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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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