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#OnThisDay, 12 Nov 1951, Celia Franca's National Ballet of Canada holds its first performance. Franca had gathered the company from across Canada in just 10 months. She goes on to co-found the National Ballet School.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #BalletHistory
Black and white studio photo of Celia Franca in the 1950s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
#history #canadianhistory #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #ballethistory

#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.

A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in a dress in around 1863, wearing the medal. She is a white woman with dark hair tied back.
Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is a white woman with white hair wearing trousers, a frock coat and a topper. She still has the medal on the breast of her coat.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory

#OtD 31 Oct 1978 30k oil workers went on strike in Iran marking one of the early actions of the revolution. The workers' and women's movements would play a major role in the revolution until they were crushed by religious fundamentalists https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10395/iranian-oil-workers-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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James Boswell (1740–1795) – a man for whom the word “scapegrace” might have been invented – was born #OTD, 29 Oct.

A Happy Bozzy Birthday thread

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/james-boswells-scotland-106667503/

#Scottish #literature #biography #JamesBoswell #18thcentury #SamuelJohnson
Early on, James had served notice that he was not cut out to follow in his father’s strait-laced footsteps. Scots are well known for being torn between dour conformity and impetuous rebelliousness, a contradiction emphatically personified by Boswell father and son. When James was 18, he developed a passion for the theater and fell for an actress a good ten years older. After Lord Auchinleck banished him to the University of Glasgow, Boswell, still under the spell of his Catholic mistress, decided to convert—tantamount to career suicide in Presbyterian Scotland—and ran away to London. There he lost interest in Catholicism, caught a venereal disease and decided he wanted to be a soldier.

James Boswell's Scotland

The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth
Smithsonian Magazine
#literature #biography #OTD #scottish #18thcentury #SamuelJohnson #jamesboswell

#OtD 22 Oct 1921 workers at the Castleconnell fisheries in Ireland went on strike, then occupied their workplace and formed a soviet (workers council). Police and vigilantes tried to evict the strikers, but the workers held out until Dec when they won https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12632/castleconnell-fisheries-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 15 Oct 1920 Italian anarchist militant and writer Errico Malatesta, along with others such as Armando Borghi, was arrested in connection with August-September workers' factory occupations in Milan

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#OtD 4 Oct 1884 anarchist poet, essayist, playwright, musician, actor, translator and Dadaist Jun Tsuji was born in Tokyo. Among the works he translated into Japanese is individualist anarchist Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10470/tsuji-jun-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 2 Oct 2019 workers at the Bootle and Seaforth Royal Mail depot walked out on wildcat strike in solidarity with a Muslim colleague after a manager made Islamophobic comments to them https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9230/bootle-post-office-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 21 Sep 1908 William White, a Black man, was hospitalised and maybe killed by white patrons in Hanover, PA, as part of a carnival game called "hit the c**n". Instead of the light balls the patrons used their own heavy ones to repeatedly strike White https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9437/william-white-possibly-killed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 19 Sep 1892 after attempting to assassinate the notoriously anti-union manager Henry Clay Frick, Jewish Russian anarchist Alexender Berkman was sentenced to a total of 21 years in prison and one year in the workhouse https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12596/berkman-charged-for-assassination-attempt?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 16 Sep 1917 Eva Lynch, a member of the @iww union in Australia was arrested while addressing a meeting in Sydney where she was training women public speakers to try to keep the union alive while so many of the men were in prison. Learn more: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/01/28/e19-the-iww-in-australia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

E19: The IWW in Australia

Episode on the early history of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union in Australia, in conversation with Paula DeAngelis. Paula is a historian and contributed to Wobblies of the W…
Working Class History
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#OtD 15 Sep 1988 Celso Persici, Italian anarchist bricklayer, died in Nice, France. He was active in the USI (Italian Syndicalist Union) and fought with FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation) during the Spanish Civil War

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#OtD 14 Sep 2011 Sue Richardson, Irish feminist, prison activist and anarchist died aged 70. She was jailed for refusing to snitch, organised for prisoner rights, and later against heroin dealers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8632/sue-richardson-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 6 Sep 1925 Dutch resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen was born in Schoten, Netherlands. During WWII she and her sister Truus joined the resistance, distributing anti-fascist papers, helping refugees, and later sabotaging and killing fascists https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12476/freddie-oversteegen-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 24 Aug 1979 13,000 workers at the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands walked out on strike without the involvement of the trade unions. The workers established a joint strike committee and held mass outdoor meetings to coordinate the wildcat strike. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9634/port-of-rotterdam-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 15 Aug 1913 William Murphy, Ireland's most prominent capitalist, sacked 40 workers for union membership, and later another 300. It led to one of the biggest industrial disputes in Irish history involving 20,000 workers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8646/william-martin-murphy-sacks-workers?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 13 Aug 1917 Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo, anarchist, anti-militarist writer, editor and father of filmmaker Jean Vigo was murdered in his prison cell, strangled by a shoelace https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8452/eugene-bonaventure-de-vigo-murdered?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 6 Aug 1988 violence broke out when police tried to evict homeless residents of Tompkins Square Park in New York. Video footage exposed widespread brutality by the police force https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10595/violence-in-tompkins-square?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 1 Aug 1834 slavery in the British Caribbean officially ended, and the 800,000 enslaved were "freed". Govt compensated former owners, at taxpayers' expense, paying them £20 million, and the enslaved were forced to work for free for four more years https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8043/british-caribbean-slavery-abolished?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 29 Jul 1911 Bolivian anarchist union organiser Petronila Infantes, known as Doña Peta, was born in La Paz, Bolivia. Becoming a cook at a young age, at 24 she helped found the Culinary Union, which was part of the anarchist Women Workers’ Federation

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#OtD 8 Jun 1926 Emily Hobhouse died in the UK. She had been a prominent opponent of World War I, and also campaigned against British concentration camps during the Boer War: one of the first historical uses of such camps https://t.co/mdktSVAbPY https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10818/emily-hobhouse-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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Czech writer Franz Kafka died #OTD in 1924.

Kafka's works were not widely known during his lifetime, and he published only a few of his stories. Most of his major works were published posthumously by his friend and literary executor, Max Brod, despite Kafka's instructions to destroy his manuscripts.

Books by Franz Kafka at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735

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Last known photograph of Franz Kafka. Most likely taken in 1923. A monochrome image of a well-dressed gentleman wearing a suit, exuding elegance and sophistication.
„Jemand musste Josef K. verleumdet haben…“ – Anfang des Manuskripts zu Der Process, 1914/15 "Someone must have slandered Josef K...." - Beginning of the manuscript for The Trial, 1914/15. "The Trial" follows the story of Josef K., a chief clerk at a large bank, who is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents one morning. The nature of his crime is never revealed to him, and the entire legal process he faces is shrouded in ambiguity and absurdity. Despite being allowed to go about his daily life, Josef K. is continually drawn into a bewildering and nightmarish legal system. "The Trial" has had a profound impact on literature and philosophy. Its themes of alienation, existential dread, and the absurdity of modern life resonate with existentialist thinkers and writers. The novel has been interpreted in various ways, including as a critique of totalitarian regimes, a reflection on the nature of guilt and innocence, and a commentary on the complexities of the human condition.

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#OtD 2 Jun 1975 100 sex workers occupied the church of Saint Nizier, Lyon, refusing to leave unless their convictions for soliciting were rescinded https://t.co/1NpkgS1nyP https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9204/St-Nizier-sex-worker-occupation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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#OtD 28 May 2013 during Turkish Occupy Gezi park protests, the "woman in red" was pepper sprayed. The photo became one of the iconic images of the movement and police violence in response to it https://t.co/EpOv5XnhGu https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10042/%22woman-in-red%22-pepper-sprayed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OtD 10 May 2000 gay rights activists in Glasgow climbed on top of a Stagecoach bus, owned by homophobe Brian Souter, and covered it with pink paint. They were protesting Souter's £1m support of a campaign for keeping the homophobic section 28 law https://t.co/rradgmLq42 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8229/stagecoach-vandalism?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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#OTD in 1940.

John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

The book was first published in April 14, 1939. The book won the National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize for fiction, & it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. When preparing to write the novel, Steinbeck wrote: "I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great Depression and its effects]."

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Cover of "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, depicting a man standing and facing a rural landscape with mountains, beside him a seated woman and two children, all next to an old car.
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44 years ago today
Joy Division filmed "Love Will Tear Us Apart" music video in Manchester, England on this day in 1980.

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd
#history #punk #OTD #PunkRock #postpunk #joydivision #postpunkhistory

An #OTD thread from last year, about the scientific contributions of Julius Oppenheimer.

A lot of "common knowledge" about black holes – infinite redshift, the slow progress of an infalling observer from the point of view of a distant spectator – can be traced back to an influential paper Oppenheimer wrote in 1939.
https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/110245056828062741

Robert McNees (@mcnees@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born #OTD in 1904. He is best known for directing scientific work at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, but also made important contributions to quantum mechanics, astrophysics, and r…
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#OtD 31 Mar 1990, the poll tax riots broke out in Trafalgar Square, after police attacked a group of 200,000 demonstrators. The riots increased opposition to the tax, which was eventually defeated by mass non-payment https://t.co/heVTLpvjuY https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10382/poll-tax-riots-in-trafalgar-square?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA #OTD in 1851.

Melville first proposed the British publication in a June 27, 1850, letter to Richard Bentley, London publisher of his earlier works. On July 3, 1851, Bentley offered Melville £150 and "half profits", that is, half the profits that remained after the expenses of production and advertising. Only on September 12 was the Harper publishing contract signed. via @wikipedia

Moby-Dick @ PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=moby+dick&submit_search=Go%21

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Title page of the first edition of en:Moby-Dick, 1851. Source: Beinecke Library, Yale University

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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale #OTD in 1851.

He first proposed the British publication in a June 27, 1850. At the end of May 1851, he delivered the bulk of his manuscript. In the October 1851 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine The Town Ho's Story was published, with a footnote reading: "From The Whale. The title of a new work by Mr. Melville, in the press of Harper & Brothers, & now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley."

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/15

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Title page of the first edition of en:Moby-Dick, 1851. Source: Beinecke Library.
Illustration from an early edition of Moby-Dick Augustus Burnham Shute - Moby-Dick edition - C. H. Simonds Co

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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“I just always assumed, despite the fact that the US hadn’t sent any women up there, or people of color, that I was going to go.”

Dr. Mae Jemison was born #OTD in 1956. Doctor, peace corps volunteer, first Black woman in space, and first astronaut on Star Trek.
A color photo of Dr. Mae Jemison in her flight suit. The baggy orange suit bears a name tag with a winged insignia, as well as the NASA logo and a flight patch for her mission. She is smiling at the camera. Dr. Jemison is holding the helmet – large and round, with a dark reflective visor – at her side.
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Born #onthisday in 1868, the legendary Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Read about the remarkable photographs of his ill-fated final expedition and how this iconic visual record has helped to keep his legend alive: https://buff.ly/3vVrg6E
#otd #photography
Photograph from inside an ice cave of two men standing in the light of its tear shaped opening, a distant boat in the background.

Remembering Scott

A century on from his dramatic death on the way back from the South Pole, the memory of the explorer Captain Scott and his ill-fated Terra Nova expedition is stronger than ever.
The Public Domain Review
#photography #OTD #onthisday

#Geschichte #Klimawandel #otd

📰 Am 14. August 1912,

also #heutevor genau 111 Jahren, veröffentlichte eine Tageszeitung in Neuseeland diesen kleinen Artikel über die menschengemachte #Klimaerwärmung.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ROTWKG19120814.2.56.5
"Scienes Notes and News Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 14 August 1912 COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE. The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year. When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries."
#OTD #geschichte #klimawandel #Heutevor #klimaerwarmung

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