Edward Jones (7 April 1824 – c. 1895), also known as "the boy
Jones", became notorious for breaking into Buckingham Palace in London
several times between 1838 and 1841. He was first caught doing so when
he was 14; although he was found with items he had stolen, he escaped a
prison sentence. He broke into the palace again in December 1840, and
was caught and sentenced to three months' hard labour. He was released
in March 1841 and returned to the palace two weeks later, was arrested
and served another three months. He was coerced into the Royal Navy by
the Thames Police and served between 1842 and 1847. He was caught
burgling houses in August 1849 and was transported to an Australian
penal colony. He returned to England, was arrested for burglary in 1856
and served six months of hard labour. He probably died in Australia,
either in Bairnsdale, Victoria, on Boxing Day 1893 or in Perth in 1896.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_boy_Jones>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1949:
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pacific_%28musical%29>
1964:
Reverend Bruce W. Klunder was killed by a bulldozer while he
was protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland,
Ohio, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_W._Klunder>
1994:
Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after
the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of
thousands killed in the following 100 days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide>
2001:
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the
longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet
other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
under the knife:
(informal) Chiefly preceded by a form of go: undergoing a surgical
procedure; into surgery.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/under_the_knife>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of
elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply
interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round
ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; A
motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of
all thought, And rolls through all things.
--William Wordsworth
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth>