cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne in 1994–95 for pitch and weather
information. One of the most publicised betting controversies in cricket
in the 1990s, the matter was initially covered up by the Australian
Cricket Board (ACB), which reported it to the International Cricket
Council and quietly fined the players. The players and the ACB were
later widely condemned by the media and public, but not generally by the
sports community. The ACB requested an independent inquiry and appointed
Rob O'Regan QC, who wrote that a suspension for a "significant time"
would have been a more appropriate penalty. He strongly condemned the
players' behaviour and recommended that cricketers be educated about the
dangers of gambling and unauthorised bookmakers. The controversy
prompted Pakistan to ask the two Australian players to appear in front
of their own judicial inquiry into corruption; the hearings were held in
Australia. Both Waugh and Warne denied the suggestion that they played
with any less determination than usual in the matches.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_bookmaker_controversy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1520:
Citizens of Toledo, Castile, who were opposed to the rule of
the foreign-born Charles V, rose up in revolt when the royal government
attempted to unseat radical city councilors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros>
1818:
The United States Senate ratified the Rush–Bagot Treaty,
which laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the US and
British North America.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush%E2%80%93Bagot_Treaty>
1917:
Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and
joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin>
1963:
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail
in response to an open letter written by white clergymen four days
earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail>
2014:
The South Korean ferry MV Sewol sank 1.5 km (0.93 mi)
offshore of Donggeochado, Jindo County, with 476 onboard, including 172
survivors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
catch-as-catch-can:
1. (idiomatic) Only when possible or when the opportunity presents itself;
intermittent.
2. (wrestling) Relating to catch wrestling, a form of amateur freestyle
wrestling.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catch-as-catch-can>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the
intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the
good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
--Anatole France
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France>
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