#OTD In 1859, Samuel Langhorne Clemens receives his steamboat pilot’s license.

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Books by Mark Twain at PG:

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#OtD 9 Apr 1898 Paul Robeson, Black singer, actor, communist and former shipyard worker was born. He was involved in anti-fascism, the civil rights movement and workers' struggles, and was blacklisted under McCarthyism https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/paul-robeson-a-watched-man-jordan-goodman
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#OtD 9 Apr 1945 Georg Elser, a factory worker and folk musician who tried single-handedly to kill Hitler, was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp. He was killed on the orders of Himmler just a few days before its liberation https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10874/georg-elser-murdered
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Born #onthisday in 1821, the poet Charles Baudelaire, famous for his descriptions of the flâneur. Celebrate with an essay from Matthew Beaumont exploring a parallel Baudelairean archetype, the convalescent hero of modernity... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/charles-baudelaire-and-the-convalescent-flaneur #otd

37 years ago today, on Sunday the 9th of April 1989, Fugazi played Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ, USA with The Blisters. Longest show on the 1989 spring USA tour.
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