📅 On this day in 1983:

Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.

#October13 #OnThisDay

Died #Onthisday 1960 in #Dublin Dr Eleanora Fleury. She was the first female medical graduate from the Royal University of Ireland, & also went on to become the first female member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1894 www.dib.ie/biography/fl...

#Roman Emperor Claudius died #OnThisDay in AD 54. He was responsible for invading Britain in AD 43 and the subsequent urbanisation had a profound impact on the population's health.

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📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen, Naples National Archaeological Museum / CC BY 2.5

🏺 #Archaeology

#TDIM #OnThisDay #BOTD #Music 🎂
Paul Simon turns 85 today

Here's a clip from the Simon & Garfunkel Concert in Central Park, from 1981.
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

#OnThisDay in London radical history, 1831: there are riots in St James, after the reform bill is voted down.
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#OnThisDay in London radical herstory, 1905: The start of the militant phase of the British women’s suffrage movement? Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney interrupt a speech by the Prime Minister, shouting: "Will the Liberal Government give votes to women?"

#OnThisDay in London publishing history, 1733: publishers of Fog’s Weekly Journal nicked for issuing a seditious pamphlet. The Journal was written to oppose the corrupt British government.
Copies here
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#OnThisDay in London radical history: John Goodwyn Barmby founds the Communist Propaganda Society, 1841
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#OnThisDay in London radical herstory, 1908: Suffragettes stage a “rush on Parliament”
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#OnThisDay in radical history, 1921: There is fighting at Cambridge Circus, between unemployed demonstrators & police, while National Unemployed Workers Movement leaders meet the Prime Minister.

#OnThisDay 1949 wurde der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund, @dgb.de gegründet. Unter dem Dach der Einheitsgewerkschaft fanden die vor 1933 parteipolitisch zersplitterten Gewerkschaften zusammen.
Ein Film des DGB über die Hintergründe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELb1...

#OnThisDay in judicial history, 1660: Thomas Harrison, who voted for the execution of king Charles I, is himself executed under the restored monarchy, at Charing Cross.

#OnThisDay in London military history, 1977: Royal Air Force troops are used as scabs to cross picket line in air traffic controllers strike, West Drayton.

#OnThisDay in licensing history, 1721: Middlesex magistrates meet to consider Sir John Gonson's report investigating rumour that London was filled with ‘scandalous clubs or societies of young persons who meet together and in the most impious and blasphemous manner …’

#TDIM #OnThisDay #BOTD #Music 🎂
Dorothy Moore turns 80 today.

Here's Misty Blue

#OnThisDay in radical history, 1869: the first preliminary meeting takes place to set up the Land & Labour League

More on the League:
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Four years in the making as the only demo tapes of the album had disappeared from luggage at a UK airport, The Curse of Blondie, @blondieband.bsky.social 8th studio album is a pop masterclass,that needs a second chance.
Released #OnThisDay October 13, 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣3️⃣

#Blondie #NewWave #DebbieHarry #musicsky

🗓️🇺🇸🎶🗣️✍️ #OnThisDay 1941 US singer/songwriter Paul Simon was born. Here’s Matthew Compton’s arrangement of Paul Simon’s “Sound of Silence” performed by the Bells of the Cascades handbell ensemble

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#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All