The Tower Hill Memorial is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials in Trinity Square, on Tower Hill in London, England. The memorials, one for the First World War and one for the Second, commemorate more than 36,000 men and women of the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets who were killed as a result of enemy action and have no known grave. The dead are named on bronze panels ordered by the ships they served on. The first memorial, the Mercantile Marine War Memorial (pictured), was commissioned following the heavy losses sustained by merchant shipping in the First World War. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled by Queen Mary in 1928. The second, the Merchant Seamen's Memorial, is a semi-circular sunken garden designed by Sir Edward Maufe and unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in November 1955. A third memorial, commemorating merchant sailors who were killed in the 1982 Falklands War, was added to the site in 2005. The memorials to the world wars are listed buildings.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Hill_Memorial
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1396:
Ottoman wars in Europe: Ottoman forces under Bayezid I defeated a Christian alliance led by Sigismund of Hungary near present- day Nikopol, Bulgaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nicopolis
1977:
About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Marathon
1990:
The Ram Rath Yatra, a political–religious rally organised to erect a temple to the Hindu deity Rama on the site of the Babri Masjid, began in the Indian state of Gujarat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Rath_Yatra
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jovial: 1. (comparable) Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry. 2. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jovial
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it. --William Faulkner https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Faulkner