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.
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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
_____________________________ 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
___________________________ 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
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