Len Hutton (23 June 1916 – 6 September 1990) was a
Test cricketer who played for
Yorkshire and
England as an
opening batsman. Marked out as a potential star from his teenage years, Hutton made his debut for Yorkshire in 1934 and by 1937 was playing for England. He set a record in 1938 for the highest individual innings in a Test match, scoring 364
runs against Australia, a milestone that stood for nearly 20 years. During the Second World War, he received a serious arm injury from which he never fully recovered. In 1946, he assumed a role as the mainstay of England's batting; the team depended greatly on his success for the remainder of his career. In 1952, he became the first professional cricketer of the 20th century to captain England in Tests; under his captaincy in 1953, England won
the Ashes for the first time in 19 years. As a batsman, Hutton was cautious and built his style on a sound defence. He remains statistically among the best batsmen to have played Test cricket, and was
knighted for his contributions to the game in 1956. He went on to be a Test selector, a journalist and broadcaster, an engineering firm director and, in 1990, Yorkshire's president. (
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... that the 12th-century Fuentidueña Apse(pictured) in New York's
Cloisters museum was originally part of a
Romanesque church likely built as the chapel for a fortress defending against
Moorish invaders?
1946 – Canada's largest onshore earthquake, measuring 7.3
Mw, struckVancouver Island, but only caused two casualties since there were no heavily populated areas near its
epicenter.
A streaked spiderhunter (Arachnothera magna) on a banana inflorescence in
Kaeng Krachan National Park,
Phetchaburi, Thailand. This species, which is similar in size to a
sparrow, can be found in subtropical or tropical moist
forests (both lowland and
montane) in much of South and Southeast Asia. The streaked spiderhunter feeds on the nectar of flowers such as the wild banana blossom.
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