On 24 May 1979, in a game against Worcestershire, Somerset County Cricket Club captain Brian Rose chose to declare his team's innings closed after one over, throwing the game to manipulate a loophole in the rules. He was aiming to avoid elimination on a strike rate tie-breaker from the quarterfinals of the 1979 Benson & Hedges Cup, a one-day cricket competition for counties in England and Wales. After Somerset scored one run and declared, Worcestershire scored the two runs they needed to win. The match at New Road (pictured) in Worcester was completed in 18 minutes, with only 16 legal deliveries. Although Somerset's declaration was within the Laws of Cricket, Rose was condemned by the press and cricket officials. Just over a week after the match, the Test and County Cricket Board met for an emergency session and voted to eject Somerset from the competition by a vote of seventeen to one. The Laws were later changed to ban declarations in professional one-day cricket.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_v_Somerset,_1979

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1830:

The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb

1930:

English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Johnson

1970:

On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, which eventually reached a depth of 12,262 metres (40,230 ft), making it the deepest borehole ever drilled and the deepest artificial point on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

2014:

A gunman who had links to radical Islamists opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Museum_of_Belgium_shooting

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

consilience: 1. (logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different data sets. [from mid 19th c.] 2. The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consilience

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown. And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'.   --Bob Dylan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan