Roy Inwood (14 July 1890 – 23 October 1971) was a World War I
Australian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross. Landing at Anzac
Cove, Gallipoli, in April 1915 with the 10th Battalion of the
Australian Imperial Force, he fought until being evacuated sick to Egypt
in September. He rejoined his unit on the Western Front before the
Battle of Mouquet Farm in August 1916. In 1917 he fought in the Battle
of Lagnicourt and the Second Battle of Bullecourt. His Victoria Cross
was awarded for actions in the Battle of Menin Road, including
eliminating a German machine-gun post. In World War II, he volunteered
to serve in the Citizens Military Forces, reaching the rank of warrant
officer I serving in the Australian Provost Corps and Military Prison
and Detention Barracks Service. After the war he returned to work with
the City of Adelaide, and on his death he was buried with full military
honours in the AIF Cemetery, West Terrace. His medals are displayed in
the Adelaide Town Hall.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Inwood>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1798:
The Sedition Act became law, making it a federal crime to
write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S.
government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts>
1874:
A fire in Chicago destroyed 812 structures and killed 20
people, leading to reforms in the city's fire prevention and
firefighting efforts.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Fire_of_1874>
1987:
More than 100 mm (3.9 in) of rain fell in a two-and-a-half-
hour period in Montreal, causing severe flooding and over C$220 million
in damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_flood_of_1987>
2016:
A man deliberately drove a truck into crowds in Nice, France,
resulting in the deaths of 86 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
l'esprit de l'escalier:
The phenomenon when a conversational rejoinder or remark only occurs to
someone after the opportunity to make it has passed.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/l%27esprit_de_l%27escalier>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I
hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound
to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old
or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.
Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck
or hard traveling. … I am out to fight those songs to my very last
breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that
will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you
pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color,
what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that
make you take pride in yourself and in your work.
--Woody Guthrie
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie>