Northampton War Memorial is a First World War memorial on Wood Hill in
the centre of Northampton, the county town of Northamptonshire, in
central England. Designed by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled on
11 November 1926, it stands in a small garden in what was once part of
the churchyard of All Saints' Church. It is one of the more elaborate
town memorials in England, with a pair of obelisks, characteristic of
the Lutyens war memorials, and a Stone of Remembrance, which he designed
for the Imperial War Graves Commission. Stone flags appear as if draped
on the obelisks; this feature is shared by several of his memorials, but
was rejected for his Cenotaph in London. Today the Northampton War
Memorial is a Grade I listed building; it was upgraded from Grade II in
2015 when the Lutyens war memorials were declared a "national
collection" and all were granted listed building status or had their
listing renewed.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton_War_Memorial>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1778:
American Revolutionary War: British forces and their Iroquois
allies attacked a fort and the village of Cherry Valley, New York,
killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Valley_massacre>
1918:
Józef Piłsudski was appointed commander-in-chief of Polish
forces by the Regency Council and was entrusted with creating a national
government for the newly independent country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Pi%C5%82sudski>
1960:
A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against
President Ngo Dinh Diem was crushed after Diem falsely promised reform,
allowing loyalists to rescue him.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_South_Vietnamese_coup_attempt>
1999:
The House of Lords Act was given royal assent, removing most
hereditary peers from the British House of Lords.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords_Act_1999>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
war-weary:
1. Weary or tired of war.
2. Tired from fighting in a war.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/war-weary>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to
be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went on,
it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart.
Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first
war rather seriously, but I still think we should have kept the name
"Armistice Day." Its implications were a little more profound, a little
more hopeful.
--Walt Kelly
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Kelly>