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.

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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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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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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