Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959) was a Canadian scientist who was a forensic pathologist, nicknamed the "Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan" for her deductive skills and public fame. McGill influenced the development of forensic pathology in Canadian police work. After receiving her medical degree in 1915, McGill moved to Saskatchewan, where she was hired first as the provincial bacteriologist and then as the provincial pathologist. She worked extensively with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and local police forces for more than thirty years, and was instrumental in establishing the first RCMP forensic laboratory. She directed the RCMP laboratory for three years, and trained new RCMP recruits in forensic detection methods. After retiring in 1946, McGill was appointed Honorary Surgeon for the RCMP by the Canadian minister of justice, becoming one of its first official female members. McGill Lake in northern Saskatchewan was named in her honour.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Gertrude_McGill

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1895:

Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his radio receiver, refined as a lightning detector, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov

1931:

New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crowley

1946:

Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony

2009:

Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_shootings

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

calumny: 1. (countable) A false accusation or charge brought to tarnish another's reputation or standing. 2. (uncountable) Falsifications or misrepresentations intended to disparage or discredit another. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calumny

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.   --Rabindranath Tagore https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore