TODAY - July 19


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS
ON: JULY 19

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TODAY’s LENGTH:

This day is here in Denmark 47 minutes shorter than June 21. Its length is 16 hours and 47 minutes – from04.57 to 21.45.

See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk

TODAY’s NAME:

This day is called JUSTA's DAY. She was a Spanish potter in Sevilla. When she refused to give her bowls as sacrifice to a non-Christian goddess, she was revealed as a Christian.

When she according to the legend also together with her sister Rufina destroys an idol with the force of prayers she was taken to the Roman governor. Here she was treated with extremely hot sticks of iron until she died. After that her dead body was thrown into a well. It happened in 300 AD.

In Belgium the day is called SAINT ARSÈNE – after a Roman saint, who lived as a hermit in the Egyptian desert. He died in 449.

Saint Arsène and many other names of saints are, by the way, often the name of towns and municipalities in Canada, especially in the province of Quebec.
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TODAY’s EVENT:

1969: The Belgian Eddie Merckx wins Tour de France .  He is still alive and active. And a Metro station in Brussels is named after him.

TODAY’s QUESTION:

Bonnie and Clyde - who were they? And what is the history?

This was a young American gangster couple during the Great Depression in the beginning of the 1930ies.  Clyde Barrow was a heavy smoker and very able shooter, who killed at least 9 policemen and many civilians. Bonnie Parker, his girl friend, took part in most of the gangster attacks.  The couple robbed lots of banks and small shops. Gas stations in the country side were their particular favourites.

The police was constantly about to catch them. And on May 23, 1933 they managed to corner them. During a heavy gun fight they were both killed by the police in Louisiana
At a certain moment some people saw they as modern days' Robin Hood, who stole from the rich to give it to the poor. But they only stole to the benefit of themselves.


QUESTION FOR TOMORROW:

Braille - what is that? What is the history?
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TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :

1.  Yesterday’s quote:

A good head and a warm heart is a formidable combination!    

This was said by the former South-African president Nelson Mandela.

2.  Today’s quote:

        God created man - and I made them equal.

             Who among today’s persons has said that?


3.  Famous people born on this day:

1814:  Samuel Colt  ( died 1862 )

1834:  Edgar Degas  ( died 1917 )

1846:  Edward Charles Pickering  ( died 1919 )

1946:  Ilie Nastase

4.  Famous people died on this day:

            1892:  Thomas Cook  ( 83 years )

             1965:  Syngman Rhee  ( 90 years )

        1992:  Paolo Borsellino  ( 52 years )

             2009:  Frank McCourt  ( 79 years )

Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  
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