@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialA soba deliveryman in Tokyo, 1935, carrying a tall stack of trays and noodle bowls by bicycle.
Deliveries like this were part of Japan’s food delivery tradition, known as demae, bringing meals from restaurants to customers’ homes and workplaces.
📸 Mainichi Shimbun.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1944
The Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz was an uprising of prisoners (especially the Sonderkommando) at the Auschwitz concentration camp, they burnt down Crematorium IV.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1919
KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1913
Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle assembly line
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1870
Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1868
Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1826
Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Akkerman Convention, under which the Ottomans accept Russian territorial demands in the Balkans, Caucasus and the Danubian river basin
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1800
The French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1777
The Americans defeat British forces under general John Burgoyne in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights, compelling Burgoyne's eventual surrender.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1763
King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1571
The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 1477
Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social7 October 3761 BC
The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social6 October 1895
Conductor Sir Henry Wood instituted the Promenade Concerts; known worldwide as 'The Proms', at the Queen's Hall in London.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social6 October 1769
Explorer Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, discovered New Zealand.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialAngels playing the seven golden trumpets from the Book of Revelation.
The seven trumpets herald a series of divine judgements upon the Earth.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialThe tomb of the Venerable Bede in the 12th century Galilee Chapel at Durham Cathedral.
Bede’s relics were transferred from Jarrow to Durham in 1022, and eventually placed in the Galilee Chapel during the later 14th century.
📸Kevin Wilbraham
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social6 October 1982
Madonna released her debut single, Everybody.
Though the original U.S. single didn't feature her photo, the dance track became a club hit and helped convince Sire Records to green light her debut album.
