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Features Featured article Jeremy Thorpe (1929–2014) was a British politician who served as Member of Parliament for North Devon from 1959 to 1979, and as leader of the Liberal Party between 1967 and 1976. After graduating from Oxford University, he became one of the Liberals' brightest stars in the 1950s. Thorpe capitalised on the growing unpopularity of the Conservative and Labour parties to lead the Liberals through a period of electoral success. This culminated in the general election of February 1974, when the party won 6 million votes. In May 1979 he was tried at the Old Bailey on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder, arising from an earlier relationship with Norman Scott, a former model. Thorpe was acquitted on all charges, but the case, and the scandal, ended his political career. By the time of his death he was honoured for his record as an internationalist, a supporter of human rights, and an opponent of apartheid and all forms of racism. (Full article...) Recently featured: al-Musta'li Charles William Fremantle September 1964 South Vietnamese coup attempt Selected anniversaries September 16 Western terminus of the Northern Xinjiang railway 681 – At the Third Council of Constantinople, Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated, with his support for monothelitism deemed to be heretical. 1844 – Felix Mendelssohn completed the score of his Violin Concerto, his final concerto. 1979 – Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon. 1990 – Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway (terminus pictured) was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou, linking the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan and adding a sizeable portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge. Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122) Elisabeth Bagréeff-Speransky (b. 1799) Vesta Tilley (d. 1952) Louis Ngwat-Mahop (b. 1987) More anniversaries: September 15 September 16 September 17 In the news Alberto Fujimori in 1991 Former president of Peru Alberto Fujimori (pictured) dies at the age of 86. Flooding following a dam collapse in Borno State, Nigeria, leaves at least 30 people dead. Typhoon Yagi leaves more than 840 people dead across six Asian countries. Abdelmadjid Tebboune is declared the winner of the Algerian presidential election amid a dispute over the election's turnout. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Pravin Gordhan Sitaram Yechury Michaela DePrince Stephen Peat Didier Roustan Friedrich Schorlemmer Did you know... NHSR recruiting poster ... that the British National Hospital Service Reserve (poster pictured) trained volunteers to carry out first aid in the aftermath of a nuclear or chemical attack? ... that a 1917 agreement between France and Russia was rendered void within days because of the February Revolution? ... that Goethe used his unrequited love to Maximiliane Brentano as inspiration for his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther? ... that the cupola of Homer House is part of a 19th-century cooling system? ... that Grant Nel, at the age of nine, switched from gymnastics to diving after breaking both of his hands? ... that the New York City Police Department shut down highway and bridge traffic for the funeral of the owner of Neary's, an Irish pub? ... that a drone attack by the Houthi military hit a target in Tel Aviv, but no sirens were activated? ... that the general manager of a California TV station canceled the interview show he hosted because of its lack of quality? ... that the regent of the Mongol Empire between 1248 and 1251 was named "We Were Searching for a Boy"?

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