Today’s WOTD – 11 October 2012
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Today’s aphorism
‘What’s better than beating Collingwood by 10 goals? Beating them by five points.’
George Harris (President of Carlton Football Club 1964-1974, 1978-1980). This comment angered Collingwood fans as it was made after Carlton beat Collingwood by 5 points in the 1979 grand-final: 11.16.(82) to 11.11.(77).
On this day
11 October 1844 – birth of Henry John Heinz, founder of Heinz Company, responsible for canned baked beans. Died 14 May 1919.
11 October 1935 – death of Steele Rudd, Australian author, (pen-name for Arthur Hoey Davis). Wrote ‘On Our Selection‘, which introduced Australia to ‘Dad and Dave’. Born 14 November 1868.
11 October 1930 – Australian Rules football club, Collingwood, win the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.
11 October 1939 – German theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein explains to the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the possibility of building an atomic bomb.