English cricketer

Alec Stewart

Alec James Stewart is an English former cricketer, and former captain of the England cricket team, who played Test cricket and One Day Internationals as a right-handed wicket-keeper-batsman. He is the fifth-most-capped English cricketer ever in Test matches and third-most-capped in One Day Internationals (ODIs), having played in 133 Tests and 170 ODIs. An attacking batsman in tests against the new ball, Stewart is regarded as one of England's greatest openers. Pakistani fast bowler Wasim Akram considers him one of the most difficult batsmen he ever bowled to.

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1963

April 8

Died

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1960s

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1963 Born

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217 Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
876 The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
1139 Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for supporting Anacletus II as pope for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy.
1143 Manuel I Komnenos succeeds his father John II Komnenos as Byzantine Emperor.

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The world in 1963

When Alec arrived

april 10 One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea.
april 11 Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
april 12 The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.[citation needed]
april 16 U.S. civil rights campaigner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes his open letter from Birmingham Jail, sometimes known as "The Negro Is Your Brother", while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting against segregation.

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Adrian Boult 1889–1983 English conductor (died 1983) August Wilhelm von Hofmann 1818–1892 German chemist and academic (died 1892) Carlos Santana 1986– Dominican baseball player Clarence Hudson White 1871–1925 American photographer and educator (died 1925) Dionysios Solomos 1798–1857 Greek poet and author (died 1857) Emma Caulfield 1973– American actress Franco Corelli 1921–2003 Italian tenor and actor (died 2003) Gennady Golovkin 1982– Kazakhstani boxer Gerrie Coetzee 1955– South African boxer (died 2023)

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