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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_County_Cricket_Club_in_1891>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
smallfolk:
(fantasy, mythology) Small humanoid creatures, such as gnomes and
halflings.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smallfolk>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all
over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or
a material standpoint. Fortunately, in spite of all that has been said,
the oceans are still difficult to cross; and we have the time to adjust
and prepare.
--Charles Lindbergh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh>
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