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~300 mostly #Black Republicans held a rally in #Camilla, #Georgia, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1868, and were told by the sheriff to disarm & disperse. When they refused, he deputized a #racist mob to commit the #CamillaMassacre. ~15 were killed, 40 wounded. It was denied until 1998.

#GeorgeWashington published his #FarewellAddress as an open letter to the public on #ThisDayInHistory in 1796. The first president under the second US #Constitution warned against the dangers of #PoliticalParties, and against entangling foreign alliances and wars. He was ignored.

#Leftist #AntiWar activists #SamMelville and #JaneAlpert bombed the offices of the #ArmyInspectorGeneral & #DepartmentOfCommerce on #ThisDayInHistory in 1969. No-one was injured. Melville was later killed by #police whilst incarcerated during the #AtticaPrisonUprising in 1971.

#HMSCaledonia caught fire and sank in 1939 on #ThisDayInHistory. The training ship was acquired from #CunardWhiteStar in April 1937 when #OceanLiner #RMSMajestic was retired from service. Majestic, formerly #SSBismarck (1914), suffered small electrical fires throughout the 1930s.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1958, the #anarchosyndicalist activist and writer #RudolfRocker died. From time in London with #Yiddish #anarchist newspaper #ArbeterFraint to agitation against #Nazism in Germany to his last decades in the US, he never wavered in commitment to the future.

Soon after #PatriceLumumba was overthrown in #Congo, meeting minutes on #ThisDayInHistory in 1960 record Pres. #DwightEisenhower & UK Foreign Secretary #AlecDouglasHome (and PM #HaroldMacMillan) agreeing Lumumba should 'fall into a river full of crocodiles' for seeking freedom.

The long-running #NagornoKarabakh conflict found a horrifying kind of conclusion on #ThisDayInHistory in 2023. #Azerbaijan launched an offensive into the de facto #Artsakh Republic that #Armenian could not contain, causing a violent #EthnicCleansing of #Armenians from the region.

In 1893 on #ThisDayInHistory, #NewZealand became the first country to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. It was still racist for a while, as #Maori and European-descended elections were separate, but it was still a major win for #suffrage and #feminism.

On this day in history in 1733, American Founding Father George Reed was born. Read was one of only six people to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. Learn more about this prolific signer from Delaware in our blog: buff.ly/s0PDtA6

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In the #PierceCityLynching, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1885 outside #PierceCity in #IdahoTerritory, five Chinese residents were accused of murder, arrested without evidence, tortured into confessing, then taken by a #WhiteSupremacist mob and hanged. The governor defended the act.

A #FugitiveSlaveAct passed Congress in 1850 on #ThisDayInHistory as part of the #CompromiseOf1850. It required officials and citizens of anti-slavery states return escapees, and was following by a new #liberal party (the #RepublicanParty) and to #BleedingKansas and the #CivilWar.

On this day in history, September 18th, 1793, George Washington laid the ceremonial cornerstone of the United States Capital Building in Washington, D.C. ⠀

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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1990, during the #OkaCrisis/#KanesatakeResistance, #Canadian soldiers & #Québec cops invaded #KahnawakeReservation. The Kanyen'kehà:ka (#Mohawk) #FirstNations people resisted, forcing the state to retreat. 75 members & 22 troops were injured in fighting.

With the #NationalSecurityAct, signed by #Truman #ThisDayInHistory in 1947, the #CIA was founded. Created intentionally without much #oversight or presidential control, the agency was empowered to attack countries deemed a threat to #capitalist interests. This list is incomplete:

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1970, we lost a truly great American musician, #JimiHendrix, an innovator on guitar in rock, jazz, and blues, who died well before his time. His music is both of its era and timeless, still able to touch the heart and soul of any who're willing to listen.

The American magazine #SaturdayEveningPost published a #PGWodehouse short story, 'Extricating Young Gussie', on #ThisDayInHistory in 1915, featuring the first appearance of his characters #BertieWooster and his valet #Jeeves, memorably played by actors #HughLaurie & #StephenFry.