[Wikipedia] July 8: Kevin Pietersen

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Kevin Pietersen (born 1980) is an English cricketer. He is an attacking 
right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who plays for 
Hampshire County Cricket Club, England, and was captain of the Indian 
Premier League team Royal Challengers Bangalore. He was captain of the 
England Test and One Day International teams from 4 August 2008 to 7 
January 2009. He resigned after just three tests and nine One Day 
Internationals, following a dispute with England coach Peter Moores, 
who was sacked the same day. He made his first-class debut for Natal in 
1997 before moving to England after voicing his displeasure at the 
racial quota system in place in South Africa, and to further his 
opportunities for playing at international level. He made his 
international debut in the One Day International match against Zimbabwe 
in 2004, and his Test match debut in the 2005 Ashes series against 
Australia the following year. Pietersen became the fastest batsman to 
reach both 1000 and 2000 runs in One Day International cricket, and has 
the highest average of any England player to have played more than 20 
innings of one-day cricket. In July 2008, after a century against South 
Africa, The Times called him "the most complete batsman in cricket".

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1579:

Our Lady of Kazan , a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was 
discovered underground in Kazan, present-day Tatarstan, Russia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Kazan>

1709:

Great Northern War: Peter I of Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden in 
Poltava, Ukraine, effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in 
Europe.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poltava>

1859:

Charles XV became King of Sweden and Norway following the death of his 
father Oscar I.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XV_of_Sweden>

1947:

After various news agencies reported the capture of a "flying disc" by 
U.S. Air Force personnel from the Roswell Army Air Field in Roswell, 
New Mexico, the U.S. Military issued another press release maintaining 
that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental 
high-altitude surveillance weather balloon.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_Incident>

2004:

After a 19-month trial, U.S. Marine Corps Major Michael Brown was 
convicted by a court in Naha, Okinawa for an attempted indecent assault 
on a Filipina bartender.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Brown_Okinawa_assault_incident>

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

oilskin (n):
1. Cloth made from cotton and treated with oil and pigment to make it 
waterproof.

2. A raincoat made from cotton fabric treated this way.
3. (by 
extension) Foul-weather gear worn by sailors, whether of natural or 
synthetic materials
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oilskin>

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