Jessie Murray (1867–1920) was a British psychoanalyst and suffragette
who studied medicine at the University of Durham and University College
London. Murray and her close friend Julia Turner opened the Medico-
Psychological Clinic (site pictured) in 1913, a pioneering entity that
provided psychological evaluation and treatment that was affordable for
middle-class families. Several of the staff who worked and trained at
the clinic became leading psychoanalysts. The clinic closed in 1922,
although it laid the foundation of psychological evaluation in the UK.
Murray was a member of the Women's Freedom League and the Women's Tax
Resistance League, two organisations that took direct action for women's
suffrage. In 1910 she and the journalist Henry Brailsford took
statements from the suffragettes who had been mistreated during the
Black Friday demonstrations. Their memorandum was published, with a
formal request for a public inquiry. The home secretary, Winston
Churchill, refused to establish one.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Murray>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1908:
As a result of numerous atrocities in the territory, the Congo
Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the Belgian Congo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State>
1922:
During a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador, police and
military fired into a crowd, killing at least 300 people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922_Guayaquil_general_strike>
1943:
The Holocaust: In the Romani Holocaust, Nazi official Heinrich
Himmler ordered that the Romani were to be put "on the same level as
Jews and placed in concentration camps".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_Holocaust>
1988:
The Soviet spacecraft Buran, a reusable vehicle built in
response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its
only flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
iniquitous:
1. Characterized by iniquity (“deviation from what is right”).
2. Morally objectionable; sinful, wicked.
3. Grossly unfair or unjust.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iniquitous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Israel's lasting future depends on its government's willingness
to enter into a genuine peace agreement with the Palestinians. That this
also goes for the Palestinians grouped around Hamas hardly needs to be
stressed. Both sides have to understand that they must live together for
better or worse and that hatred, terror and territorial, ethnic and
religious exclusion have never produced peace, but rather have led to
killing and more killing.
--Daniel Barenboim
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Barenboim>
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