Heute vor 82 Jahren landeten US-amerikanische, kanadische und britische Soldat*innen in der von Deutschland besetzten Normandie. Die „Operation Overlord“ war ein entscheidender Schritt in der Befreiung Europas vom Faschismus.

#NiewiederFaschismus #DDay #Onthisday #OperationOverlord

• Unsichtbare Hand (12%, 3 votes)
• Marshallplan (24%, 6 votes)
• Wochenende (64%, 16 votes)

Am 2. Juni 2019 wurde der Kasseler Regierungspräsident Walter Lübcke auf der Terrasse seines Wohnhauses erschossen.

Der Täter, Stephan Ernst, wurde 2021 wegen Mordes zu einer lebenslangen Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt. Er war seit den 1980er Jahren in der rechtsextremen Szene aktiv und bereits zuvor durch rassistisch motivierte Gewalttaten aufgefallen.

#WalterLuebcke #keinVergessen #onthisday #VVNBdA

Today marks the 100th anniversary of one of the worst rail disasters in the history of Melbourne.

On 26 May 1926, a packed Tait electric train crashed into the rear of another waiting on Platform 4 at Caulfield Railway Station.

Three people were killed and over 170 others were injured.

See today's video for more: m.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7VcGmJ…

#Melbourne #Train #MelbourneTrains #Australia #LocalHistory #AustralianHistory #OnThisDay

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“Have ye come far?”
“Only from America.”

#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.

She lands unexpectedly in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/…

Watch newsreel of her taking off here: youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyz…

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory @histodons #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 20 May 2016, Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in as President of Taiwan. She is the first woman to hold the role, and was re-elected in 2020.

In 2019 she had pushed through the legalisation of same-sex marriage, despite 67% of the country rejecting it in a referendum.

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1893, Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia spoke at the Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She was the first woman to address the Kotahitanga, and called for Māori women to have the vote and to be members of the parliament.

#AotearoaHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons

17 May is Día das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day).

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1863, María Rosalía Rita de Castro's poetry is published. It’s the first publication by a single author in Galician for 400 years. The public holiday was introduced to celebrate the centenary of Rosalia de Castro's work.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Galicia #LiteraryWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

"I've never heard of another case where a government has dropped a bomb on citizens in America.

This is not something that you can repair back to normal. You have to find other ways to cope, and that's what I've been doing for the last 40 years."

✊

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#OTD #OnThisDay #history #BlackHistory #MOVEBombing

#OnThisDay, 13 May 1995, Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen or sherpa guides.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Happy National Limerick Day!

A limerick is a five-line humorous poem with a distinct AABBA rhyme scheme and a bouncy rhythm.

Edward Lear (born today) popularised the form in the 19th century, frequently using them in his #Book of Nonsense.

What is your favourite limerick? Feel free to share 😉

#limerick #today #LimerickDay #onthisday #poetry #poem #writing #reading #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #booksky #poetrycommunity #poet #EdwardLear #PoetrySky #poetrylovers #poemaday

#OnThisDay, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen of Bohemia and consolidates her position as the ruler of the Austrian empire. The Seven Year War was promoted by rival claims to the empire, and she worked to elevate her husband to be Holy Roman Emperor. After his death she co-ruled with her son.

She sponsored trials of smallpox inoculation, having lost three of her children to the disease.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustrianHistory #RegnantWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 May 1978, Margaret Brewer becomes the first woman to reach the rank of General in the US Marines.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.

Read a brief history of Truth’s life: wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-di…

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 7 May 1429, Jeanne d'Arc leads the French troops into the last day of fighting to lift the Siege of Orleans.

Read more at carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-ar…

#WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #FrenchHistory #HundredYearsWar #JoanOfArc #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research identifying cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons

Nicht vergessen: Furcht ist der Pfad zur dunklen Seite ... Happy Star Wars Tag, liebes Fediverse!

#MayTheForceBeWithYou #starwarsday #StarWars #OnThisDay #Popkultur

#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

She's never captured.

She died in 2023, in New Zealand.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 30 April 1937, 447,725 women in the Philippines vote to be given the vote in the women's suffrage plebiscite.

Yes, the government did ask women to vote on whether they should have the vote…

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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time.

Newsreel: ina.fr/video/AFE86003075

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

"We are the result of many fights, we carry in our blood the inheritance of our grandmothers, our roots make demands of us and our daughters are rebelling."

#OnThisDay, 29 April 2010, Alberta "Bety" Cariño Trujillo is killed whilst taking provisions to besieged indigenous communities in Mexico.

#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the UK House of Commons. She was the first - and to date only - woman to hold the role.

A working class woman, Betty had been a dancer before working for JFK and becoming an MP. She went on to sit in the House of Lords.

Watch: buff.ly/38djBcP

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.

She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 26 Apr 1777, 16 year old Sybil Ludington is said to have ridden 40 miles to warn American colonial forces of a British attack.

There's no contemporary evidence – see mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/1…

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory

#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.

Read more: carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-…

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.

She was appointed heir by her father Henry I, then usurped by her cousin Stephen after Henry’s death. The civil war between the cousins is known as the Anarchy and lasted from 1138 to 1153.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
#EnglishHistory #AnarchyInTheUK #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 2012, Joyce Banda is sworn in as President of Malawi, the first woman to hold the role.

After losing the 2014 election, Banda was accused of corruption and went into exile. She returned, has never been charged with corruption and ran, unsuccessfully, in the 2025 election.

I launched my first iOS app! 🚀

On This Day Rewind shows you photos and videos from today's date in past years. Widgets, reminders, cleanup, and sharing features included - fully on device.

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A boost would mean a lot!

#IndieApp #iOS #Photography #OnThisDay

On This Day 4 6th April 2001.

Anna MacDonald, bassist with Liverpool-based band Tokyo Adventures, on stage at The Star And Garter, Manchester, 6th April 2001.

#Manchester #StarAndGarter #TokyoAdventures #AnnaMacDonald #bass #OnThisDay #LiverpoolBands #ManchesterMusic
#LiveMusic #photography

On This Day 3 6th April 2001.

The bassist from Liverpool's Blame It On The Fat Kid, looking rather uncomfortable on stage at The Star And Garter, Manchester, 6th April 2001.

#Manchester #StarAndGarter #BlameItOnTheFatKid #bass #OnThisDay #LiverpoolBands #ManchesterMusic
#LiveMusic #photography

On This Day 2 6th April 2001.

The bassist from Liverpool-based band Fat Firemen, known only as The Force, at The Star And Garter, Manchester, 6th April 2001.

#Manchester #StarAndGarter #FatFiremen #TheForce #bass #OnThisDay #LiverpoolBands #ManchesterMusic
#LiveMusic #photography

On This Day 6th April 2001.

Nick "Hendy" Henderson, bassist with Liverpool-based band Milk, at The Star And Garter, Manchester, 6th April 2001.

4 photos behind the link.
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#Manchester #StarAndGarter #Milk #NickHenderson #Hendy #bass #OnThisDay #LiverpoolBands #ManchesterMusic
#LiveMusic #photography

On This Day 4th April 2001.

Rob Birch, vocalist with London-based Stereo MC's, on stage at Academy 2, Manchester, 4th April 2001.

#Manchester #Academy2 #StereoMCs #RobBirch #OnThisDay #LondonBands #ManchesterMusic #LiveMusic #photography

Photo recalled from my library via the TestFlight version of the wonderful iOS app On This Day from @flohgro

Taken 2021-04-04

#photography #onthisday

On This Day 2 3rd April 2004.

Paul "Righini" Wilson, lead Guitarist with Manchester-based Indie-rockers Sandbox, at the monthly From Soup To Nuts night at Jabez Clegg, Manchester, 3rd April 2004.

#Manchester #JabezClegg #FromSoupToNuts #Sandbox #PaulWilson #Righini #guitar #OnThisDay #ManchesterBands #ManchesterMusic
#LiveMusic #photography

On This Day 3rd April 2001.

Warren, drummer with local band Austin, sitting on his throne behind his drumkit at The Witchwood, Ashton, 3rd April 2001.

#Ashton #Austin #Warren #drums #OnThisDay #ManchesterBands #ManchesterMusic
#LiveMusic #photography

It's been 10 years since the Panama Papers leaks. There has been *some* accountability, but there is still a lot of work left to do.

"The report released on Thursday highlights that a decade after the Panama Papers leak, the global elite continue to utilise a complex international financial system to move immense fortunes beyond the reach of public scrutiny and taxation."

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#OTD #OnThisDay #PanamaPapers #TaxEvasion #inequality

#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.

Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons