The Parliament of 1327 was instrumental in the transfer of the English crown from King Edward II to his first son, Edward III, on 13 January. Edward II had become increasingly unpopular with the English nobility, and by 1325 even his wife Isabella despised him. Toward the end of the year, she took their first son to France, where she joined and probably entered into a relationship with the powerful and wealthy nobleman Roger Mortimer, whom her husband had exiled. The following year, they invaded England to depose Edward II, who was soon captured and imprisoned. Isabella and Mortimer summoned a parliament, which began gathering at the Palace of Westminster on 7 January. The king was accused of offences ranging from the promotion of favourites to the destruction of the church, a betrayal of his coronation oath to the people. An unruly mob may have helped intimidate those attending parliament into agreeing to oust the king.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_1327

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1878:

Ada Anderson, a record-setting pedestrian from England, completed her U.S. debut, walking 2,700 quarter-miles (1,086 km total) in 2,700 quarter-hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Anderson

1915:

About 30,000 people in L'Aquila, Italy, were killed when an earthquake struck the province. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_Avezzano_earthquake

1953:

An article published in Pravda accused nine eminent doctors in Moscow of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot

1963:

Togo's first president, Sylvanus Olympio, was assassinated by military officers in a coup d'état led by Emmanuel Bodjollé, Étienne Eyadéma, and Kléber Dadjo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Togolese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

walk-on girl: (darts) A woman who escorts a player to the stage at a darts event. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/walk-on_girl

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Objective knowledge, the idea of unity included, belongs to objective consciousness. The forms which express this knowledge when perceived by subjective consciousness are inevitably distorted and, instead of truth, they create more and more delusions. With objective consciousness it is possible to see and feel the unity of everything. But for subjective consciousness the world is split up into millions of separate and unconnected phenomena. Attempts to connect these phenomena into some sort of system in a scientific or philosophical way lead to nothing because man cannot reconstruct the idea of the whole starting from separate facts and they cannot divine the principles of the division of the whole without knowing the laws upon which this division is based.   --G. I. Gurdjieff https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/G._I._Gurdjieff