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A 1–1 tie in 26 innings was played by the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Braves on May 1, 1920, at Braves Field in Boston, still the most innings played in a Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Leon Cadore of Brooklyn and Joe Oeschger of Boston each pitched 26 innings, also a one-game record. Brooklyn scored its only run in the fifth inning, as did Boston in the sixth, and, though both teams threatened to score again several times, the game remained deadlocked. With darkness starting to fall and no artificial lighting, the umpires called a halt after the 26th inning. Other records included Charlie Pick's 11 at bats in a game without a base hit and first baseman Walter Holke's 42 putouts. There have been claims that the long pitching appearances ruined the arms of Oeschger and Cadore; this was not so as both pitched several more years in MLB and Oeschger won 20 games in 1921. Their shared record of 26 innings pitched in an MLB game has been repeatedly cited as one that will never be broken. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
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- ... that during the British period, the tomb of Khan Muhammad was used as an office and residence for the executive engineer?
- ... that after his professional American football career, Lou Daukas became a lawyer?
- ... that the thought of her sister Ioveta being a common nun was so abhorrent to the queen of Jerusalem that she ordered the construction of the Convent of Saint Lazarus for Ioveta to rule as an abbess?
- ... that the great-nephew of Leon Trotsky was a physician for the Black Panther Party and helped deinstitutionalize Willowbrook State School?
- ... that the entire inventory of historic string instruments in Canada's Musical Instrument Bank are loaned to musicians in a competition held every three years?
- ... that cabinet-maker Stephen Badlam simultaneously served as a justice of the peace and a brigadier-general?
- ... that misidentifications of the crested cuckoo-dove have led to claims that the extinct Choiseul pigeon is still around?
In the news
- At least 103 people are killed in bombings in Kerman, Iran, during a ceremony commemorating the assassination of Qasem Soleimani.
- Japan Airlines Flight 516 (wreckage pictured) collides with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, killing five aboard the latter aircraft.
- Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the South Korean opposition, is hospitalized following a stabbing attack in Busan.
- An earthquake, the strongest mainland event in Japan since 2011, strikes the Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture, leaving more than 70 people dead.
- In Nigeria, bandits kill at least 200 people in Plateau State.
On this day
- 1749 – The first issue of Berlingske (front page pictured), Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, was published.
- 1911 – An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw destroyed Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
- 1938 – The American health charity March of Dimes was founded as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to help raise money for polio research.
- 1961 – All 25 people on board Aero Flight 311 died in Finland's worst civilian air accident when the aircraft crashed near Kvevlax.
- 2009 – The cryptocurrency network of bitcoin was created when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain.
- Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena (d. 1743)
- Oliver Bosbyshell (b. 1839)
- Mona Best (b. 1924)
- Lynn Hill (b. 1961)
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The black-faced woodswallow (Artamus cinereus) is a species of woodswallow native to Australia (in which it is found throughout, apart from the eastern margin), New Guinea and the Sunda Islands, including Timor. It is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and the most widespread species in the family Artamidae. A mainly sedentary bird, it remains in arid and semi-arid areas even during dry conditions. Although it can be partly nomadic, the species prefers open eucalypt woodlands, scrub, and spinifex in arid and semi-arid conditions. The black-faced woodswallow is mainly insectivorous, being an aerial feeder that can soar, hover and dive to catch insect prey such as moths. It also often feeds on the ground taking ground insects, or insects caught on the wing to be dismembered. This black-faced woodswallow was photographed in Sturt National Park in New South Wales, Australia. Photograph credit: John Harrison
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