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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Skaggs>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>