Notices tagged with otd, page 3

#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

#OtD 4 Mar 1943 nine members of the Baum Group, a Jewish communist anti-nazi organization led by Herbert Baum, were executed by guillotine in Berlin after they set fire to a Nazi propaganda exhibit https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10454/baum-group-executions

#OTD in 1924 the Daily Worker reported on Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Research. It was founded in 1919, but the coverage reflected growing awareness internationally. It was more than a medical center-- it was a safe haven for #lgbtq people, a hub for birth control access, and a center for gender research.

47 years ago today
Ari Up of The Slits whacks a skinhead disrupting their gig at the Thames Polytechnic in Calderwood Street, Woolwich.

Taken on March 4, 1978 when The Slits played the venue alongside Penetration and Buzzcocks

📸 Ray Stevenson

#ariup #punk #theslits #fucknazis #fightnazis #otd

#OtD 3 Mar 1903 the Immigration Act of 1903 (aka: Anarchist Exclusion Act) was signed into US law by President Theodore Roosevelt. It barred entry to the US for anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of sex workers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10206/anarchist-exclusion-act

#OTD in 1896.

Publication begins of the world's first magazine with an orientation to male homosexuality, Der Eigene, by Adolf Brand in Berlin.

Brand contributed many poems and articles; other contributors included writers Benedict Friedlaender, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Erich Mühsam, Kurt Hiller, Ernst Burchard, John Henry Mackay, Theodor Lessing, Klaus Mann, and Thomas Mann, as well as artists Wilhelm von Gloeden, Fidus, and Sascha Schneider.

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

#literary_magazine

#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.

Of the 50 recipients to date, 11 have been women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood #Histodons

#OtD 1 Mar 1944 a series of general strikes took place across Nazi-occupied northern Italy involving 1-6 million workers. Superficially about economic issues, they were organised by the anti-fascist resistance to undermine the regime. More in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/

#OTD in 1796.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge launches his periodical The Watchman; it lasts for only ten issues. In April his first verse collection, Poems on Various Subjects, is published in London. The publication contained essays, poems, news stories, reports on Parliamentary debates, and book reviews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Watchman_(periodical)

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

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29090

#books #literature #poetry

American artist Lilla Cabot Perry died #OTD in 1933.

She worked in the American Impressionist style, rendering portraits and landscapes in the free form manner of her mentor, Claude Monet. Although it was not until the age of thirty-six that Perry received formal training, her work with artists of the Impressionist, Realist, Symbolist, and German Social Realist movements greatly affected the style of her oeuvre.

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

#art #impressionism

Very late #OnThisDay, 28 Feb 1944, Madeleine Damerment parachuted into occupied France to be an agent for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE worked with the French Resistance.

She was French, and had previously run escape lines for downed airmen. She escaped France in 1942, and then chose to return.

She was immediately arrested as the network had been betrayed. She was executed at Dachau in Sept 1944.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

#OtD 24 Feb 1942 the Canadian govt ordered the expulsion and internment of all people of Japanese descent from a 100 mile distance from the West Coast. 22,000 were expelled, with most sent to labour camps, losing most of their property https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9646/canada-japanese-internment

Katherine Johnson died #OTD in 2020.

Her work included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury spaceflights, including those for astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn, and rendezvous paths for the Apollo Lunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon. Her calculations were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, and she worked on plans for a mission to Mars.

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

#mathematics #womeninStem

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OTD in 1898.

Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.

He was sentenced to jail and was removed from the Legion of Honour. To avoid jail time, Zola fled to England. He stayed there until the cabinet fell; he continued to defend Dreyfus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%27Accuse...!

J'Accuse at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20974

#books #literature

#OtD 22 Feb 1865 the Dripping Riot took place in Leeds. Eliza Stafford, a cook, was caught stealing 2lbs (900g) of dripping from her boss and was jailed for a month. She was released on Feb 22 and thousands attacked her boss's house, then police https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9464/the-dripping-riot

American physician Sara Josephine Baker died #OTD in 1945.

In 1917, she noted that babies born in the United States faced a higher mortality rate than soldiers fighting in World War I, drawing a great deal of attention to her cause. She also is known for (twice) tracking down Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary.

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

#publichealth #preventive_medicine #womeninStem

And how could we forget... #OTD in huite terrorist history

And before you scream "oh Black folks killed him" learn a bit more about the history of how Black folks are pitted against each other.

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/feb/21

#OTD in 1848.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) in London.

Published amid the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, the manifesto remains one of the world's most influential political documents.

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

At PG.
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/61

#books #literature

Danish seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann died #OTD in 1993.

She is best known for her discovery in 1936 of the solid inner core that exists within the molten outer core of the Earth. The seismic discontinuity in the speed of seismic waves at depths between 190 and 250 km is named the Lehmann discontinuity after her. Lehmann is considered to be a pioneer among women and scientists in seismology research.

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

#seismology #geophysics #womeninStem