Arthur Morris (1922–2015) was an Australian cricketer who played 46 Test matches between 1946 and 1955. He is best known as a prominent member of the "Invincibles", a team that went undefeated on their tour of England in 1948. In his teens, Morris became the first player ever to score two centuries on his first-class debut. After serving in the Australian Army during the Second World War, he made his Test debut against England. He scored a century in his third match and two more hundreds in the following Test, becoming only the second Australian to score a hundred in each innings of an Ashes Test. By 1950, he was Australia's vice-captain and had amassed nine Test centuries with a batting average over 65. Thereafter his form declined, and his career ended after his first wife became terminally ill in 1955. In later life, Morris served as a trustee of the Sydney Cricket Ground for over twenty years. Selected in the Australian Cricket Board's Team of the Century in 2000 and inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2001, he is widely regarded as one of Australia's most successful left-handed batsmen. Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Morris> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 649: War against the Western Turks: The forces of Kucha surrendered after a siege led by Tang Dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in what is now Xinjiang. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_campaign_against_Kucha> 1764: English radical and politician John Wilkes was expelled from the British Parliament and declared an outlaw for seditious libel. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes> 1853: Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore was first performed at the Teatro Apollo in Rome. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_trovatore> 1996: A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, US, spilling an estimated 828,000 US gallons (3,130,000 l) of home heating oil. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cape_oil_spill> 2006: In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 aircraft operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Slovak_Air_Force_Antonov_An-24_crash> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: bust: 1. (slang) To arrest for a crime. 2. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state. […] 3. (US, informal) To reduce in rank. […] <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bust> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenceless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will, perform them. But of his legal duty — that is, of his duty to live honestly towards his fellow men — his fellow men not only may judge, but, for their own protection, must judge. And, if need be, they may rightfully compel him to perform it. They may do this, acting singly, or in concert. They may do it on the instant, as the necessity arises, or deliberately and systematically, if they prefer to do so, and the exigency will admit of it.   --Lysander Spooner <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner>