Bob Feller (1918–2010) was an American baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians. Feller pitched from 1936 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1956, interrupted by wartime service in the U.S. Navy. In a career spanning 570 games, Feller pitched 3,827 innings and posted a win–loss record of 266–162, with 279 complete games, 44 shutouts, and a 3.25 earned run average. He first played for the Indians aged 17 and was the first pitcher to win 24 games in a season before the age of 21. He threw no-hitters in 1940, 1946, and 1951 and also recorded 12 one-hitters; his no-hitters and one- hitters were records at the time of his retirement. He helped the Indians win a World Series title in 1948 and an American League-record 111 wins and the pennant in 1954. Feller led the American League in wins six times and in strikeouts seven times. In 1946, he recorded 348 strikeouts, a total not exceeded for 27 years. An eight-time All- Star, Feller was 36th on Sporting News's list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players and was named the publication's "greatest pitcher of his time". He was a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999.

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644:

Umar, the second Muslim Caliph after Muhammad's death, was fatally stabbed by Pirouz Nahavandi, a Persian slave. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar

1838:

The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English- language daily broadsheet newspaper, was founded as the The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_of_India

1948:

The Chicago Tribune published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" in its early morning edition shortly after incumbent U.S. President Harry S. Truman officially upset the heavily favored Governor of New York Thomas Dewey in the U.S. presidential election. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman

1956:

In the midst of the Suez Crisis, during an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Yunis_massacre

1979:

Five members of the U.S. Communist Workers Party were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre

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canine: 1. Of, or pertaining to, dogs. 2. Dog-like. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canine

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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.   --André Malraux https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Malraux