Australian cricketer and baseball player (died 1991)

Bill Ponsford

William Harold Ponsford MBE was an Australian cricketer. Usually playing as an opening batsman, he formed a successful and long-lived partnership opening the batting for Victoria and Australia with Bill Woodfull, his friend and state and national captain. Ponsford is the only player to twice break the world record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket; Ponsford and Brian Lara are the only cricketers to twice score 400 runs in an innings. Ponsford holds the Australian record for a partnership in Test cricket, set in 1934 in combination with Don Bradman —the man who broke many of Ponsford's other individual records.

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1900

October 19

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1900 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-202 Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.[citation needed]
439 The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1386 The Universität Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
1453 Hundred Years' War: Three months after the Battle of Castillon, England loses its last possessions in southern France.

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The world in 1900

When Bill arrived

april 1 Prince George becomes absolute monarch of the Cretan State.
april 10 British suffer a sharp defeat by the Boers south of Brandfort. Six hundred British troops are killed and wounded and 800 taken prisoner.
april 12 One day after its enactment by the Congress, President William McKinley signs the Foraker Act into law, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
april 14 The world's fair Exposition Universelle opens in Paris.

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Ayuo Takahashi 1960– Japanese-American singer-songwriter Evander Holyfield 1962– American boxer and actor Grover Norquist 1956– American activist, founded Americans for Tax Reform Jack Anderson 1922–2005 American journalist and author (born 1922) James Bevel 1936–2008 American minister and activist (born 1936) James Howard Kunstler 1948– American author and critic Jean Dausset 1916–2009 French-Spanish immunologist and academic; awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his studies of the genetic basis of immunological reaction (born 1916) John Woolman 1720–1772 American-English preacher, journalist, and activist (died 1772) LaWanda Page 1920–2002 American actress (died 2002)

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Also born in 1900

Aaron Copland 1900–1990 American composer and conductor (born 1900) Alastair Sim 1900–1976 Scottish-English actor (born 1900) Arnold Orville Beckman 1900– American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist (died 2004) Bunny Ahearne 1900–1985 Irish-born English businessman (born 1900) Douglas Jardine 1900– Indian-English cricketer and lawyer (died 1958) Eduardo De Filippo 1900–1984 Italian actor and screenwriter (died 1984) Edward Ardizzone 1900– Vietnamese-English author and illustrator (died 1979) Ellen Broe 1900– Danish nurse, pioneer in nursing education (died 1994) Ernie Pyle 1900–1945 American journalist and soldier (born 1900)

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