⚙️ Stop-Motion Accuracy: The October patent added a stop-motion device that kept mechanical gears from overshooting during rapid calculations.

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#AnitaHill delivered her testimony in the #Senate confirmation hearing for #ClarenceThomas on #ThisDayInHistory in 1991. She described his #SexualHarassment in great detail and passed a #polygraph test. #JoeBiden made a crooked deal and blocked four other women from testifying.

Following a successful siege, the #SackOfWexford commenced on #ThisDayInHistory in 1649, with the #NewModelArmy of #OliverCromwell again showing its brutality in #Ireland, with thousands massacred, priests included. Cromwell's only regret was that the troops also looted the city.

The #SecondVaticanCouncil, the #CatholicChurch's 21st ecumenical council, opened on #ThisDayInHistory in 1962. Spanning the papacies of #JohnXXIII and #PaulVI, it finally removed the dogma of collective Jewish guilt for deicide, and shifted the #RomanRite to vernacular languages.

The #DukeOfWindsor, the abdicated #EdwardVIII, began #ThisDayInHistory in 1937 a 12-day tour of #NaziGermany. He made his sympathy for #Nazism and #AdolfHitler plain, and had a long private meeting with the Führer. The #MarburgFiles later revealed active collusion with the Nazis.

On this day in 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy opened its doors with 50 young midshipmen.

181 years later, I still think a man in uniform who knows how to handle his “ship” is pretty irresistible. 😘🔥

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Pres. #DwightDEisenhower apologized to Finance Minister #KomlaAgbeliGbedemah of #Ghana on #ThisDayInHistory in 1957, since the latter had been refused service in a #HowardJohnson's restaurant in #Dover, #Delaware, due to the USA's reprehensible & widespread #JimCrow #segregation.

The longest-lived #MatsonLines #OceanLiner, #SSMonterey was launched on #ThisDayInHistory in 1931. Built for runs to #Hawaii & #Australia etc., she was renamed #Matsonia in 1956 and #Lurline in 1963. #Matson sold her to #ChandrisLine and she sailed as #Britanis from 1970 to 1995.

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Likely the largest loss of life on the #IrishSea came on #ThisDayInHistory in 1918 with the sinking of City of Dublin Steam Packet Company vessel #RMSLeinster. The German submarine #UB123 torpedoed the crowded ship, which sank in less than 15 minutes, killing at least 564 people.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1937, #OswaldMosley held a #fascist rally in #Liverpool. Upon snapping a #NaziSalute, he was struck in the head by thrown stones and spent a week in hospital to recover. #Antifascist resistance to #ReformUK etc. (and to #MAGA) has a long and proud history.

The British Army sacked #Kabul on #ThisDayInHistory in 1842, using fire and explosives on historic structures like the 17th century #CharChattaBazaar as well as mosques & houses, killing many thousands of civilians, such that even some of the jingoistic English press lamented it.

The #BravoCompanyMutiny spread #ThisDayInHistory in 1971 as the #USArmy unit declared an unofficial #ceasefire with the #Vietnamese. The army dropped its #CourtMartial due to the number of men involved and rotated them out. #DeltaCompany then repeated the move, forcing a retreat.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1911, the #WuchangUprising began in #Hubei, #China. The armed revolt against the #Qing state came as a surprise, but its success led #SunYatSen et al. to call on other provinces to secede and form the #RepublicOfChina in what became the #XinhaiRevolution.

#Marxist icon #CheGuevara was summarily executed by #CIA-trained #Bolivian troops on the orders of Pres. #RenéBarrientos, and possibly against US wishes, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1967. They shot him in the torso and avoided the head in order to lie and say he died in a firefight.

🌐 Proof of Concept: It proved existing telegraph wires could carry two-way human speech instead of just Morse code.

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#HurricaneMilton made landfall in #SiestaKey, #Florida, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2024. Tied with 2005's #HurricaneRita as the most intense #TropicalCyclone in the recorded in the #GulfOfMexico, it killed 45 people, and came just two weeks after the even-deadlier #HurricaneHelene.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1796, the bodies of about sixty drowned #African captives, still bound in chains, were found in #RappareeCove in North #Devon, #England. They were likely bound for the slave market in #Bristol when the ship wrecked. Locals dumped them into a mass grave.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1940, #JohnLennon was born in #Liverpool. A deeply problematic person, with abusive and misogynistic tendencies, and serious substance issues, he is better known as a songwriter (both solo and with the #Beatles) and as a voice for peace and against racism.

Sometimes #DirectAction is the only way to get a state to take you seriously. The #NottinghamReformRiots began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1831 when the #HouseOfLords shot down a bill to raise #WorkingClass representation in #parliament. They subsequently passed such a bill in 1832.