Ngô Đình Cẩn (1911–1964) was a younger brother and confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, who put Cẩn in charge of central Vietnam, stretching from Phan Thiết in the south to the border at the 17th parallel. Based in the former imperial capital of Huế, Cẩn earned a reputation as the most oppressive of the Ngô brothers, operating private armies and secret police that controlled the central region. Cẩn's influence began to wane after his elder brother Ngô Đình Thục was appointed the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế. Thục overshadowed Cẩn and aggressively promoted Catholicism, which led to the banning of the Buddhist flag in 1963 during Vesak, the celebration of the birthday of Gautama Buddha. Cẩn's forces opened fire on a crowd protesting the ban, killing nine and precipitating the Buddhist crisis and the eventual toppling of the Diem regime in a November 1963 coup. Cẩn was arrested and turned over to the military junta, which executed him in 1964.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1521:
English nobleman Edward Stafford, whose father had been beheaded for rebelling against King Richard III, was himself executed for treason against King Henry VIII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stafford,_3rd_Duke_of_Buckingham
1642:
The Société Notre-Dame de Montréal founded a permanent mission known as Ville-Marie, which eventually grew into the city of Montreal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal
1902:
The Antikythera mechanism (fragment pictured), the oldest known surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
1977:
The first Chuck E. Cheese's location, the first family restaurant to integrate food, animated entertainment, and an indoor arcade, opened in San Jose, California, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese%27s
2000:
Following the killings of two English football fans in the previous month by Galatasaray supporters, British and Turkish hooligans attacked each other on the day of the UEFA Cup Final. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_UEFA_Cup_Final_riots
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
hearts beat as one:
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___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The noblest and most fruitful work of the human intelligence is to make a clean sweep of every enforced idea — of advantages or meanings — and to go right through appearances in search of the eternal bases. Thus you will clearly see the moral law at the beginning of all things, and the conception of justice and equality will appear to you beautiful as daylight. --Henri Barbusse https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_Barbusse