In the 1891 English cricket season, Somerset County Cricket Club returned to first-class cricket after a five-year absence. They competed in the County Championship, which had been established the previous year. Somerset began the season poorly, drawing one and losing two of their opening three fixtures. Results improved and Somerset won five, lost six and drew one of their County Championship matches, finishing fifth in the table. The Somerset team predominantly consisted of amateur batsmen, supported by two professional bowlers. Lionel Palairet led Somerset's batting in terms of both runs and average, scoring 560 runs at an average of 31.11; he was also the only Somerset player to score a century during 1891. Somerset's professional bowlers, George Nichols and Ted Tyler, along with an amateur all-rounder, Sammy Woods, did almost all of the bowling for the county; Woods led the bowling tables with 72 wickets at an average of 17.08.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1969:

Yasser Arafat was elected chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat

1974:

American newspaper heiress and socialite Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, which she later joined, in one of the most well-known cases of Stockholm syndrome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst

1999:

Amadou Diallo, a 23-year-old immigrant from Guinea, was shot and killed by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers, prompting outrage both within and outside the city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Amadou_Diallo

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smallfolk: (fantasy, mythology) Small humanoid creatures, such as gnomes and halflings. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smallfolk

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