Tyler Skaggs (July 13, 1991 – July 1, 2019) was an American left- handed starting pitcher in professional baseball. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Angels from 2012 until his death. Born in Woodland Hills, California, Skaggs was a supplemental first-round selection for the Angels in the 2009 MLB draft. Traded to the Diamondbacks in 2010, he made his MLB debut in 2012. Traded back to the Angels in December 2013, he was fifth in the team's rotation until an ulnar collateral ligament injury in 2014 and subsequent Tommy John surgery derailed his career. After a visiting game in 2019, Skaggs was found unresponsive in his hotel room in Southlake, Texas, and was pronounced dead the same day. An autopsy concluded that he had accidentally died of asphyxia after aspirating his own vomit while under the influence of fentanyl, oxycodone, and alcohol. His team wore patches with No. 45, his uniform number, for the rest of the season in his memory.
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1863:
Four days of rioting began in New York City in response to laws passed by the U.S. Congress to draft men to fight in the American Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_draft_riots
1942:
World War II: The 1st Filipino Infantry Regiment was converted from a battalion to accommodate a larger number of volunteers spurred on by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Filipino_Infantry_Regiment
1962:
In an unprecedented reshuffle, British prime minister Harold Macmillan dismissed seven members of his Cabinet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives_%281962%29
2008:
War in Afghanistan: Taliban guerrillas attacked U.S. troops at the Battle of Wanat in Nuristan Province. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wanat
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autobus: 1. (road transport, dated) A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses. 2. (by extension, cycle racing) A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/autobus
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At the very outset of our hearings, we described several elements of President Trump's multipart plan to overturn the 2020 election. Our hearings have now covered all but one of those elements, an organized campaign to persuade millions of Americans of a falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen by widespread fraud; a corrupt effort to pressure Vice President Pence to refuse to count electoral votes; an effort to corrupt the US Department of Justice; efforts to pressure state election officials and legislators to change state election results; a scheme to create and submit fake electoral slates from multiple states. And today, you saw how President Trump summoned a mob to Washington for January 6th, and then knowing that that mob was armed, directed that mob to the United States Capitol. Every one of these elements of the planning for January 6th is an independently serious matter. They were all ultimately focused on overturning the election, and they all have one other thing in common. Donald Trump participated in each, substantially and personally. He oversaw or directed the activity of those involved. --Liz Cheney https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney