#OtD 14 Nov 1927 central bodies of the Soviet Communist Party recommended the expulsion of Leon Trotsky, consolidating Stalin's power. This was helped by Trotsky's previous actions undermining workers' democracy in favour of the bureaucracy
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#OtD 13 Nov 1974 plutonium worker and union activist Karen Silkwood was mysteriously killed in a car crash while on her way to meet a @nytimes@mastodon.social reporter with evidence on health and safety violations at her plant. The evidence was never found
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1/ Heute vor 5 (fümpf!) Jahren gab es das Gespräch vom #Klimakanzler #OlafScholz mit der #LetzteGeneration. Henning Jeschke hat in dramatischen Worten die Folgen der #Klimakatastrophe auch für die Ernährungssicherheit geschildert. Klimawissenschaftler, mit denen ich geredet habe, meinten damals, das sei nicht hilfreich, weil das total übertrieben wäre. Inzwischen kann man sich den Inhalt mit den selben Warnungen und der Beschreibung der Folgen in Videos von Oxford-Professoren angucken. Teilweise sind die Nahrungsengpässe Realität. Weil wir reich sind, können wir uns aus der Miesere herauskaufen. Aber das funktioniert nicht für alle und nicht beliebig lange.
Das Treffen ist jetzt schon Geschichte. #OTD
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#OtD 11 Nov 1887 4 of the Haymarket martyrs were executed in Chicago. They were anarchist labour organisers framed for a bombing because of their role in the fight for the 8-hour day. Learn more in this history of May Day, which commemorates them:
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#OtD 10 Nov 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni indigenous author and activist, was hanged by the Nigerian state for resisting Royal Dutch Shell, alongside eight other Ogoni people. They had organised nonviolent resistance to destruction of Indigenous lands
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#OtD 9 Nov 1938 a pogrom occurred against Jewish people throughout Nazi Germany carried out by the fascist Brownshirts and antisemitic civilian supporters. Nazis dubbed it "Kristallnacht". 30k Jews were arrested and hundreds killed in the coming weeks
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#OtD 8 Nov 1939 Georg Elser attempted to assassinate Hitler by bombing the pub where Hitler stayed every year. But Hitler cancelled his stay and left just 13 minutes earlier, and instead the bomb killed 6 Nazis, as well as a waitress
#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
