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On This Day In History<p>Today in 1800, 225 years ago: in Saxony (Germany) a tornado destroys the village of Hainichen and crushes trees (and tears away their bark) in the surrounding forests, leaving a footprint hundreds of meters wide.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1979, 46 years ago: Blair Peach, a British activist, was fatally injured after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall, London.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1996, 29 years ago: in Spain, the Spanish novelist and Nobel Prize for Literature Camilo José Cela receives the Cervantes prize.​</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1516, 509 years ago: The Munich Reinheitsgebot (regarding the ingredients of beer) takes effect in all of Bavaria.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 2009, 16 years ago: a new outbreak of H1N1 influenza appears in Mexico, which will later appear in different countries of the world.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1949, 76 years ago: the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy is founded.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1942, 83 years ago: World War II: Baedeker Blitz: German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1976, 49 years ago: in Spain the Cervantes Prize is inaugurated (which is awarded at the Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso de Alcalá de Henares).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1967, 58 years ago: Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
Zentralbibliothek Zürich<p>Wussten Sie, dass Zürichs erstes Rathaus bereits 1251 erwähnt wird?</p><p>Das auf dem Bild gezeigte Gebäude entstand jedoch zwischen 1397 und 1401 – errichtet von den Handwerkszünften als kraftvolles Zeichen gegen die städtische Oberschicht. Es stand mitten in der Limmat und war Zentrum von Politik, Handel und Geselligkeit. </p><p>Dieses zweite Rathaus existiert heute nicht mehr: 1694 begann der Bau des heutigen barocken Rathauses.</p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/Z%C3%BCrich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zürich</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/TodayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TodayInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p><p>Bild: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-61442" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-61442</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1968, 57 years ago: South Africa is excluded from the Olympic Games in Mexico because of its racist policy of apartheid (which the previous year had been eliminated in the United States).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1923, 102 years ago: the Mexican Olympic Committee was founded.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1971, 54 years ago: the First National Congress of Education and Culture is held in Cuba.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 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.</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-</span><span class="invisible">e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1963, 62 years ago: in Washington (United States), President John F. Kennedy orders the CIA to calculate the possible events in the event that Fidel Castro "dies".</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1945, 80 years ago: World War II: Adolf Hitler's designated successor, Hermann Göring, sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of Nazi Germany. Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels advise Göring that the telegram is treasonous.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1500, 525 years ago: Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral reaches new coastline (Brazil).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
schwarze0fm<p>🕘 <a href="https://rheinland.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> <a href="https://rheinland.social/tags/onthisday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onthisday</span></a> 🕘</p><p>Heute vor 80 Jahren wurde das <a href="https://rheinland.social/tags/Konzentrationslager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Konzentrationslager</span></a> <a href="https://rheinland.social/tags/Flossenb%C3%BCrg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Flossenbürg</span></a> von der US-Armee befreit. Mindestens 30.000 Menschen waren hier ermordet worden - darunter Dietrich <a href="https://rheinland.social/tags/Bonhoeffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bonhoeffer</span></a>, der auf persönliche Anordnung Hitlers erhängt wurde: <a href="https://geschichteeuropas.podigee.io/407-407" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">geschichteeuropas.podigee.io/4</span><span class="invisible">07-407</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 23 Apr 1872, Charlotte E Ray was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia (USA). She is the first Black woman to be certified as a lawyer in the USA.</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-</span><span class="invisible">e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1891, 134 years ago: Chilean Civil War: The ironclad Blanco Encalada is sunk at Caldera Bay by torpedo boats.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
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