activist. An early proponent of women's rights, she was one of two women
elected to the inaugural London County Council in 1889, although legal
challenges prevented her from being a councillor. Throughout her life
she sought to protect and develop the legacy of her father, the
Victorian reformer Richard Cobden, in particular the causes of land
reform, peace, social justice and women's suffrage. She was also a
consistent advocate for Irish independence. In the 1890s she extended
her interests to advancing the rights of the indigenous populations
within colonial territories. She opposed the Boer War of 1899–1902,
and after the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910 she
attacked its segregationist policies. Before the First World War she
spoke out against Joseph Chamberlain's tariff reform crusade on the
grounds of her father's free trade principles, and was prominent in the
Liberal Party's revival of the land reform issue. In 1928 she presented
the old Cobden family residence, Dunford House, to the Cobden Memorial
Association as a centre dedicated to the issues and causes that had
defined "Cobdenism".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Cobden>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1519:
Zhu Chenhao declared the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhengde a
usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and led his army north
in an attempt to capture Nanjing.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Ning_rebellion>
1553:
Four days after the death of her predecessor, Edward VI, Lady
Jane Grey was officially proclaimed Queen of England, beginning her
reign as "The Nine Days' Queen".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey>
1806:
Indian sepoys mutinied against the East India Company when they
broke into Vellore Fort and killed or injured 200 British troops.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellore_Mutiny>
1940:
The German Luftwaffe began attacks on British convoys in the
English Channel to start the Battle of Britain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain>
1966:
Martin Luther King, Jr. led a rally in support of the Chicago
Freedom Movement, one of the most ambitious civil rights campaigns in
the northern United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Freedom_Movement>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
badinage:
Playful raillery; banter.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/badinage>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to
study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at
heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what
they have mastered is child's play.
--Carl Orff
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Orff>
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