English cricketer and rugby player (born 1862)

Johnny Briggs

Johnny Briggs was an English left arm spin bowler who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club between 1879 and 1900 and remains the second-highest wicket-taker in the county's history after Brian Statham. In the early days of Test cricket, Briggs‘ batting was considered careless, although still very useful. He was the first bowler in Test cricket to take 100 wickets, and held the record of most wickets in Test cricket on two occasions, the first in 1895 and again from 1898 until 1904, when he was succeeded by Hugh Trumble. He toured Australia a record six times, a feat only equalled by Colin Cowdrey.

Born

1862

October 3

Died

1902

Era

1860s

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Johnny, in brief

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1862 Born
1902 Died

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-42 Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost.
382 Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans.

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The world in 1902

When Johnny departed

april 18 The 7.5 Mw  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000.
april 20 Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
april 5 A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland and England.
august 22 The Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

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Also born in 1862

Billy Hughes 1862–1952 English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1862) Carolyn Wells 1862–1942 American novelist and poet (died 1942) Edvard Westermarck 1862– Finnish philosopher and sociologist (died 1939) George Nuttall 1862– American-British bacteriologist (died 1937) Henri Le Sidaner 1862– French painter (died 1939) James Clark McReynolds 1862–1946 American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (born 1862) Maurice Maeterlinck 1862–1949 Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949) Tomitaro Makino 1862– Japanese botanist (died 1957)

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