former professional cricketer, nicknamed "Aggers". Agnew had a
successful first-class career as a fast bowler for Leicestershire from
1979 to 1990, returning briefly in 1992. He won three Test caps in the
mid-1980s for England, and played in three One Day Internationals, his
entire international career lasting just under a year. In county
cricket, Agnew's most successful seasons came toward the end of his
career. He was the second and third leading wicket-taker in 1987 and
1988 respectively, achieving 100 wickets in a season in the former.
Overall, he took 666 first-class wickets at an average of 29.25. He was
named one of the five Cricketers of the Year by Wisden Cricketers'
Almanack in 1988. While still a player, Agnew began a career in cricket
journalism and commentary. Since his retirement as a player, he has
become a leading voice of cricket on radio, as the BBC radio cricket
correspondent and on Test Match Special. In 1991, he was part of an on-
air incident, known as the "leg over", which was blamed for a two-mile
traffic jam caused by drivers laughing; BBC 5 Live listeners voted it
"the greatest sporting commentary ever" in 2005.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Agnew>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1796:
French naturalist Georges Cuvier delivered a lecture at the
National Museum of Natural History on living and fossil remains of
elephants and related species, founding the science of paleontology.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Cuvier>
1873:
The Kennel Club, the oldest kennel club in the world, was
founded in the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kennel_Club>
1949:
Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO,
an organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby
its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by
any external party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO>
1976:
Norodom Sihanouk abdicated from the role of leader of Cambodia
and was arrested by the Khmer Rouge.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Sihanouk>
2002:
The Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed a peace treaty,
agreeing to follow the 1994 Lusaka Protocol and ending the decades-long
Angolan Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fever pitch:
(idiomatic) Extreme excitement.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fever_pitch>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal.
Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful.
--Andrei Tarkovsky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrei_Tarkovsky>
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