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.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1676, the #TrueLeveller/#Digger ideologue #GerrardWinstanley died. He opposed the growth of #enclosures to cut people off from free land in the #EnglishCivilWar. Diggers broke through to grow food, and this challenge to #capital power was stopped by force.

The #BattleOfStockton on #ThisDayInHistory in 1933 was a fight between 100 members of #OswaldMosley's #BritishUnionOfFascists and 2,000 #antifascists armed with pick-axe handles, stones, bricks, and potatoes fitted with razor blades. Self-defence against #fascists is necessary.

Nine days later, a fault damaged 53 magnets and shut it down for more than a year.
Four years later?
It helped discover the Higgs boson.

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The #StonoRebellion, beginning #ThisDayInHistory in 1739, was the largest #SlaveRevolt in a British mainland colony. #Slaves in #SouthCarolina marched under a "#Liberty!" banner, seized weapons, burnt plantations on the way to #SpanishFlorida, and killed 23 colonial militiamen.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1957, #Republican President #DwightEisenhower signed the first #CivilRights legislation since 1875 (#Reconstruction). It was weakened by Senate opposition but still empowered the federal government to prosecute those who interfered with our #VotingRights.

The #AtticaPrisonUprising began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1971. Over 1,000 prisoners took control of the upstate #NewYork facility and issued demands about proper sanitation and human dignity. Gov. #NelsonRockefeller ordered an assault instead & 39 people were killed by the state.

A history of #PoliceRacism & the highest unemployment in #Birmingham sparked the #SecondHandsworthRiots on #ThisDayInHistory in 1985. As usual, note that 'riot' in this context means an uprising against social injustice. Hundreds attacked police & smashed shit; four were killed.

The term “bug” for technical faults was already decades old. That's what made the joke funny. For once, the computer bug really was a bug.

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A speech by #OswaldMosley was drowned out by #antifascist protesters in London's #HydePark on #ThisDayInHistory in 1934. The press & #BBC had advertised the #fascist's speech but not the #antifa counter rally, so workers hung banners on buildings & trains, spoke in cinemas, etc.

Ambushed the day before as the #BattleOfTheTeutoburgForest began, #Roman commander #Varus tried on #ThisDayInHistory in 9 CE to escape but found another trap laid by the Germanic forces of #Arminius, leading #Augustus to a nervous breakdown and the virtual end of Roman expansion.

Striking construction workers in #Haifa, #Palestine, were beaten and marched through the streets in chains on #ThisDayInHistory in 1925. The employers & British authorities denounced joint #Palestinian-#Jewish #union activism as "#Bolshevism" and used #police violence against it.

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The #DelanoGrapeStrike began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1965 when mostly #Filipino farm workers in #California demanded to be paid the federal #MinimumWage and walked out. They were joined by Hispanic workers in an action that took five years, and later founded #UnitedFarmWorkers.

The series #StarTrek had its network première on #ThisDayInHistory in 1966. It presented an idealistic and #socialist-inspired dream of a humanity without #capitalism or #racism. Whilst now close to its #postscarcity vision in technology, we still let oligarchs steal everything.