Corry Tendeloo (3 September 1897 – 18 October 1956) was a Dutch lawyer, feminist and politician who sat in the House of Representatives for the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) from 1945 until 1946, and then for the Labour Party until her death in 1956. Born in the Dutch East Indies, Tendeloo studied law at Utrecht University, during which time she made contact with people within the women's rights movement. In 1945, Tendeloo was appointed a member of the House of Representatives for the VDB in the national emergency parliament, formed to rebuild the country after World War II and organise elections. In 1948, she helped secure universal suffrage for the Dutch colonies of Suriname and Curaçao. In 1955, she put forward a motion to abolish the ban on state employment for married women. The next year she was instrumental in introducing legislation that would start to end couverture, a 19th-century law that labelled married women as incompetent to act on their own behalf. (Full article...)

Aircraft involved in Turkish Airlines Flight 301

• ... that Turkish prime minister Bülent Ecevit's first order in office was to send the minister of transport to the crash site of Turkish Airlines Flight 301 (aircraft pictured)?
• ... that the Assembly Rooms in Belfast, which housed a branch of the Belfast Banking Company for more than 100 years, were the venue for the court-martial of leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798?
• ... that Emma Dean Powell received a pass from General Ulysses S. Grant to accompany her husband to battlefield camps during the American Civil War after he lost his arm?
• ... that the Eocene Okanagan Highlands span approximately 1,000 km (620 mi) through British Columbia and Washington?
• ... that Mihi Edwards did not use her own name as a young woman because of discrimination against Māori people in New Zealand?
• ... that in 1933, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Italian wing of Rockefeller Center's International Building was interrupted by a fascist chant led by an unemployed bricklayer?
• ... that Sacco Saito, who arranged and performed the theme song for Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation, was not told the content of the game until after the song had been recorded?
• ... that Bumper Pool legally changed his name to Bumper when he was 16 because of his father's childhood love for bumper pool?

Mikhail Gorbachev

• violence against the Uyghur people
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• Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (pictured) dies at the age of 91.
• Floods in Pakistan kill more than 1,100 people and over 700,000 livestock.
• The
  genocide of indigenous peoples in Brazil
  , is found dead.