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>
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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>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
audient:
Listening, paying attention.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/audient>
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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>