director for almost 30 years of the Australian War Memorial (AWM), the
country's national memorial to the members of its armed forces and
supporting organisations who have participated in war. Prior to World
War I he worked as a clerk in the Department of Defence and, after
volunteering for the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in 1914,
served in staff roles for most of the war's first years. Treloar was
selected to command the Australian War Records Section in 1917. In this
position, he improved the AIF's records and collected a large number of
artefacts for later display in Australia. Treloar was appointed the
director of what eventually became the AWM in 1920, and was a key figure
in establishing the Memorial and raising funds for its permanent
building in Canberra. He headed the Department of Information during the
first years of World War II, and spent the remainder of the war in
charge of the Australian military's history section. Treloar returned to
the AWM in 1946, and continued as its director until his death.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Treloar_(museum_administrator)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1675:
German polymath Gottfried Leibniz employed integral calculus
for the first time to find the area under the graph of the function .
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz>
1813:
War of 1812: A British–Canadian force repelled an American
attack in the Battle of Crysler's Farm, forcing the latter to give up
their attempt to capture Montreal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Crysler%27s_Farm>
1918:
Józef Piłsudski was appointed Commander in Chief of Polish
forces by the Regency Council and was entrusted with creating a national
government for the newly independent country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Pi%C5%82sudski>
1940:
World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captured
top secret documents from SS Automedon that would later influence
Japan's decision to enter the war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_auxiliary_cruiser_Atlantis>
1975:
During a constitutional crisis in Australia, Governor-General
John Kerr dismissed the government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and
dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rumpty:
(New Zealand) Having a quality below standard; in a state of disrepair.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rumpty>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has
made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and
Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up
pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People
who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply
using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing
to do with it, friends.
--Kurt Vonnegut
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut>
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