#OtD 8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10766/margaret-thatcher-dies
#OtD 8 Apr 1970 thousands of US truckers went on wildcat strike against a union-management-agreed pay offer. Defying the police, the national guard, and their own union's orders, they lasted 12 weeks and won nearly 70% more than what the union had agreed https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/22/e8-the-vietnam-war-strike-wave/
#OtD 8 Apr 1958 Barbados sugar cane workers kick-started wildcat strike in opposition to an insufficient pay rise. The wildcat strike then spread to dozens of plantations around the country https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10764/barbados-sugar-cane-wildcat
35 years today since the premiere of Twin Peaks, one of the most defining parts of David Lynch's legacy that made television history and set new standards for storytelling, influencing a significant number of fictional works, from films to novels and video games, over the decades.
#OtD 8 Apr 1950 anti-fascist guerrilla Josep Lluis Facerias aka 'Face', blew up the Lonja police station in Barcelona, Spain. He was part of the militant underground resistance to the right-wing dictatorship of General Franco https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10763/facerias-blows-up-police-station
#OtD 8 Apr 1929 Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw two bombs into the Delhi Central Legislative Assembly in protest at two repressive bills. Though the bombs were thrown away from people to avoid injury, both were sentenced to life imprisonment https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10762/delhi-legislative-assembly-bombing
#OtD 8 Apr 1877 French teacher and communist Jeanne Labourbe was born. Moving to Russia, she took part in the 1917 revolution and helped organise the mutiny of the French Black Sea fleet, for which she was shot by counterrevolutionaries https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10761/jeanne-marie-labourbe-born
A new French Minister to the US, Edmond-Charles Genet, arrived in Charleston #OTD in 1793. Learn more about the headaches that he caused for the Washington administration by listening to ep. 1.15. #history #POTUS #Washington https://www.presidenciespodcast.com/115-its-not-easy-being-neutral/
#OTD in 1962: "Tony Bender" #Strollo, a top figure in the #Genovese Crime Family, left his home in #FortLeeNJ #NewJersey and never returned.
Read about it:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2020/04/going-out-for-few-minutes.html
#OTD vor 93 Jahren: Vortrag: „Warum wählen wir Hindenburg – Schluss mit dem Nazitheater!“ im Mittelgasthof Struppen https://www.gedenkplaetze.info/widerstand/mittelgasthof-struppen
#OTD, 50 years ago, the world lost the fabulous, audacious and smart #JosephineBaker.
Instead of some sexy banana dance picture, here she is doing some gardening in her Paris home.
Edit: Error correction (I believed the paper newspaper from today, but just learned better on the internet) - she did not die on the 8th of April, but on the 12th.
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#ZeitzeichenWDR #WDR #Zeitzeichen
Die Venus von Milo wird gefunden (am 8.4.1820) https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-die-venus-von-milo-wird-gefunden-am--100.html (@wikinaut)
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#KalenderblattDLF #DLF #Kalenderblatt
Gladow-Bande - Der Al Capone von Berlin https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/08-04-1950-todesurteile-gegen-die-gladow-bande-in-der-ddr-100.html (@wikinaut)
#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.
Vor 190 Jahren starb Wilhelm von #Humboldt. (Nicht nur) sein Bruder Alexander erkannte in seinem Schaffen geistige Größe und Tiefsinn. Lesen Sie mehr im Artikel des Tages https://www.dwds.de/wb/mit%20offenen%20Augen%20durch%20die%20Welt%20gehen #otd
Released 48 years ago today
The eponymous debut studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash, titled Garage Land (both in the UK and US versions of the final song)
The Clash – Garageland Live 1977
Remembering Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren
Vivienne Westwood
April 8, 1941 - December 29, 2022
Malcolm McLaren
January 22, 1946 - April 8, 2010
Happy Birthday to Donita Sparks, American singer, guitarist, songwriter and co-founder of the punkrock / grunge band L7, born on this day in 1963, Chicago, Illinois
Photo by Dave Willis
48 years ago today
Released on this day in 1977, the eponymous debut studio album by English punk rock band The Clash.
It is widely celebrated as one of the greatest punk albums of all time
#OtD 7 Apr 1926 Violet Gibson attempted to assassinate Mussolini, shooting him through the nose. After being beaten & arrested, Gibson tried to be released by convincing doctors she was mad, and was deported to Britain where she died https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10683/violet-gibson-attentat
