The municipal election of November 6, 1951, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, produced the first Democratic victory in the city in more than a half-century. In the 1940s, Philadelphia had been the last major American city with nearly all of its political offices occupied by Republicans. The election was the first held under a reform charter that had been overwhelmingly approved by voters the previous April. Joseph S. Clark Jr. (pictured) and his running mate, Richardson Dilworth, were elected mayor and district attorney; they had been two of the main movers for the reform. Led by local party chairman James A. Finnegan, the Democrats also took fourteen of seventeen city council seats and all of the citywide offices on the ballot. A referendum on consolidating the city and county governments passed by a wide margin. The election marked the beginning of Democratic dominance of Philadelphia city politics, which continues today.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_municipal_election,_1951
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1868:
Red Cloud, a leader of the Oglala Lakota Native American tribe, signed the second Treaty of Fort Laramie, ending his war and establishing the Great Sioux Reservation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Laramie_%281868%29
1935:
The Hawker Hurricane, the aircraft responsible for 60% of the Royal Air Force's air victories in the Battle of Britain, made its first flight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hurricane
1939:
As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderaktion_Krakau
1995:
Madagascar's Rova of Antananarivo, which served as the royal palace from the 17th to 19th centuries, was destroyed by fire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rova_of_Antananarivo
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
audient: Listening, paying attention. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/audient
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I know well the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual have always seemed to me the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice keeps me from feeling isolated. --Albert Einstein https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein