Eighty-one years ago today, on January 12, 1944, Joe Frazier was born in South Carolina as the twelfth child to a sharecropper named Rubin and his wife Dolly, writes Kieran Mulvaney

The New York Yankees announce they will be the first team to wear uniform numbers, according to the player’s position in batting order. 1960 — Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson in a 15-round split decision to capture the world middleweight boxing title.