Jason Sendwe (1917–1964) was a Congolese politician and a leader of the Katanga-based BALUBAKAT party. He became involved in several cultural organisations before founding BALUBAKAT to represent the Baluba, and believed that the Congo should remain a united country. Before Congo's independence, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and sought to obtain control over Katanga Province, but lost to Moïse Tshombe. Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba nominated Sendwe for State Commissioner for Katanga, but in early July 1960 Tshombe announced Katanga's secession. Sendwe was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Congo in 1961, and later was made Commissioner-General of Katanga Province, nominally giving him complete authority over the area. His prospects were damaged in 1962 when the Senate censured him and he resigned. In 1963, Katanga acceded to central authority and Tshombe fled into exile. Sendwe became President of North Katanga Province in September. In January 1964 he lost the presidency of BALUBAKAT. Simba rebels overthrew his government and, in June, killed him.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1803:
Maratha troops were defeated by forces of the British East India Company at the Battle of Assaye, one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Assaye
1952:
U.S. vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon delivered the Checkers speech, one of the first political uses of television to appeal directly to the populace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech
2008:
A gunman shot and killed ten students at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences in Kauhajoki, Finland, before committing suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauhajoki_school_shooting
2016:
Following a number of high-profile sexual assaults, major reforms were enacted to strengthen laws related to rape in Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Germany
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equinox: 1. One of the two occasions in the year when the length of the day and night are equal, which occurs when the apparent path of the Sun (the ecliptic) intersects with the equatorial plane of the Earth; this happens on a day between March 19 and 21 (spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere), and on another day between September 21 and 24 (autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, and spring in the Southern Hemisphere); hence, the exact time when the intersection occurs. 2. (also figuratively) The circumstance of a twenty-four hour time period having the day and night of equal length. 3. (astronomy) One of the two points in space where the apparent path of the Sun intersects with the equatorial plane of the Earth. 4. (obsolete) 5. (rare) A gale (“very strong wind”) once thought to occur more frequently around the time of an equinox (sense 1), now known to be a misconception; an equinoctial gale. 6. (astronomy) A celestial equator (“great circle on the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the Earth's equator (the equatorial plane)”); also, the Earth's equator. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/equinox
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Under the autumn tree The chair where you would swing A yard so full of leaves Comfort me. --Milo Greene https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Milo_Greene