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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Feller>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
canine:
1. Of, or pertaining to, dogs.
2. Dog-like.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canine>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>
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