The longest game in MLB history was thus played, with Sox finally winning 7-6 in the 25th inning after an eight hours and six minutes battle.

The game was halted at 01:00 that night with the score tied at 3-3, before a Harold Baines solo home run in the 25th inning ended the game.

It beat the previous record of seven hours and 23 minutes, set during a Giants v Mets game on 31st May 1964.

Giants won that match 8-6 in 23 innings.

1934: The legendary Don Bradman is out for a duck in England playing against Cambridge University.

1971: Elizabeth Bonner runs female world record marathon (3:01:42).

2001: In Ghana, 129 people died in a stampede at a football match.

2009: A bogey-free five-under par 67 lands South African Tim Clark the Players Championship.