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DID YOU KNOW?September 7 Information in this section is sourced from the internet, including Wikipedia, company websites and personal accounts.


IT’S NATIONAL THREATENED SPECIES DAY The last captive thylacine, or Tasmania tiger, later referred to as “Benjamin” (although its sex has never been confi rmed) was captured in 1933 by Elias Churchill and sent to the Hobart Zoo where it lived for three years, dying on September 7, 1936. It is believed to have died as the result of neglect – locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, it was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather: extreme heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night. National Threatened Species Day has been held annually since 1996 on September 7 in Australia, to commemorate the death of the last offi cially recorded thylacine.


IT’S SAINT REGINA DAY Saint Regina was a third century virgin martyr and saint of the Catholic Church. Regina was born in Autun, France to a pagan named Clement. Her mother died at her birth and her father repudiated her. She then went to live with a Christian nurse who baptised her. Regina helped out by tending the sheep. She communed with God in prayer and meditated on the lives of the saints. She was betrothed to the proconsul Olybrius, but refused to renounce her faith to marry him, for which she was tortured and was beheaded at Alesia in the diocese of Autun, called Alise-Sainte-Reine after her. She is the patron saint against poverty and impoverishment and of shepherdesses and torture victims.


IT’S BELMONT RED CROSS’S 97TH BIRTHDAY In 1941, the Australian Red Cross was offi cially inaugurated by Royal Charter. Belmont branch, began in September that year and closely followed by Williamtown, was among the fi rst to


be formed. The branch’s works and service activities include knitting “Trauma Teddies”, which are distributed to children via the family law courts, hospital emergency departments, the fi re brigade and SES teams – wherever there are children who need a soft little friend to cuddle. The branch’s 97th birthday party is being held today and people interested in its activities or becoming a member, can contact president Kaylene Wurth on 4946 0007.


IT’S A WORLD’S FIRST FOR SUBMARINES On September 7, 1776, the world’s fi rst submarine attack took place during the American Revolution when the experimental American submarine Turtle, under the guidance of army volunteer Sergeant Ezra Lee, attacked the Intrepid class warship HMS Eagle, which was moored in New York harbour, but was unable to bore through the hull. When Lee attempted another spot in the hull, he lost the ship and eventually abandoned the


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attempt. The Turtle consisted of two wooden shells covered with tar and reinforced with steel bands, with six small pieces of thick glass in the top of the submarine providing natural light.


IT’S A KNOCKOUT On this day in 1978, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated while walking across Waterloo Bridge in London. He was killed by a Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fi red from a specially designed umbrella. Ricin, from the castor oil plant, is a highly toxic, naturally occurring protein. A dose as small as a few grains of salt can kill an adult. Ricin causes severe diarrhea and victims can die of shock. Death typically occurs within three to fi ve days of the initial exposure. Last month, the New York Times reported that American counterterrorism offi cials were increasingly concerned that the most dangerous regional arm of Al Qaeda was trying to produce ricin, to be packed around small explosives for attacks against the US.


“Al Qaeda’s affi liate in Yemen has been making eff orts to acquire large quantities of castor beans, which are required to produce ricin,” the newspaper reported.


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