followed by the Battle of Tewkesbury, secured the throne for Edward IV
of England and launched fourteen years of Yorkist rule. Near Barnet,
then a small Hertfordshire town north of London, Edward led the House of
York against Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and the House of
Lancaster, which backed Henry VI for the throne. The battle began in a
thick fog at dawn. While the main forces struggled, John de Vere, 13th
Earl of Oxford, and his Lancastrian troops routed the Yorkists under
Lord William Hastings, chasing them up to Barnet. On their return to the
battlefield, Oxford's men were erroneously shot at by his allies
commanded by John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu. The Lancastrians
lost the battle as cries of treason spread through their line and many
abandoned the fight. While retreating, Warwick was killed. Historians
regard the battle as one of the most important clashes in the Wars of
the Roses, bringing about a decisive turn in the fortunes of the two
houses.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Barnet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
966:
After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the
pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converted to Christianity, an
event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Poland_during_the_Piast_dynasty>
1828:
Lexicographer Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his
dictionary of American English.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster>
1909:
Following a military revolt against the constitutional
government, a mob began a massacre of Armenians in Adana Vilayet,
Ottoman Empire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adana_massacre>
1978:
Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against an
attempt by the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR to change the
constitutional status of the Georgian language.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Georgian_demonstrations>
2003:
The completion of the Human Genome Project was announced.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
veridical:
1. True.
2. Pertaining to an experience, perception, or interpretation that
accurately represents reality; as opposed to imaginative,
unsubstantiated, illusory, or delusory.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/veridical>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I quite fixedly believe the Wardens of Earth sometimes unbar
strange windows, that face on other worlds than ours. And some of us, I
think, once in a while get a peep through these windows. But we are not
permitted to get a long peep, or an unobstructed peep, nor very
certainly, are we permitted to see all there is — out yonder. The
fatal fault, sir, of your theorizing is that it is too complete. It aims
to throw light upon the universe, and therefore is self-evidently
moonshine. The Wardens of Earth do not desire that we should understand
the universe, Mr. Kennaston; it is part of Their appointed task to
insure that we never do; and because of Their efficiency every notion
that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe
will necessarily prove wrong.
--James Branch Cabell
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell>
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