Latest posts tagged with #ThisDayInHistory on Bluesky
Historic moments can come in real time. The leader of the US rogue state, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2026, casually threatened #Iran with #genocide, on top of #CulturalDestruction, another #WarCrime under international law, like his ongoing threats against electrical infrastructure.
“The #DoumaChemicalAttack was #ThisDayInHistory in 2018. A two-year #OPCW investigation concluded that the #Baathist régime of #Syria dropped two cylinders of #ChlorineGas on #Douma as part of the Eastern Ghouta offensive in the #SyrianCivilWar, killing ~50 people & injuring ~100.”
The impact of #BillieHoliday on the history of #jazz is incalculable, for her singing and for vocal improvisation. She was born in Philadelphia on #ThisDayInHistory in 1915. Here is her version of the #AbelMeeropol song #StrangeFruit, about #lynchings:
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#TackysRebellion broke out in #Jamaica on #ThisDayInHistory in 1760. 100 recently-taken slaves overran British troops at #FortHaldane, taking weapons. Badly outnumbered by reinforcements & #Maroon allies, Tacky was shot & the rest killed themselves rather than return to #slavery.
The #Holocaust in the #SovietUnion did not use #DeathCamps, but rather roving bands of killers, the #Einsatzgruppen. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1943, at #Terebovlia, #Ukraine, 1,100 Jews were made to march naked to the nearby village of #Plebanivka, then shot and buried in ditches.
On this day in history in 1740, American Founding Father Haym Salomon was born.
Pictured is Salomon's grave Mikveh Israel Cemetery in Philadelphia, the oldest Jewish Cemetery in the nation.
Read more about Salomon in our blog: buff.ly/QIVEeiS
#thisdayinhistory #foundingfather #america
Just two weeks after the #EnablingAct, #AdolfHitler issued his 'Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service' on #ThisDayInHistory in 1933, barring Jews & #socialists from serving in the civil service or as teachers, professors, judges. #AlbertEinstein promptly fled.
30 Italian civilians & 15 partisan fighters were killed in the #FraghetoMassacre on #ThisDayInHistory in 1944 by #Nazi troops. Following an ambush by partisans of the #EighthGaribaldiBrigade, the Wehrmacht went house-to-house in #Fragheto, shooting women, children, & the elderly.
Textbooks start #WorldWarII with Germany's invasion of Poland despite the attacks on China & Albania coming earlier. The Italian #Fascist army launched its #InvasionOfAlbania on #ThisDayInHistory in 1939, conquering the small country in five days with up to #Albanians 700 killed.
The first part of #CorpusIurisCivilis to be finished was #CodexIustinianus, or Justinian's Code, which was issued on #ThisDayInHistory in 529. Its second edition from 534 survives, containing most #Roman imperial pronouncements from the time of Hadrian to the time of Justinian I.
The #DoumaChemicalAttack was #ThisDayInHistory in 2018. A two-year #OPCW investigation concluded that the #Baathist régime of #Syria dropped two cylinders of #ChlorineGas on #Douma as part of the Eastern Ghouta offensive in the #SyrianCivilWar, killing ~50 people & injuring ~100.
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A civil war slid into the #RwandanGenocide on #ThisDayInHistory in 1994 and lasted more than three months. Foreign troops stood aside & left as #Hutu fighters massacred up to 702,000 #Tutsi, #Twa, & moderate Hutu people, mostly men, and raped up to 500,000 women.
“Using the 19th c. 'sus law', cops under #Thatcher launched #OperationSwamp81 in #Brixton, South London, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1981. #Police simply rounded up & searched Black Britons, using racial profiling as sufficient probable cause. After a few days anger turned to rioting.”
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1968, just two days after the assassination of #MLK, 17-year-old #BobbyHutton, first to join #BlackPantherParty after its founding, was killed after a shoot-out. He was shirtless, unarmed, and surrendering when #Oakland #police put twelve bullets into him.
#Slavery in America existed outside the South. In #NYC on #ThisDayInHistory in 1712, the #MaidenLaneRevolt broke out. Slaves set fire to a building & as colonists tried to put it out they were attacked with guns & blades. Rebels were brutally killed (burnt alive, crushed, etc.).
“The #SamashkiMassacre was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1995 during the #FirstChechenWar. #Russian paramilitary troops engaged in what they called a ‘cleansing operation’ in the #Chechen village, with up to 300 civilians shot at close range or killed where they hid by thrown grenades.”
#HueyPLong, a governor of #Louisiana, is a fascinating & polarizing figure. He was the first major politician there to eschew #RaceBaiting & focus on #class as a left-#populist. He was (unsuccessfully) impeached for authoritarianism in the statehouse on #ThisDayInHistory in 1929.
Using the 19th c. 'sus law', cops under #Thatcher launched #OperationSwamp81 in #Brixton, South London, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1981. #Police simply rounded up & searched Black Britons, using racial profiling as sufficient probable cause. After a few days anger turned to rioting.
The #SamashkiMassacre was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1995 during the #FirstChechenWar. #Russian paramilitary troops engaged in what they called a "cleansing operation in the #Chechen village, with up to 300 civilians shot at close range or killed where they hid by thrown grenades.
We really were living in strange times when, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2005, former #Kurdistan independence advocate and leader of the #PUK #JalalTalabani became president of #Iraq. He served from 2005-2014. From siding with Iran in the #IranIraqWar to leading Iraq is a real trip.
The #ArabSpring built on decades of simmering tensions & events like a #GeneralStrike on #ThisDayInHistory in 2008 by workers at textile producer #GhazlAlMahalla. Security forces arrested dozens, causing two days of rioting in which a giant banner of #HosniMubarak was destroyed.
The first shot of the #RwandanGenocide was a double-assassination on #ThisDayInHistory in 1994, when a missile took down the jet carrying the presidents of Rwanda (Juvénal Habyarimana) and Burundi (Cyprien Ntaryamira). Responsibility for the act was never conclusively determined.
It shouldn't surprise us that recruits to #ICE are some of the most #racist shits in the US. On #ThisDayInHistory in 2018, a major raid on a slaughterhouse in Tennessee saw federal agents shouting racial slurs, using extreme violence, and detaining anyone of #Hispanic appearance.
The #AmericanBirthControlLeague, #MargaretSanger's earlier version of #PlannedParenthood, incorporated on #ThisDayInHistory in 1922. Its argument that children should be conceived in love & financial security, and by the conscious desire of women, is controversial only to pricks.
On this day in history in 1726, American Founding Father Benjamin Harrison was born.
Harrison represented Virginia in the Second Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence.
Read more about Harrison in our blog: buff.ly/dYzYwc9
#thisdayinhistory #foundingfather #america
Leftwing activist, #BeatGeneration poet, and queer #counterculture icon #AllenGinsberg died on #ThisDayInHistory in 1997. An influence on my poetic voice, a former professor kept the only copy of a tribute I wrote ('For Allen'). I still play a recording of 'America' in classes.
High debt from a previous dictatorship destabilized #Peru, so the military created #PlanVerde with American assistance. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1992 Pres. #AlbertoFujimori put it in motion, dissolved congress & the courts, & implemented the #neoliberal 'reforms' wanted by the US.
Highlighting the dangers and inhumanity of strategic heavy-#bombing in urban areas, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1943 the USAAF missed the Erla factory by a kilometre and instead bombed the Nazi-occupied town of #Mortsel in #Belgium, killing over 900 civilians, including 209 children.
Greek #CruiseShip #MSSeaDiamond struck a volcanic reef in the sunken #caldera of #Santorini in 2007 on #ThisDayInHistory. It sank the next day, with beaching made impossible by the steep, almost vertical shoreline of the volcano. Containment booms could not prevent the oil spill.
Power concedes nothing by choice so #DirectAction is a common tool of #SocialJustice. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1913, armed with biscuit-tin bombs and targeting male-dominated activities, Scottish #suffragettes set fire to the grandstand and other buildings at the #Ayr racecourse.
