The Epsom riot took place on 17 June 1919 when between 300 and 800
soldiers of the Canadian Army rioted and attacked the police station in
Epsom in Surrey, England. With the First World War over, discipline at
Canadian camps was relaxed. Delays in repatriation caused discontent
among Canadian troops. The riot began when two Canadian servicemen were
arrested following a disturbance at a local public house. Their comrades
marched on the town police station to demand their release. In the
ensuing fighting, Private Allan McMaster, a former blacksmith, picked up
a metal bar and struck Station Sergeant Thomas Green (pictured), a
British police officer, on the head. Green died the following day.
Several men, including McMaster, appeared in court, were found guilty of
rioting but acquitted of manslaughter, and served several months in
prison. Ten years after returning to Canada, McMaster confessed to the
killing. As he had already been found not guilty of manslaughter, he was
not returned to the UK.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsom_riot>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1643:
A Dutch expedition arrived at the mouth of the Valdivia River,
in present-day Chile, to establish a new colony in the ruins of the
abandoned Spanish settlement of Valdivia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_expedition_to_Valdivia>
1662:
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer was legally enforced as the
liturgy of the Church of England, precipitating the Great Ejection of
Dissenter ministers from their benefices.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer_%281662%29>
1963:
Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to
oust Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh Nhu from his
unofficial position of power.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_243>
2006:
The International Astronomical Union passed a resolution
redefining the term planet and classifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
requite:
1. (transitive)
2. To repay (a debt owed); specifically, to recompense or reward someone
for (a favour, a service rendered, etc.)
3. To repay (someone) a debt owed; specifically, to recompense or reward
(someone) for a favour, a service rendered, etc.
4. To respond to or reciprocate (feelings, especially affection or love
which has been shown).
5. To do or give a thing in return for (something).
6. To retaliate or seek revenge for (an insult, a wrong, etc.).; to
avenge.
7. To retaliate or seek revenge against (someone) for an insult, a
wrong, etc.; also (reflexive, rare), to seek revenge for (oneself).
8. (obsolete)
9. To greet (someone) in return.
10. To make up for (something); to compensate.
11. To respond to (a question, a statement, etc.).
12. To take the place of (someone or something); to replace.
13. (reflexive) Of an action, a quality, etc.: to be a reward for
(itself).
14. (intransitive)
15. To recompense, to repay.
16. To retaliate, to seek revenge.
17. Chiefly in the form in requite for or of: synonym of requital
(“compensation for damage or loss; return in kind, recompense,
repayment, reward”)
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/requite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Russian Defense Ministry is trying to deceive the President
and the public and tell them there was insane aggression on the part of
Ukraine and they were going to attack us together with the entire NATO
bloc. So, the so-called "special operation" on February 24 was launched
for completely different reasons. Why was the war needed? The war was
needed so that a handful of scumbags could have a blast and get PR
attention showing how strong the army is … The war was not started …
in order to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine.
--Yevgeny Prigozhin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Prigozhin>
Ludwig Ferdinand Huber (1764–1804) was a German translator, diplomat,
playwright, literary critic, and journalist. Born in Paris to the
Bavarian-born writer Michael Huber and his French wife, he grew up
bilingual in French and German and published translations from English
and French from an early age. When he lived in Leipzig and Dresden as a
young man, he and his fiancée Dora Stock were both close friends of the
poet Friedrich Schiller. From 1788, Huber served as a diplomat in Mainz,
where he met world traveller Georg Forster and started an affair with
his wife Therese. He and Therese later married after escaping from
revolutionary Mainz to Switzerland, where Huber was active as a
journalist and reviewer, and as translator of the works of Isabelle de
Charrière. In 1798, Huber returned to Germany as an editor for Johann
Friedrich Cotta's newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung. Having fallen into
relative obscurity after his death, he is studied mostly for his
friendships and his literary criticism.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Ferdinand_Huber>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1873:
The Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames in London, opened
to traffic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bridge,_London>
1933:
The Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane made landfall in the Outer
Banks of North Carolina and went on to cause at least 47 deaths in the
U.S. Mid-Atlantic region.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Chesapeake%E2%80%93Potomac_hurricane>
1943:
Second World War: A decisive Soviet victory against German
forces at the Battle of Kursk gave the Red Army the strategic initiative
for the rest of the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk>
2006:
Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten in
Vienna, escaped from her captor's house in Strasshof an der Nordbahn
after more than eight years in captivity.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natascha_Kampusch>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
panda car:
(Britain, law enforcement, informal) A police car; specifically
(historical), one with a broad white stripe painted around its middle on
a darker-coloured or, originally, black background.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/panda_car>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To a reluctant admission of the necessity for State action, we
join a burning belief in duty, and a deep spiritual ideal of life. And
we have more than an abstract belief in duty, we do not hesitate to
unite the advocacy of social reform with an appeal to the various
classes who compose society to perform those duties without which all
social reform must be merely delusive.
--Arnold Toynbee
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arnold_Toynbee>
The Supermarine S.4 was a 1920s British single-engined monoplane built
by Supermarine to race in the 1925 Schneider Trophy contest. To reduce
drag forces and thereby increase speed, the company's chief designer,
R. J. Mitchell, produced a floatplane of revolutionary design. Built of
wood, and with an unbraced cantilever wing, it was powered by a Napier
Lion engine developed to produce 700 horsepower (520 kW) over a short
racing period. Less than a month after its maiden flight on 24 August
1925, it raised the world's seaplane speed record to 226.752 miles per
hour (364.922 km/h). On 23 October, during navigation trials prior to
the contest, the aircraft was performing well when, for reasons that
have not been fully explained, it went out of control and was destroyed
when it dived into the sea from 100 feet (30 m), injuring the pilot.
Mitchell used the practical experience gained from his work on the S.4
when designing its immediate successor, the Supermarine S.5.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_S.4>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1642:
King Charles I raised the royal standard at Nottingham,
marking the beginning of the First English Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_English_Civil_War>
1914:
First World War: A squadron of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon
Guards attacked a German scout party, the first engagement of British
forces on the Western Front.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_shot_memorial>
1943:
Ian Stephens, editor of The Statesman, defied British
censorship to publish pictures of death and misery (example pictured) on
Calcutta's streets, informing the world of the Bengal famine of 1943.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943>
1984:
The constitution of Singapore was amended to apportion seats to
defeated opposition candidates in Parliament, which had hitherto
entirely comprised members of the People's Action Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-constituency_Member_of_Parliament>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
in weal and woe:
In both prosperity and adversity; in good times and bad.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_weal_and_woe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in
ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or
paid for in factories.
--Ray Bradbury
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury>
The Xá Lợi Pagoda raids were attacks on various Buddhist pagodas in
South Vietnam in 1963, executed by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
Special Forces and combat police, who both took their orders from Ngô
Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm. South Vietnam's
Buddhist majority were protesting religious bias and discrimination, and
temples in major cities, notably Xá Lợi Pagoda (pictured) in Saigon,
became focal points for protesters. On 21 August, Nhu's men attacked,
looted and vandalised the pagodas. In Huế, street battles erupted
between government forces and rioting civilians. Over 1,400 Buddhists
were arrested, and estimates of the number dead or missing ranged up to
the hundreds. The Ngô family claimed that the army had carried out the
raids; this was later debunked, prompting the United States to turn
against the regime, leading to Diệm's overthrow. In response to the
raids, several public servants resigned, and university and high school
students boycotted classes and staged demonstrations.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%A1_L%E1%BB%A3i_Pagoda_raids>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1945:
American physicist Harry Daghlian accidentally dropped a
tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium bomb core, exposing himself to
neutron radiation and later becoming the first Manhattan Project
fatality due to a criticality accident.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Daghlian>
1971:
Six people were killed during an escape attempt and riot at San
Quentin State Prison in California; the subsequent trial of six inmates
was the longest in state history at the time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Quentin_Six>
1986:
A limnic eruption of Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a cloud of
carbon dioxide, suffocating 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster>
2013:
Syrian civil war: Areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in
Ghouta, Damascus, were attacked by rockets (launcher pictured)
containing sarin, killing at least 281 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Barbiefication:
(derogatory) A cultural move toward superficiality and a focus on
physical attractiveness at the expense of depth and intellect.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Barbiefication>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
There can be a new tomorrow There can be a brighter day There
can be a new tomorrow Love will find a way
--Jackie DeShannon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jackie_DeShannon>
The primary law governing nationality of the Republic of Ireland is the
Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, which came into force on 17
July 1956. All persons born in the Republic before 1 January 2005 are
automatically citizens by birth regardless of the nationalities of their
parents. Individuals born in the country since that date receive Irish
citizenship at birth if at least one of their parents is an Irish
citizen or entitled to be one, a British citizen, a resident with no
time limit of stay in either the Republic or Northern Ireland, or a
resident who has been domiciled on the island of Ireland for at least
three of the preceding four years. Persons born in Northern Ireland are
usually entitled to – but not automatically granted – Irish
citizenship, largely under the same terms. Foreign nationals may become
citizens by naturalisation after meeting a minimum residence
requirement, usually five years. The president of Ireland may also grant
honorary citizenship, which entails the same rights and duties as normal
citizenship, although this is rare.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_nationality_law>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1910:
Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the
U.S. states of Washington and Idaho into the Devil's Broom fire, which
burned about three million acres (12,140 km²), the largest fire in
recorded U.S. history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1910>
1920:
The American Professional Football Association, a predecessor
of the National Football League, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League>
1998:
The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan was destroyed by a
missile attack launched by the United States in retaliation for the
August 7 U.S. embassy bombings.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infinite_Reach>
2008:
Spanair Flight 5022 crashed just after take-off from Madrid's
Barajas Airport, killing 154 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanair_Flight_5022>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
coenobium:
1. A conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery.
2. (by extension)
3. (botany) A fruit of a plant from either of the families Boraginaceae
(the borages) or Lamiaceae which has small loculi or compartments,
reminiscent of the cells in a convent or monastery.
4. (botany) A colony of algae which acts as a single organism; a
coenobe.
5. (zoology) A colony of unicellular organisms (such as protozoa) which
acts as a single organism.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coenobium>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The courage to be as oneself is never completely separated from
the other pole, the courage to be as a part; and even more, that
overcoming isolation and facing the danger of losing one's world in the
self-affirmation of oneself as an individual are a way toward something
which transcends both self and world. Ideas like the microcosm mirroring
the universe, or the monad representing the world, or the individual
will to power expressing the character of will to power in life itself
— all these point to a solution which transcends the two types of the
courage to be.
--Paul Tillich
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Tillich>
The Fatimid conquest of Egypt took place in 969, as the troops of the
Fatimid Caliphate under the general Jawhar captured Egypt, then ruled by
the autonomous Ikhshidid dynasty in the name of the Abbasid Caliphate.
The Fatimids had launched repeated unsuccessful invasions of Egypt soon
after coming to power in Ifriqiya in 909. By the 960s, the collapse of
the Ikhshidid regime, and an economic crisis and factional infighting in
Egypt, allowed Fatimid caliph al-Mu'izz (coin pictured) to organize a
large expedition to conquer the country, aided by the activity of a
network of Fatimid agents there. When the Fatimid invasion came, the
Ikhshidid elites negotiated a peaceful surrender, and the brief
resistance of the Ikhshidid soldiery was overcome. Jawhar took control
of Fustat, the Egyptian capital, on 6 July. Jawhar served as viceroy of
Egypt until 973, when al-Mu'izz arrived and took up residence in a new
capital, Cairo, which became the seat of the Fatimid Caliphate.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_conquest_of_Egypt>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1897:
The Bersey Electric Cab entered service as the first electric
taxi in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bersey_Electric_Cab>
1950:
The 766th Independent Infantry Regiment of North Korea was
disbanded after fighting for less than two months in the Korean War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/766th_Independent_Infantry_Regiment_%28North_…>
2003:
A Hamas suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded more than
130 others, including many Orthodox Jewish children, on a crowded public
bus in Shmuel HaNavi, Jerusalem.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_HaNavi_bus_bombing>
2005:
Thunderstorms in southern Ontario, Canada, spawned at least
three tornadoes that caused over C$500 million in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ontario_tornado_outbreak_of_2005>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
godsend:
1. An instance of unexpected benefit or good fortune; a windfall.
2. (specifically, Britain, regional, archaic) The wreck of a ship which
has washed up on shore, from which cargo, timber, etc., may be obtained.
3. A person who provides greatly needed assistance.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/godsend>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right
to be wrong in his facts.
--Bernard Baruch
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bernard_Baruch>
Frances Cleveland (1864–1947) was the first lady of the United States
from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897, as the wife of President
Grover Cleveland. She met him while an infant, as he was a friend, and
later the executor, of her father, Oscar Folsom. Grover settled Oscar's
debts and provided for Frances. She graduated from Wells College, then
married Grover while he was president. When he lost reelection in 1888,
they went into private life for four years, returning when he was
elected again in 1892. Much of her time during Grover's second term was
dedicated to their children. They had five; four survived to adulthood.
Frances Cleveland served on the Wells College board, supported women's
education, and organized kindergartens. Grover died in 1908, and she
married Thomas J. Preston Jr. in 1913. During World War I, she
advocated military preparedness. She died in 1947 and was buried
alongside Grover Cleveland in Princeton Cemetery.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Cleveland>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1877:
American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of
Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the smaller one.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_%28moon%29>
1919:
Russian Civil War: British motor torpedo boats raided the
Bolshevik Baltic Fleet's home base of Kronstadt, sinking a depot ship
and damaging a battleship.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Kronstadt>
1920:
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was
ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Con…>
1964:
East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed
while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_Trabant>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
recess:
1. (transitive)
2. To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
3. (often architecture)
4. To make a recess (noun sense 1 and sense 1.1) in (something).
5. (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something)
into a recess or niche.
6. (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
7. (chiefly US, government)
8. To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official
body, etc.).
9. (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
10. (intransitive, chiefly US, government)
11. Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn,
to take a break.
12. Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
[...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recess>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Even on the white English crags A few strong spirits, in a race
that binds Its body in chains and calls them Liberty, And calls each
fresh link Progress, stood erect With faces pale that hunger'd to the
light.
--Robert Williams Buchanan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_Buchanan>
Doc Savage was an American pulp magazine published from 1933 to 1949 by
Street & Smith. The lead character was Clark Savage, a scientist and
adventurer. Lester Dent wrote most of the novels that appeared in the
magazine, often using the alias "Kenneth Robeson". A few dozen more
novels were ghost-written by writers hired either by Dent or by Street &
Smith. Dent's work was full of inventive ideas, and ranged across
multiple genres. Science fiction elements were common, but there were
also detective novels, westerns, fantasies, and straightforward
adventures. Dent worked with Henry Ralston and (until 1943) John
Nanovic, two editors at Street & Smith, to plot most of the novels.
Covers were painted by Walter Baumhofer until 1936, then by R. G.
Harris and later by Emery Clarke. The magazine was successful, reaching
a circulation of 300,000, but was shut down when Street & Smith left the
pulp magazine field completely in 1949. The novels were later reprinted
as paperbacks.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Savage_%28magazine%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1915:
A category 4 hurricane made landfall in Galveston, Texas,
leaving at least 275 people dead and causing $50 million in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_Galveston_hurricane>
1943:
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in a highly
secret military conference held in Quebec City.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Quebec_Conference>
1945:
Animal Farm, George Orwell's satirical allegory of Soviet
totalitarianism, was first published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm>
1959:
American musician Miles Davis released Kind of Blue, which
became one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed jazz
recordings of all time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
phial:
1. (dated) A bottle or other vessel for containing a liquid; originally
any such vessel, especially one for holding a beverage; now
(specifically), a small, narrow glass bottle with a cap used to hold
liquid chemicals, medicines, etc.
2. (transitive) To keep or put (something, especially a liquid) in, or
as if in, a phial (noun sense).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phial>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is
the truly good. And — though played out forms can throw up miraculous
sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall — what
is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good
forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to
catch it on the wing.
--V. S. Naipaul
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/V._S._Naipaul>
Esplanade MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station
on the Circle line (CCL) in Singapore. The station serves the Esplanade
performing arts centre, alongside various developments such as War
Memorial Park, Suntec City Mall and the Suntec Singapore Convention and
Exhibition Centre. Esplanade station is linked to the nearby City Hall
station via CityLink Mall, an underground retail development. The
station was initially announced as Convention Centre station in 1999 as
part of the Marina MRT line, which was later incorporated into Stage 1
of the CCL. The station was renamed Esplanade in 2005 through a public
poll. The station opened on 17 April 2010, with provisions to
interchange with a future MRT line. Esplanade station features the Art-
in-Transit artwork A Piece of Ice-Clear Heart by Lim Mu Hue, a collage
of woodblock prints featuring scenes of shadow puppetry and other
traditional performances.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esplanade_MRT_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1896:
A group including George Carmack and Skookum Jim Mason
discovered gold near Dawson City, Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold
Rush.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush>
1906:
An earthquake registering approximately 8.2 Mw struck
Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,882 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_Valpara%C3%ADso_earthquake>
1946:
Widespread riots between Hindus and Muslims took place in
Calcutta following the All-India Muslim League's call for an independent
Pakistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Action_Day>
2009:
At the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Usain Bolt
ran the 100 metres in 9.58 seconds, breaking his own record set a year
earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usain_Bolt>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
proteranthous:
1. Of a plant: having flowers that appear earlier than the leaves.
2. Of a plant: having leaves that appear earlier than the flowers.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proteranthous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Defendant Donald John Trump lost the United States presidential
election held on November 3, 2020. One of the states he lost was
Georgia. Trump and the other Defendants charged in this Indictment
refused to accept that Trump lost, and they knowingly and willfully
joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in
favor of Trump. That conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to
commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County,
Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and in other states.
--The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al.
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Georgia_%28U.S._state%29>
Chandralekha is a 1948 Indian historical adventure film produced and
directed by S. S. Vasan of Gemini Studios. Starring T. R. Rajakumari,
M. K. Radha and Ranjan, the film follows two brothers who fight over
ruling their father's kingdom and marrying the village dancer,
Chandralekha. Veppathur Kittoo developed a story based on a chapter of
Robert Macaire; or, The French Bandit in England, a novel by George
W. M. Reynolds. The film spent five years in production, undergoing a
number of scripting, filming and cast changes, and was the most
expensive film made in India at the time. Vasan mortgaged all his
property and sold his jewellery to complete the film. The Tamil version
(poster pictured), released on 9 April 1948, did not recoup production
costs. Vasan directed a Hindi version with some changes, which was a
box-office success. South Indian cinema became prominent throughout
India with the film's release, inspiring South Indian producers to
market their Hindi films in North India.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandralekha_%281948_film%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1812:
War of 1812: Potawatomi warriors ambushed a United States Army
convoy after it had evacuated Fort Dearborn, in present-day Chicago, and
razed the fort.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Dearborn>
1941:
Josef Jakobs, a German spy, became the last person executed at
the Tower of London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Jakobs>
1948:
The Republic of Korea was established with Syngman Rhee as its
first president.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngman_Rhee>
1977:
Big Ear, a radio telescope at Ohio State University received a
strong, apparently extraterrestrial radio signal that became known as
the Wow! signal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hecatomb:
1. (Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, historical) A great public sacrifice
to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen; also, a great number of
animals reserved for such a sacrifice.
2. (by extension, religion, historical) A great public sacrifice in
other religions; also, a great number of animals or people reserved for
such a sacrifice.
3. (figuratively, literary and poetic) A great number of animals,
people, or things that are sacrificed or destroyed; any great sacrifice;
also (generally), a large amount.
4. (transitive) To provide (someone or something) with a hecatomb (noun
senses).
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