbished some rooms with the assistance of Arkansas decorator Kaki Hockersmith, including the Oval Office, the East Room, Blue Room, State Dining Room, Lincoln Bedroom, and Lincoln Sitting Room.

The West Wing houses the President's office ( the Oval Office ) and offices of his senior staff, with room for about 50 employees.

The highest wicket partnership of Grace's career was 283 runs for the first wicket with Bransby Cooper for the Gentlemen of the South v the Players of the South at The Oval in 1869.

Peres was sworn in as President on 15 July 2007. Shimon Peres meeting with Barack Obama in the Oval Office.

Graham Martin ( left ) during a meeting at Oval Office with President Gerald Ford, General Frederick C. Weyand and Henry Kissinger

Captain James Cook described an island " of Oval form with a Lagoon in the middle " in 1769.

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The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

On their tour that year ( 1882 ) the Australians played just one Test, at The Oval in London.

An astonished Oval crowd fell silent, struggling to believe that England could possibly have lost to a colony.

England won the last Test at The Oval by one wicket.

England managed to stay in contention until the deciding final Test at The Oval, but yet another double hundred by Bradman, and 7 / 92 by Percy Hornibrook in England's second innings, enabled Australia to win by an innings and take the series 2 – 1.

As in 1930, the 1934 series was decided in the final Test at The Oval.

In the timeless Fifth Test at The Oval, the highlight was Len Hutton's then world record score of 364 as England made 903-7 declared.

The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 – 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.

Under Brearley's leadership, England went on to win the next two matches before a drawn final match at The Oval.

Finally, England won the Fifth Test at The Oval by a margin of 197 runs to regain the Ashes.

* 2004 – Dick Cheney and George W. Bush testify before the 9 / 11 Commission in a closed, unrecorded hearing in the Oval Office.

As Capp was ushered into the Oval Office, his prosthetic leg suddenly collapsed into a pile of disengaged parts and hinges on the floor.

In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

Brian Lara batting against Indian national cricket team | India at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, in 2002.

He also held the record for the highest total number of runs in a Test career, after overtaking Allan Border in an innings of 226 played at Adelaide Oval, Australia in November 2005.

After a one day series against South Africa, he scored his first Test century against the visiting Pakistanis in the first Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados which the West Indies eventually won.

He achieved this feat in 2005 by scoring his first Test century against Pakistan at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.

On the morning after winning the flag, the club took the Premiership Cup to the Brunswick Street Oval in Fitzroy, the original home of the Fitzroy Football Club.

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