#OtD
Happy 68th Birthday, Bruce Willis...
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#OTD In Oncer History.
Episode 514
“Devil's Due" 👿
📺 March 20, 2016
#OnceUponATime #OUAPNW
#Hades (#GregGermann) threatens condemn #Hook (#ColinODonoghue) to the River of Lost Souls for not following his orders.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqB0QYfD3mi/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Fred Rogers, the creator and host of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood”, was born #OTD in 1928. Rogers realized early on that his greatest potential impact would likely be through television, a new technology at the time. Over the years, Rogers’ show helped provide consistency and guidance for countless children whose parents’ capacity to raise them was increasingly strained by capitalist demands.
Today's art is by Niz: https://prettysweet.com/mr-rogers-mural-austin-texas/
#OtD 20 Mar 1975, Operation Red Snake of the Paraná began in Argentina, The Peronist government sent hundreds of police and troops to break the organisation of militant industrial workers. They arrested 307 workers sparking months of resistance
#BOTD #OTD
Henrik Ibsen
His 200 years aniversary is coming up - on this day – in 2028.
A lot is going on to bring his childhood home at Venstøp in shape for the event.
https://frierbyen.no/historisk/ibsens-venstop-will-never.html
Detail from painting by Edvard Munch – the elderly Ibsen on his daily visit to Grand Cafe.´More in Alt. text.
Lightroom enhanced photo (Sony A 6000) of Edvard Munch painting – Public domain since 2015.
#Ibsen #HenrikIbsen #Much #EdvardMunch #Art #Literature #Playwright
#OTD Mar, 20 2018
We lost an amazing singer and performer; Kak Channthy.
She was a popular Cambodian singer of the band “Cambodian Space Project”, a band inspired by Cambodian singers of the 1960s and early 1970s.
The band led an arts and cultural revival in Cambodia, and released 6 albums between 2011 and 2017. Lots of albums and video footage to explore if this sounds interesting.
Check out this absolute banger, “Dance Twist”, from their 2014 album “Whiskey Cambodia” 👇
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - "I love rock 'n roll"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMsazR6Tnf8
Le 20 mars 1982, cette reprise du groupe britannique The Arrows devient N°1 du Billboard Hot 100 aux USA, elle y restera 7 semaines. La chanson, relativement passée inaperçue dans sa version originale de 1975, sera N°4 au Royaume-Uni. L'un des tubes les plus connus du rock, le titre a fait de Joan Jett une icône, à même de définir le look des années '80.
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#OnThisDay in #history - in 1469, Cecily of York was born. Cecily was a daughter of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV, and her childhood was a time of instability, war, and personal tragedy. After 1485, her fortunes took a dramatic upturn as her sister, Elizabeth of York, was made queen upon her marriage to Henry VII. Cecily married John Welles, and they had a happy union until his death. She then married Thomas Kyme. She died in 1507, at the age of 38.
Remembering #WilliamHurt (1950-2022), the versatile Oscar / BAFTA-winning American film, stage and television actor, born in Washington D.C. #OnThisDay. His film debut was as the latter-day mad scientist in Ken Russell's #AlteredStates (1980) and he excelled as, among others, the not-so-smart lawyer in #BodyHeat (1981), the mob boss in Cronenberg's #AHistoryOfViolence (2005) and the terrorised hit man in Stephen King adaptation 'Battleground' from #NightmaresAndDreamscapes (2006).
#OtD 20 Mar 1954, Indian anarchist MPT Acharya died. A lifelong fighter against British colonialism, he moved from nationalism to Bolshevism and finally to anarchism. This is our short biography of him:https://libcom.org/history/acharya-mpt-1887-1951
#OTD Mar, 20 1981
Tenpole Tudor’s new single is “Swords of A Thousand Men”.
It’s a 7” 45rpm from their upcoming album “Eddie, Old Bob, Dick and Gary”. Great video for this song, and the “hoo-rah-ay” chorus is a real earworm. 🎶
Probably my favorite song of theirs, but the album has two other great tunes: “Wünderbar” and “3 Bells in a Row”.
20 March 1943 | The first transport of Jews deported from ghetto in Thessaloniki arrived at Auschwitz with 2,800 men, woman and children.
During the selection SS doctors chose 417 men & 192 women who were registered. The remaining 2,191 people were murdered in gas chambers.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Thessaloniki #Greece
20 March 1943 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Bernhard Sanders, was born in Schalkwijk.
He arrived at Auschwitz on 27 January 1944 in a transport of 948 Jews deported from Westerbork with his mother Johanna and father Willem. All three were probably murdered in a gas chamber.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Netherlands #family #children
The T-34 was built at every factory that could handle it even to the detriment of other tanks. #OTD in 1944 production of the T-34 at ChKZ ended and the factory was allowed to focus on the IS-2 tank and ISU SPGs. #tanks #history #WW2
https://www.tankarchives.ca/2019/03/struggle-for-assembly-line.html
#OtD 20 Mar 1960, 20 March 1960, Cuban anarchist-syndicalist workers' papers were forced to cease publishing by the new state communist authorities. More on the anarchist workers' movement in Cuba before, during and after the revolution: https://libcom.org/library/cuba-anarchism-history-of-movement-fernandez
20 March is World Sparrow Day.
This music imitates the song of the sparrow, and comes from the Bird Fancyer's Delight, John Walsh, 1715.
#worldsparrowday
#sparrow
#otd
#onthisday
#baroquemusic
#earlymusic
#recordermusic
#sopranino
#18thcentury
#birdsong
#sheetmusic
#histodon
#histodons
#sparrows
#OtD 20 Mar 1927, 2500 Dalits (sometimes called "untouchables") marched in Mahad, India, to claim their right to use public water tanks. The protesters drank from the tank and left. In response to this peaceful protest, a mob of caste Hindus attacked them
March 20th, 226 BCE—#OTD #OnThisDay the charioteer Kephalon acknowledges receipt of goods to supply various horses and their drivers, including wine and oil for the care of a disabled horse
#OTD in 1912: The legend of the East #Harlem #MurderStable is launched with the shooting death of Mrs. Pasquarella Spinelli. Underworld figure Aniello "Zoppo" Prisco is suspected of the killing but never arrested for it. #NYC #Murder #MafiaHistory #Histodons
Read more here:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/03/owners-killing-is-start-of-murder.html
#OTD in 1815, Napoléon is acclaimed back in Paris. He enters the city unopposed and goes to the Tuileries palace to establish his new government. Louis XVIII had fled during the night. The “vol de l’aigle” was over. War would soon ensue though… #history #Napoleon #histodons
Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (Duncan Ban MacIntyre, 1724–1812), one of the greatest #Gaelic poets of the #18thCentury, was born #OTD, 20 March. In this article, Prof Alan Riach discusses Donnchadh Bàn’s “Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain” (“Praise of Ben Dorain”)
#Scottish #literature #poetry
https://www.thenational.scot/news/14861208.not-burns-duncan-ban-macintyre-and-his-gaelic-manifesto-for-land-reform/
#OtD 20 Mar 1916, Private Abraham Beverstein was shot by firing squad for desertion. Due to disapproval of Jewish enlistment, Beverstein enlisted under the false name of Harris. More about British soldiers' resistance to WWI: https://libcom.org/history/why-blackadder-goes-forth%E2%80%99-could-have-been-lot-funnier
On this day in 1917, Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American inventor, received a patent for a “Separable fastener”.
Although Gideon Sundback was not the first to patent a zipper-like device, he is widely credited with inventing the first zipper.
#OnThisDay #OTD #Patent #Invention #Zipper #Zip
#OtD 20 Mar 1856 Frederick Taylor was born. He founded Taylorism, a management technique for increasing workers' output and breaking up solidarity. It was adopted widely across the West and by the Soviet Union. Here's how workers resisted: https://libcom.org/history/stopwatch-wooden-shoe-scientific-management-industrial-workers-world
#OtD 20 Mar 1974, during mass protests in Bihar, India, authorities called a curfew on 11 towns. Ordering them to shoot on sight, police killed 22 people and arrested hundreds. Students called for a general strike. More on the wave of struggles at the time https://libcom.org/history/cycle-struggle-1973-1979-india
#OtD 20 Mar 1911, women at the Singer factory went on strike after popularizing the @iww@twitter.com slogan "an injury to one is an injury to all" in a non-union factory. They triggered a decade of class struggle that became known as "Red Clydeside"
#OtD 20 Mar 1946 10 homeless people, some of them WWII veterans, squatted the 20-room Maramanah mansion in King's Cross, Sydney, Australia, which was due for demolition. More joined them until the council agreed to keep the building open for housing https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9295/maramanah-mansion-squatted
Elżbieta Zawacka code name Agent Zo #Polish #WWII #SOE agent freedom fighter, university professor, scouting instructor. Graduated in maths @ Poznan Uni 1930s. 2nd & last woman in history of Polish Army to hold rank of Brigadier General b. #OTD 19 Mar 1909 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%C5%BCbieta_Zawacka
#WomenInEngineering #INWED #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #STEM #engineering #WomenEngineers #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #STEAM #HistSTM #WikiWomenInRed #Wikipedia #WomenInHistoryShouldntBeAMystery
#OtD 19 Mar 1969 the UK Labour govt sent troops to invade Anguilla after locals rebelled against being put under the authority of the St Kitts govt - which hated them. The invaders, expecting to fight mafiosi and Black power activists, found only goats
#OTD Mar, 19 1979
English synth-pop group M release their second single, “Pop Muzik”.
It’s available on a uniquely formatted 12” disc that weaves “Pop Muzik” together with “M-Factor”.
The two tracks run in parallel grooves on the same side of the record, making it a 50-50 chance which song will play when the needle is dropped. This pressing is limited to 10,000 copies.
#OtD 19 Mar 1933 anti-fascist photographer, Gerda Taro, was arrested in Germany as part of a supposed communist plot to overthrow Hitler. Released after two weeks, she was able to escape the country. We've made available one of her iconic photos: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/gerda-taro
March 19th, 334 CE—#OnThisDay #OTD the priest Pageus deputizes his brother Gerontius to take over his duties at the monastery of Hathor while Pageus is away at the Synod of Caesarea, which was originally summoned to charge Athanasius with persecuting Meletians
#OtD 19 Mar 1968, more than 1,000 students at the historically black Howard University began a 4-day occupation of the administration building. The protesters won several concessions, including a more developed African-American studies curriculum.
He later presented the Hammer Films produced #JourneyIntoDarkness (1968–69). McGoohan received two Emmy Awards for his work on #Columbo with long time friend, Peter Falk, which he was involved in various capacities between 1974-2000.
Best remembered by horror fans as Dr. Paul Ruth in Cronenberg's #Scanners (1981). Later appearances included Braveheart (1995), A Time To Kill and #ThePhantom (both 1996).
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#BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #PatrickMcGoohan #SciFi #CultTV #BritishTelevision #1960sTV
#OtD 19 Mar 2019 up to 1.4 million young people in 128 countries took part in school strikes demanding government action to halt climate change, after being inspired by the solo protest @GretaThunberg@twitter.com who went on strike herself the previous August
#OtD 19 Mar 1935 the Harlem Uprising of 1935 took place in NYC when Black people rebelled against police after rumours of brutality. Police banned a demonstration, and protests escalated, causing $200 million in damages, while 3 Black people were killed.
#OtD 18 Mar 1970, a nationwide illegal wildcat strike by federal government workers, the first major strike by government workers, later involving over 200,000 people began in New York. More info in our podcast episode: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/22/e8-the-vietnam-war-strike-wave/
🖤 Remembering Terence Edward Hall, English musician and lead singer of The Specials, born on this day in 1959, Coventry, England. 🖤 #RIPTerryHall
Photo by David Corio
#punkrock #ska #skalegend #thespecials #2tone #terryhall #history #skahistory #otd
Long live the spirit of the commune!
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#OtD 18 Mar 1871, the Paris Commune, one of the most influential working class uprisings to build socialism, organised by workers councils, was established. When the army eventually retook Paris in May they killed up to 30,000 workers in revenge. More: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/voices-of-the-paris-commune
https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory/status/1636970766817173504
#OTD Mar, 18 1982
The UK punk compilation “Punk and Disorderly” is released on or around this date. Or in 1981 🤷♂️
But it’s a classic punk compilation. A definitive retrospective on the early '80s punk scene.
I got this in ‘84 and it was my introduction to most of the bands. The sound quality is typically mediocre for the times.
Here’s my favorite track. It’s pretty muddy and flat, but it’s a true punk rocker. 👇
#OtD 18 Mar 1938 the German Nazi party introduced new gun laws. Contrary to the claims of right-wing US gun advocates, they actually relaxed previous stricter rules. Later guns were confiscated from Jews, but gun ownership for everyone else was liberalised
#OTD Mar, 18 1977
The Clash release their debut 7” single, “White Riot”
The song is a call to action to white youth, urging them to organize and fight back in the same way that inner-city black youth were fighting back against poverty and heavy-handed policing (as depicted in the cover art, the band being stopped and searched).
I played this on-air and with extreme irony during the “Brooks Brother’s riot” of 2000.
Total classic.
#OtD 18 Mar 1970, feminist groups staged a sit-in at the Ladies Home Journal headquarters in NYC over the journal's lack of female representation in the company and the depiction of women in its advertisements and columns https://libcom.org/history/1970-feminist-sit-ladies-home-journal
#OtD 18 Mar 1915 Mexican revolutionary Wenceslao Moguel was shot 9 times by a firing squad in Halacho, Yucatan, but miraculously survived. He had fought with the army of Pancho Villa. Despite suffering permanent injury, he lived until the age of 75.
#OtD 18 Mar 2019 Bribrí Indigenous leader, Sergio Rojas, was assassinated in Costa Rica. Rojas had been fighting for the return of Indigenous land, which settlers had illegally occupied. Attacks on Indigenous people in the area are common
March 18th, 246 CE—Calpurnia Heraclia aka Eudamia registers that she has 5,045 artabai of corn across five villages #OnThisDay #OTD, in response to a proclamation the previous day that all corn must be registered within 24 hours or it will be seized.
#OtD 18 Mar 1911, the 40th anniversary of the Paris commune, the first International Women's Day was held in Europe for women's rights and suffrage. The date was later moved to 8 March. For more on the History of the origins of International Women's Day: https://libcom.org/history/temma-kaplan-socialist-origins-international-womens-day
#OTD in Weather History: March 18. 1936: Start of the "Great New England Flood" of 1936. 1956: The biggest of 3 snowstorms in a 10-day period.
#AnDiesemTag, am 18.03.1848, also #heutevor 175 Jahren, fand die "#Märzrevolution" statt.
Dieser Tag markierte einen Höhepunkt der demokratischen Revolution und ebnete den Weg zur ersten geschriebenen Verfassung Preußens.
👉🏽https://www.dhm.de/lemo/rueckblick/maerz-1848-revolution-in-berlin.html
📷 Am Nachmittag versammelte sich eine große Menschenmenge auf dem Berliner Schlossplatz, um auf Antwort des Königs auf ihre "Märzforderungen" zu warten.
Gegen 14:30 Uhr fielen zwei Schüsse. Sie lösten einen Barrikadenkampf aus:
#OtD 18 Mar 1978 2 18-year-old left activists, Fausto Tinelli & Lorenzo "Iaio" Iannucci, were shot dead by fascists in Milan. They had been investigating the local heroin trade run by organised crime & the far-right. Nobody was convicted for the murders
#OTD „Am 18. März 1871 schickt die Versailler Regierung 6.000 Soldaten auf den Montmartre. Die Frauen, die in jener Nacht Posten stehen, schlagen Alarm und treten den Regierungssoldaten entgegen.“ Vorne dabei: #LouiseMichel, Aktivistin der Pariser Commune. Sie prägt maßgeblich /1
![Poträt von Louis Michel mit Zitat: "Bei dem, was wir in Angriff nehmen, geht es […] im die Zukunft der Menschheit."](https://cdn.masto.host/frontendsocial/cache/media_attachments/files/110/044/313/950/844/587/small/e322dbe031cd40c5.jpeg)
#OtD 18 Mar 1974, students in Bihar, India, seek to prevent a meeting of the state parliament. The police attacked and killed five protesters, who then responded by rioting. Government and press buildings were set on fire and looted. More on the struggle: https://libcom.org/history/cycle-struggle-1973-1979-india
#OtD 18 Mar 1834, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, members of Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers (which was like a union) in Britain, were convicted and sentenced to 7 years penal labour in Australia for their involvement in that organisation https://libcom.org/history/tolpuddle-martyrs-1834
#OtD 18 Mar 1903, Italian anarchist tailor and anti-fascist militant, Ernesto Bonomini, was born. At 21, he killed a fascist leader in Paris. After serving time in prison, he fought in the Spanish Revolution before fleeing to the US as Franco took power.http://libcom.org/history/bonomini-ernesto-1903-1986
#OtD 18 Mar 1871, the Paris Commune, one of the most influential working class uprisings to build socialism, organised by workers councils, was established. When the army eventually retook Paris in May they killed up to 30,000 workers in revenge. More: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/voices-of-the-paris-commune
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RIP Gerard 🕯⚘️
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We should #neverforget and definitely #neverforgive
#facts #otd #memory #remember #Memorial #WW2 #neverforget #germany #nazis #histodons #history #Jews #shoah #holocaust #Birkenau #auschwitz
#OtD 17 Mar 1972 the Sexton & Everard shoe factory in Fakenham, Norfolk, England, was taken over by its women workers in protest at their dismissal. They began a work-in, making and selling accessories, and later started a cooperative that lasted 5 years.
#OTD Mar, 17 1978
Elvis Costello – “This Year’s Model” LP
It’s his second album, and the first with backing band The Attractions, who replace the previous backing band, San Francisco’s own Clover (featuring Huey Louis).
It’s got a few more upbeat rockers than his first album, like “Pump It Up” and “Lipstick Vogue”.
"Radio Radio" was included in the US LP, and as a standalone single in the United Kingdom in October 1978.
17 March 1939 | A French Jewish boy, Gerard Levy, was born in Paris.
In December 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts
#OtD 17 Mar 1942 communist and member of the Yugoslav resistance in Croatia, Nada Dimić, was executed in the Stara Gradiska concentration camp for helping people escape fascists into partisan areas and shooting a Ustasha agent
#OtD 17 Mar 1768 enslaved people in Montserrat, a British colony in the Caribbean, planned an uprising on St Patrick's Day. However, a white domestic servant overheard the plot, and reported it. Nine enslaved people were executed and 30 jailed. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7793/montserrat-enslaved-uprising
#Otd 17 Mar 1938 the most fatal bombing of Barcelona during the Civil War occurred. Italian fascists bombed Gran Via, which was full of pedestrians and traffic. A lorry with 4 tonnes of explosives was hit. The resulting explosion killed 500 & injured 1,000 https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/
#OtD 17 Mar 1916 half of the 12,000 women working at the Armstrong-Whitworth Elswick munitions factory in Newcastle went on strike for better pay. They won on 24 March, and went out again in 1917 winning more improvements, including tea breaks https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collections/all/tea
