Raymond Leane (1878–1962) was an Australian Army brigadier general.
Twice decorated for gallantry, he was wounded three times during the
Gallipoli campaign of World War I, and temporarily commanded the 11th
Battalion there before the Australian force was withdrawn to Egypt.
Leane led the 48th Battalion in fighting on the Western Front from 1916
to 1918 before commanding the 12th Brigade during the last part of the
war. He was described by the Australian Official War Historian, Charles
Bean, as "the foremost fighting leader" in the Australian Imperial
Force. Leane was also called "the head of the most famous family of
soldiers in Australian history", as four of his brothers and six of his
nephews served in World War I, with two of each being killed. After the
war, he served as Commissioner of the South Australia Police from 1920
to 1944, for which he was knighted in 1945.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Leane>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1678:
Venetian mathematician Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first
woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Cornaro_Piscopia>
1940:
World War II: The evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers
from French ports was completed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aerial>
1950:
The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-
dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War>
2009:
Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of
drugs in his body.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Michael_Jackson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
a mite:
(informal) To a small extent; in a small amount; rather.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_mite>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no
compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public
opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious
animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are
governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain
amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or
"reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think
in exactly the same way as everyone else.
--George Orwell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell>