- Oktober 1936, London
"They shall not pass."
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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 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10348/elaine-massacre
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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 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10350/caravan-of-death
#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 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10146/wildcat-strike-in-ghazl-el-mahalla
#OtD 29 Sep 1944 communist nurse and partisan Virginia Tonelli was burned alive in the San Sabba concentration camp in Italy. The fascists had tortured her for days, but were unable to get her to speak. Exasperated, her torturers then burned her alive https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/
47 years ago today
The Crack is The Ruts debut album, released on this day in 1979 featuring the singles: "Babylon's Burning" and "Something That I Said".
#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #theruts #thecrack #history #punkrockhistory #otd
#OtD 28 Sep 1997 dockworkers in Oakland, CA, picketed the Neptune Jade ship in solidarity with Liverpool dockers in the UK. The ship had been loaded by scab labour, attempting to run a global blockade. Despite court action, the ship didn't unload https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12602/neptune-jade-picket
#OTD Sept 28 1813, the "Burlington Races", in which a 10-ship American fleet engaged the 6-ship British squadron at York (Toronto)... they hammered each other with cannon all day in Lake Ontario, as they raced towards Burlington Bay...
#WarOf1812
https://www.malcolmarmstrong.ca/image/slideshowlist/the_burlington_races
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#OtD 28 Sep 1846 British troops opened fire on starving food rioters in Dungarvan, Ireland, killing one. The Great Famine lasted until the 1850s, killing around a million people and forced even more to emigrate, while food was exported for profit https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10057/food-riots-in-dungarvan,-ireland
#OTD (Sep 28) in 1920, a Cook County IL grand jury indicts eight #Chicago #WhiteSox players for conspiring with gangsters to throw the 1919 #WorldSeries.
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2017/09/white-sox-players-indicted-for-throwing.html
#BlackSox #MLB #CrimeHistory #History #Histodons
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#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965/battle-of-holbeck-moor
41 years ago tonight, September 26, 1985, Woody Harrelson introduced the world to Woody Boyd on the fourth season premiere of NBC’s sitcom “Cheers”.
“Excuse me…My name is Woody Boyd…howdy, I’m a friend of Coach’s. Is he around?” #OTD #80sHistory
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"First, it was just one missile, but then another, and another, until the system reported that a total of five Minuteman ICBMs had been launched."
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day, fediverse!
(From 2018) https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905796/nuclear-war-1983-stanislav-petrov-soviet-union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
#OnThisDay #otd #history #StanislavPetrov #ColdWar
On this day in 1983 Stanislav Petrov saved the world by refusing to start a nuclear war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
#OTD #OnThisDay
#OtD 25 Sep 1912 sheriff's deputies in Louisiana caught up with Charles "Leather Britches" Smith, a former logger who was wanted for firing at a sawmill during the Grabow timber strike. He died after refusing to surrender https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9786/charles-smith-killed-by-police
#OtD 25 Sep 1952 influential Black author, activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She wrote over 30 books during her life, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12599/bell-hooks-born
44 years ago today
Joe Strummer at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. September 25, 1982
What did Joe think at that moment? 🫣
Photo by Ebet Roberts
#punk #punks #punkrock #joestrummer #theclash #history #punkrockhistory #otd
#OtD 24 Sep 2003 27 pilots in the Israeli air force wrote to their commander refusing to participate in assassination missions in the West Bank and Gaza. They stated the attacks were "illegal and immoral" and harmed "innocent civilians" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9703/israeli-air-force-pilots-refusal-to-partake-in-assassination-missions
Born #OTD 100 years ago. #Coltrane100 #JohnColtrane #Music #Jazz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkCOtovuqy4
Jazz Casual - John Coltrane Quartet - 1963
48 years ago today
Parallel Lines is the third studio album by the pop punk / newwave band Blondie, released on this day in 1978, featuring the singles "Hanging on the Telephone", "Heart of Glass", "Sunday Girl" and "One Way or Another"
#punk #newwave #blondie #debbieharry #parallellines #punkrockhistory #otd