Emanuel Moravec (1893–1945) was a Czech army officer and writer who collaborated with Nazi Germany as the minister of education of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between 1942 and 1945. He was also chair of the Board of Trustees for the Education of Youth, a fascist youth organisation in the protectorate. In World War I, Moravec served in the Austro-Hungarian Army, but following capture by the Russians he changed sides, first joining Russian-backed Serbian forces and then the Czechoslovak Legion. During the interwar period he commanded an infantry battalion in the Czechoslovak Army. As a proponent of democracy during the 1930s, Moravec appealed for armed action against Germany and scorned German demands for the Sudetenland, but after their occupation of the rump Czechoslovakia, he became an enthusiastic collaborator, realigning his political worldview towards fascism. He killed himself in the final days of World War II. (Full article...).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1905:

Legislation establishing state secularism in France was passed by the Chamber of Deputies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_French_law_on_the_Separation_of_the_Churches_and_the_State

1969:

U.S. secretary of state William P. Rogers proposed his eponymous plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt's and Jordan's acceptance of the plan over Palestine Liberation Organization objections led to civil war in Jordan in September 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Plan

1979:

A World Health Organization commission of scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox (patient pictured), making it the only human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

2016:

South Korean president Park Geun-hye was impeached, marking the culmination of the country's political scandal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

out of kilter: (idiomatic) Askew, disturbed; not adjusted or working properly; out of order. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/out_of_kilter

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Under what torments inwardly I groane; While they adore me on the Throne of Hell, With Diadem and Scepter high advanc’d The lower still I fall, onely Supream In miserie; such joy Ambition findes. But say I could repent and could obtaine By Act of Grace my former state; how soon Would highth recal high thoughts, how soon unsay What feign’d submission swore: ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc’d so deep: Which would but lead me to a worse relapse And heavier fall: so should I purchase deare Short intermission bought with double smart.   --Paradise Lost https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost