Ngô Đình Cẩn (1911–1964) was a younger brother and confidant of
South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, who put Cẩn in
charge of central Vietnam, stretching from Phan Thiết in the south to
the border at the 17th parallel. Based in the former imperial capital of
Huế, Cẩn earned a reputation as the most oppressive of the Ngô
brothers, operating private armies and secret police that controlled the
central region. Cẩn's influence began to wane after his elder brother
Ngô Đình Thục was appointed the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Huế.
Thục overshadowed Cẩn and aggressively promoted Catholicism, which
led to the banning of the Buddhist flag in 1963 during Vesak, the
celebration of the birthday of Gautama Buddha. Cẩn's forces opened
fire on a crowd protesting the ban, killing nine and precipitating the
Buddhist crisis and the eventual toppling of the Diem regime in a
November 1963 coup. Cẩn was arrested and turned over to the military
junta, which executed him in 1964.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B4_%C4%90%C3%ACnh_C%E1%BA%A9n>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1521:
English nobleman Edward Stafford, whose father had been
beheaded for rebelling against King Richard III, was himself executed
for treason against King Henry VIII.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Stafford,_3rd_Duke_of_Buckingham>
1642:
The Société Notre-Dame de Montréal founded a permanent
mission known as Ville-Marie, which eventually grew into the city of
Montreal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal>
1902:
The Antikythera mechanism (fragment pictured), the oldest known
surviving geared mechanism, was discovered among artifacts retrieved
from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism>
1977:
The first Chuck E. Cheese's location, the first family
restaurant to integrate food, animated entertainment, and an indoor
arcade, opened in San Jose, California, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_E._Cheese%27s>
2000:
Following the killings of two English football fans in the
previous month by Galatasaray supporters, British and Turkish hooligans
attacked each other on the day of the UEFA Cup Final.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_UEFA_Cup_Final_riots>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hearts beat as one:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hearts_beat_as_one>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The noblest and most fruitful work of the human intelligence is
to make a clean sweep of every enforced idea — of advantages or
meanings — and to go right through appearances in search of the
eternal bases. Thus you will clearly see the moral law at the beginning
of all things, and the conception of justice and equality will appear to
you beautiful as daylight.
--Henri Barbusse
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_Barbusse>
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