campaigner who led the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935. Throughout his
political life he fought for equality, social justice, women's rights
and world disarmament. Before entering the national scene he served in
the East End of London in numerous local government posts. Elected to
parliament in 1910, he resigned his seat two years later on the issue of
women's suffrage, and was briefly imprisoned after publicly supporting
militant action. Lansbury became editor of the Daily Herald newspaper,
which maintained a strong pacifist stance during the First World War and
supported the 1917 Russian Revolution. Although he returned to
parliament in 1922 he was excluded from the brief Labour government of
1924, but served as First Commissioner of Works in the Labour government
of 1929–31. After the economic crisis of August 1931 Lansbury refused
to join the National Government under Ramsay MacDonald and became leader
of the Labour Party in opposition. His pacifism in the face of rising
European fascism put him at odds with his party, and in 1935 he resigned
the leadership. He spent his final years travelling in the United States
and Europe in the cause of peace and disarmament.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lansbury>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
295 BC:
The oldest known temple to Venus (Venus Anadyomene by Titian
pictured), the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was
dedicated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)>
1534:
In Montmartre, near Paris, Ignatius of Loyola and six others
took the vows that led to the establishment of the Society of Jesus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus>
1907:
Jamaican American Raphael Morgan was ordained as the first
Black Orthodox clergyman in America.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Morgan>
1945:
The Gyokuon-hōsō was broadcast in Japan, announcing the
unconditional surrender of the Japanese army and naval forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan>
1963:
President Fulbert Youlou was overthrown in the Republic of
Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois_Glorieuses_(1963)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
avail:
1. (transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage of.
2. (transitive) To be of service to.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avail>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in
the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest
religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one
universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's
seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of
unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing
approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the
divine values.
--Sri Aurobindo
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo>
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