Embarrassed by the #PFLP's hijacked airliners on its soil, #KingHussein initiated the most violent phase of the #BlackSeptember civil war on #ThisDayInHistory in 1970, with urban warfare against the #PLO throughout #Jordan while Israel guarded against Syrian armed intervention.

TODAY IN HISTORY: SEPTEMBER 16, 1620
After 66 days at sea, they drafted the Mayflower Compact, a self-created framework for written law and majority rule. It marked the first American attempt at self-governance by the people, for the people.

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#MahsaAmini, a 22-year-old #Kurdish #Iranian, died in #Tehran on #ThisDayInHistory in 2022 as a result of injuries sustained during beatings by #GuidancePatrol fascists for not wearing #hijab. Her death sparked global outrage and protests in #Iran at which hundreds were killed.

A coördinated international effort during #WWI saw #capitalist 'democracies' targeting #leftist groups. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1917, Eva Lynch was arrested in #Australia whilst training women speakers to keep #IWW going (the male leadership of the #union was already imprisoned).

#CharlesDarwin, sailing as #naturalist with #HMSBeagle, arrived in the #GalápagosIslands on #ThisDayInHistory in 1835. #Darwin's observations there, and famously a study of its #finches, was crucial in developing his theory of #NaturalSelection to explain the fact of #evolution.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1970, hundreds of #police in #NewOrleans attacked #Black group the #NationalCommitteeToCombatFascism, a #BlackPantherParty ally. They fired 30,000 rounds into their #DesireHousingProjects office. There was no justice for this #WhiteSupremacist terrorism.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1963, the #KKK bombed a #16thStreetBaptistChurch in #Alabama, killing four young girls and wounding 22. #FBI knew the identity of all four shitbag #WhiteSupremacist terrorists involved by 1965, but never prosecuted them. This is why #reparations matter.

Showing once again that "#AntiCommunism" just means pro-#fascism, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1954 veterans of the #AbrahamLincolnBrigade (American volunteers in the #SpanishCivilWar) were brought before the #SubversiveActivitiesControlBoard in an attempt to label them subversives.

#LehmanBrothers, a former US #InvestmentBank, filed for #Chapter11Bankruptcy on #ThisDayInHistory in 2008 as part of the the #SubprimeMortgageCrisis. It remains the largest #bankruptcy in US history, with over $600 billion in assets. The structural problems were not addressed.

#OlympeDeGouges, the most prominent #feminist author during the #FrenchRevolution, published her 'Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen' on #ThisDayInHistory in 1791. It called for #divorce rights, #alimony, and #ChildSupport. She was later guillotined.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1935, #Nazi Germany passed its #NurembergLaws (#NürnbergerGesetze), banning mixed marriages & removing citizenship from German Jews. We seldom hear in the US of the extent to which #Hitler's racist #Volksgemeinschaft was based on American models & ideals.

Understanding the Holocaust means recognizing how ordinary administrative machinery laid the foundation long before the killing centers were built.

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In the #BattleOfDevilsHole during #PontiacsWar, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1763, #Seneca warriors dealt a heavy blow to British troops near #Niagara Gorge. The Seneca had a single wounded man, while 81 British soldiers and 21 escorts & teamsters were killed, and another 8 wounded.

On this day in history in 1742, American Founding Father James Wilson was born. Wilson was one of only six people to sign both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

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In the #FlightOfTheEarls, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1607, the indigenous #Gaelic-speaking ruling class of #Ulster fled #Ireland for mainland Europe. Unable to secure aid for their return to power, few ever went home, and their lands were seized for the colonial #PlantationOfUlster.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1867 the first volume of #DasKapital by #KarlMarx was published, giving us the first detailed definition of #capitalism as a socioeconomic system. One of the most cited books in history, its analysis remains foundational to any study of #PoliticalEconomy.

An accidental explosion that killed two Hungarian soldiers prompted the #IpMassacre, a #pogrom & #WarCrime on #ThisDayInHistory in 1940. The Hungarian Army and a local mob slaughtered 158 Romanian civilians in an #EthnicCleansing of Ip, Sălaj, a village in Northern #Transylvania.

#MobutuSeseSeko launched a coup with #CIA help against the first president of #CongoKinshasa, #PatriceLumumba on #ThisDayInHistory in 1960. MSS brutally held power until 1997, and for much of that time #DRCongo was called #Zaire. #Lumumba was later butchered & dissolved in acid.

A technology designed for 1950s computers is still hiding in plain sight.

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