The Blind Beggar Montfort. The pub was built in 1894 on the site of an inn which had been established before 1654, and named after the legend of Henry de Montfort, a son of Simon de Montfort. In 1865, William Booth preached his first open-air sermon outside the Blind Beggar, which led to the establishment of the East London Christian Mission, later to become the Salvation Army. William Booth is commemorated by a nearby statue. The Blind Beggar is notorious for its connection to East End gangsters the Kray twins. On 9 March 1966, Ronnie Kray shot and murdered George Cornell, an associate
The Cornell Progressive (newspaper) controversy, and Cornell students launched a campaign to discredit the allegedly fraudulent March 2005 Student Assembly elections – both events influenced in large part by "TL" reporting and opinion. In the Spring of 2007, co-editors Shai Akabas '09 and Ethan Felder '09 launched a successful but controversial campaign to change the name of the publication to "The Cornell Progressive". The executive board voted 6-2 to amend the organization's constitution in March 2007. In 2005, "Turn Left" began to bill itself as "Cornell's premier political newspaper," signaling its editors' belief that it eclipsed the once monolithic "Cornell Review" in terms of