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Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 7 Oct 1922 Italian anarchist Lidio Ettorre was assaulted by fascists in Giulianova, Central Italy, who then burned down his house <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12613/lidio-ettorre-attacked-by-fascists" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12613/lidio-ettorre-attacked-by-fascists</a>

Terry MatzToday is National LED Light Day! On this day, October 7, 2014, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura for Light Emitting Diodes. Did you know you can knit with LEDs? These knitting patterns are on my light pattern post <a href="https://intheloopknitting.com/light-knitting-patterns.php" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://intheloopknitting.com/light-knitting-patterns.php</a><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/knitting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#knitting</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#otd</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Nobel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nobel</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 7 Oct 1985 nurses across the state of Victoria, Australia, started a work-to-rule which eventually turned into an all-out strike as managers tried to break the action. It ended in partial victory for the workers <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10753/australian-nurses-work-to-rule" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10753/australian-nurses-work-to-rule</a>

The Public Domain Review<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke: <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/harry-clarke-s-illustrations-for-poe-s-tales-of-mystery-and-imagination-1919" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/harry-clarke-s-illustrations-for-poe-s-tales-of-mystery-and-imagination-1919</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EdgarAllanPoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EdgarAllanPoe</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 7 Oct 1944 an armed rebellion broke out in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Prisoners fought back with knives and home-made grenades, burned down Crematorium IV, and killed and injured several SS officers <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10751/rebellion-at-auschwitz" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10751/rebellion-at-auschwitz</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 7 Oct 2023 after decades of occupation and apartheid armed Palestinians led by Hamas broke out of Gaza and attacked Israel. Israel responded with what is almost universally recognised now to be a genocide of the Palestinian people <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12943/october-7-attack" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12943/october-7-attack</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 7 Oct 1975 the social democratic NDP govt in British Columbia, Canada, introduced Bill 146 in an emergency session for a 90-day "cooling off" period in order to force 50k striking forest, railway, gas, and food industry workers back to work <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12614/bc-soc-dems-force-strike-to-end" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12614/bc-soc-dems-force-strike-to-end</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 7 Oct 2001 the US and UK began the bombing of Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks kicking off the War on Terror. By October 2023, the conflict has led to an estimated death toll of at least 4.5 million, according to Brown University <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10754/us-bombs-afganistan-after-911" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10754/us-bombs-afganistan-after-911</a>

MediaFaro MagazineOn this day in 1919, KLM, the world’s oldest airline still operating under its original name, is founded in Amsterdam.On this day in 1944, the ‘Sonderkommando Revolt’ occurs at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.On this day in 1949, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), ‘East Germany’, is established in response to the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany or ‘West Germany’. It’s dissolved in 1990 with the German reunification.<a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/OnThisDayInEurope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDayInEurope</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 7 Oct 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter and Industrial Workers of the World (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@iww" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@iww</a>) revolutionary union martyr, was born in Sweden. He wrote such working-class anthems as 'The Preacher and the Slave', and was executed in the US. Learn more in this book: <a href="https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/joe-hill-the-iww-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-workingclass-counterculture" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/joe-hill-the-iww-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-workingclass-counterculture</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 7 Oct 1920 employees of most newspapers in Berlin were locked out by employers after they went on strike. Employers appealed to the court of arbitration, which declared the sympathy strikes unlawful. Most newspapers then locked out their workers <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10749/berlin-newspaper-lockout" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10749/berlin-newspaper-lockout</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 7 Oct 1988 thousands of workers in Montenegro went on strike demanding the resignation of the Communist leadership, whom they blamed for 200% inflation. The CP said they supported the demand, and the strikes ended after a senior official resigned <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7986/montenegro-workers-strike" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7986/montenegro-workers-strike</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 6 Oct 1976 Cubana de Aviación flight 455 crashed killing all 73 people aboard after 2 bombs on board exploded, planted by two men working for Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative. Posada was later pardoned with support from the US

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 6 Oct 1971 inmates at the New Mexico prison began a work and hunger strike in protest at increased restrictions. The next day a riot began and was quickly repressed. Several guards would be indicted over use of force and brutalisation of prisoners <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10663/new-mexico-prison-riot" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10663/new-mexico-prison-riot</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> 6 Oct 1917 civil rights and women's rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Mississippi. She defied arrests, white supremacists, and police to vote, then organised to register thousands of other Black people to vote across the South <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10661/fannie-lou-hamer-born" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10661/fannie-lou-hamer-born</a>

Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕Today marks 40 years since the premiere of 'Jem and the Holograms' back in 1985.Jem and the Holograms 40th Anniversary Full Album here: 🎶 <a href="https://orcd.co/jemandtheholograms" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://orcd.co/jemandtheholograms</a>Promo art for the show and the doll series created by illustrator Sharon Knettell: 🎨 <a href="http://www.sharonknettell.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.sharonknettell.com</a><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/JemAndTheHolograms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JemAndTheHolograms</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Retro</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#80s</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nostalgia</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TV</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Cartoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cartoon</a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 6 Oct 1985 Tottenham, London went up in flames as residents of the Broadwater Farm estate rose up against police after the killing of Cynthia Jarrett, an African-Caribbean mother by police, shortly after other officers also shot Cherry Groce <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10665/broadwater-farm-riots" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10665/broadwater-farm-riots</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 6 Oct 1976 the Thammasat University massacre took place in Thailand when state forces and far-right royalist mobs murdered dozens of student demonstrators who were protesting against the return of military dictator Thanom Kittikachorn <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10664/thammasat-university-massacre" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10664/thammasat-university-massacre</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 6 Oct 1969 the Haymarket police memorial statue in Chicago was blown up by the Weather Underground urban guerrilla group. Just one of many occasions in which the statue was destroyed by vandals. Learn more in this podcast for our Patreon supporters: <a href="https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e85-may-day-with-upstream/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e85-may-day-with-upstream/</a>

Working Class History<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OtD</a> 6 Oct 1971 30 people including @PeterTatchell held a sit-in at the Chepstow pub in London organised by the Gay Liberation Front, in protest at it refusing to serve LGBT+ people. Police evicted them but landlord agreed to stop discriminating <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11403/chepstow-pub-sit-in" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11403/chepstow-pub-sit-in</a>

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