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Statue of Duncan Edwards

Duncan Edwards (1 October 1936 – 21 February 1958) was an English footballer who played for Manchester United and the England national team. He played 151 matches as one of the Busby Babes, the young United team formed under manager Matt Busby in the mid-1950s. Born in Woodside, Dudley, Worcestershire, Edwards signed for Manchester United as a teenager and went on to become the youngest player to play in the Football League First Division. As the youngest England player since the Second World War, he played 18 times for his country at top level. In a professional career of less than five years he helped United win two Football League championships and two FA Charity Shields, and reached the semi-finals of the European Cup. He was one of eight United players who died as a result of the Munich air disaster; he survived initially but succumbed to his injuries in hospital two weeks later. (Full article...)

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Ronald J. Shurer

... that US Army combat medic Ronald J. Shurer's (pictured) Silver Star commendation for service in Afghanistan is being upgraded to a Medal of Honor today?
... that upon their return to the Philippines after attending college in the United States, pensionados were referred to as "American boys" and faced discrimination?
... that heavy metal vocalist Jill Janus performed at the World Trade Center the night before the September 11 attacks?
... that when the designer Mariano Fortuny established his studio in the Palazzo Pesaro Orfei in Venice, he was one of about 350 people using the building?
... that Neeru Chadha is the first Indian woman to be elected as a judge to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea?
... that the boys choir Wiesbadener Knabenchor has performed as an "ambassador" of Wiesbaden, Germany, including in Bulgaria and Australia?
... that in 1887, eleven Lepidodendron stump fossils were discovered in the Fossil Grove in Glasgow, Scotland, during excavation work?
... that after the arrest of suspected drug lord El 85, shootouts, burning vehicles, and roadblocks were staged in Guadalajara, Mexico, possibly to allow his allies to escape undetected?

In the news

Ibrahim Mohamed Solih

In golf, the Ryder Cup concludes with Europe defeating the United States.
In cricket, the Asia Cup concludes with India defeating Bangladesh in the final.
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 844 people.
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih (pictured) is elected President of the Maldives.
An attack at a military parade in Ahvaz, Iran, leaves at least 30 people dead, including the attackers.

On this day

October 1: Shemini Atzeret (Judaism, 2018); Beginning of the National Day celebrations in China (1949); Unification Day in Cameroon (1961); Filipino American History Month (begins)

St Pancras railway station

1868 – St Pancras railway station (pictured) in London, which is now the terminus of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, opened to the public.
1890 – At the encouragement of preservationist John Muir and writer Robert Underwood Johnson, the United States Congress established Yosemite National Park.
1918 – First World War: British and Arab troops captured Damascus from the Ottoman Empire.
1949 – Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
1998 – Europol was founded, when the Europol Convention signed by all European Union member states came into force.

Yaqub Spata (d. 1416) · Rose O'Neal Greenhow (d. 1864) · Zhu Rongji (b. 1928)

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2018 winners Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Yona Harvey

The GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book is an annual award that honors comics writers for excellence in the depiction of LGBT characters and themes. It is one of several categories of the GLAAD Media Awards, which are presented by GLAAD at ceremonies in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco between March and June. The award was introduced in 1992 as a non-competitive category at the 3rd GLAAD Media Awards. The first honoree was William Messner-Loebs, for his work on the second volume of The Flash (a comic book series published by DC Comics). No award was given from 1993 through 1995, but the authors of one work have been recognized every year since 1996. "Outstanding Comic Book" became a competitive category in 1997. Since its inception, the award has been given to the authors of 21 comic books, comic strips, and graphic novels. Green Lantern, Young Avengers, and Strangers in Paradise are the only titles to have won the award twice, and Green Lantern is the only work to have won in two consecutive years (2002 and 2003). (Full list...)

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The Trinidad and Tobago dollar is the currency of Trinidad and Tobago. It has its origins in the Spanish dollar (also known as "pieces of eight"), which began circulating in the 16th century. The first bank in the territory was the Colonial Bank, which opened a branch in Trinidad in 1837. An 1838 order-in-council by the government designated the pound sterling as the official currency, but dollars issued by various countries remained legal tender. A government ordinance in 1934 named the dollar the official currency, replacing the system of pounds, shillings and pence at a fixed exchange rate of 1 dollar for every 4 shillings 2 pence. Trinidad and Tobago entered a currency union with other Caribbean nations after World War II, which was replaced by the modern Trinidad and Tobago dollar in 1964, two years after the nation's independence.

This is a 1905 one dollar note. Click here for the two dollar note issued at the same time.

Banknote: Thomas de la Rue, National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Image: Godot13

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