#OtD 17 Apr 1920 dockers in Dublin refused to load foodstuffs destined for England. The action helped relieve severe food shortages in Dublin, which had been dire since 1917, while huge quantities of food were shipped to Britain https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8849/dublin-dockers-refuse-to-load-food-for-england
#OTD: Heute vor 500 Jahren ereignet sich während des Bauernkriegs die »Weinsberger Bluttat«. Sie war ein Fanal. Zur Geschichte des Bauernkrieges schrieb Albert Scharenberg: https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2024/september/zwoelf-artikel-fuer-die-freyheyt-500-jahre-grosser-bauernkrieg
#OtD 17 Apr 1912 Russian troops shot over 500 striking gold miners protesting against inhumane conditions, killing over 250 and crushing the strike. Although many of the surviving workers joined the revolution five years later https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8848/lena-massacre
#OTD 50 years ago, Khmer Rouge tanks rolled into Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, launching four years of a regime that “brought terror to the nation through ideological purges, forced labor, and racial genocide of minority groups.” https://buff.ly/94BVakM
Sophal Ear, Arizona State University
#OTD 2018: Catching one of the first direct London > Amsterdam Eurostar trains. If I remember correctly, only this direction was direct at that time, the opposite direction (to the UK) still required a change in Brussels for border checks.
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#ZeitzeichenWDR #WDR #Zeitzeichen
Sie brachte Nazis um: Die Studentin und Partisanin Hannie Schaft https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-sie-brachte-nazis-um-die-studentin-und-partisanin-hannie-schaft-100.html (@wikinaut)
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#KalenderblattDLF #DLF #Kalenderblatt
Terrorherrschaft - Die Roten Khmer erobern Kambodschas Hauptstadt Phnom Penh https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/rote-khmer-kambodscha-100.html (@wikinaut)
#OnThisDay, 17 Apr 1964, Jerrie Mock touches down in Ohio to become the first woman to fly solo around the world. Press coverage of the time made much of her being a “housewife”. 
Watch a newsreel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Pz2zGZ3To
Read more about women who flew solo: https://carvehername.org.uk/women-solo-flights/
It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! 
#OTD the ancient Athenians celebrated the #Olympeia, a festival in honour of Olympian Zeus. There were cavalry processions and contests and the sacrifice of bulls as an offering to Zeus.
#Zeus from the Eastern pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
#Éphéméride : il y a 329 ans (1696) disparaissait la marquise de Sévigné
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#Éphéméride : il y a 361 ans (1664) disparaissait Antoine Singlin
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#Éphéméride : il y a 418 ans (1607), Richelieu était nommé évêque de Luçon
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#Geburtstagskinder von heute: die #Sängerin Anja Silja (*1940), die Schriftstellerin Tanja Blixen (*1885), die Cartoonistin Claire Bretécher und Margot Honecker, bei der es mir schwerfällt, eine Berufsbezeichnung anzugeben.
42 years ago today
The Clash's Joe Strummer ran the London Marathon, finishing in 4 hours 13 minutes
He claims his workout included 10 pints of beer the night before. 
Photos by Steve Rapport
Remembering the great and unforgettable Pete Shelley, singer, songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of the British punk band Buzzcocks, born on this day in 1955, Leigh, Lancashire, England.
Gary Mather
Happy birthday to Chuck Biscuits, Canadian drummer for Danzig, Black Flag, D.O.A., Circle Jerks and Social Distortion in the late 1990s, born on this day in 1965, British Columbia
Photo Kevin Salk
44 years ago today
'Go for It' is the third album by Stiff Little Fingers, released on this day in 1981, includes the singles "Just Fade Away" and "Silver Lining
#OtD 16 Apr 2021 dump truck drivers at the Sotk gold mine in Armenia went on strike and blocked the road to the mine demanding pay increases and health insurance. On Apr 19 GeoProMining management agreed to most of the workers' demands. More info and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7769/sotk-miners-strike
#OtD 16 Apr 2010 all professional footballers in Spain went on strike in support of colleagues who had not been paid by the football clubs which employed them https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8754/spanish-footballers-strike
#OtD 16 Apr 1999 a bill to require that military action by the UK against Iraq be approved by parliament, rather than launched unilaterally by the govt, was scheduled for debate. But on advice from the Labour govt, the debate was blocked by the Queen https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8753/iraq-invasion-law-blocked
