The lovely #SSParis was launched on #ThisDayInHistory in 1916, though the #CGT #OceanLiner was not completed until 1921 due to #WorldWarI. Famous for costly mishaps in service, and for her fiery ending and the harm her wreck did to #SSLiberté, she was nonetheless a popular ship.

The #LascauxCave/#GrotteDeLascaux #CavePaintings were discovered on #ThisDayInHistory in 1940 when a boy's dog inspected a hole left by an uprooted tree. Their #PrehistoricArt was produced between 17,000 & 22,000 years ago. The caves have been closed since 1964 to protect them.

Several of the normally fractious poleis (city-states) of ancient Greece managed to unite against the threat posed by the #FirstGrecoPersianWar. The much larger forces of #DariusI were defeated by the alliance near #Athens on #ThisDayInHistory in 490 BCE in the #BattleOfMarathon.

#ArmenianGenocide refugees fleeing #Ottoman troops put up a fight at #MusaDagh in #HatayProvince. Just as ammunition was running out, they were seen by five #French warships under Vice Admiral Louis Dartige du Fournet & 4,004 survivors were evacuated on #ThisDayInHistory in 1915.

Following two days of bombing to demoralize the #Kurds, British cavalry and #RAF biplanes went out on #ThisDayInHistory in 1921 to destroy utterly the #Kurdish villages of Batas, Harir, Karwatan & Bawiyan. The villagers were killed, all property was burnt & all cattle were shot.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1973, the US #CIA and #AugustoPinochet overthrew the #socialist government of #Chile. Here is President #SalvadorAllende speaking at the UN, months before his murder, on the impact of multinational #corporations, in whose interests the US acts as enforcer:

In the #September11 attacks, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2001, 2976 Americans were murdered by #alQaeda. This was not an #InsideJob, but a consequence of the US's violent foreign policy. Our government willingly made us targets and used the attacks to strip away more #CivilLiberties.

Just an extraordinarily early glimpse of how we'd eventually use computers every day.

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#RMSArundelCastle, an #OceanLiner of the #UnionCastleLine, was launched on #ThisDayInHistory in 1919. Originally a #FourStacker, she was rebuilt in 1937 with a raked bow and two funnels, Arundel Castle had a long career on the #SouthAfrica mail run, and was only scrapped in 1959.

Thousands of surrendered soldiers and civilians at #Drogheda in #Ireland were massacred by #OliverCromwell and his #NewModelArmy on #ThisDayInHistory in 1649. No quarter was given and none were spared, and Cromwell justified this on the basis of instilling terror in Irish hearts.

The state will send your kids to die but won't house them if they return. The #AbbeyLodge in London was #squatted by #homeless #veterans & their families on #ThisDayInHistory in 1946. Cops tried to prevent folks from donating blankets to the children, sparking community outrage.

#SSConteDiSavoia, one of the finest #OceanLiners from the #ItalianLine, was set afire and sunk by #Nazi soldiers on #ThisDayInHistory in 1943 in the chaos around the Italian armistice. More modern in aspect than #SSRex, she was the first major liner with gyroscopic stabilizers.

The #FirebombingOfDarmstadt by the #RAF began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1944. Up to 12,500 civilians were killed in it and another 70,000 were left homeless. The old city centre of #Darmstadt, #Germany, was almost entirely destroyed. The terror-bombing of civilians is a #WarCrime.

Forced assimilation is a form of #genocide. The #Russification of #Finland by #TsarNikolaiII's government accelerated on #ThisDayInHistory in 1914 with orders to teach the #Russian language and history. Resistance to this culminated in Finland's 1917 declaration of independence.

On this day in history in 1721, American Founding Father Peyton Randolph was born.

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Pictured is Randolph's portrait as it hangs in the Second Bank of the United States Portrait Gallery in Philadelphia.

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American #FarRight/#neofascist commentator and activist #CharlieKirk, who worked to mainstream #ChristianNationalist, #WhiteSupremacist, and #misogynistic rhetoric, was assassinated on #ThisDayInHistory in 2025 whilst onstage at a #UtahValleyUniversity event in #Orem, #Utah.

#FannieLouHamer, a #CivilRights activist, was attacked on #ThisDayInHistory in 1962 by incompetent #WhiteSupremacist scum in #Mississippi. Having been denied her right to vote, Hamer was visiting a friend when the #racists drove by and fired 16 rounds at her, all of which missed.

In the #LattimerMassacre, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1897, a posse organized by the #LuzerneCountySheriff opened fire on #striking miners, killing 19 unarmed men and wounding 36. Most were shot in the back. All the pigs were acquitted because their violence served capital interests.

Spanish irredentists continue to claim #Gibraltar as a part of #Spain, despite its civilian population having no interest in such a changeover. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1967, a referendum result showed 99.64% of #Gibraltarians wanting the territory to remain a British dependency.

The #LargeHadronCollider, built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (#CERN), was first powered up on #ThisDayInHistory in 2008. The world's largest #ParticleAccelerator, it lies up to 574 feet deep and runs 17 miles in circumference, and took ten years to build.