Edmund I (920/921–946) was King of the English from 939 until his
death. He was a son of King Edward the Elder and his third wife Eadgifu,
and a grandson of Alfred the Great. Edmund's predecessor and half-
brother Æthelstan had become the first king of all England when he
conquered Viking-ruled York in 927, but on his death Anlaf Guthfrithson
seized control of York and north-east Mercia. Edmund recovered control
over all England in 944. He continued his brother's friendly relations
with Continental rulers; some were married to his half-sisters. Key
advisers include his mother and Ealdorman Æthelstan of East Anglia,
known as the Half-King because he was so powerful. Edmund actively
legislated. Three of his codes survive; they regulated feuds and
emphasised the sanctity of the royal person. Edmund supported the
religious English Benedictine Reform in its early stages. After a
deranged thief killed him in a brawl he was succeeded by his younger
brother Eadred (d. 955) and two sons in succession.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_I>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1738:
At a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate, London, John Wesley
experienced a spiritual rebirth, leading him to launch the Methodist
movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism>
1948:
Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian
forces finally captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the
defenders had abandoned it.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yad_Mordechai>
1962:
Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the
Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Carpenter>
2006:
An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been
credited for raising international public awareness of climate change
and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
consilience:
1. (logic) The concurrence of multiple inductions drawn from different
data sets. [from mid 19th c.]
2. The agreement, co-operation, or overlap of academic disciplines.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consilience>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is
false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some
tempting form of error. Not only so; but scarcely any attempt is
entirely a failure; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought,
is altogether false; no tempting form of Error is without some latent
charm derived from Truth.
--William Whewell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Whewell>