This image is of a man in a bathtub, dead, with another crying beside him; they are located in a palace, surrounded by fine fabrics and pottery.

This image is of a manuscrupt woodcut featuring a man and a woman, which has been pulled from a German account about the conspiracy.

In honor of the failed plot to assassinate Emperor #Nero, here is a painting of the death of #Seneca by Manuel Domínguez Sánchez, and a woodcut illustration of Epicharis from Penn Libraries. Both are sourced from Wikimedia Commons.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD (@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image A gun turret exploded on #battleship #USSIowa on #ThisDayInHistory in 1989, killing 47 & severely damaging the guns. #USNavy blamed the event on a suicidal sailor's deliberate act. ...

“A gun turret exploded on #battleship #USSIowa on #ThisDayInHistory in 1989, killing 47 & severely damaging the guns. #USNavy blamed the event on a suicidal sailor's deliberate act. All evidence suggests an accidental over-ram of a barrel, but the Navy never apologized for lying.”

#ThisDayInHistory April 20, 1972 #Apollo16 landed on the #Moon, in the Descartes Highlands.

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“The #WarsawGhettoUprising exploded in full force on #ThisDayInHistory in 1943 to prevent deportation to #DeathCamp #Treblinka. They held out for a month, fighting pitched battles with #Nazis. 7k were killed in fighting or burnt alive, 22k in camps, & some escaped through sewers.”

On this day in history in 1775, the Battles of Lexington and Concord took place.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD (@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image The #CentralParkFive were arrested in 1989 on #ThisDayInHistory. The four Black & one Latino teenagers were accused of rape & imprisoned. #DonaldTrump ran full-page newspaper ads ca...

“The #CentralParkFive were arrested in 1989 on #ThisDayInHistory. The four Black & one Latino teenagers were accused of rape & imprisoned. #DonaldTrump ran full-page newspaper ads calling for their execution. The real rapist kept going and killed a woman — blood on #Trump's hands.”

The #CentralParkFive were arrested in 1989 on #ThisDayInHistory. The four Black & one Latino teenagers were accused of rape & imprisoned. #DonaldTrump ran full-page newspaper ads calling for their execution. The real rapist kept going and killed a woman — blood on #Trump's hands.

Élites took control of the #AmericanRevolution after it was forced on them, as the #Founders hoped to maintain the colonial order. Independent militia actions on #ThisDayInHistory in 1775 at #Lexington & #Concord changed everything, forcing the Colonies to create a government.

#WhiteSupremacist #survivalist church The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (#CSA) had its 224-acre compound in Arkansas surrounded in 1985 on #ThisDayInHistory. FBI & ATF agents kept up a four-day siege before the group, which had declared war on the US, surrendered.

The #OklahomaCityBombing, the worst US non-state #DomesticTerrorism act, was #ThisDayInHistory in 1995. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was hit in revenge for #Waco & #RubyRidge, killing 168 people. The #WhiteSupremacist fuckwit #TimothyMcVeigh hoped to trigger an uprising.

A gun turret exploded on #battleship #USSIowa on #ThisDayInHistory in 1989, killing 47 & severely damaging the guns. #USNavy blamed the event on a suicidal sailor's deliberate act. All evidence suggests an accidental over-ram of a barrel, but the Navy never apologized for lying.

The helicopter #Ingenuity became the first craft to achieve flight on another world on #ThisDayInHistory in 2021. Originally intended to take up to five flights on #Mars, Ingenuity instead achieved 72 flights over a three year period, showing the thin atmosphere was no obstacle.

The world's first #SpaceStation, #Salyut1 / #Салют1, was launched into orbit on #ThisDayInHistory in 1971. The first mission intent on docking failed, but the second succeeded and carried out experiments. #Soyuz11 met with tragedy on the way down, though, as the crew asphyxiated.

The #WarsawGhettoUprising exploded in full force on #ThisDayInHistory in 1943 to prevent deportation to #DeathCamp #Treblinka. They held out for a month, fighting pitched battles with #Nazis. 7k were killed in fighting or burnt alive, 22k in camps, & some escaped through sewers.

The #LisbonMassacre, a horrific #pogrom against ethnic Jews in #Portugal, was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1506. It began on a Sunday, when parishioners killed the #CristãosNovos among them. It spread across the city as a riot and up to 4000 of the forcibly-converted were murdered.

The #KishinevPogrom, in what is now #Chișinău, #Moldova, was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1903. Up to 49 Jews were murdered over three days, more than 500 wounded (almost 100 severely so), and 1500 homes were trashed. Many fled such #antisemitism/#Judeophobia, some alas to #Palestine.

The #GeneralStrike & riots in the #1936ArabRevolt scared #Palestine Mandate authorities into taking more draconian powers on #ThisDayInHistory in 1936. They seized food & fuel, imposed 24-hour curfews, demolished homes & shops, opened mail, banned printing, & cut telephone lines.

#Colonialism will always be met with resistance by those being dispossessed. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1936 the #JaffaRiots broke out in #Yāfā, #Palestine. The British #Mandate authorities destroyed over 100 buildings in the Old City in the course of suppressing the angry populace.

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The first intentional ingestion of #LSD occurred on April 19, 1943, when Hofmann ingested 250 μg of LSD.

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On #ThisDayInHistory in 2024, 108+ students were arrested at #ColumbiaUniversity as the uni cracked down on pro-#Palestine protests. We're in a new #McCartyite age of censorship with the same old story: our emphasis on justice, humanity, & coëxistence threaten the ruling class.

The #ThreeFifthsCompromise, later to feature in the #USConstitution, made its first appearance on #ThisDayInHistory in 1783 in a resolution from the Congress of the Confederation. It counted Black slaves as 3/5 of a person for purposes of taxation (later used for representation).

On this day in 1775, Paul Revere set out on his midnight ride from Boston to Lexington to warn colonial militias that British troops were on the march. His act of courage helped spark the opening of the American Revolution.

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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1938, the great #DC #comics character #Superman was introduced. As with comics in general, the character who fought for "truth, justice, and the American way" was #woke af. But without systems critique, such #liberal rhetoric can never stop the #fascists.

#Cunard #OceanLiner #RMSCarpathia arrived in NYC on #ThisDayInHistory in 1912 carrying ~712 survivors from #RMSTitanic. First on the scene, she collected everyone who lived. Launched in 1902, moderately-sized #Carpathia was later torpedoed and sunk in 1918 by a German submarine.

Corporate #capitalism and #colonialism are inextricably linked, despite dishonest right-wing apologetics. The #ImperialBritishEastAfricaCompany incorporated on #ThisDayInHistory in 1888 in order to exploit #Kenya and #Uganda. Its misrule leaves a legacy of homophobia and poverty.

#OperationPrayingMantis began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1988 with US attacks on #Iranian naval targets in the #PersianGulf. These attacks on #Iran were a response to a US ship striking a mine. Struck in this escalation were oil platforms, frigates, attack boats, & two jet fighters.

The #AlgerianBlackSpring began on #ThisDayInHistory in 2001 after an #Amazigh man was killed by #police in the #Kabylie. Nationwide protests followed, demanding cultural rights, democracy, & economic change. Algiers suppressed the uprising by force, with about 120 people killed.

The #DoolittleRaid struck four cities in Japan on #ThisDayInHistory in 1942, just four months after #PearlHarbor. All 16 of the B-25 Mitchell bombers were lost, by design, but just 7 of the 80 crew were killed. Little damage was done, but propaganda and morale impacts were vast.

Calling himself "a sort of #Mussolini in India", the new Viceroy #LordWillingdon, sworn in #ThisDayInHistory in 1931, began an immediate crack-down on #Gandhi's #nonviolent protests, using whips and clubs, banning the #CongressParty, censoring the press, and arresting thousands.

On this day in history in 1741, American Founding Father Samuel Chase was born.

Chase represented the colony of Maryland in the Second Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence on August 2, 1776.

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