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#OtD 15 Oct 1920 Italian anarchist militant and writer Errico Malatesta, along with others such as Armando Borghi, was arrested in connection with August-September workers' factory occupations in Milan

🏗️ #OTD 1989: The Loma Prieta earthquake struck Northern California, collapsing a section of Oakland's Cypress Street Viaduct onto the deck below. That same year, FEMA established the U.S. National Urban Search and Rescue Response System. #USAR #Earthquake

#TodayInQueerHistory
Oct 17 (2019)
"I’m an artist, it’s core to my job to imagine realities that don’t necessarily exist." Frank Ocean launched his Prep+ club night #OTD, calling it an “homage to what could have been of the 1980s’ NYC club scene if the drug…had been invented in that era”.

#OTD in @PoliceGazette 1933: Mae West makes the cover with the release of her new movie I'M NO ANGEL.

Connie Morgan was born #OTD in 1935. She played second base for the Indianapolis Clowns in the mid-1950s, when they were based in #Buffalo.

#OTD 2025 – Sofia Huerta steps to spot to secure Seattle Reign's return to NWSL playoffs with 2-1 win over Utah. Ainsley McCammon heads Seattle ahead in dying seconds of 1st half. Huerta, back from loan to Olympique Lyon in July, hits 67' pk winner. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJYP...

#OTD 17 October 1961 The Paris police, under the leadership of Maurice Papon, violently attacks peacefully demonstrating Algerians in Paris, killing over 100. The victims were brutalized, mutilated & thrown into the Seine to prevent their identification.

#OTD 2021 – Washington Husky Hall of Fame inducts its 1st male soccer player, former standout defender Craig Waibel. From 1994-98 Waibel, a Spokane native, anchored backline and helped lead Washington to 3 NCAA Tournament appearances.

#OTD 2016 – Former NWSL MVP Kim Little announces she’s leaving Seattle Reign after 3 seasons to join Arsenal Ladies. Little, a Scottish international, scored 33 times for Seattle, including 17 in 2014 regular season and playoffs.

#OTD 2009 – Second-half goals 7 minutes apart from Roger Levesque & Nate Jaqua earn Sounders playoff-clinching, 3-2 comeback win at Kansas City. Jaqua nets 76' game-winner from Freddie Ljungberg cross. Seattle becomes 1st MLS expansion team in 11 years to make playoffs.

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Prince William and Catherine are seen together backstage during the inaugural #Earthshot Prize Awards 2021 at Alexandra Palace #OTD October 17, 2021 in London, England.

Released #OTD in 1980 #filmsky

This movie was inspired by a diary that Writer and Director Allan Moyle found in a secondhand couch that he bought. The diary was from a young mentally disturbed woman that featured words and drawings about her life on the streets.

on #BookWormSat #books #literature 📚
'All I want is out there, waiting for me
the minute I say I know who I am.'
Arthur Miller #ArthurMiller #OTD #BOTD
Image : Death of a Salesman
#Reading #film #theatre #silicasun 🏡📘💛

17 October 1966 - Cream play the Majestic Ballroom, Reading.
The VIPs play the Marquee, London.
#6TYAT #OTD

This Bloody Country could not explain why a family was travelling to the West on foot using a cart rather than a wagon when it premiered today in '25!

#MovieReview #OTD #MovieSky

On this day (116 years ago), date of death of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910).

Poems are included in the #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive:
https://www.romanticperiodpoetry.org/authors/#id/pers00599

#poetry #DH #Romanticism #19thC #OTD

#OTD Around the World in 80 Days, with Cantinflas and David Niven, 1956

Today is the 70th anniversary of this Academy Award-winning Best Picture film, written by Hirschfeld’s friend S.J. Perelman.

Have you seen this movie?