Corry Tendeloo (3 September 1897 – 18 October 1956) was a Dutch lawyer, feminist and politician who sat in the House of Representatives for the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) from 1945 until 1946, and then for the Labour Party until her death in 1956. Born in the Dutch East Indies, Tendeloo studied law at Utrecht University, during which time she made contact with people within the women's rights movement. In 1945, Tendeloo was appointed a member of the House of Representatives for the VDB in the national emergency parliament, formed to rebuild the country after World War II and organise elections. In 1948, she helped secure universal suffrage for the Dutch colonies of Suriname and Curaçao. In 1955, she put forward a motion to abolish the ban on state employment for married women. The next year she was instrumental in introducing legislation that would start to end couverture, a 19th- century law that labelled married women as incompetent to act on their own behalf.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1650:

Under Oliver Cromwell, the English New Model Army ambushed a poorly prepared Scottish force at the Battle of Dunbar, the first battle of the Third English Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dunbar_%281650%29

1878:

The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames after colliding with a collier, killing more than 600 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_SS_Princess_Alice

1942:

The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against their Nazi captors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81achwa_Ghetto

1991:

A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

dogman: 1. A man who has charge of dogs, such as a dog breeder or dog trainer; specifically, a man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting. 2. Alternative form of dog man (“a man who likes dogs or prefers dogs as pets, often as opposed to liking cats”) 3. (cryptozoology, mythology) An alleged cryptid or mythological creature that is part dog and part man; also (religion) a deity who is part dog and part man. 4. (obsolete, rare) A man who sells dog meat. 5. (Australia, New Zealand) An assistant to a crane operator, responsible for securing the crane's load and directing the operator. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dogman

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

He who knows naught of dreaming can, likewise, never attain the heights of power and possibility in persuading the mind to act. He who dreams not creates not.   --Louis Sullivan https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan