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1924Aug, 28

Tony MacGibbon

Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricketer and engineer (d. 2010)
Anthony Roy MacGibbon, (28 August 1924 – 6 April 2010) was a cricketer who played 26 Tests for New Zealand.

MacGibbon was a useful lower-order right-hand batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler who led the attack for his country for most of the 1950s. Tall and able to move the ball off the seam, MacGibbon was known as a wholehearted cricketer in what was, for most of his career, one of the weakest teams in international cricket.

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    George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
  • 25Mar

    Second Hellenic Republic

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  • 8Apr

    Atatürk's Reforms

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  • 4Aug

    Soviet Union

    Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
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    Andromeda Galaxy

    Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.