League Baseball who played for nine seasons in the American League with
the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians. In 701 career games,
Tucker recorded a batting average of .255 and accumulated 24 triples,
9 home runs, and 179 runs batted in. He was nicknamed "Joe E." Tucker
because of his resemblance to comedian Joe E. Brown. Born and raised in
Gordon, Texas, he was a three-sport athlete at high school, playing
baseball (where he was a second baseman), basketball, and track and
field. Tucker first played baseball professionally with the Siloam
Springs Travelers. After playing in minor league baseball, he was signed
by the Chicago White Sox before the 1941 season. His major league debut
came the following year and he spent two years as the White Sox's
starting center fielder until he enlisted in the armed forces during
World War II. Upon his return, Tucker played two more seasons for the
White Sox. Subsequently, he was traded to the Cleveland Indians, for
whom he played four years, and continued to play minor league baseball
throughout the 1950s. After his retirement, he became a major league
scout and insurance agent.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurman_Tucker>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
Actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth fatally
shot U.S. President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington,
D.C.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln>
1906:
The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the spread
of Pentecostalism in the 20th century, opened in Los Angeles.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azusa_Street_Revival>
1931:
After King Alfonso XIII left Spain, the Second Spanish
Republic was proclaimed by a provisional government led by Niceto
Alcalá-Zamora (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Spanish_Republic>
1978:
Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against an
attempt by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR to change the
constitutional status of the Georgian language.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Georgian_demonstrations>
1999:
A storm dropped an estimated 500,000 tonnes of hailstones in
Sydney and along the east coast of New South Wales, causing about A$2.3
billion in damages, the costliest natural disaster in Australian
insurance history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Sydney_hailstorm>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hapax legomenon:
A word occurring only once in a given corpus.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hapax_legomenon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than
to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a
work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world which
he received at a certain hour.
--James Branch Cabell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell>
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