#YosemiteNationalPark, one of the most beautiful places on Earth, was established by Congress on #ThisDayInHistory in 1890, preserving for future generations (and saving from loggers & developers) a pristine #California forest of soaring trees and awesome mountains & waterfalls.

#Union #DirectAction has, on rare occasion, gone too far. Between 1906 & 1911 the #IW carried out 110 bombings of ironworks, mostly minor. But in 1910 on #ThisDayInHistory, a member blew up the #LosAngelesTimes building, killing 21 & injuring 100+; a record crime for #California.

We lost #KrisKristofferson on #ThisDayInHistory in 2024. Many tributes mentioned his consolation of #SinéadOConnor, a truly touching moment. But I'd like to direct you to another side of his humanity – his earnest acknowledgement of, and real concern for, the #Palestinian plight.

The #WaltDisneyWorld resort opened to the public on #ThisDayInHistory in 1971, five years after namesake #WaltDisney's death. Specifically, the #MagicKingdom opened, its equivalent to #Disneyland. The next park on the site, #EPCOTCenter, also opened on #ThisDayInHistory, in 1982.

#SenecaVillage, in #NewYorkCity, was a vibrant community of free #Black Americans and Irish & German #immigrants. In 1857 the city seized it all through #EminentDomain and evicted everyone there, finishing the process on #ThisDayInHistory, and built #CentralPark open its bones.

Ever unwilling to respect the national sovereignty of other countries, Israel on #ThisDayInHistory in 1985 carried out #OperationWoodenLeg. In it, the #IDF bombed the #PLO's headquarters in #Tunisia – the country to which #Israel agreed to evacuate the PLO when it left #Lebanon.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1946, the sentences in the #NurembergTrials were handed down. 12 #Nazis were condemned to death. Meanwhile, countless thousands of politicians, officers, commandants, & #WarCriminals were reintegrated into society and government. The Nazis never went away.

Israel invaded #Lebanon again on #ThisDayInHistory in 2024, with the #IDF proceeding to the #LitaniRiver, viewed by #GreaterIsrael advocates as #Israel's natural northern border. This was its fifth such invasion since 1978, and its sixth counting the incursions during the #Nakba.

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#AlexanderTheGreat, so-called, defeated #DariusIII, and the #Achaemenid #PersianEmpire, in the #BattleOfGaugamela on #ThisDayInHistory in 331 BCE. Alexander got lucky when the #Persian cavalry rushed to loot his supply train rather than attacking his exposed #phalanx from behind.

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On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong stands at Tiananmen in Beijing and proclaims the People's Republic of China. A chapter of civil war closes, and a new state is announced. #ThisDayInHistory #ChinaFounded

(2 of 2) The #ElaineMassacre from #ThisDayInHistory in 1919 began with #Black farmers organizing for better pay and facing a white mob that opened fire on them. They shot back, and the mob killed up to 800 of them, with dozens of survivors imprisoned for supposedly inciting it.

(1 of 2) When #conservatives talk about a right to #SelfDefence, they do not mean against them, and they fear losing control of the state monopoly of violence. On #ThisDayInHistory in #Elaine, #Arkansas, in 1919 they killed hundreds of #Black innocents for daring to fight back...

The #CaravanOfDeath set out on #ThisDayInHistory in 1973. A #Chilean Army #DeathSquad, it served the violent #FarRight dictatorship of #AugustoPinochet by traversing the country, south to north, torturing, mutilating, & killing 97 #leftists, and tossing them into unmarked graves.

#RMSMauretania of 1906, one of #CunardLine's most successful #OceanLiners, captured the westbound Atlantic speed record from her running mate #RMSLusitania on #ThisDayInHistory in 1909, and held the #BlueRiband in both directions for the next twenty years, an unprecedented feat.

Racial #segregation is far from a uniquely American evil, and on #ThisDayInHistory in 1953, #communist boxer #LenJohnson faced it in the #OldAbbeyTaphouse in #Manchester, England. Refused service for being #Black, he organized a 200-strong picket of the pub that desegregated it.