[Wikipedia] July 8: Kevin Pietersen
English Wikipedia Article of the Day
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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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do
service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free,
or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do
doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
--Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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