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1933May, 5

Collie Smith

Collie Smith, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1959)
O'Neil Gordon "Collie" Smith (5 May 1933 – 9 September 1959) was a West Indian cricketer.

A hard-hitting batsman and off spin bowler, Smith was rated highly in West Indies. He idolised Jim Laker, for which reason he was nicknamed "Jim" for a time.

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    Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.
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