Clem Hill (1877 - 1945) was an Australian cricketer who played 49 Test
matches as a specialist batsman between 1896 and 1912. He captained the
Australian team in ten Tests, winning five and losing five. A prolific run
scorer, Hill scored 3,412 runs in Test cricket—a world record at the time of
his retirement—at an average of 39.21 per innings, including seven
centuries. In 1902, Hill was the first batsman to make 1,000 Test runs in a
calendar year, a feat that would not be repeated for 45 years. His innings
of 365 scored against New South Wales for South Australia in 1900–01 was a
Sheffield Shield record for 27 years. His Test cricket career ended in
controversy after he was involved in a brawl with cricket administrator and
fellow Test selector Peter McAlister in 1912. He was one of the "Big Six", a
group of leading Australian cricketers who boycotted the 1912 Triangular
Tournament in England when the players were stripped of the right to appoint
the tour manager. The boycott effectively ended his Test career. After
retiring from cricket, Hill worked in the horse racing industry as a
stipendiary steward and later as a handicapper for races including the
Caulfield Cup.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1843:
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, a novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, was
first published.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol)
1972:
NASA astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt aboard
Apollo 17 returned to Earth. No human has visited the Moon since.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17)
1984:
The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom signed the
Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to the transfer of sovereignty of
Hong Kong to China on July 1, 1997.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration)
1997:
Titanic is released in theaters. This movie would become the most
financially successful movie in U.S. history, grossing approximately $1.8
billion worldwide.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)<http://en.wikipedia.org…
)
2007:
The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and
withdraw all their treaties with the United States. They then proceed to
establish the Republic of Lakotah, with an ongoing process of international
recognition as a separate country.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakotah)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hymnody (n) 1. The writing, composing, or singing of hymns or psalms.
2. The hymns of a particular church or of a
particular time.
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hymnody)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty.
--Phil Ochs
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phil_Ochs)