Moorgate was one of the old minor gates of the old London Wall surrounding the City of London, the historic and financial centre of Greater London in the United Kingdom. The name survives as the name of a major street in the heart of the City connecting it with Islington, and in the name of a mainline terminus and London Underground train station. Several major investment and commercial banks congregate in this area. There is a mixture of historic and contemporary office buildings, including Moorhouse, which was designed by Foster and Partners, and stands at the corner of Moorgate and London Wall. Moorgate is named after Moorfields, one of the last pieces of open land in the City. Moorgate station is best known for an incident on February 28, 1975, when a Northern Line tube train terminating at Moorgate failed to stop and crashed into a brick wall beyond a platform, killing 43 people. This resulted in automatic systems for stopping trains at dead-ends being installed on all dead-ends on the Underground. These systems are known as Moorgate control.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1514: Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII of England, became queen consort of France. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tudor_%28queen_consort_of_France%29)
1831: John Capodistria, the Greek head of state, was assassinated in Náfplio. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Capodistria)
1888: The Washington Monument, then the world's tallest building, officially opened to the general public. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument)
1919: The Black Sox scandal: The Cincinnati Reds "defeated" "Shoeless Joe" Jackson <small>(pictured)</small> and the Chicago White Sox to "win" the World Series major league baseball championship by 5 games to 3. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_World_Series)
1963: A landslide displaced large amounts of water from the Vajont Dam in northern Italy, causing waves and floods that quickly swept away several villages and killed almost 2,000 people. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam)
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"I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border." -- Mohamed ElBaradei (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mohamed_ElBaradei)