Israel launched a massive offensive in the occupied #WestBank, #OperationDefensiveShield, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2002. The month-long attack hit all its major cities with heavy weaponry and street battles, killing at least 497 #Palestinians, wounding 1447, and detaining ~7,000.
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A two-year #MalagasyUprising against French colonial rule in #Madagascar began #ThisDayInHistory in 1947. #France used #terrorism to break the insurgency, including #torture, mass execution, burning whole villages, mass rapes, & throwing prisoners from aeroplanes.
The #BattleOfKambula, part of the #AngloZuluWar, fought #ThisDayInHistory in 1879, sealed the #Zulu nation's fate. It also showed the brutality of the #BritishEmpire, which faced an army of 20,000 that quickly retreated. Soldiers killed the wounded & shot a thousand in the back.
The #TerracottaArmy was found on #ThisDayInHistory in 1974 by local farmers. ~8000 life-size ceramic warriors filled pits around the tomb of #QinShiHuang, the first emperor of #China. Court figures have since been found in different pits but the tomb itself remains unexplored.
“The US was a leader in the vile #eugenics movement, and on #ThisDayInHistory in 1978 the #SCOTUS invented #JudicialImmunity for the permanent harm they can do to us. In the failed case a young woman had sued because her mother asked a judge to sterilize her without her knowledge.”
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The US was a leader in the vile #eugenics movement, and on #ThisDayInHistory in 1978 the #SCOTUS invented #JudicialImmunity for the permanent harm they can do to us. In the failed case a young woman had sued because her mother asked a judge to sterilize her without her knowledge.
The path to #HarryTruman's #AtomicDiplomacy (a nuclear threat to ensure compliance) winds through proposals like the #AchesonLilienthalReport, released on #ThisDayInHistory in 1946, and calling for a ban on #NuclearWeapons. The idea slowly withered under US and Soviet paranoia.
A landmark citizenship case was decided by the #SCOTUS on #ThisDayInHistory in 1898. #Chinese migration had ended with the #ChineseExclusionAct in 1882 and those who were here were deemed ineligible for citizenship, but #USvWongKimArk determined that their children were citizens.
The #RomeSitIns began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1963 in Rome, Georgia. Over 100 Black students participated in the protest against #segregation. 62 were arrested and many were prosecuted, but the #JimCrow system unraveled completely the next year with the #CivilRightsAct of 1964.
One of the more consequential European wars in between Napoleon & WWI, the #CrimeanWar grew on #ThisDayInHistory in 1854 when Britain & France joined on the #Ottoman side. In line with the #EasternQuestion, they backed the #Turkish empire as a bulwark against #Russian expansion.
A coolant leak in Unit 2 at #ThreeMileIsland nuclear power station caused a partial meltdown in 1979 on #ThisDayInHistory, issuing the second-worst release of #radioactive material in US history. Unit 2 remains closed, but Unit 1 is still active & serving #Microsoft data centres.
“In #WellingStation on #ThisDayInHistory in 2009, 40 members of an #antifa group in #London attacked #neonazis on their way to a gig organized by #BloodAndHonour. In addition to six #antifascists arrested then, dozens more were picked up in raids later due to #police infiltration.”
The asteroid #Pallas, the second to be discovered, was clearly identified on #ThisDayInHistory in 1802. German astronomer #HeinrichWMOlbers pinpointed the highly eccentric, high-inclination #asteroid that is likely a #protoplanet left over from the formation of our solar system.
Still think the #FirstAmendment protects you? On #ThisDayInHistory in 1919, during the #FirstRedScare, #Arkansas joined the 40 states (& two territories) that banned #anarchism and #communism as political philosophies, barring publications, organizing, and even the use of flags.
In #WellingStation on #ThisDayInHistory in 2009, 40 members of an #antifa group in #London attacked #neonazis on their way to a gig organized by #BloodAndHonour. In addition to six #antifascists arrested then, dozens more were picked up in raids later due to #police infiltration.
#LeonTrotsky, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1918, in another betrayal of #socialist principles and a breach of #Lenin's promise to the contrary, announced that officers in the #RedArmy would no longer be elected by the soldiers, and reappointed old Tsarist-era officers to lead units.
#MotherJones, infamous #labour #union agitator and #IWW cofounder, was expelled from Colorado on #ThisDayInHistory in 1904, for inspiring workers during a #strike.
If you don't know who she is, this is a fun place to start:
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#UnionStrong #NoWarButClassWar
On #ThisDayInHistory in 2025, a horrifically #neonazi #ExecutiveOrder targeted the #Smithsonian with a defence of literal "#ScientificRacism". It critiques exhibits simply for noting the proven fact that #race is a human invention, a #SocialConstruct.
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Scumbag #WhiteSupremacist #AndrewJohnson vetoed the #CivilRightsActOf1866 on #ThisDayInHistory in 1866. His veto was subsequently overridden by the #Republican congress and #Reconstruction continued over his obstruction. It should have gone much farther & exiled all the slavers.
#TyphoidMary, i.e., #MaryMallon, was the first healthy, #NonSymptomatic carrier of an infectious disease ever identified. She was twice linked to outbreaks of #TyphoidFever, and was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1915 placed in #quarantine for the rest of her life; she died in 1938.
In the #BattleOfHorseshoeBend, #AndrewJackson defeated the #RedSticks force of #CreekNation/#Muskogee on #ThisDayInHistory in 1814. Impressed with their defenses, his bayonet charge killed 800 warriors. His men cut off noses to count the dead & made bridle reins from their skin.
The appropriately-named #OperationStarvation began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1945. This was the aerial mining of Japanese ports & waterways, many receiving repeated drops of #NavalMines intended to disrupt & stop the movement of troops & supplies, greatly exacerbating hunger there.
The #DrancyInternmentCamp (a #ConcentrationCamp near Paris) held over 67,400 Jews. In 1942 on #ThisDayInHistory, with help from #VichyFrance, the #Nazi occupation began deporting the Jews to #DeathCamps in occupied Poland. Just 1542 remained alive there at its liberation in 1944.
The #BiafraWar, aka #NigerianCivilWar, was fought with little regard for civilians, with Nigerian leadership using (& defending) starvation as a tool of war; two million died. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1969, PM #HaroldWilson lied about the scale of British arms exports to #Nigeria.
The #PassoverMassacre was on #ThisDayInHistory in 2002. A #Palestinian bomber disguised as a woman entered the #ParkHotel in #Netanya and set off his explosive suitcase during a Passover Seder. 30 people, mostly elderly civilians, were killed, and another 140 injured, some badly.
Dutch #antifascist resistance, disguised as cops, set fire to #Amsterdam's Public Records Office, which #Nazis used to find Jews, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1943. Firefighters took their time, letting records burn. Most of the group, led by #WillemArondeus, was captured & executed.
Headquarters for the #BritishUnionOfFascists were attacked by 300 #communist #antifascists on #ThisDayInHistory in 1933, who gleefully used iron bars to wreck the offices until police arrived to save them. The #fascists were subsequently asked to vacate the building by its owner.
