George Hirst (7 September 1871 – 10 May 1954) was a professional
English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, mainly
between 1891 and 1921. He played in 24 Test matches for England, touring
Australia twice. He was a left arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed
batsman who completed the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a
season 14 times. He recorded 36,356 runs and 2,742 wickets taken in
first-class cricket and 790 runs and 59 wickets in Tests. Hirst was
regarded as a specialist batsman until around 1900, when he learned to
make the ball swing in flight, making his bowling difficult to counter.
He scored 341 runs in an innings against Leicestershire in 1905, and
made a unique double of 2,000 runs and 200 wickets in 1906. He played in
all England's home Test series between 1899 and 1909, although less
successfully than for his county. He played occasionally for Yorkshire
after the war, retiring to coach at Eton, while also training youths
from other social backgrounds.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hirst>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1778:
Anglo-French War: France invaded the island of Dominica
(depicted) and captured its British fort before the latter even knew
that France had allied with the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Dominica_%281778%29>
1901:
With Beijing occupied by foreign troops from the Eight-Nation
Alliance, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol, an unequal
treaty ending the Boxer Rebellion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Protocol>
1999:
Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a
major earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate
"earthquake diplomacy".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%E2%80%93Turkish_earthquake_diplomacy>
2004:
Hurricane Ivan made landfall on Grenada and devastated at least
85 percent of the island.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
spit:
1. A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking,
often over a fire.
2. A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula. […]
3. (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
4. (countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of
rain or snow. […]
5. The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is
used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
6. The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spit>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget
everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it
so people will know how we used to live.
--Grandma Moses
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grandma_Moses>
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