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Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 14 Aug 1911 a general strike of all transport workers in Liverpool, England, began following a police attack on a strike meeting the previous day <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8543/liverpool-transport-general-strike" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8543/liverpool-transport-general-strike</span></a></p>
The Public Domain Review<p>Happy <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorldLizardDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldLizardDay</span></a>! </p><p>Here's an x-ray of a Green Lizard, from an early volume of X-rays produced by Josef Maria Eder, a director of an institute for graphic processes, and Eduard Valenta, a photochemist, both from Austria. More here: <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/early-experiments-with-x-rays-1896" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/collect</span><span class="invisible">ion/early-experiments-with-x-rays-1896</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onthisday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onthisday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 14 Aug 1901 Mercedes Comaposada, film editor and lifelong revolutionary feminist, was born. An anarcho-feminist organizer in Spain, Franco's fascist victory forced her to flee with her partner to Paris where she worked as Pablo Picasso's secretary <a href="https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/mujeres-libres" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shop.workingclasshistory.com/c</span><span class="invisible">ollections/all/mujeres-libres</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 14 Aug 2007 over 600 workers on the Heglig oil field in South Sudan went on strike. The workers, employed by Chinese road and bridge construction company LPEB were protesting against low pay and discrimination against Sudanese workers <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7749/heglig-oilfield-strike" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/7749/heglig-oilfield-strike</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 14 Aug 1944 29-year-old Italian resistance partisan, Irma Bandiera, was murdered by the Nazis. She refused to give the names of her comrades, despite being blinded and tortured for seven days. Learn more about the resistance in our podcast: <a href="https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">workingclasshistory.com/podcas</span><span class="invisible">t/e77-80-italian-resistance/</span></a></p>
Punkrock History<p>Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious pose in their apartment in Pindock Mews, London, on August 14, 1978.</p><p>It was likely a party to celebrate their impending departure from England.</p><p>Photo by Watal Asanuma</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punk</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punks</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punkrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punkrock</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sidvicious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sidvicious</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/nancyspungen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nancyspungen</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/lovekills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lovekills</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punkrockhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punkrockhistory</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a></p>
Punkrock History<p>43 years ago today </p><p>Coup d'Etat&nbsp;is the third studio album by American&nbsp;punk rock&nbsp;band the&nbsp;Plasmatics,&nbsp;released on this day in 1982.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punk</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punks</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punkrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punkrock</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/plasmatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plasmatics</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/wendyowilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wendyowilliams</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/womenofpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenofpunk</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/punkrockhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punkrockhistory</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 13 Aug 1923 Carlos Cortez, US anarcho-syndicalist, poet, graphic artist, photographer, muralist and activist, was born. Son of an Indigenous Mexican <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@iww" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>iww</span></a></span> organiser, and a German socialist, he was active for six decades in the union <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8453/carlos-cortez" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8453/carlos-cortez</span></a></p>
armadillosoft<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> 8/13/19 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birdsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birdsOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aBirdAday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aBirdAday</span></a> (or more) Western bluebird on the prairie</p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/49567573037/in/album-72157713205699018/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">flickr.com/photos/armadillosof</span><span class="invisible">t/49567573037/in/album-72157713205699018/</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 13 Aug 1937 four striking Indian sugar workers were massacred at the Union Flacq Sugar Estate, Mauritius. In response, protests escalated. The British colonial government was then forced to legalise unions and set up collective bargaining <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7741/mauritius-strike-massacre" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/7741/mauritius-strike-massacre</span></a></p>
jdmccafferty<p>13 Aug 1553: William Herbert 1st earl of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Pembroke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pembroke</span></a> admitted to Mary I's Privy Council <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> </p><p>(Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum of Wales)</p>
The Public Domain Review<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 1946, H. G. Wells passed away, leaving the future (about which he wrote so much) to others. Peter J. Bowler explores Wells' ideas of progress and how for him the notion of a better future was riddled with complexities. <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/h-g-wells-and-the-uncertainties-of-progress" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/h</span><span class="invisible">-g-wells-and-the-uncertainties-of-progress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 13 Aug 1917 Eugene Bonaventure de Vigo, anarchist, anti-militarist writer, editor and father of filmmaker Jean Vigo was murdered in his prison cell, strangled by a shoelace <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8452/eugene-bonaventure-de-vigo-murdered" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8452/eugene-bonaventure-de-vigo-murdered</span></a></p>
The Public Domain Review<p>Social reformer and founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale, died <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onthisday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onthisday</span></a> in 1910 aged 90. Hear the only known recording of her voice, made on 30th July 1890, to raise money for the impoverished veterans of the Charge of the Light Brigade: <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-voice-of-florence-nightingale" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/collect</span><span class="invisible">ion/the-voice-of-florence-nightingale</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 13 Aug 1776 a crowd of women in Fishkill, New York, seized tea during a food riot in the American revolution <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8449/fishkill-food-riot" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8449/fishkill-food-riot</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 13 Aug 1917 a revolutionary general strike began in Sabadell, Spain, as part of a national strike called by the UGT union, which was supported by the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Cntsindicato" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Cntsindicato</span></a></span>. The civil guard attacked workers, killing 13 and destroying the union office <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7740/sabadell-general-strike" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/7740/sabadell-general-strike</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 13 Aug 2000 German resistance activist and communist Ria Deeg died aged 92. During WWII she was arrested and jailed for 38 months for high treason, but survived the war and remained active until the end <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8459/ria-deeg-dies" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8459/ria-deeg-dies</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 13 Aug 1977 anti-fascist South London residents staged running battles with police and National Front members to stop a fascist demonstration in what would come to be known as ‘the Battle of Lewisham’. This is a short history of the events: <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8458/battle-of-lewisham,-1977" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8458/battle-of-lewisham,-1977</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 13 Aug 1918, Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the US Marines. She went on to be promoted to sergeant, and was the highest ranking woman in the Marines in WW1. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 13 Aug 1930 John McInerney, an <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@iww" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>iww</span></a></span> union member, died in prison aged 45. He had been convicted and jailed of 2nd degree murder for defending the union hall against a vigilante attack by the American Legion in the Centralia massacre <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8454/james-mcinerney-dies-in-prison" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8454/james-mcinerney-dies-in-prison</span></a></p>
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