FYI June 20, 2020

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On This Day

451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius’ battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of the Campus Mauriacus, Battle of Châlons, Battle of Troyes[11] or the Battle of Maurica, took place on June 20, 451 AD, between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their vassals commanded by their king Attila. It was one of the last major military operations of the Western Roman Empire, although Germanic foederati composed the majority of the coalition army. Whether the battle was strategically conclusive is disputed: the Romans possibly stopped the Huns’ attempt to establish vassals in Roman Gaul. However, the Huns successfully looted and pillaged much of Gaul and crippled the military capacity of the Romans and Visigoths. Attila died only two years later and his Hunnic Empire was dismantled by a coalition of their Germanic vassals after the Battle of Nedao in 454.

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Born On This Day

1847 – Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist and women’s rights activist (d. 1916)[5]
Jørgine Anna Sverdrup “Gina” Krog (20 June 1847 – 14 April 1916) was a Norwegian suffragist, teacher, liberal politician and editor. She played a central role in the Norwegian women’s movement from the 1880s until her death, notably as a leading campaigner for women’s right to vote. In 1884, Krog co-founded the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights with liberal MP Hagbart Berner. Over the next two decades, Krog co-founded the Women’s Voting Association, the National Association for Women’s Suffrage, and the Norwegian National Women’s Council, spearheading the presentation of women’s suffrage proposals to the Storting (the Norwegian parliament). Krog wrote articles and gave speeches, travelling throughout Europe and North America to attend international women’s rights conferences. She was editor of the Norwegian feminist periodical Nylænde (New Land) from 1887 until her death in 1916.

Krog was considered radical in her views, seeking full and equal voting rights for all women on the same conditions as men. These views often brought Krog into conflict with more moderate members of the Norwegian women’s movement, many of whom argued for narrower approaches, focusing first on enfranchising privileged women. In 1910, the Storting granted universal voting rights to women for municipal elections, extending this to general elections in 1913.

Krog was the first woman in Norway to receive a state funeral. Since 2009, the Norwegian Association for Women’s Rights has awarded an annual Gina Krog prize for feminist advocates. In March 2013, for International Women’s Day, the Dagny oil field was renamed Gina Krog in her honour.

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