have been kidnapped and held in a hayloft against her will, and who
ultimately became central to one of the most famous English criminal
mysteries of the 18th century. She disappeared on 1 January 1753,
returning 28 days later, emaciated and in a "deplorable condition", to
her mother's home in the City of London. After Canning was interviewed,
two women, Susannah Wells and Mary Squires, were identified as her
supposed captors and arrested. Local magistrate Henry Fielding
investigated Canning's story, interviewing several witnesses. Wells and
Squires were tried and found guilty; Wells was sentenced to death for
theft. However, the trial judge, Crisp Gascoyne, was unhappy with the
verdict and began his own investigation. Upon being questioned, some
witnesses recanted their earlier testimony, and evidence from others
implied that Squires could not have abducted Canning. Gascoyne had
Canning arrested, and she was found guilty of perjury at a trial in
1754. She was imprisoned for a month and transported for seven years.
She died in British America in 1773, but the mystery surrounding her
disappearance remains unsolved.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Canning>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1859:
Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the
United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers
in San Francisco, proclaiming himself Emperor Norton.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton>
1914:
Andrew Fisher became Prime Minister of Australia for the third
time, beginning a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until
the 1940s.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Fisher>
1939:
World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east,
sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on that country from the west.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Poland>
1978:
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin (both pictured with Jimmy Carter) signed the Camp David
Accords after twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords>
2011:
Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a
protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New
York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rapine:
The seizure of someone's property by force; plunder.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapine>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
What I always wanted to be was a magician… Doing magic, you not
only have to be able to do a trick, you have to have a little story line
to go with it.
--Ken Kesey
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey>
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