#AnitaHill delivered her testimony in the #Senate confirmation hearing for #ClarenceThomas on #ThisDayInHistory in 1991. She described his #SexualHarassment in great detail and passed a #polygraph test. #JoeBiden made a crooked deal and blocked four other women from testifying.

Following a successful siege, the #SackOfWexford commenced on #ThisDayInHistory in 1649, with the #NewModelArmy of #OliverCromwell again showing its brutality in #Ireland, with thousands massacred, priests included. Cromwell's only regret was that the troops also looted the city.

The #SecondVaticanCouncil, the #CatholicChurch's 21st ecumenical council, opened on #ThisDayInHistory in 1962. Spanning the papacies of #JohnXXIII and #PaulVI, it finally removed the dogma of collective Jewish guilt for deicide, and shifted the #RomanRite to vernacular languages.

The #DukeOfWindsor, the abdicated #EdwardVIII, began #ThisDayInHistory in 1937 a 12-day tour of #NaziGermany. He made his sympathy for #Nazism and #AdolfHitler plain, and had a long private meeting with the Führer. The #MarburgFiles later revealed active collusion with the Nazis.

Pres. #DwightDEisenhower apologized to Finance Minister #KomlaAgbeliGbedemah of #Ghana on #ThisDayInHistory in 1957, since the latter had been refused service in a #HowardJohnson's restaurant in #Dover, #Delaware, due to the USA's reprehensible & widespread #JimCrow #segregation.

The longest-lived #MatsonLines #OceanLiner, #SSMonterey was launched on #ThisDayInHistory in 1931. Built for runs to #Hawaii & #Australia etc., she was renamed #Matsonia in 1956 and #Lurline in 1963. #Matson sold her to #ChandrisLine and she sailed as #Britanis from 1970 to 1995.

Likely the largest loss of life on the #IrishSea came on #ThisDayInHistory in 1918 with the sinking of City of Dublin Steam Packet Company vessel #RMSLeinster. The German submarine #UB123 torpedoed the crowded ship, which sank in less than 15 minutes, killing at least 564 people.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1937, #OswaldMosley held a #fascist rally in #Liverpool. Upon snapping a #NaziSalute, he was struck in the head by thrown stones and spent a week in hospital to recover. #Antifascist resistance to #ReformUK etc. (and to #MAGA) has a long and proud history.

The British Army sacked #Kabul on #ThisDayInHistory in 1842, using fire and explosives on historic structures like the 17th century #CharChattaBazaar as well as mosques & houses, killing many thousands of civilians, such that even some of the jingoistic English press lamented it.

The #BravoCompanyMutiny spread #ThisDayInHistory in 1971 as the #USArmy unit declared an unofficial #ceasefire with the #Vietnamese. The army dropped its #CourtMartial due to the number of men involved and rotated them out. #DeltaCompany then repeated the move, forcing a retreat.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1911, the #WuchangUprising began in #Hubei, #China. The armed revolt against the #Qing state came as a surprise, but its success led #SunYatSen et al. to call on other provinces to secede and form the #RepublicOfChina in what became the #XinhaiRevolution.

#Marxist icon #CheGuevara was summarily executed by #CIA-trained #Bolivian troops on the orders of Pres. #RenéBarrientos, and possibly against US wishes, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1967. They shot him in the torso and avoided the head in order to lie and say he died in a firefight.

#HurricaneMilton made landfall in #SiestaKey, #Florida, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2024. Tied with 2005's #HurricaneRita as the most intense #TropicalCyclone in the recorded in the #GulfOfMexico, it killed 45 people, and came just two weeks after the even-deadlier #HurricaneHelene.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1796, the bodies of about sixty drowned #African captives, still bound in chains, were found in #RappareeCove in North #Devon, #England. They were likely bound for the slave market in #Bristol when the ship wrecked. Locals dumped them into a mass grave.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1940, #JohnLennon was born in #Liverpool. A deeply problematic person, with abusive and misogynistic tendencies, and serious substance issues, he is better known as a songwriter (both solo and with the #Beatles) and as a voice for peace and against racism.

Sometimes #DirectAction is the only way to get a state to take you seriously. The #NottinghamReformRiots began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1831 when the #HouseOfLords shot down a bill to raise #WorkingClass representation in #parliament. They subsequently passed such a bill in 1832.

#MalalaYousafzai, an advocate of education for girls and women, was brutally attacked by the #Pakistani #Taliban on #ThisDayInHistory in 2012. As the 15 year old rode the bus home following an exam., a gunman shot her and two other girls. Amazingly, she survived and persisted.

#Dutch soldiers for the #DutchEastIndiaCompany (#VOC) committed the #BataviaMassacre on the site of what eventually became #Jakarta on #ThisDayInHistory in 1740. They killed at least 10,000 ethnic #Chinese residents between this date and the 22nd, with just over 600 surviving it.

The first rally of the #DaysOfRage events in #Chicago, IL, was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1969. Organized by the #WeatherUnderground faction of #SDS, about 350 unarmed #antiwar protesters charged 1000 #police, while cops shot six of them and ran squad cars full-speed into the crowd.

Having gone to fight in the #BolivianInsurgency in 1966, #CheGuevara was captured on #ThisDayInHistory in 1967. Already wounded, he surrendered and gambled on being valuable as a hostage. He was instead beaten for his defiance, and was summarily executed by Bolivia the next day.

Any so-called #socialist state banning worker organization is not socialist. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1982 #Poland banned #Solidarity and all other #unions. #MartialLaw had been declared there in December 1981, making Poland into an explicitly anti-socialist #MilitaryDictatorship.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1973, an Israeli counterattack during the #YomKippurWar was repulsed by #Egyptian troops at their #Sinai bridgeheads. The #SAM batteries downed numerous #IDF jets and a series of battles cost Israel more than 150 #tanks, with dozens destroyed in minutes.

From the start of its response to the #October7 attacks Israel has promised #genocide for the #Palestinian people. US media refused to report on statements like that of #Netanyahu from #ThisDayInHistory in 2023 (see image below). Note the #GazaStrip is a sealed-off prison colony.

State violence in the #FirstIntifada was severe, even against #nonviolent activists. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1990, in the #TempleMountKillings, Israeli #police killed 17 #Palestinians and wounded over 100 near the #DomeOfTheRock in #Jerusalem, inspiring more retaliatory violence.

Shortly after the start of the 2001 #AfghanWar, the British War Cabinet on #ThisDayInHistory considered targeting television stations in #Afghanistan and killing #journalists. Despite being informed that this was a literal #WarCrime, the cabinet debated the proposal seriously.

#MatthewShepard, a gay student at the #UniversityOfWyoming, was savagely beaten and left tied to a wooden fence post on #ThisDayInHistory in 1998. He died five days later. His death brought renewed attention to the perennial violence used against the #LGBTQIA community in the US.

In celebration of human difference & #neurodivergence, I'll note that on #ThisDayInHistory the United States lost one of the best poets it had yet produced when #EdgarAllanPoe died in #Baltimore at the age of 40. His work remains powerfully appealing for many inclined to #poetry.

The #ProclamationLine was set in a royal edict on #ThisDayInHistory in 1763 by #KingGeorgeIII. This set aside all lands in the future USA acquired from France in the #SevenYearsWar for the #Indigenous people, angering rich land speculators in the British North American colonies.

#JoeHill was born #JoelEmmanuelHägglund in Gävle, #Sweden, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1879. On migrating to the US in 1902 he became a songwriter for the #IndustrialWorkersOfTheWorld, penning many of the #IWW's most famous revolutionary #union songs. He was martyred by Utah in 1915.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1944, #Sonderkommando (Jewish slaves working #GasChambers and crematoria) at #AuschwitzBirkenau, revolted. They destroyed the No.4 crematorium, and almost 500 were killed fighting the #Nazi SS. Women from the attached camp who supplied gunpowder were shot.