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On this day, the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, published the book ‘Poems for our Children’, a collection of poems by Sarah Josepha Hale which included the famous nursery rhyme, ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’ (link). Hale was one of the first American woman novelists as well as being editor for forty years of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey’s Lady’s Book. She was also the driving force behind the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving. The authorship of the poem ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’, however, remains to this day a controversy as it was also claimed by a certain Mary Sawyer (link). The poem became the first audio recording in history when Thomas Edison recited it on his newly invented phonograph in 1877 to see if the machine actually worked.

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On this day, the Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate, Giovanni Falcone, was brutally assassinated by the Corleonesi Mafia clan. 400 kilograms of explosives were detonated in a culvert under the road as he drove down the A29 motorway near the town of Capaci on his way home. The blast killed Falcone and his wife and three police officers. Falcone spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of the Sicilian Mafia, and his innovative investigative techniques and working relationships with colleagues abroad brought important results both nationally and internationally. He also played a vital role in Palermo’s informal Antimafia Pool, created by Judge Rocco Chinnici. Falcone is best remembered by his famous phrase, “He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so; he who speaks out and walks with his head held high dies only once.”