Roy Kilner (1890–1928) was an English professional cricketer who
played nine Test matches for England between 1924 and 1926. He played
for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1911 and 1927, scoring 1,000
runs in a season ten times and taking 100 wickets in a season five
times. He first played for Yorkshire as a batsman before being wounded
in the First World War. Returning in 1919 to a team short of bowlers, he
developed into a proficient left-arm spinner. His aggressive batting and
warm personality made him a popular player with both cricketers and
spectators. First chosen for England in 1924, he was the second most
successful bowler on the Ashes tour of 1924–25. He was selected during
the 1926 Ashes series but dropped for the final Test. Kilner went on
several coaching trips to India during English winters, and on one of
these, in 1927–28, he contracted an illness; on his return to England,
he died aged 37. His funeral was attended by over 100,000 people.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Kilner>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1558:
Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, was founded by order
of King Sigismund II Augustus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Poland>
1604:
German astronomer Johannes Kepler observed an exceptionally
bright star, now known as Kepler's Supernova (remnant nebula pictured),
which had suddenly appeared in the constellation Ophiuchus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_Supernova>
1931:
American gangster Al Capone was convicted on five counts of
income tax evasion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone>
1940:
The body of Willi Münzenberg, a French communist who was the
leading propagandist for the Communist Party of Germany, was found near
Saint-Marcellin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_M%C3%BCnzenberg>
2010:
Mary MacKillop was canonised to become the only Australian to
be recognised by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_MacKillop>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
volute:
1. (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
2. (zoology) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
3. (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/volute>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You cannot make children learn music or anything else without to
some degree converting them into will-less adults. You fashion them into
accepters of the status quo – a good thing for a society that needs
obedient sitters at dreary desks, standers in shops, mechanical catchers
of the 8:30 suburban train – a society, in short, that is carried on
the shabby shoulders of the scared little man – the scared-to-death
conformist.
--A. S. Neill
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A._S._Neill>