was the manager of the Australian Services cricket team immediately
after World War II, and of the Australian team that toured England in
1948. The Australian Services team played England in a series of
celebratory matches known as the Victory Tests to usher in the post-war
era. The series was highly successful, with unprecedented crowds raising
large amounts for war charities, and Johnson's men toured British India
and Australia before being demobilised. His administration was regarded
as a major factor in the success of the tour. The 1948 Australian team
earned the sobriquet The Invincibles by being the first side to complete
a tour of England without losing a match. Johnson's management was again
lauded. However, in 1951–52, the Australian Board of Control excluded
Sid Barnes from the team for "reasons other than cricket". Barnes took
the matter to court, and at trial, his lawyer embarrassed Johnson, who
contradicted himself several times under cross-examination. Following
the trial, Johnson resigned from the board and took no further part in
cricket administration.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Johnson_(cricket_administrator)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1065:
Westminster Abbey in London, built by Edward the Confessor
between 1045 and 1050, was consecrated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey>
1768:
Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established
Thonburi Kingdom in the new capital at Thonburi, present-day Thailand.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taksin>
1943:
Second World War: After eight days of brutal house-to-house
fighting, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division captured the Italian town
of Ortona.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ortona>
1973:
U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act
into law, a wide-ranging environmental law designed to protect
critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of
economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and
conservation."
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act>
2011:
Acting on an information that PKK militants were crossing the
border in Şırnak Province, two Turkish F-16 jets fired at a group of
villagers, killing 34 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboski_Massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
brawn:
Physical strength; muscularity.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brawn>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a
number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before
been spoken. The seed-word is always so ordinary that hardly anyone
perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics
from but or if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam,
the greatest works bring glory to a common verb.
--Alasdair Gray
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alasdair_Gray>
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