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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. (Full article...)

Sudanese woman with facial scarification

• ... that facial scarification (example pictured), a feature of ethnic groups of both Northern and Southern Sudan, has been documented by various photographers in Sudan?
• ... that after Lady Ganga learned that she had stage-four cervical cancer, she traveled to India and set a women's world record by standup-paddleboarding 700 miles (1,100 km) on the Ganges?
• ... that confusion over time zone changes in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan resulted in technical violations at WCKD radio and almost cost the owner an opportunity to build a station in Illinois?
• ... that Martin Willock took breaks in his cycling career to build a house and start a repairs company?
• ... that a Financial Times reviewer described Der Mieter (The Tenant), a German opera based on a French novel, as "a journey to the blackest regions of an anguished psyche in a hostile world"?
• ... that Nancy McCormick Rambusch founded the Whitby School in 1958, sparking a revival of Montessori education in the United States?
• ... that although Surrey County Council created over 250 smallholdings for men after the First World War, it was the Women's Farm and Garden Society which created those for women?
• ... that international cricketer Rohit Sharma is the rhino ambassador for WWF-India?

Mark Selby

• An elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapses, leaving at least 25 people dead and more than 70 others injured.
• Mark Selby (pictured) wins the World Snooker Championship, defeating Shaun Murphy in the final.
• Colombian president
  Iván Duque Márquez withdraws a proposed tax reform after nationwide protests
  leave at least 19 people dead.
• In horse racing, Medina Spirit wins the Kentucky Derby, earning trainer Bob Baffert a record seventh victory in the race.
• In Israel, 45 people are killed in
  a crowd crush at a religious festival on Mount Meron
  .

May 7: International Quds Day (2021)

Alexander Stepanovich Popov

• 1685 – Great Turkish War: Ottoman forces defeated Venetian irregulars at the Battle on Vrtijeljka.
• Alexander Stepanovich Popov (pictured) presented his lightning detector, one of the first radio receivers
  in the world, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.
• 1931 – New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered.
• 1946 – Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed 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.