To-day we have #Etostone of #Greece. youtu.be/SPuJOf3yEco youtu.be/DZMjLzl3OkA youtu.be/oKBlS88duDA youtu.be/EZwUxN2IBLA#Etostone#Greece#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

On #ThisDayInHistory in 2017, one of the largest #wildfires in #California history broke out in #VenturaCounty. The #ThomasFire quickly spread to neighbouring #SantaBarbara and burned for over a month, ultimately torching 440 square miles. #SouthernCaliforniaEdison was to blame.

The #MillionDollarQuartet came together on #ThisDayInHistory in 1956, at the #SunStudio in #Memphis, #Tennessee. Early rock giants #ElvisPresley, #JerryLeeLewis, #JohnnyCash, and #CarlPerkins came together for a #JamSession, The full recording is available on a four-disc set.

On #ThisDayInHistory, the #GreatMartyrdomOfEdo of 1623 occurred in modern #Tokyo, #Japan. The #TokugawaShogunate, fearful of European weapons sales and interference, lashed out at Japanese #Christians. 50 were burnt at the stake, including a #Franciscan and a #Jesuit missionary.

Classic #DeepPurple track #SmokeOnTheWater released in 1972 was inspired by an event from #ThisDayInHistory in 1971. A concertgoer at #MontreuxCasino in #Switzerland, during a show by #FrankZappa & the #MothersOfInvention, fired a flaregun into the ceiling, destroying the venue.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1853, Italian #anarchist #ErricoMalatesta was born. #Malatesta's last ten years were lived under #fascist rule, "understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism".

In 1964, the #UniversityOfCalifornia Regents instituted a #LoyaltyOath for faculty and banned political #protest on UC campuses. Thousands of students at #UCBerkeley responded with a #SitIn. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1964 about 800 students in the #FreeSpeechMovement were arrested.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1935, #WilliamPickford, vp of the English #FootballAssociation, made "a toast to the Führer, Adolf Hitler" in a reception in London. Guests made #Nazi salutes and sang the SA's #HorstWesselSong. He also apologized for the "annoyance" by #antifa protesters.

President #GeorgeHWBush sent 28,000 US troops to #Somalia on #ThisDayInHistory in 1992, intervening in the #SomaliCivilWar. A protracted conflict that broke out around 1988 and continues still, no clear end is in sight for suffering people of the #postcolonial #HornOfAfrica.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1969, an #FBI stooge drugged 21-year-old #BlackPantherParty organizer #FredHampton, then Chicago police killed him and #MarkClark by firing 90+ bullets into an apartment, because #BPP dared to advocate justice, mutual aid, & self-defence against tyranny.

In late 1944, British troops occupied the cities of #Greece, propping up a Nazi-lite government. #ELAS & other #socialist #antifa partisans killed #Nazi collaborators & refused to disarm. Churchill, on #ThisDayInHistory, unleashed the army, working with fascists to kill leftists.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1901, #AlfredMilner admitted Britain's inhumane #ConcentrationCamps from the #BoerWar were monstrous. 28,000 Afrikaners & 20,000 black Africans died in them; 22,000 were children. #LordMilner stayed in government until 1921, still overseeing the colonies.

During the #FirstMatabeleWar in modern-day #Zimbabwe, warriors of #Ndebele kingdom ambushed the #ShanganiPatrol (aka #WilsonsPatrol) on #ThisDayInHistory in 1893. All but three of 37 #British troops were killed. The war was later lost, though, at cost of 15,000 African warriors.

Here is artist #FaiqAğayev of #Azerbaijan. youtu.be/Q5Jp5DBETrY youtu.be/wfvZycih1zY youtu.be/OXxLXIC5d98 youtu.be/RuaS0Wu3GC0#FaiqAğayev#Azerbaijan#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1973, the #Pioneer10 space probe from #NASA captured the first close-up images of #Jupiter. Its imager was damaged by heavy radiation, so it has taken work to reconstruct what it saw. (#Pioneer11 took better views the day before.) Here is what it sent us:

In the first peaceful #TransferOfPower in a democratic election, the #RevolutionOf1800 put #ThomasJefferson in the #WhiteHouse, beating #JohnAdams. Under the old voting system, Jefferson tied with his own VP candidate, #AaronBurr. It took 36 ballots to be decided in the House.

#Police violence in the Portuguese #colony of #Macau killed eight people on #ThisDayInHistory in 1966. The #123Incident involved mass protests, tax strikes, & boycotts of Portuguese businesses. #Portugal was forced to cave, paying compensation to victims & losing influence there.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1941, a series of #strikes broke out in the #BelgianCongo. The occupation of #Belgium during #WWII pierced an illusion of invincibility, and workers shut down mines across #Congo's south. About a week later, 100 miners were massacred, breaking the #strike.

The #OttawaTreaty was signed on #ThisDayInHistory in 1997, banning #AntiPersonnelMines (#LandMines) for 133 countries. The USA refused to sign, along with China and Russia. To date the treaty has 166 parties, but America remains a violent tool of the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1854, #GoldMiners in #Victoria, #Australia, revolted over pervasive #PoliceBrutality and high licence fees. They burnt the mining permits and occupied #BakeryHill, #Ballarat. 300 soldiers attacked the #miners in the #BattleOfTheEurekaStockade, killing 22.

100,000 workers joined 400 women on #strike on #ThisDayInHistory in 1946. The #OaklandGeneralStrike saw #union workers seize the streets, closing businesses and keeping out non-union members. A carnival atmosphere filled the city centre... until they were betrayed by #AFL bosses.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1963, just over a week from #Kenya's independence, colonial administrators packed four large crates of documents into a flight to the UK. These contained records of British #WarCrimes like #torture and #ExtrajudicialKillings during the #MauMauRebellion.

In the #RussianRevolution's chaos, the #FirstArmenianRepublic was declared in Russian #Armenia. In Sept 1920, #Ottoman forces invaded, killing ~250,000, under orders to "eliminate Armenia physically and politically" as part of the #ArmenianGenocide. It ended #ThisDayInHistory.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1944, the #ColdWar era began with a bang in #Greece, which slipped into civil war. 28 #antifascist #socialist partisans were gunned down by #police in #Athens. Many cops were released #Nazi collaborators, armed by the US & UK to enforce #FarRight control.

The #MercadoRiot/#WynwoodRiot began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1990. A small-time drug dealer, #LeonardoMercado, was beaten to death by #police in #Wynwood, #Miami. In response, the alienated and neglected #PuertoRican population rebelled, causing ~$3 million in property damage.

Here is dreamy #IndiePop artist #EnnoCheng from #Taiwan. youtu.be/x-0j61dvQOs youtu.be/tbOrmOWDYRk youtu.be/o1v2yq431WQ youtu.be/RiU2684ZObg#IndiePop#EnnoCheng#Taiwan#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

TRIGGER WARNING: On #ThisDayInHistory in 1980 in #ElSalvador, three nuns and a lay worker were kidnapped, raped, and killed by US-trained #FarRight #DeathSquads in the #SalvadoranCivilWar. The officers in charge were given immunity & asylum in the US, being deported only in 2016.

A massive #IndustrialDisaster occurred in Bhopal, #India on #ThisDayInHistory in 1984. A #UnionCarbide chemical plant spewed toxic gases, killing at least 16,000 and causing birth defects & cancers to the present day. The CEO was, of course, never punished, and victims got $500.

In an early #ManhattanProject success, #ThisDayInHistory in 1942 saw the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. #EnricoFermi built #ChicagoPile1 reactor underneath the west viewing stands of #StaggField at #UniversityOfChicago, risking disaster in a densely populated area.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1943, the #Nazi Luftwaffe bombed Allied ships in #Bari, #Italy, putting the port out of commission. The US & UK covered up the fact that American cargo ship #SSJohnHarvey was carrying #MustardGas, which was spread through the area.

In a #StateOfTheUnion message given on #ThisDayInHistory in 1823, Pres. #JamesMonroe unveiled the key parts of the #MonroeDoctrine, namely, that USA would stay out of European conflicts and European powers had to stay out of the Western Hemisphere (it was America's playground).

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1961, leader of the #CubanRevolution #FidelCastro broadcast a speech across #Cuba in which he declared himself explicitly to be a #MarxistLeninist intent on adopting a form of state-centred #Communism in the Caribbean country.

#AnarchoSyndicalist author #RudolfRocker was interned in the UK as an #EnemyAlien on #ThisDayInHistory in 1914. (He was German but worked in London for an #anarchist newspaper.) The reason was publication of his criticism of #WorldWarI in a piece written with #PyotrKropotkin.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1697, #StPaulsCathedral in #London was consecrated. The #gothic original was largely wrecked in the #GreatFireOfLondon in 1666. The new one, to a design by #ChristopherWren, was finally completed in 1710, and was the city's tallest structure until 1963.

In a #StateOfTheUnion message on #ThisDayInHistory in 1845, #JamesKPolk called for the United States to expand aggressively to the west. This came of an ideology of #ManifestDestiny -- an explicitly #WhiteSupremacist #Christian vision of racial destiny. See, e.g., #JosiahStrong.

The #JerusalemRiots broke out on #ThisDayInHistory in 1947. The #Palestinian panic over the UN's Partition Plan inspired strikes and protests, but also arson attacks on #Zionist-owned shops & neighbourhoods. This inspired #Haganah to join #Irgun in taking more aggressive actions.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1859, the #antiracist and militant #abolitionist #JohnBrown was hanged for treason in Virginia. To the last he acknowledged no fault in his goal of ending #slavery, and foresaw that the curse of #WhiteSupremacy could only be eased by the spilling of blood.

#CharlesTrevelyan, placed in charge of #famine relief by UK's #Liberal admin., on #ThisDayInHistory in 1846 wrote that the #Irish deserved to perish. "The great evil" was not the #PotatoFamine, "but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse, and turbulent character of the people."

What is widely considered the first #FreeSpeech and #FreePress act of modern times was passed into law on #ThisDayInHistory in 1766 in #Sweden. A major step in the development of #constitutionalism in Europe, it was quickly weakened in practice and not fully restored until 1809.

An era of overtly anti-government agitation in the UK began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1816 when irregular #police violently broke up a public meeting called to discuss worker support for the ideas of #ThomasSpence, an early #socialist visionary who opposed #PrivateProperty in land.

Here is #Myrkur from #Denmark. youtu.be/M9cNZQIzShc youtu.be/_BGHeXxmD10 youtu.be/ofm99bGPtn0 youtu.be/7t4XgTEwI08#Myrkur#Denmark#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

On #ThisDayInHistory in 2019, the #COVID19 #coronavirus was first detected in #Wuhan, #China. Between 10 and 36 million people have thus far died of this #SARS disease by 2025. The world map below only shows confirmed deaths per 100,000 of the population as of the end of 2023.

A Constitutional Court case in #SouthAfrica on #ThisDayInHistory in 2005 found that marriage laws were discriminatory and needed to be amended by parliament to legalize #SameSexMarriage. The decision in Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie forced a 30 Nov 2006 #MarriageEquality act.

On #ThisDayInHistory, #SergeiKirov was assassinated in #Leningrad in 1934. The death of a senior member of the #CommunistParty of the #USSR was used by #Stalin as an excuse to launch the #GreatPurge, leading to massacres, show-trials, and expansion of the #gulag prison system.

In #Glasgow, #Scotland, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1991, 200 #antifascist activists successfully disrupted a meeting of the #BritishNationalParty. Ideological heirs to #OswaldMosley, #BNP is a #neonazi party. The #fascists were trapped in a pub and had to escape through the sewers.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1955, #RosaParks was arrested in #Montgomery, #Alabama, for refusing to cede her bus seat to a white person. This was no accident: Parks was a long-time #antiracist activist; her act was to launch the #MontgomeryBusBoycott and break #JimCrow #segregation.

#ThisDayInHistory in 2000 saw the first peaceful transfer of power to an opposition political party in Mexican history when #VicenteFox was inaugurated as president of #Mexico. The first leader who was not part of #PRI since 1929, he failed to prevent a resurgent populist left.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1988, #BenazirBhutto became the first female leader of a #Muslim country when she was made prime minister of #Pakistan. She served twice, 1988-1990 & 1993-1996, and was the youngest elected leader in the Muslim world, early on mending relations with India.

After suffering fatal damage on 7 November from tropical storms, the #Arecibo Telescope collapsed entirely on #ThisDayInHistory in 2020. For 53 years the #PuertoRico instalation was the largest single-aperture telescope in the world. Its scientific contributions were vast.

Highlighting again the ridiculousness of #neonazi attacks on #trans people, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1952 the #transition surgery of #ChristineJorgensen was front-page news. She underwent #GenderAffirmingCare in Denmark in 1951. This isn't new; fascists just manufacture outrage.