https://mstdn.social/@CarveHerName/113605004424985530 CarveHerName@mstdn.social - "Most women think politics aren't lady-like. Well, I'm no lady. I'm a human being."
#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1921, Agnes Macphail, wins a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. She was the first woman to be a Canadian MP.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #Histodons
You left out Alien Nation, the movie. It's a fave around here.
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#OnThisDay in 1952, #MandyPatinkin, American stage and screen #actor (Yentl; The Princess Bride; Homeland), and #singer (Sunday in the Park with George; Evita), born in Chicago, Illinois. 🎉🎂🎀💗🥳
#HappyBirthday #72
Huge Mercer fan checking in!
♲ 50+ Music - 2024-11-18 20:52:57 GMT
#OnThisDay in 1909, #JohnnyMercer, American singer, Academy Award-winning #lyricist ("Moon River"; "That Old Black Magic"; "And the Angels Sing": Come Rain Or Come Shine"), and record label executive (Capitol Records), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1976). 🕊️
#RIP
...but notice where the poster comes from. Enid Oklahoma, as in Enid High School. Go Big Blue!
♲ 50+ Music - 2024-11-16 20:28:58 GMT
#OnThisDay in 2023, Revival of John Du Prez and Eric Idle's musical "Spamalot", based on the film "#MontyPython and the Holy Grail," opens at the St. James Theatre, NYC.
The only winner of the War of 1812 was Chuck Kowski.
♲ 50+ Music - 2024-11-06 16:34:57 GMT
#OnThisDay in 1893, #PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky, Russian #composer of the late-Romantic period (1812 Overture; The Nutcracker; Swan Lake), died of suspected #cholera at 53. ⚰️
#RIP
Sorry? That surname is Italian.
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#OnThisDay in 1996, #LewisCapaldi, Scottish singer-songwriter ("Someone You Loved"), born in Glasgow, Scotland. ▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။||||။၊|• 0:10
#HappyBirthday #28
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#OnThisDay in 2020, #BTS become the 1st all-Korean pop act to top the Billboard 100 singles chart with "Dynamite".
As a rule, I don't mourn the self-inflicted, but that was a big talent that bit the dust all the same.
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#OnThisDay in 2008, #JerryReed, American country music singer ("When You're Hot, You're Hot") and actor (Bat 21; Smokey and the Bandit), died of complications from emphysema at 71. ✝
#RIP
https://mastodon.ie/@bullivant/112664842705849726 bullivant@mastodon.ie - On 23 June 2016 the UK voted narrowly to leave the EU in a vote heavily influenced by lies, misrepresentations, Russian interference and troll farms, Cambridge Analytica and dark money. Arguably, it was one of the greatest acts of self-harm ever done by a nation to itself.
https://wandering.shop/@thorncoyle/112553081213418997 thorncoyle@wandering.shop - "I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad."
Happy birthday to antifascist bisexual icon, entertainer, and truth teller, Josephine Baker, born June 3, 1906.
Quotes from Three Remarkable Personages Born on 8 November ...
Dorothy Day (1897) * Bram Stoker (1847) * Aaron Swartz (1986)
"I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air."
~ Bram Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912)"As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way."
~ Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980)"What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?"
~ Aaron Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013)
Happy Birthday to all Fediverse members born On This Day!
Sources:
#8 #11 #20 #29 #1847 #1897 #1912 #1980 #1986 #2013 #2023 #AaronSwartz #arte #befree #bing #birthday #birhdays #BramStoker #diaspora #DorothyDay #fediverse #free #freedom #hbd #kunst #libertad #liberté #libre #novembre #noviembre #OnThisDay #quotations #quotes #viii #wikipedia #xi
Auschwitz Memorial
@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world
10 October 1939 | A Polish Jew, Shlomo Arie Hordiner, was born in Rzeszów.
He was deported to Auschwitz from ghetto in Sosnowiec in July 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber.
Learn about fate of children in Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #OnThisDay #birthday #Sosnowiec #Rzeszow
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#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a #fascist march through the area. Of the 79 people arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).
"THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
On 4 October 1936, Oswald Mosley's fascist Blackshirts attempted to march from Tower Hill, through Aldgate and Shadwell, a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood at that time.
When they arrived at Gardiner's Corner, a huge crowd (estimates vary from 20,000 to 200,000) gathered to block their path, roaring “They Shall Not Pass!” After 6,000 police failed to clear the area, the march was diverted via Cable Street.
However, three sets of barricades, including an overturned lorry, had already been set up there. Broken glass and marbles had been strewn across the street, and thousands of local people massed behind each barricade, chanting anti-fascist slogans and fighting back fiercely against the police.
Eventually the Police Commissioner instructed Mosley to march his troops west and out of the area, in a humiliating defeat. Thousands of the anti-fascist protestors gathered in Victoria Park to celebrate their victory."
https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/women-at-the-battle-of-cable-street
#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times
Vor 1 Jahr wurden Menschen, die Schutz in #Europa suchten, an der Grenze von #Nador🇲🇦 und #Melilla🇪🇸 mit tödlicher Gewalt zurück gedrängt:
⚫️ mind. 36 Menschen verloren ihr Leben
⚫️ 76 Menschen werden seitdem vermisst
#JusticiaMasacreMelilla #MelillaMassacre
via @ECCHRBerlin
#OnThisDay
June 4 is the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression: https://t.co/0oCBc6fuog
(Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, https://www.spuc.org.uk/ )
#OnThisDay, 102 years ago: the start of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma. https://t.co/ZOOUcwtjiq #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay, 5 years ago: abortion was legalized in the Republic of Ireland.
Read our founder's reflections on the Irish abortion referendum, written in 2018: https://t.co/U2H73a2hXo
