The oldest player to score a century in minor cricket is Neville Wadia (India, b. 27 May 1945) who was 63 years 305 days old when he made 105 for Waghodia Road Cricket Team against Vrajdham Vadil Pariwar Team, at Sitabaug Ground, Manjalpur, Baroda, India, on 28 March 2009. The game was a Twenty20 match between the two teams represented by senior citizens, Neville Wadia was the opening batsment and scored 3 sixes and 15 fours on his way to 105. He also bowled 3
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David James (UK) made his FIFA World Cup finals debut at the age of 39 years 322 days in England vs. Algeria in Cape Town, South Africa, on 18 June 2010. James held a clean sheet as England and Algeria played to a scoreless draw.
The oldest is Albert Roger Milla (b. 20 May 1952) for Cameroon v. Russia on 28 June 1994, aged 42yr 39days. During this match he also scored making him the oldest scorer in the finals.
The oldest known pinned insect specimen, still on its original pin, is a Bath white butterfly (Pontia daplidice), which was collected near Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire in May 1702. The specimen was donated to the Hope Entomological Collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK in 1906 and has remained there ever since. Further info from Oxford: The Bath white comes from the Mediterranean and North Africa, and rarely visits the UK. Although there are older insect remains in existence, such as those recovered
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The oldest pig ever is Pig, a potbellied pig (b. 17 February 1992), owned by Kris and Tricia Fernandez (both USA) and was 21 years and 166 days old as verified in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, on 2 August 2013.
The oldest picture postcard in the world is a postcard sent by Theodore Hook Esq. from Fulham, London, UK to himself in 1840. The illustration shows a coloured caricature of Post Office scribes seated around an enormous inkwell. The postcard may also be the most expensive, selling in March 2002 for £31,750 to collector Eugene Gomberg, of Riga, Latvia, in a telephone bid at the London Stamp Exchange auction. It is the only postcard to have a Penny Black stamp. Before this postcard was discovered
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The oldest wrestler to win the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Championship is Vince McMahon (USA) aged 54 years and 21 days on 14 September 1999.
The oldest individual winner of a Freestyle Skiing World Cup event is Ian Edmondson (USA, b.19 April 1957) aged 42 years 277 days at Heavenly, California, USA on 21 January 2000. NB: The source, below, wrongly quotes Mike Nemesvary as being older. This is a mistake as Mr Nemesvary retired aged 38 due to an accident leaving him paralysed; his birth year is also 1961).
The oldest alpine skiier to win an Olympic gold is Kjetil André Aamodt (Norway, b. 2 September 1971), who won his fourth career Olympic gold in Turin, Italy, on 18 February 2006, aged 34 years 169 days. He won it in the super giant slalom event.
Cambridge University Press is the oldest printing and publishing house in the world. It was founded on a royal charter granted to the University by Henry VIII in 1534 and has been operating continuously as a printer and publisher since the first Press book was printed in 1584. Since 1534, books under Cambridge University’s imprint have appeared each and every year, and the Press has grown to become one of the largest academic and educational publishers in the world, publishing over 2,000 books and 150
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