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On This Day the Greatest Cricket Batsman ever was born... ...Happy Birthday, Sachin Tendulkar!4/24/2020 On this day, April 24th 1973, Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was born.
Tendulkar played as a batsman for India, participating in the side that won the World Cup in 2011, He is the only player to have scored 100 centuries in Internaatsman tional cricket, and has the greatest tally or runs in International cricket of all time. He is arguably the greatest batsman of all time, a view that is debated in comparison to the great Australian batsman, Don Bradman, for Test Cricket and Viv Richards the West Indian batsman in One Day Internationals. In 2013 Wisden's Cricketer Almanack, 250th edition, picked him as the only Indian in its World Test XI. Tendulkar was nicknamed the 'Master Blaster'.
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Ramadan is the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, being the 9th lunar month, where Muslims believe that the great prophetic writings were received, ending in the revelation to Mohammed.
Muslims mark the month with fasting from dawn to dusk, in a period of self-reflection to achieve purity and a greater awareness of God. Muslims should devote themselves to prayer, charity and reciting the Quran - the Islamic holy book. The month of fasting lasts the length of a lunar month from the siting of one new cresecent moon to the next. April 23rd is St. George's Day, patron saint of England - as well as Ethiopia, Georgia and Catalonia, and plenty of other areas as well.
St. George is best known for the legend of him slaying the dragon, though he was an officer in the Roman Army who was executed for refusing to give up his Christian faith, and so became a martyr. His cross, a red cross on a white background was eventually adopted by England, as his fame spread across Europe from the Middle East. And so, just like England's Anglo-Saxon people, its Christian religion, and the cuppa, England's patron saint and flag are aspects of its diverse immigrant history and identity, whilst also being shared with others around the globe. On this day, April 23rd 1616, William Shakespeare, the Elizabethan actor, poet and playwright passed away. He was also likely born around this time in 1564 as he was baptized on April 26th that year.
Shakespeare became the foremost playwright of the Elizabethan age, with plays such as Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbaeth, A Midsummer's Night Dream - which with greater detail and complexity of the characters demonstrates his Renaissance thought. Shakespeare had a share in the Globe Theatre on the banks ofthe Thames, a reconstruction built not far away from where the original stood opened in 1997 and you can still see and visit it today. Shakespeare's influence upon literature has transcended the Tudor and Stuart period in which he lived, for as his contemporary Ben jonson said Shakespeare 'was not of an age, but for all time' Today the annual Earth Day, that celebrates the Earth, is held for the 50th time, beginning in 1970.
In 1970 it was mainly celebrated in thousands of schools, colleges and universities across the USA. However, it is now celebrated in nearly all the 193 nation states recognised by the United Nations. In 2016 the Paris Agreement on Climate Change was signed on this day, signed by over 120 countries. The unofficial flag of Earth Day features the 'Blue Marble' photograph of the Earth from NASA's Apollo 17 spacecraft, showing the mainly water Earth alone in space, white clouds swirling through the atmosphere just south of the continent of Africa, and obscuring Antarctica. What can you do today to celebrate the 50th Earth Day! A 6 year-old Italian boy will see an Italian football team wear is football kit design next season!
Serie B team Pescara Calcio chose Luigi D'Agostino's rainbow and dolphin tossing a football themed design, from the designs sent in by young fans in a competition aimed at easing the boredom during the Covid-19 lockdown in Italy. The design is indpired by the club's mascot of a dolphin, and Itaian sportswear firm Errea will make the kit for next season. See Luigi's bright and positive design and the new Pescara Calcio kit via the BBC at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52368010 On this day in 1509 the first Tudor king, King Henry VII dies and Henry VIII became the king of England.
Henry VII gained the throne by winning the Battle of Bosworth Field, defeating Richard III, ending the long running battle for the throne between the two families of the Lancastrians and Yorkists, in what is known as the 'War of the Roses' - the Red Rose being the Lancastrians, (Lancashire), and the White Rose being the Yorkists (Yorkshire). Henry VIII is known as an athletic and musical king in his youth, known for composing the music 'Greensleeves'; and for his marriage to six wives, in part due to seeking a male heir - which led to England splitting away from the Catholic Church under the Pope, and the creation of the Church of England under King Henry VIII. An event that also led to the dissolution, and thence the destruction of monastries up and down the country, that can now be seen as famous ruins which you can go and visit. In Portsmouth you can also visit the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's flagship that sank in battle, whilst he watched, which was salvaged from the dee of the sea between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight called the Solent, in the 1980s. In his old age Henry became overweight, and the view we tend to have of him now - he even had to be winched onto his horse, and at one time he fell off and his horse also wearing armour fell on top of him! You can see Henry VIII's armour, and his horse's armour at the Tower of London. Today is also the birthday of Her Majesty, Queen Elizanbeth II - Happy Birthday, Your Majesty! See the Astronauts and Space Scientists planning the next voyages to the Moon's surface...4/20/2020 Not since the early 1970s has humanity set foot on the Moon, but there are space scientists and astronauts researching into, planning for and training to return - with the hopes of achieving a lunar base in this generation - and the first missions were under tha name of Apollo, NASA's next will be under the name Artemis, Apollo's twin sister, and their are plenty of female astronauts and scientists ready to take the next steps onto the lunar surface...
See Paul Ricon's super BBC article 'To the Moon and Beyond' at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nkzysaP3pB/to-the-moon-and-beyond On this day, 20th April 1653, Oliver Cromwell, dismissed the 'Rump Parliament', beginning his move towards rule over England.
The 'Rump Parliament', was the remaining members of Parliament, who were prepared to try and execute the King in 1649, after Colonel Thomas Pride had purged it of those members who would not agree to such a move. Cromwell became impatient with Parliament as having got rid of the monarchy, it wasn't dissolving itself and forming a new constitution (set of rules for governming a country). On this day in 1653 Cromwell listened to the speeches, got up made a speech of his own criticising the Parliament, picked up the Speaker's Mace tossing it aside calling it a 'Fool's Bauble', and then got soldiers to turf out the Members of Parliament and locked the doors! Here we see Oliver Cromwell, acting just like King Charles I in dismissing a Parliament he did not like - exactly the behaviour he had criticised before the English Civil War! See Memory Coach Jordan Harry's top three tips for improving your memory, based around Acquiring, Consolidating and Recalling, at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/three-simple-tips-to-improve-your-memory/p089rtj6 |
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