John Tyndall (1934–2005) was a British fascist and political activist. A member of various small neo-Nazi groups during the late 1950s and 1960s, he led the National Front from 1972 to 1974 and again from 1976 to 1980, and then headed the British National Party from 1982 to 1999. He unsuccessfully stood for election to the House of Commons several times and to the European Parliament in 1999. Tyndall promoted a racial- nationalist belief in a distinct white "British race", arguing that this race was threatened by a Jewish conspiracy to encourage non-white migration into Britain. He called for an authoritarian state which would deport all non-whites from the country, engage in a eugenics project, and re-establish the British Empire through the military conquest of parts of Africa. He never gained mainstream political respectability in the United Kingdom but was popular among sectors of the British far- right. In 2005, Tyndall was charged with incitement to racial hatred but died before trial.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1980:
The Australian swimming team, nicknamed the Quietly Confident Quartet, won the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swimming_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_4_%C3%97_100_metre_medley_relay
2009:
MV Arctic Sea, declared to be carrying a cargo of timber, was allegedly boarded by hijackers off the coast of Sweden in an incident that remains incompletely explained. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Arctic_Sea
2014:
Fifty minutes after departing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Air Algérie Flight 5017 disappeared from radar; its wreckage was found the next day in Mali, with no survivors of the 116 people aboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Alg%C3%A9rie_Flight_5017
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
peloton: 1. (cycle racing) A group of riders formed during a cycling road race; especially, the main group of riders; the pack. 2. (military, chiefly historical) Synonym of platoon (“a small group of soldiers”) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peloton
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Be warm, enjoy the season, lift your head, Exquisite in the pulse of tainted blood, That shivering glory not to be despised. Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark — a shining space With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace. --Robert Graves https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Graves
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