Aldwych tube station is a closed station on the London Underground, in the City of Westminster in central London. The station building, near the junction of Strand and Surrey Street, opened in 1907 as the only other station on the Piccadilly line's short branch from Holborn. Suffering from low passenger numbers, the station and branch were considered for closure several times. Service was offered only during weekday peak hours from 1962 and finally discontinued altogether in 1994, when the cost of replacing the lifts was considered too high compared to the income generated. Disused parts of the station and the running tunnels were used to shelter artworks from the National Gallery during the First World War, and from the British Museum during the Second World War. The station has long been popular as a filming location, appearing as itself and as other London Underground stations. In recognition of its historical significance, it is a Grade II listed building.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1080:

On the death of his brother Harald III, Canute IV, who later became the first Dane to be canonized, became King of Denmark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute_IV_of_Denmark

1907:

Brazil became the third country in the world to start construction on a dreadnought battleship, sparking a vastly expensive South American naval arms race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_American_dreadnought_race

1951:

The Peak District was designated the first national park in the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_District

1975:

The Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot captured Phnom Penh, ending the Cambodian Civil War, and established Democratic Kampuchea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War

2013:

An ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at a fertilizer company facility in West, Texas, US, killing 15 people and injuring 160 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

kasha: A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other cereal groats. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kasha

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

"Passive resistance," said Ferdinand Lassalle, with an obtuseness thoroughly German, "is the resistance which does not resist." Never was there a greater mistake. It is the only resistance which in these days of military discipline resists with any result. There is not a tyrant in the civilized world today who would not do anything in his power to precipitate a bloody revolution rather than see himself confronted by any large fraction of his subjects determined not to obey. An insurrection is easily quelled; but no army is willing or able to train its guns on inoffensive people who do not even gather in the streets but stay at home and stand back on their rights. Neither the ballot nor the bayonet is to play any great part in the coming struggle; passive resistance is the instrument by which the revolutionary force is destined to secure in the last great conflict the people's rights forever.   --Benjamin Tucker https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tucker