Lt #WilliamCalley, instigator of the #MyLaiMassacre, was convicted on #ThisDayInHistory in 1971 for the premeditated murder of civilians. Calley expressed no remorse for the 504 deaths. Nixon reduced his sentence to three years house arrest due to bipartisan calls for his pardon.
In the #KedichemAntiFascistRiot, #ThisDayInHistory in 1986, Dutch #antifa disrupted a meeting to reconcile two #FarRight factions, burning them out. A smoke-bomb was thrown in and a fire started. 72 #antifascists were arrested but few were prosecuted, and merger talks collapsed.
Nine members of the #Pallarès Action Group, part of the #JuventudesLibertarias (Anarchist Youth), were executed (garroted) by the #FranciscoFranco régime in 1943 on #ThisDayInHistory. Juventudes Libertarias were among the #leftist groups that opposed #Spain's #parafascist state.
Following a three-day siege, a #FarRight #Catholic mob destroyed #ConnollyHouse, the headquarters to the #RevolutionaryWorkersGroups, #ThisDayInHistory in 1933 during the #DublinRiot. #Anticommunist zealots burnt the building and attacked other #leftist locations across the city.
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.
