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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> 1 Aug 1953 dozens of inmates at the Vorkuta gulag in the USSR were killed by guards. 18,000 of the prisoners had gone on strike and risen up against appalling conditions, and despite the killings they won improvements <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8053/vorkuta-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/8053/vorkuta-massacre</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> 1 Aug 1944 a mass uprising began in Warsaw, Poland against the Nazi occupiers. They took the city, but received very little support from the Allies, including the nearby Red Army. After 63 days they were crushed and 90% of Warsaw was destroyed <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8052/warsaw-uprising-began" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8052/warsaw-uprising-began</span></a></p>
The Public Domain Review<p>The great US novelist, short story writer, and poet Herman Melville was born <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onthisday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onthisday</span></a> in 1819. His last long-form work was the epic poem Clarel, published in 1876 and coming in at a colossal 18,000 lines. @JWheelwrite explores: <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-skeptical-pilgrim-melvilles-clarel" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/t</span><span class="invisible">he-skeptical-pilgrim-melvilles-clarel</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> 1 Aug 1834 slavery in the British Caribbean officially ended, and the 800,000 enslaved were "freed". Govt compensated former owners, at taxpayers' expense, paying them £20 million, and the enslaved were forced to work for free for four more years <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8043/british-caribbean-slavery-abolished" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8043/british-caribbean-slavery-abolished</span></a></p>
Lars Amenda<p>Heute <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> vor 100 Jahren trat in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hamburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hamburg</span></a> ein verschärftes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hafengesetz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hafengesetz</span></a> in Kraft. Der Hafenpolizei war vor dem Landgang nun eine Liste mit Seeleuten und Passagieren vorzulegen. </p><p>Ein Handzettel von 1925 dazu: "In der Liste sind die zur Schiffsbesatzung gehörenden Personen von den sonst noch an Bord befindlichen nichtdeutschen Personen ohne Paß und deutschen Sichtvermerk (Einschleicher, Deportierte, Überarbeiter und Mittelose) getrennt aufzuführen. Farbige sind als solche zu bezeichnen."</p><p>1/2</p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 1 Aug 1980, Vigdis Finnbogadóttir is the first woman to be sworn in as the President of Iceland.</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/WomenInPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInPolitics</span></a></p>
Fritz Bauer Institut<p><a href="https://bildung.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a><br>Am 1. August 1944 erhob sich die polnische Heimatarmee in <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/Warschau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Warschau</span></a> – inmitten des von Nazi-Deutschland besetzten Polens – zu einem verzweifelten <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/Aufstand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aufstand</span></a>. Rund 200.000 Menschen starben – vor allem durch systematische Massenmorde an Zivilisten durch die deutschen Besatzer.</p><p><a href="https://bildung.social/tags/NieWieder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NieWieder</span></a></p>
The Public Domain Review<p>Details from The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke by the British painter Richard Dadd, born <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onthisday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onthisday</span></a> in 1817. Read more on the man and his mesmerising work in Nicholas Tromans' essay — <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/richard-dadds-master-stroke" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/essay/r</span><span class="invisible">ichard-dadds-master-stroke</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 1 Aug 1911, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman licensed as a pilot in the US. She goes on to be the first woman to fly across the English Channel the following year.</p><p><a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/bessie-coleman-and-other-early-american-aviators/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">carvehername.org.uk/bessie-col</span><span class="invisible">eman-and-other-early-american-aviators/</span></a></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/WomenPilots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenPilots</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 1 Aug 1786, Caroline Herschel discovers comet C/1786 P1, becoming one of the first women to find one (and have it named after her). Her brother was appointed court astronomer to King George III. When Caroline took a government salary for helping him she became the first woman to be paid for her astronomical work.</p><p>This week, 2025, Prof Michele Dougherty became the first woman to be Astronomer Royal.</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/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</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> 1 Aug 1968 striking petrochemical workers occupied Venice Mestre railway after being locked out. Workers demanding equal productivity bonuses for all organised wildcats, mass marches, and roadblocks in a dispute controlled by the rank and file <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8054/blockade-of-venice-mestre-railway" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8054/blockade-of-venice-mestre-railway</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> 1 Aug 1902 Lola Iturbe was born in Barcelona. A maid and seamstress from childhood, she was a lifelong anarchist involved in 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> uprisings in 1933 and 1934, the 1936 revolution, and the founding of the Mujeres Libres feminist group <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8045/lola-iturbe" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8045/lola-iturbe</span></a></p>
gedenkplaetze.info<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> vor 138 Jahren: Der Widerständler Otto Gedlich wird in Pirna geboren <a href="https://www.gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/meta-und-otto-gedlich" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/</span><span class="invisible">meta-und-otto-gedlich</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> 1 Aug 1917 Frank Little, a biracial white and Cherokee organiser for the <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> was brutally murdered during a miners' strike in Butte, Montana. He was kidnapped from his boarding house, tied to the back of a car and dragged to death <a href="https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/wch-e6-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-in-the-us-1905-1918/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">workingclasshistory.com/2018/0</span><span class="invisible">5/23/wch-e6-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-in-the-us-1905-1918/</span></a></p>
Anselm Flügel<p><a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> vor 100 Jahren: Tucholskis hochaktuelle Einsichten. In der Zeitschrift „Das andere Deutschland“ (AD) erscheint der Artikel „Machen wir's richtig?“ von Kurt <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Tucholsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tucholsky</span></a> über <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Linke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linke</span></a> und <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Krieg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Krieg</span></a>: „Gefühle von Mördern bedürfen keiner Schonung. [...] Wer im Kriege getötet wurde, ist nicht zu feiern, sondern aufs Tiefste zu bedauern, weil der für einen Dreck gefallen ist. [...] Die Wehrpflicht und der Zwang zur Herstellung von Mordmitteln ist auch gegen das Gesetz zu verweigern.”</p>
Wikinaut<p><a href="https://berlin.social/tags/H%C3%B6rtipp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hörtipp</span></a><br><a href="https://berlin.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/20250801date" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>20250801date</span></a><br><a href="https://berlin.social/tags/ZeitzeichenWDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZeitzeichenWDR</span></a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/WDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WDR</span></a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Zeitzeichen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zeitzeichen</span></a><br>Pionierin der Kriegsfotografie: Sie erfand Robert Capa <a href="https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-pionierin-der-kriegsfotografie-sie-erfand-robert-capa-100.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/ze</span><span class="invisible">itzeichen/audio-pionierin-der-kriegsfotografie-sie-erfand-robert-capa-100.html</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://berlin.social/@wikinaut" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wikinaut</span></a></span>)</p>
Wikinaut<p><a href="https://berlin.social/tags/H%C3%B6rtipp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hörtipp</span></a><br><a href="https://berlin.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/20250801date" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>20250801date</span></a><br><a href="https://berlin.social/tags/KalenderblattDLF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KalenderblattDLF</span></a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/DLF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DLF</span></a> <a href="https://berlin.social/tags/Kalenderblatt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kalenderblatt</span></a><br>Ernst Jandl - Ottos Mops <a href="https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ernst-jandl-100.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">deutschlandfunk.de/ernst-jandl</span><span class="invisible">-100.html</span></a> (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://berlin.social/@wikinaut" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wikinaut</span></a></span>)</p>
Working Class History<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OtD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OtD</span></a> 1 Aug 1921 Sid Hatfield, the pro-union chief of police of Matewan, WV, was assassinated by Baldwin-Felts detectives. He had helped defend striking miners from B-F agents the previous year, killing several. Books and commemorative items here: <a href="https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/west-virginia-mine-wars" 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/west-virginia-mine-wars</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> 1 Aug 1910 photojournalist and anti-fascist Gerda Taro was born in Stuttgart, Germany. She was active in the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and later supported the Spanish Republic during the civil war where she was killed in a tragic accident <a href="https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/homeware/gerda-taro" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shop.workingclasshistory.com/c</span><span class="invisible">ollections/homeware/gerda-taro</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> 1 Aug 1837 legendary Irish-born US labour organiser and co-founder of the <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>, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was baptised (her birthdate is unknown) in Cork, Ireland <a href="https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8044/mother-jones-baptised" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stories.workingclasshistory.co</span><span class="invisible">m/article/8044/mother-jones-baptised</span></a></p>
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