On 24 May 1979, in a game against Worcestershire, Somerset County
Cricket Club captain Brian Rose chose to declare his team's innings
closed after one over, throwing the game to manipulate a loophole in the
rules. He was aiming to avoid elimination on a strike rate tie-breaker
from the quarterfinals of the 1979 Benson & Hedges Cup, a one-day
cricket competition for counties in England and Wales. After Somerset
scored one run and declared, Worcestershire scored the two runs they
needed to win. The match at New Road (pictured) in Worcester was
completed in 18 minutes, with only 16 legal deliveries. Although
Somerset's declaration was within the Laws of Cricket, Rose was
condemned by the press and cricket officials. Just over a week after the
match, the Test and County Cricket Board met for an emergency session
and voted to eject Somerset from the competition by a vote of seventeen
to one. The Laws were later changed to ban declarations in professional
one-day cricket.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_v_Somerset,_1979>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1830:
The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published
as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb>
1930:
English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the
first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Johnson>
1970:
On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola
Superdeep Borehole, which eventually reached a depth of 12,262 metres
(40,230 ft), making it the deepest borehole ever drilled and the
deepest artificial point on Earth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole>
2014:
A gunman who had links to radical Islamists opened fire at the
Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Museum_of_Belgium_shooting>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
consilience:
1. (logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different
data sets. [from mid 19th c.]
2. The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consilience>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the
waters Around you have grown. And accept it that soon You'll be
drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth savin' Then you
better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone For the times they
are a-changin'.
--Bob Dylan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan>