Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1402 – 10 July 1460) was an English nobleman and a military commander who fought for the Lancastrian King Henry VI during the Wars of the Roses, where he was killed at the Battle of Northampton. Through his mother he had royal blood as a great-grandson of King Edward III, and from his father, he inherited the earldom of Stafford. He joined the English campaign in France with King Henry V in 1420. Following the king's death two years later, he became a councillor for the nine-month-old King Henry VI. Stafford acted as a peacemaker during the 1430s, when Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester vied with Cardinal Beaufort for political supremacy. He took part in the eventual arrest of Gloucester in 1447. He was the King's bodyguard and chief negotiator during Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450. In 1455 he fought for the King in the first battle of the Wars of the Roses, at St Albans, where they were both captured by the Yorkists. He spent the last years of his life attempting to mediate between the Yorkist and Lancastrian factions.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1645:

English Civil War: The Parliamentarians destroyed the last Royalist field army at the Battle of Langport, ultimately giving Parliament control of the West of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Langport

1913:

The air temperature in Furnace Creek, California, reached 134 °F (56.7 °C), the highest reading ever recorded on Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furnace_Creek,_California

1925:

Indian mystic and spiritual master Meher Baba began his silence until his death in 1969, only communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meher_Baba

1941:

The Holocaust: A group of non-Jewish ethnic Poles from around the nearby area murdered hundreds of Jewish residents of Jedwabne in occupied Poland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedwabne_pogrom

1999:

The United States defeated China in the final match of the FIFA Women's World Cup, setting records in both attendance and television ratings for women's sports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

gorge: 1. (intransitive, reflexive) Often followed by on: To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. 2. (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. 3. (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate. 4. (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gorge

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