User:Ianblair23/DYK

No. DYK article Did you know ... Date Views Hours Comments
1 ... that Robert Raymond founded Australia's longest running current affairs television program? 2 July 2007 10:09 My first DYK
2 ... that during the first six years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars? 26 October 2007 6:12
3 ... that Australian swimmer Mack Horton won five gold medals at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships? 28 August 2014 12:00
4 ... that Singaporean swimmer Amanda Lim won the women's 50-metre freestyle event in the 2009, 2011, and 2013 Southeast Asian Games? 29 October 2014 1,960 12:00 157, 155 and 240 views for other links
5 ... that the niece of Pat Chan, Singapore's "Golden Girl", is also an international competitive swimmer? 22 November 2014 967 11:45 2,038 for Pat
6 ... that Singaporean swimmer Samantha Yeo was twelve years old when she competed at the 2009 Southeast Asian Games? 23 November 2014 1,930 14:05 246 views for 2009 SEAG
7 ... that Brendon McCullum is the only cricketer to score two Twenty20 International centuries? 21 December 2014 502 12:00 1,816 views for Brendon
8

Amy Satterthwaite

... that Amy Satterthwaite (pictured) is the only bowler to take a six-wicket haul in a women's Twenty20 International cricket match?
12 January 2017 2,472 12:00 First pictured DYK
6,491 views for Amy
9 ... that Lasith Malinga is the only bowler to take a six-wicket haul in the Big Bash League? 13 January 2017 1,024 12:00 1,160 views for Lasith
(up from a baseline of ~500)
10 ... that Australian cricketer Ian Moran took unpaid leave from his teaching job to play in the 2012 Champions League Twenty20? 18 January 2017 847 12:00 282 for CL20 link
11 ... that Sophie Molineux won the inaugural Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year Award at the 2017 Allan Border Medal Ceremony? 9 February 2017 1,848 12:00 400 for Betty Wilson, 290 for AB Medal
12

Amy Satterthwaite

... that Anisa Mohammed (pictured) is the only cricketer to take five five-wicket hauls in women's One Day Internationals?
16 February 2017 2,853 12:00 My first double hook, 780 for the list
13 ... that a hat-trick was taken during Phillip Gillespie's first-class debut as a cricket umpire? 13 March 2017 475 12:00 Hat-trick up about 1,000 from baseline
14 ... that Arthur Mailey's best Test bowling figures of 9 wickets for 121 runs has been the Australian cricket record for 96 years? 23 March 2017 1,595 24:00 1,158 for Arthur Mailey
15

Amy Satterthwaite

... that Charles Jewtraw (pictured) was the first Winter Olympics gold medallist, winning the 500 m speed skating event at the 1924 Games?
21 April 2018 596 12:00 2,614 for Charles Jewtraw
16 ... that at the age of 52, Englishman Wilfred Rhodes is the oldest cricketer ever to play in a Test match? 10 June 2018 1,346 24:00 1,142 for Wilfred Rhodes
17 ... that Geoff Harvey, former musical director for the Nine Network Australia, composed the theme song for The Sullivans for his wife's cousin's wedding? 10 February 2019 793 24:00 821 for Nine Network and 794 for The Sullivans
18 ... that the Australian national cricket team's 1999 tour of the West Indies was the first four-match series in the history of Test cricket to finish 2–2?| 11 February 2020 634 12:00