unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female
cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor, when she
was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929–31.
Bondfield was born in humble circumstances and received limited formal
education. Beginning as a shopworker in Brighton and London, she was an
active trades unionist and held union office from 1898. Bondfield helped
to found the Women's Labour League in 1906, and was chair of the Adult
Suffrage Society. She was a socialist rather than a suffragette, which
divided her from some factions in the women's movement. She was first
elected to parliament in 1923, and was a junior minister in the Labour
government of 1924. Her term in the cabinet was overshadowed by the
economic crises that beset the 1929–31 Labour ministry, and her
actions in office antagonised many in the Labour Party. She left
parliament in 1931, but continued in quiet public service until shortly
before her death.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bondfield>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1871:
French President Adolphe Thiers ordered the evacuation of Paris
after an uprising broke out as the result of France's defeat in the
Franco-Prussian War, leading to the establishment of the Paris Commune
government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune>
1892:
Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate an award for Canada's
top-ranked amateur ice hockey club, now known as the Stanley Cup
(pictured), the oldest professional sports trophy in North America.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Cup>
1925:
The Tri-State Tornado spawned in Missouri, traveled over 219
miles (352 km) across Illinois and Indiana, and killed 695 along the
way, making it the tornado with the longest continuous track ever
recorded and the deadliest in U.S. history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Tornado>
1985:
The first episode of the Australian soap opera Neighbours was
broadcast on the Seven Network, eventually becoming the longest running
drama in Australian television history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbours>
2005:
As per a court order, the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo, an
American woman who suffered brain damage, was removed at the request of
her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on euthanasia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tribology:
(physics, engineering) The science and technology of friction,
lubrication, and wear.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tribology>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at
truth as that I take my start from it.
--Nikolai Berdyaev
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikolai_Berdyaev>
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