Joanna Yeates (1985–2010) was a 25-year-old landscape architect from
Hampshire, England, who went missing on 17 December 2010 in Bristol
after an evening out with colleagues. Following a highly publicised
appeal for information on her whereabouts and intensive police
enquiries, her body was discovered on 25 December 2010; a post-mortem
examination determined that she had been strangled. The murder inquiry
was one of the largest police investigations ever undertaken in the
Bristol area. The case dominated UK news coverage around Christmas. The
police initially arrested Christopher Jefferies, Yeates' landlord; he
was subsequently released and later obtained substantial libel damages
from eight newspapers over their coverage of his arrest. Vincent Tabak,
a 32-year-old Dutch engineer and neighbour of Yeates, was arrested on 20
January 2011. He was convicted at trial of her murder and sentenced to
life imprisonment. A memorial service was held for Yeates at the parish
church in the Bristol suburb where she lived; her funeral took place
near the family home in Hampshire. Several memorials were planned,
including one in a garden she had been designing for a new hospital in
Bristol.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Joanna_Yeates>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1851:
The New York Times, the largest metropolitan newspaper in the
United States, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times>
1889:
Hull House (pictured), the United States' most influential
settlement house, opened in Chicago.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_House>
1939:
The Nazi propaganda radio programme Germany Calling, with a
host nicknamed "Lord Haw-Haw", began broadcasting to audiences in the
United Kingdom and the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw-Haw>
1974:
Hurricane Fifi struck Honduras, destroying 182 towns and
villages in the first 24 hours, and ultimately causing over 8,000
deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Fifi%E2%80%93Orlene>
1998:
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain
names and IP addresses in the Internet, was established.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chirality:
The phenomenon, in chemistry, physics and mathematics, of objects being
unidentical mirror images of each other, like a person's left and right
hands.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chirality>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge
without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
--Samuel Johnson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson>