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.
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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
_____________________________ 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
___________________________ 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