Jessie Murray (1867–1920) was a British psychoanalyst and suffragette who studied medicine at the University of Durham and University College London. Murray and her close friend Julia Turner opened the Medico- Psychological Clinic (site pictured) in 1913, a pioneering entity that provided psychological evaluation and treatment that was affordable for middle-class families. Several of the staff who worked and trained at the clinic became leading psychoanalysts. The clinic closed in 1922, although it laid the foundation of psychological evaluation in the UK. Murray was a member of the Women's Freedom League and the Women's Tax Resistance League, two organisations that took direct action for women's suffrage. In 1910 she and the journalist Henry Brailsford took statements from the suffragettes who had been mistreated during the Black Friday demonstrations. Their memorandum was published, with a formal request for a public inquiry. The home secretary, Winston Churchill, refused to establish one.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1908:
As a result of numerous atrocities in the territory, the Congo Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the Belgian Congo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State
1922:
During a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_Guayaquil_general_strike
1943:
The Holocaust: In the Romani Holocaust, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler ordered that the Romani were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_Holocaust
1988:
The Soviet spacecraft Buran, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
iniquitous: 1. Characterized by iniquity (“deviation from what is right”). 2. Morally objectionable; sinful, wicked. 3. Grossly unfair or unjust. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iniquitous
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Israel's lasting future depends on its government's willingness to enter into a genuine peace agreement with the Palestinians. That this also goes for the Palestinians grouped around Hamas hardly needs to be stressed. Both sides have to understand that they must live together for better or worse and that hatred, terror and territorial, ethnic and religious exclusion have never produced peace, but rather have led to killing and more killing. --Daniel Barenboim https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Barenboim