McBride's 'Invincibles' were unbeaten in 1974 © Getty Images

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Players/Officials: Phil Bennett | Ben Blair | Gareth Edwards | Willie-John McBride

Teams: British and Irish Lions | England | South Africa | Wales

1974
Willie-John McBride's Lions opened their Test series against South Africa with a 12-3 win in Cape Town. Fly-half Phil Bennett landed three penalties while scrum-half Gareth Edwards kicked a drop goal in conditions that resembled a wet afternoon in west Wales.

1987
Wales and England met on foreign soil in the quarter finals of the inaugural Rugby World Cup. Wales won an uninspiring Monday afternoon match 16-3 at Ballymore in Brisbane. The Welsh tries came from by Robert Jones, John Devereux and Gareth Roberts.

1968
Willie-John McBride scored a try and Tom Kiernan kicked five penalties and a conversion for the Lions in their Test against South Africa in Pretoria. But it was not enough to prevent a 25-20 victory for the Springboks in the opening international of the series.

1977
Phil Bennett played a captain's part landing four penalties in a 12-7 win against Otago that kept the Lions' unbeaten tour record intact.

1949
Fred Allen's All Blacks in South Africa gave a convincing display whilst defeating South Western Districts 21-3 - five tries to nil - at the Olympics Ground in Oudtshoorn.

1983
In New Zealand, John Carleton scored four tries for the Lions and Dusty Hare kicked ten goals in the 52-16 win against West Coast in Greymouth.

1985
England, led by Paul Dodge, crashed out of their tour of New Zealand with a 42-15 defeat by the All Blacks in the final Test in Wellington.

2006
Former All Black fullback Ben Blair signed for the Cardiff Blues. The ex-Crusader proved to be a major success for the region, with his strong running and superb goal-kicking helping them to the Anglo-Welsh Cup title and Heineken Cup semi-final in 2009 as well as the European Challenge Cup title the following year.