The Jarrow March (5–31 October 1936) was a protest against the
unemployment and poverty suffered in the Tyneside town of Jarrow, in
North East England, during the 1930s. Around 200 men marched from Jarrow
to London to petition the government to restore industry in the town
after the closure in 1934 of Palmer's shipyard. Palmer's had launched
more than 1,000 ships since 1852. In the 1920s, a combination of
mismanagement and changed world trade conditions caused a decline which
led to the yard's closure. When plans for its replacement by a
steelworks were thwarted, the lack of any large-scale employment in the
town led the borough council to organise the march. The House of Commons
received the petition but took no action, and the march produced few
immediate results. The Jarrovians went home believing that they had
failed. In subsequent years the Jarrow March became recognised as a
defining event of the 1930s and helped to prepare the way for wide
social reform after the Second World War.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrow_March>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1899:
Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First
Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Malolos>
1959:
After a two-week escape journey from Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama
reached the Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh in India.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawang_Monastery>
1964:
The Brazilian Armed Forces overthrew President João Goulart,
establishing a military dictatorship that lasted 21 years.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Brazilian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
2004:
The Old National Library Building in Singapore was closed to
make way for a tunnel, despite widespread protests.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_National_Library_Building>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
transgender:
1. (broadly) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is different
from one's assigned sex; that is, the identity of a trans man, trans
woman, or someone non-binary, for example, agender, bigender, or third-
gender.
2. (strictly) Of a person: having a gender (identity) which is opposite
from the sex one was assigned at birth: being assigned male but having a
female gender, or vice versa (that is, not including a non-binary
identity).
3. (loosely) Of a person: transgressing or not identifying with
culturally conventional gender roles and categories of male or female.
4. Of or pertaining to transgender people (sense 1), or their
experiences or identity.
5. Of a space: intended primarily for transgender people.
6. Of a space: available for use by transgender people, rather than only
non-transgender people.
7. Synonym of crossgender (“across multiple genders”) [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transgender>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My spirit to yours dear brother, Do not mind because many
sounding your name do not understand you, I do not sound your name, but
I understand you, I specify you with joy O my comrade to salute you,
and to salute those who are with you, before and since, and those to
come also, That we all labor together transmitting the same charge and
succession, We few equals indifferent of lands, indifferent of times,
We, enclosers of all continents, all castes, allowers of all theologies,
Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men, We walk silent among
disputes and assertions, but reject not the disputers nor any thing that
is asserted, We hear the bawling and din, we are reach'd at by
divisions, jealousies, recriminations on every side, They close
peremptorily upon us to surround us, my comrade, Yet we walk unheld,
free, the whole earth over, journeying up and down till we make our
ineffaceable mark upon time and the diverse eras, Till we saturate time
and eras, that the men and women of races, ages to come, may prove
brethren and lovers as we are.
--Leaves of Grass
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass>