Arthur Morris (1922–2015) was an Australian cricketer who played 46
Test matches between 1946 and 1955. He is best known as a prominent
member of the "Invincibles", a team that went undefeated on their tour
of England in 1948. In his teens, Morris became the first player ever to
score two centuries on his first-class debut. After serving in the
Australian Army during the Second World War, he made his Test debut
against England. He scored a century in his third match and two more
hundreds in the following Test, becoming only the second Australian to
score a hundred in each innings of an Ashes Test. By 1950, he was
Australia's vice-captain and had amassed nine Test centuries with a
batting average over 65. Thereafter his form declined, and his career
ended after his first wife became terminally ill in 1955. In later life,
Morris served as a trustee of the Sydney Cricket Ground for over twenty
years. Selected in the Australian Cricket Board's Team of the Century in
2000 and inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2001, he
is widely regarded as one of Australia's most successful left-handed
batsmen.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Morris>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
649:
War against the Western Turks: The forces of Kucha surrendered
after a siege led by Tang Dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing
Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in what is now Xinjiang.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_campaign_against_Kucha>
1764:
English radical and politician John Wilkes was expelled from
the British Parliament and declared an outlaw for seditious libel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes>
1853:
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore was first performed at the
Teatro Apollo in Rome.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_trovatore>
1996:
A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in South Kingstown,
Rhode Island, US, spilling an estimated 828,000 US gallons
(3,130,000 l) of home heating oil.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cape_oil_spill>
2006:
In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an
Antonov An-24 aircraft operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in
northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Slovak_Air_Force_Antonov_An-24_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bust:
1. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
2. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially
and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a
sneaky or secretive state. […]
3. (US, informal) To reduce in rank. […]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bust>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men;
such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care
for the sick, protect the defenceless, assist the weak, and enlighten
the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must
be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and
how far, he can, or will, perform them. But of his legal duty — that
is, of his duty to live honestly towards his fellow men — his fellow
men not only may judge, but, for their own protection, must judge. And,
if need be, they may rightfully compel him to perform it. They may do
this, acting singly, or in concert. They may do it on the instant, as
the necessity arises, or deliberately and systematically, if they prefer
to do so, and the exigency will admit of it.
--Lysander Spooner
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner>