85px|Montague Druitt
Montague Druitt (1857–1888) was a suspect in the Jack the Ripper
murders that took place in London between August and November 1888. He
came from an upper-middle class English background, and studied at
Winchester College and the University of Oxford. After graduating, he
took a position at a boarding school and pursued a parallel career in
the law; he qualified as a barrister in 1885. His main interest outside
work was cricket, which he played with many leading players of the
time, including Lord Harris and Francis Lacey. In November 1888, he
lost his post at the school for reasons that remain unclear. One month
later his body was found drowned in the River Thames. His death, which
was found to be a suicide, roughly coincided with the end of the
murders that were attributed to Jack the Ripper. Private suggestions in
the 1890s that he could have committed the crimes became public
knowledge in the 1960s, and led to the publication of books that
proposed him as the murderer. The evidence against him was entirely
circumstantial, and many writers from the 1970s onwards have rejected
him as a likely suspect. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1443:
Rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg and his forces
liberated Kruja in Middle Albania and raised the Albanian flag.
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1895:
The first automobile race in the United States, the Chicago
Times-Herald race, was held in Chicago.
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1905:
Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith first presented his Sinn Féin
Policy, declaring that the 1800 Act of Union of Great Britain and
Ireland was illegal.
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1912:
At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë declared the
independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
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1987:
South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire
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board.
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I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I have got
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