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From today's featured article Hobey Baker (1892–1918) was an American amateur athlete of the early twentieth century, widely regarded by his contemporaries as one of the best athletes of his time. He excelled at ice hockey and football at Princeton University, where he was a member of three national championship teams, and became a noted amateur hockey player for the St. Nicholas Club in New York City, helping the club win a national amateur championship. Baker graduated in 1914 and worked for J.P. Morgan Bank until he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Service. During World War I he served with the 103rd and 13th Aero Squadrons before being promoted to captain and named commander of the 141st Aero Squadron. Baker died in December 1918 after a plane he was test-piloting crashed, hours before he was due to return to America. In 1921, Princeton named its new hockey arena the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink. He was one of the first nine inductees in the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945 and was also inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975, making him the only person to be in both Halls of Fame. The Hobey Baker Award is presented annually to the best collegiate hockey player in the United States. (Full article...) Recently featured: 1982 British Army Gazelle friendly fire incident – Roxy Ann Peak – Bohemian Waxwing Did you know... From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content: ... that the creation of Birmingham Crematorium (pictured) was supported by three bishops and a principal? ... that one reviewer said Christina Aguilera's song "Save Me from Myself" "cracks open the super diva to reveal something like a real person inside"? ... that multi-award winning solar astronomer John Wainwright Evans chose the name for the town of Sunspot, New Mexico? ... that female infanticide in India has a history spanning centuries? ... that 18 different official currencies are currently in use in the countries of North America? ... that George Burditt was a writer on many episodes of the sitcom Three's Company and later became the show's executive producer? ... that Game Informer wrote that Max: The Curse of Brotherhood's central conceit was a "gimmick that simply doesn't work all that well"?

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