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Wally Hammond (19 June 1903 – 1 July 1965) was an English first-class cricketer, primarily a middle-order batsman, who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning as a professional, he later became an amateur and was appointed captain of England. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described him in his obituary as one of the four best batsmen in the history of cricket. In a Test career spanning 85 matches, he scored 7,249 runs and took 83 wickets. Hammond captained England in 20 of those Tests, winning 4, losing 3, and drawing 13. His career aggregate of runs was the highest in Test cricket until surpassed by Colin Cowdrey in 1970; his total of 22 Test centuries remained an English record until Alastair Cook surpassed it in December 2012. Overall, he scored 50,551 runs and 167 centuries in first-class cricket games, respectively the seventh and third highest totals by a first-class cricketer. (Full article...)

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In golf, Brooks Koepka wins the U.S. Open at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club (pictured).
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Saudi-backed troops begin an attack on Houthi forces in the port of Al Hudaydah, Yemen.
In association football, FIFA awards hosting rights for the 2026 World Cup to a joint bid from Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
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On this day

June 19: Juneteenth in some parts of the United States

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

1800 – War of the Second Coalition: General Jean Victor Marie Moreau led French forces to victory in the Battle of Höchstädt, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna.
1816 – The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies who passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty, an international law treaty, was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.

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New York State Route 199, seen here east of Hammertown, is a 30.91-mile-long (49.74 km) state highway located in the Hudson Valley of the U.S. state of New York. From its west end in Ulster County north of Kingston, it crosses the Kingston–Rhinecliff Bridge over the Hudson River, crossing northern Dutchess County to its east end near Millerton.

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