During the #COVID19Pandemic demand for #FossilFuels dropped significantly and #SaudiArabia saw an opportunity to harm #Russia's oil exports with the #RussiaSaudiOilPriceWar. For the first time ever on #ThisDayInHistory in 2020 the price per barrel of crude oil dropped below zero.
The #DeepwaterHorizon disaster began on #ThisDayInHistory in 2010. #Transocean, the platform owner leasing it to #BP, was disproportionately responsible for #GulfOfMexico safety failings, and US regulators did not require blowout preventers. The largest ever #OilSpill followed.
#Tory politician #EnochPowell took the mask off the #neofascist elements in the British right with his #RiversOfBlood speech on #ThisDayInHistory in 1968. In it he decried rates of #immigration from the former #BritishEmpire & opposed the anti-#discrimination #RaceRelations Bill.
The #AprilUprising in #Bulgaria began in 1876 on #ThisDayInHistory and leading to independence. Use of #Ottoman irregulars contributed to massacres, often called the #BulgarianHorrors. Up to 30,000 were killed, half of them civilians, including 5,000 in the #BatakMassacre in May.
Having given the #MongolEmpire a first major loss in the #BattleOfAinJalut in 1260, #Egypt's #MamlukSultanate surprised the #Ilkhanate by attacking & winning the #BattleOfMarjAlSaffar near #Damascus, #ThisDayInHistory in 1303. #IbnTaymiyyah's sketchy #jihad fatwas played a part.
On this day in 1972, Apollo 16 landed on the Moon.
A reminder that with discipline, vision, and hard work, even the impossible can become reality.
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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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“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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“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.
