We're back in #Ethiopia to-day with artist #HaleluyaTeklesadik. youtu.be/GafgvTd0Gzs youtu.be/gl2XRmxc4dA youtu.be/hcNWB1ArQCM youtu.be/dhHu3AwFy-g#Ethiopia#HaleluyaTeklesadik#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

The #SanBernardinoTrainDisaster was in 1989 on #ThisDayInHistory. Its weight was miscalculated in Mojave and one of its helper engines had inoperable brakes. On the way down from #CajonPass it hit 110 mph & derailed, killing two crew, wrecking seven houses, killing two residents.

The largest #ICE raid of a workplace was in #Postville, Iowa, at the kosher slaughterhouse of #Agriprocessors, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2008. The 900 agents used the presumed race of workers to divide them, arrested 398 Latinos, & steered most into plea-bargains with prison terms.

One of the most fascinatingly weird tales of the settling of #California began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1846, when 87 members of the #DonnerParty set out from Independence, Missouri. Becoming trapped by snow in the #SierraNevada, 48 of them survived through murder and cannibalism.

The #Panther21, a group of #BlackPantherParty members in #NYC including #AfeniShakur, were acquitted of 156 charges in 1971 on #ThisDayInHistory, when it was shown that undercover #police has infiltrated them, planned a violent bombing, and then framed the #BlackPanthers for it.

Thousands of women joined #CorettaScottKing to launch the #PoorPeoplesCampaign in 1968 on #ThisDayInHistory. They honoured #MartinLutherKingJr's plans for the shift in emphasis, from reform on racial issues to revolution on economic issues, just one month after his assassination.

The first programmable digital #computer, the #Z3 by #KonradZuse, was first presented in Berlin on #ThisDayInHistory in 1941. It took three years to build, given #WWII; funds were denied to replace its relays with electronic switches. It was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1943.

Just after #WWI and its #ChemicalWarfare horrors, widely-admired shit-stain #WinstonChurchill penned a memo as Cabinet Secretary, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1919, saying he was "strongly in favour of using poison gas against uncivilised tribes", i.e., #Iraqis resisting colonialism.

#JamesConnolly, #socialist revolutionary, and fellow independence activist #SeánMacDiarmada were executed by the British occupiers on #ThisDayInHistory in 1916 at #KilmainhamGaol in Dublin. Connolly was wounded in the #EasterRising, so was tied to a chair and shot. #tiocfaidhárlá

Meant to perform the first soft-landing on the Moon, and the first successful lunar launch after three failures, the #SovietUnion's #Luna5 spacecraft failed to fire its retrorockets on #ThisDayInHistory in 1965 and crashed, becoming the second object to reach the lunar surface.

Try #blues artist #RichimanAndGrooveNice / #리치맨 from #SouthKorea. youtu.be/KnwqEq9xwWM youtu.be/IDdgpk_YPvo youtu.be/DnvKM5BeyyI youtu.be/ahVlIFblmhs#blues#RichimanAndGrooveNice#리치맨#SouthKorea#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

For the first time, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1997, a supercomputer defeated a world-champion chess player in a classic six-game match. #GarryKasparov lost the last in the set — three draws, one for Kasparov, and two for #DeepBlue, a specialized #IBM RS/6000 running #AIX #UNIX.

The #SpaceShuttle #Atlantis was launched on its final mission to service the #HubbleSpaceTelescope on #ThisDayInHistory in 2009. A groundbreaking science tool, #Hubble greatly exceeded an expected 15-year life — it was launched in 1990 and NASA hopes it will stay up until 2033.

The #PullmanStrike on #ThisDayInHistory in 1894 cleverly refused to touch Pullman cars but stayed at work for other cars. Companies shut down the trains, not the #ARU #union. Pres. Cleveland sent in troops to get the mail moving, but of course sided with railroads, not workers.

#RMSMajestic, last #SuperLiner for #WhiteStarLine and world's largest #OceanLiner for 13 years, had her maiden voyage in 1922 on #ThisDayInHistory. Originally launched as #SSBismarck for #HamburgAmericaLine, she was completed, grudgingly and slowly, after #WWI as war reparations.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1968, French police broke through Paris's #May68 barricades in the #LatinQuarter. The extreme brutality they demonstrated increased anger in the country, and the protests spread. The state and the #police are never on the side of the people or of justice.

#Roman Emperor #ConstantineTheGreat dedicated the rebuilt #Byzantion, called it New Rome, and made it the capital of the #RomanEmpire on #ThisDayInHistory in 330. It was capital of the #EasternRomanEmpire (called by moderns the #ByzantineEmpire) until 1453, with one short break.

(2 of 2) #KlausBarbie, the #ButcherOfLyon, lost his patronage when the Bolivian dictatorship fell, and he was extradited to France in 1983; the US apologized at last for helping him escape. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1987 he finally went on trial for his many #CrimesAgainstHumanity.

(1 of 2) Still think the US opposed #fascism in #WWII? #KlausBarbie, the SS #ButcherOfLyon, responsible for 14,000+ deaths, was recruited by US intelligence for his fascist anticommunism & shipped to safety in Bolivia. He was later recruited by West German intelligence as well...

Those suffering #PTSD deserve more empathy. On #ThisDayInHistory in 2009, US soldier John Russell, who was suicidal & seeking therapy, had an argument at #CampLiberty counseling center in Baghdad, took an unsecured M16, and opened fire. He is in prison with no chance at parole.

#Palestinian-American journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh was killed by #IDF on #ThisDayInHistory in 2022. She was wearing a blue PRESS vest and was shot in the head by a sniper whilst covering a raid on the #WestBank city Jenin. Israel suffered no consequences for murdering an American.

The earliest-known dated & printed book is the #DiamondSūtra, a #MahāyānaBuddhist found in 1900 by a #Daoist monk. It dates to #ThisDayInHistory in 868, in the #TangDynasty, and includes the earliest-known public-domain statement (i.e., created "for universal free distribution").

Who else remembers #UnitedStates artist #GaryPuckettAndTheUnionGap? youtu.be/qJFVPxBpezk youtu.be/vUHEHibJLZQ youtu.be/lljR8oCSPhQ youtu.be/Z34xaDQ3ra4#UnitedStates#GaryPuckettAndTheUnionGap#SundayRewinds #LunchtimeListens

Another long-standing precedent the #Trump admin. is trying to undermine on the #EqualProtectionClause was affirmed on #ThisDayInHistory in 1886 when Lee Yick won his case before #SCOTUS. #SanFrancisco had refused to give permits to Chinese laundries despite a permit requirement.

Completion of the #FirstTranscontinentalRailroad in the United States was symbolically marked with the driving of a golden spike at #PromontorySummit in the #UtahTerritory on #ThisDayInHistory in 1869. The project to link #Omaha with #Sacramento had taken just six years to build.

#UnionBusting to screw over the workers is an American tradition, but so is worker resistance. Three railway workers on a grievance committee were fired by the #PullmanPalaceCarCo on #ThisDayInHistory in 1894. That evening the #union voted to #strike and shut the company down.

The #CharlestonRaceRiot broke out #ThisDayInHistory in 1919, when white sailors attacked a Black man who did not step off the sidewalk for them. Hundreds of sailors set out from the Navy Yard to assault people in the Black neighbourhoods. Only two were disciplined for the pogrom.

The #NegroActOf1740 was passed by #SouthCarolina on #ThisDayInHistory in 1740. It prohibited enslaved African-American people from learning to read, moving freely, assembling in groups, growing their own food, or earning money, and authorized torture and death for any violations.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1933 the contents of #MagnusHirschfeld's #InstitutFürSexualwissenschaft were publically burnt in Berlin. #Nazi thugs had seized & looted it four days earlier. Pioneering work had been done there in #LGBTQ & #transgender science, including #hormone therapy.

During the #May68 events in Paris, #Marxists & #anarchists on #ThisDayInHistory in 1968 erected barricades in response to #police violence, leading to pitched battles between riot cops with batons and activists throwing chunks of concrete. We must recover this spirit of defiance.

Perennial scumbag #WinstonChurchill was appointed Prime Minister, following the resignation of #NevilleChamberlain, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1940, the very same day that #NaziGermany launched its invasion of France and the Low Countries. France surrendered about six weeks later.

The US Congress hasn't made a declaration of war since 1942, but on #ThisDayInHistory in 1801 even #pirates had the decency to make one. The #FirstBarbaryWar between the US & #OttomanTripolitania ended in a ransom payment for US hostages and continued raids on American shipping.

Severe punishment meted out to Indian troops of the #EastIndiaCompany sparked a major uprising, called the #IndianRebellion or the #SepoyMutiny, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1857. Widespread British atrocities left up to a million dead. EIC was abolished & the #BritishRaj replaced it.

Here is defunct metal band #Treateth from #Guatemala. youtu.be/mr-c-B57ozs youtu.be/CdgmlPBPYQc youtu.be/3arkHwU14Mk youtu.be/1vGArLQfXzk#Treateth#Guatemala#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

#Tijuana, #México, was freed from the #PorfirioDíaz dictatorship during the #MexicanRevolution in 1911 on #ThisDayInHistory... by the #anarchist / #Magonista party #PLM. They called on people to "take possession of the land... make a free & happy life without masters or tyrants".

#Longshoremen all down the west coast went on #strike on #ThisDayInHistory in 1934. A week later, #police began shooting strikers. The violence and a difficult fight for recognition fractured the #ILA union; #HarryBridges and the new #ILWU broke away from it three years later.

#Mestranol/#noretynodrel, sold in the US as #Enovid, became the first oral #contraceptive approved by the #FDA for that purpose on #ThisDayInHistory in 1960, adding fire to an unfolding #SexualRevolution. It was, however, not available nationwide & for unmarried women until 1972.

The House Committee on the Judiciary opened formal #impeachment hearings against Pres. #RichardNixon on #ThisDayInHistory in 1974. Knowing the illegality of #Watergate was irrefutable, the coward resigned in August, after the committee approved three articles of impeachment.

An estimated 100,000 people, many of them striking students, gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest the #VietnamWar, and the #KentStateMassacre, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1970. #RichardNixon made an unplanned visit to the Lincoln Memorial & spoke for two hours with the students.

In a bit of local history, the #NorcoShootout was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1980. Five masked men held up a Security Pacific Bank in #Norco, then got into one of the biggest armed pursuits in US history. 33 vehicles were wrecked in the process, and two gunmen & one cop were killed.

The great sin that caused the US to imprison #EmmaGoldman & #AlexanderBerkman was their creating, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1917, the #NoConscriptionLeague to oppose #WWI. After a mass meeting on 4 June, both were arrested for conspiracy under the war powers #EspionageAct of 1917.

#JohnBrown, born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1800, knew that legality & morality are often at odds. One key to living a moral life is knowing the state is NOT a source of morality. Killing slavers seems a lesser crime than defending the practice of #slavery. #JohnBrownDidNothingWrong

#HelenKeller, #socialist & #IWW activist, wrote an open letter #ThisDayInHistory in 1933 to German students planning a bonfire of "un-German" works, which included Keller's own. She said "barbarities to the Jews" were known in the US, and that history shows ideas can't be killed.

Margaret Clap, aka Mother Clap, was an important figure in the #QueerSubculture of 18th c. Britain. A raid on her #MollyHouse, an #LGBTQ coffeehouse on Field Lane in Middlesex, led to many arrests, and on #ThisDayInHistory in 1726 five of those men were executed for being gay.

This is how stupid anticommunist hysteria gets. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1933, a full-page article in the #DailyExpress by #GilbertFrankau, called ‘As a Jew I’m Not against Hitler’, distinguished between ‘good’ nationalist Jews and ‘bad’ Bolshevik Jews, and supported persecutions.

#Parafascist prime minister #IoannisMetaxas was in power less than a month when, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1936 he unleashed troops on a workers' demonstration against #PoliceBrutality. The #ThessalonikiMassacre took 12 lives & wounded more. #Metaxas later created a dictatorship.

Rock out again with metal band #Yaksa of #China. youtu.be/53QeA2dE6sY youtu.be/Vl0ZQY53IRo youtu.be/kw6ueCPIkc8 youtu.be/VvBQN9JtW8I#Yaksa#China#FlashbackFriday #LunchtimeListens

Coöptation of the #workingclass by #cryptofascism can be seen in the #HardHatRiot, #ThisDayInHistory in 1970. NYC students protesting the #KentStateMassacre were attacked by construction workers shouting "USA… Love it or leave it!" Police stood aside as 70 students were beaten.

#MexicanAmericans in #LosAngeles lost the "#BattleOfChavezRavine" on #ThisDayInHistory in 1959. The city promised to build new low-income houses in the area, replacing their original villages, but reneged and instead built #DodgerStadium on the land seized through #EminentDomain.

The first #SitIn protest of the #CivilRights era staged by #CongressOfRacialEquality (#CORE) was #ThisDayInHistory in 1942. A mixed group in Chicago's racially-#segregated #JackSprattCoffeeHouse were reported to police, but cops refused to kick them out so the policy was changed.