#OtD 4 Nov 1921 Paris Communard and anarchist Victorine Rouchy died aged 83. She joined the militia and fought on the barricades when the army came to retake the city, but was arrested alongside her husband. Condemned to death, but escaped
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#OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed
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#OtD 3 Nov 1979 the Greensboro, NC, massacre occurred when five communists at an anti-Ku Klux Klan protest were murdered by members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party., who were helped by police who gave them a map of anti-racists
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#OtD 2 Nov 1917 the UK issued the Balfour declaration, announcing its support for a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine. One official later explained its function as the creation for the UK of "a little loyal Jewish Ulster" in the region. More in our podcast:
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#OtD 1 Nov 1963 Black tenants began a rent strike in Harlem, NYC. By January, about 2000 tenants were withholding rent. The strike caused the city to create a rat eradication program, legalize rent strikes, and pass laws to improve housing conditions
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#OtD 29 Oct 1956 Israeli armed forces massacred 48 Palestinian citizens of Israel in the village of Kafr Qasem, inc women (one of whom was pregnant) and children. At 4:30pm, they brought in a 5pm curfew, and killed people as they came home from work
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Wikidata turns 14!
Created to link data across Wikipedia and its sister projects, it’s now one of the world’s largest free, open knowledge graphs, with machine-readable data that developers and researchers use every day.
Over 44,000 editors edit it, powering infoboxes and queries across 300+ Wikipedia language editions and now supporting under-resourced languages with lexicographical data.
Cheers to 14 years of free structured data, built by people for everyone! #wikidata14 #opendata #otd
In memory of D.H. Peligro
July 9, 1959 – October 28, 2022
Punk Drummer in Heaven 🥁💔
#punk #punks #punkrockhistory #punklegend #punkdrummer #dhpeligro #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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"Launched for public access on October 25, 2001, [@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org's Wayback Machine] allows users to go "back in time" to see how its catalogued websites looked in the past."
Happy 25th anniversary!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #archiving #OTD #OnThisDay #history #InternetHistory
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#OtD 18 Oct 1948 Israeli Air Force began bombing the Palestinian village of Bayt Jibrin during Operation Yoav. By the time Yoav concluded, in just a few days, it had caused the number of refugees living in the Gaza Strip to increase from 100k to 230k
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The Black Panther Party was founded 60 years ago ✊️
From a 2016 article commemorating its 50th anniversary:
"The work of the Black Panthers remains important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the problem of police brutality has long been with us [...]
Second, the BPP offers a good model of grassroots activism and ideology in practice."
https://jacobin.com/2016/10/black-panther-party-fifty-year-anniversary-founding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
#history #BlackHistory #BlackPanthers #BlackPantherParty #OTD #OnThisDay
“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes”
Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist, humorist – was born #OTD, 15 Jan
In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career:
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0381jzt
#Scottish #literature #poetry #music #humour #surrealism #absurdist #IvorCutler
#OnThisDay in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was opened to the public in Paris. Not to be outdone, London decided to get a new tower of their own and held a competition to design it, with some interesting results! https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/catalogue-of-the-68-competitive-designs-for-the-great-tower-for-london-1890 #OTD
Recorded #OnThisDay 47 years ago:
The Comsat Angels - Peel Session 1979
The complete session recorded by The Comsat Angels on 10 October 1979 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 25th of that month.
Tracklist:
- Total War Girl (0:42)
- Independence Day (5:47)
- Ju-Ju Money (9:52)
- Baby (14:45)
The Comsat Angels - Peel Session 1979
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#OtD 30 Sep 1919 the Elaine massacre began in Arkansas, US, when hundreds of African-Americans were murdered and tortured by white racists and security forces, after Black farm workers tried to organise for better pay
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#OtD 30 Sep 1973 Chilean army death squad the Caravan of Death flew by helicopter from the south to the north of Chile, and began brutally torturing and murdering around 100 people and dumping them in unmarked graves on the orders of Augusto Pinochet
#OtD 29 Sep 2007 tens of thousands of textile workers in Ghazl el-Mahalla, Egypt, went on illegal wildcat strike, eventually winning all their demands