Australia won 4 – 0 in 1958 – 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.

England bowled Australia out again for 281 and so won a series on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years.

Of the 24 pitchers who have won the award, 15 are right-handed while 9 are left-handed.

In 2001, the Panthers won their season opener 24 – 13 over the Vikings, but set a ( then ) NFL record by losing 15 consecutive games to finish the season 1 – 15.

The trio received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won 24 Emmy Awards, including the above-mentioned for Frasier, as well as an Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy for Cheers, in 1989, which Angell, Casey, Lee and the series ' other producers shared, and Outstanding Writing / Comedy Emmy for Cheers, which Angell received in 1984.

The same car won the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans.

, the Red Wings have won the most Stanley Cup championships ( 11 ) of any NHL franchise based in the United States, and are third overall in total NHL championships, behind the Montreal Canadiens ( 24 ) and Toronto Maple Leafs ( 13 ).

At age 24, Fermi took a professorship at the University of Rome ( one of the first three in theoretical physics in Italy ) which he won in a competition whose selection committee was chaired by Professor Orso Mario Corbino, director of the Institute of Physics.

In doing so they beat Torquay United 10 – 2, won 24 out of 42 games and scored 111 goals, thus being promoted back to the Second Division.

In the third season of what is now considered the modern era of football, Fulham finished top of the Second Division, with a win-loss-draw record of 24 – 9 – 9 ( identical to that which won them the Third Division South seventeen years previously ).

IV ran in only two races, the 1967 12 Hours of Sebring and the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans and won both events.

He had won 49 caps and scored 24 goals, currently putting him 11th in the all-time England scorers ' list.

Irina Krush ( born December 24, 1983 ) is an American chess player who has won the U. S. Women's Chess Championship in 1998, 2007, 2010, and 2012.

On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.

In track and field, Robinson won the 1940 NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship in the Long Jump, jumping 24 ' 10. 5 ".

Geoff was an Indycar and sportscar racer who won five North American sportscar championships as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, while David competed in Formula One for the Brabham team and has also won the Le Mans race as well as three Japanese and North American sportscar titles.

The season was highlighted by starter Zack Greinke, who did not allow an earned run in the first 24 innings of the season, went on to finish the year with a Major League-leading 2. 16 earned run average, and won the American League Cy Young award.

India won the first edition of the Circle Style Kabaddi World Cup, Beating rival Pakistan in a 58 – 24 victory.

In the June 2004 parliamentary elections, the CSV won 24 seats, the LSAP 14, the DP 10, the Green Party 7, and the Alternative Democratic Reform Party 5.

The current manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has won 24 major honours since he took over in November 1986.

Johnson won 33 games while teammate Bob Groom added another 24 wins to help the Senators finish the season in second place.

The Vikings won a crucial victory against another struggling team in the form of the Dallas Cowboys 24 – 21, but in Week 7 the Vikings lost to the arch-rival Green Bay Packers 28 – 24.

Frank Duryea won the race in 10 hours and 23 minutes, beating the other five entrants.

* 2006: Audi R10 TDI won 12 hours running in Sebring and defeated all other engine concepts.

The Astros won the National League Division Series against the Atlanta Braves, 3-1, with a game four that set postseason records for most innings ( 18 ), most players used by a single team ( 23 ), and longest game time ( 5 hours and 50 minutes ).

The 5, 000 m final started in less than two hours, and Nurmi faced a tough challenge from countryman Ville Ritola, who had already won the 3, 000 m steeplechase and the 10, 000 m. Ritola and Edvin Wide figured that Nurmi must be tired and tried to burn him off by running at world-record pace.

Two hours after the Oilers won the Stanley Cup in 1988, Gretzky learned from his father that the Oilers were planning to deal him to another team.

The first of these great races was the Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895, won by Paul Koechlin in a Peugeot, despiting arriving 11 hours after Émile Levassor in a Panhard et Levassor.

According to Pliny, the competition lasted for 24 hours and Messalina won with a score of 25 partners.

The Nº 2 Audi team won after leading for the final 10 hours.

Finally, two games were played as regular tournament games ( forty moves in two hours, one hour sudden death ); here it was Anand who won ½ – 1½.

The newspapers organized a telegraph system to relay results to their Paris presses, and the public followed the exploits of Maurice Garin, who won in just over 52 hours over 112 other professionals.

He won his first PBP in 1987 by breaking away in Brest, aided by a tailwind and a few strong riders from the " touring " group, which that year started many hours before the " racing " group.

The next year, Cunard put pressure on Collins by commissioning its first iron-hulled paddler, the Persia, which won the Blue Riband with a Liverpool – New York voyage of 9 days 16 hours, averaging.

In 1987 Saleen Autosport Mustangs driven by Steve Saleen and Rick Titus won the SCCA Escort Endurance SSGT championship, and in International Motor Sports Association ( IMSA ) racing a Mustang again won the GTO class in the Daytona 24 hours.

In 1955, Hawthorn won the 24 hours of Le Mans race after an inspired drive in which he set a lap record of 122 mph during a three hour duel with Fangio in the early stages.

In August, 2011, the UWC was won by Grace Kellogg ( USA ), who played Jon Velberg ( NL ) in a record long game of five hours and sixteen minutes.

After hours of bloody fighting, Dominion ships were outflanked by the arrival of a large Klingon fleet, which won the running battle and allowed the Defiant to break through to Deep Space Nine.

Despite this handicap the DFV won the 24 hours of Le Mans twice in its original 3. 0-litre form for Mirage and Rondeau ( although the Mirage win in 1975 was with a significantly de-tuned unit ).

* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Jean Rondeau / Jean-Pierre Jaussaud won, driving a Rondeau M379B

* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Jean-Pierre Jaussaud / Didier Pironi won, driving an Alpine-Renault 442

* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Jacky Ickx / Gijs van Lennep won, driving a Porsche 936

* 24 hours of Le Mans – the team of Henri Pescarolo / Gérard Larrousse won, driving a Matra MS670B

Bondarchuk's western fame lies with his epic production of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which on original release totaled more than seven hours of cinema, took six years to complete and won Bondarchuk, who both directed and acted the role of Pierre Bezukhov, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1968.

The race and the single-cylinder class was won by Charles R. Collier riding a Matchless motor-cycle in 4 hours, 8 minutes and 8 seconds at an average race speed of 38. 21 mph.