Notices tagged with otd, page 2

#OtD 8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10766/margaret-thatcher-dies

#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

#art #history: imagine being such a gifted author that one of  your most radical & inventive novels was mainly a product of automatic writing? best known, perhaps, for providing the screenplay  that would become alain resnais' 'hiroshima mon amour' - which is not a  bad place to start if you've not yet become acquainted with marguerite duras (born #otd in 1914) - she largely escaped acclaim  outside of france. this is regrettable. (threadish)
#margueriteDuras #literature #illustration #france

#OtD 1 Apr 1982 oil company Exxon made a private report on CO2. It showed burning fossil fuels would cause global warming which may be irreversible and could be detectable by 1995. They then spent $31m to spread false propaganda claiming the opposite https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8039/exxon-greenhouse-effect-report

#TheSimpsons #OTD

#OnThisDay in 1889, the Eiffel Tower opened in Paris. Not to be outdone, London decided to get a new tower of their own + held a competition to design it, with some interesting results! See more designs, and learn about the fate of the winner, here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/catalogue-of-the-68-competitive-designs-for-the-great-tower-for-london-1890/ #OTD

“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.

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

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", is arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.

She is later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons

On this day in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "original soul sister" and "Godmother of rock and roll" was born.

"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/544226085/forebears-sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-godmother-of-rock-n-roll

#music #history #MusicHistory #WomenInMusic #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #RockNRoll #RockMusic #OnThisDay #OTD #SisterRosettaTharpe

Happy 9th anniversary to the first Mastodon post!

Via https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110985808809440467

#mastodon #fediverse #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay

43 years ago today

Siouxsie and The Banshees - in session for Kid Jensen - March 15, 1982

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #gothpunkrock #siouxsiesioux #history #punkrockhistory #otd

46 years ago today
Joy Division at Bowdon Vale Youth Club, March 14, 1979.

Photo by Martin O'Neill at Studio Five Four.

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #postpunkmusic #joydivision #history #punkrockhistory #otd

#OTD in 1891.

Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts (published in 1881) achieves a single London performance, its English-language stage première (at the Royalty Theatre). To evade the Lord Chamberlain's Office's censorship, it has to be staged privately by the Independent Theatre Society, but still attracts strong criticism on moral grounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(play)

Ghosts at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2467
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/8121

#books #literature #theatre

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.

Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk

#WomensHistoryMonth #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OTD in 1776.

Scottish political economist Adam Smith's book The Wealth of Nations, the first modern work in economics, was published.

It has become a fundamental work in classical economics, and has been described as "the first formulation of a comprehensive system of political economy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations

Wealth of Nations at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300

#books #literature #economy

#OtD 10 Mar 1919 Leo Jogiches, Polish-German communist, key figure of the Spartacus League & KPD, and lover of Rosa Luxemburg, was murdered while trying to investigate the assassinations of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8216/leo-jogiches-murdered

#OtD 8 Mar 1917 defying union leaderships, women workers and housewives took the streets of St Petersburg against high prices and hunger. They were joined the next day by 200,000 workers, sparking the February Revolution https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10826/st-petersburg-international-women's-day

#OtD 6 Mar 1944 Italian resistance partisans breached the Camp 59 concentration camp in Servigliano, Italy, and helped a small number of mostly Jewish Italian prisoners to escape. They broke in twice more in the coming weeks. Learn more about partisans: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/

In memory of Frank Navetta, who founded The Descendents in 1979 with Tony Lombardo and Bill Stevenson, born on this day in 1963, Manhattan Beach, California

Photo by Kevin Salk

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #franknavetta #thedescendents #history #punkrockhistory #otd

#OtD 4 Mar 1976 Antoni Ruiz was arrested in Valencia for homosexuality after being reported by a nun at confession. One of 5000 LGBT+ people convicted under a Franco-era law and sent to a specialist prison where he was raped and later hounded by police https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10456/antoni-ruiz-arrested