Irakli Tsereteli (1881–1959) was a Georgian politician and Menshevik
during the Russian Revolution. He was born and raised in Georgia when it
was part of the Russian Empire. A member of the Russian Social
Democratic Labour Party, Tsereteli was elected to the Duma in 1907, but
was soon charged with conspiracy to overthrow the Tsarist government and
exiled to Siberia. After the 1917 February Revolution, he took a
position in the Russian Provisional Government as Minister of Post and
Telegraph, and briefly as Minister of the Interior. After the Bolsheviks
seized power during the October Revolution, Tsereteli returned to
Georgia. At the Paris Peace Conference he lobbied for international
recognition and assistance for the newly independent Democratic Republic
of Georgia; these efforts largely failed before the Bolshevik-led Red
Army invaded in 1921. He spent the rest of his life in exile, working
with socialist organisations and writing on socialism, and died in New
York.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irakli_Tsereteli>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1848:
In the Wallachian Revolution, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and
Christian Tell proclaimed a new republican government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachian_Revolution_of_1848>
1919:
Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German High Seas Fleet
in Scapa Flow to prevent the ships from being seized and divided amongst
the Allied Powers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_at_Scapa_Flow>
1957:
Ellen Fairclough became the first woman appointed to the
Canadian Cabinet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Fairclough>
1973:
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in the landmark
case Miller v. California, establishing the "Miller test" for
determining what is obscene material.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
ski-through:
1. (skiing) Of a ski lodge or other hotel establishment: providing
skiers with the service of transporting their equipment, luggage, and
vehicles to other establishments so they can ski directly to those
establishments.
2. (skiing) Of a restaurant, shop, or other establishment or facility:
providing service to skiers while they are still wearing their skis.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ski-through>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the
control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no
group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the
desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the
historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.
--Reinhold Niebuhr
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr>