NASSAU, BAHAMAS - On this day in Bahamian history, Bahamian Mark Knowles and Canadian Daniel Nestor won the men's doubles championship.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - On this day in Bahamian history, Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands died in London, England in 1972. He was 59.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - On this day in Bahamian history, Senator Pleasant Bridgewater resigned from her post as senator on January 24, 2009.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - On this day in Bahamian history, Emma Evelyn Carey-Cooper was born in 1923 in Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - On this day in Bahamian history, Roger Smith, retired professional tennis player, was born in Freeport, Grand Bahama, in 1964.
GRAND BAHAMA, BAHAMAS - In 2012, the Rand Memorial Hospital Critical Care Unit was opened by then-Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - In 1976, Olympic gold medalist Tonique Williams-Darling was born in Nassau. The retired multi-medal winning track athlete specialized in the 400 meters.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - On this day in Bahamian history, Lynden Oscar Pindling was sworn in as Premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands, in 1967.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - In 2015, British investor, property developer, football club owner and philanthropist, Jack Arnold Hayward died at the age of 91.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - On this day in Bahamian history, the legislative and executive councils became two distinct bodies in 1841.
