Bart King (1873–1965) was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. King was part of the Philadelphia team that played from the end of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War I. This period of cricket in the United States was dominated by "gentlemen cricketers"—men of independent wealth who did not need to work. King, an amateur from a middle-class family, was able to devote time to cricket thanks to a job set up by his teammates. A skilled batsman who proved his worth as a bowler, King set numerous records in North America during his career and led the first-class bowling averages in England in 1908. He successfully competed against the best cricketers from England and Australia. King was the dominant bowler on his team when it toured England in 1897, 1903, and 1908. He dismissed batsmen with his unique delivery, which he called the "angler," and helped develop the art of swing bowling. Sir Pelham Warner described Bart King as one of the finest bowlers of all time, and Donald Bradman called him "America's greatest cricketing son." (Full article...).

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1469:

Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella I of Castile (both pictured), a marriage that paved the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile

1781:

American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George Washington, ending the Siege of Yorktown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown

1904:

The Polytechnic University of the Philippines, the country's largest university in terms of enrollment, opened as the Manila Business School. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytechnic_University_of_the_Philippines

1943:

Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptomycin

1986:

President of Mozambique Samora Machel and 43 others were killed when his presidential aircraft crashed in the Lebombo Mountains just inside the border of South Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samora_Machel

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