Corry Tendeloo (3 September 1897 – 18 October 1956) was a Dutch
lawyer, feminist and politician who sat in the House of Representatives
for the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) from 1945 until 1946, and
then for the Labour Party until her death in 1956. Born in the Dutch
East Indies, Tendeloo studied law at Utrecht University, during which
time she made contact with people within the women's rights movement. In
1945, Tendeloo was appointed a member of the House of Representatives
for the VDB in the national emergency parliament, formed to rebuild the
country after World War II and organise elections. In 1948, she helped
secure universal suffrage for the Dutch colonies of Suriname and
Curaçao. In 1955, she put forward a motion to abolish the ban on state
employment for married women. The next year she was instrumental in
introducing legislation that would start to end couverture, a 19th-
century law that labelled married women as incompetent to act on their
own behalf.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corry_Tendeloo>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1650:
Under Oliver Cromwell, the English New Model Army ambushed a
poorly prepared Scottish force at the Battle of Dunbar, the first battle
of the Third English Civil War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dunbar_%281650%29>
1878:
The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River
Thames after colliding with a collier, killing more than 600 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_SS_Princess_Alice>
1942:
The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising,
residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the
upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against
their Nazi captors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81achwa_Ghetto>
1991:
A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken
processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dogman:
1. A man who has charge of dogs, such as a dog breeder or dog trainer;
specifically, a man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting.
2. Alternative form of dog man (“a man who likes dogs or prefers dogs as
pets, often as opposed to liking cats”)
3. (cryptozoology, mythology) An alleged cryptid or mythological
creature that is part dog and part man; also (religion) a deity who is
part dog and part man.
4. (obsolete, rare) A man who sells dog meat.
5. (Australia, New Zealand) An assistant to a crane operator,
responsible for securing the crane's load and directing the operator.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dogman>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
He who knows naught of dreaming can, likewise, never attain the
heights of power and possibility in persuading the mind to act. He who
dreams not creates not.
--Louis Sullivan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan>