CoM Moderators Posted August 5, 2024 Posted August 5, 2024 1716 - Battle of Petrovaradin [Peterwardein]: Habsburgs under Eugene of Savoy defeat the Ottomans in a decisive victory 1900 - In Russia, anti-Jewish riots spread from Odessa into other parts of the country 1914 - Dutch Cort Van de Linden government issues silver bonds as money 1964 - Beatles record a cover of Little Willie John's "Leave My Kitten Alone"; not released until 1995's "Anthology 1" 1980 - Montreal Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager in 11-5 win v Mets, for whom Doug Flynn hits MLB record tying 3 triples 1983 - American rock singer David Crosby sentenced to 5 years in Texas state prison on drug and weapons convictions 1995 - 5th Athletics World Championships open at Gothenburg, Sweden 2018 - English swimmer Adam Peaty breaks his own world record in 57.00 as he wins his 9th European 100m breaststroke title in Glasgow, Scotland 2018 - 6.9 magnitude earthquake on island of Lombok, Indonesia, kills at least 460 people and displaces 350,000 2018 - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declares "now we are a land of droughts" as 99% of New South Wales affected More Historical Events »
mike carey Posted August 5, 2024 Posted August 5, 2024 3 hours ago, CoM Moderators said: - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declares "now we are a land of droughts" as 99% of New South Wales affected This was a climate-related comment but not a random one, it's a reference to the second stanza of Dorothea Mackellar's famous poem My Country: I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for me! Perversely, many of the subsequent years (although not immediately after this 2018 comment) were more notable for the second part of that line, featuring record breaking floods on the east coast and in the Kimberley.
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