An event from the #BleedingKansas period of unrest between pro- and anti- #slavery forces, in 1856 on #ThisDayInHistory Lawrence was sacked & burnt by pro-slavery forces. Only one person was killed (a pro-slavery thug) but the presses of two #FreeState newspapers were destroyed.

The #SemaineSanglante, #BloodyWeek, began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1871. French troops broke through barricades and attacked the #ParisCommune, engaging its residents in street battles. By the end of the week, about 20,000 #communards had been killed and another 38,000 arrested.

#Napoléon abandoned the #SiegeOfAcre in 1799 on #ThisDayInHistory, accepting defeat at the hands of a stubborn #Ottoman garrison. Two months later his forces limped back to #Egypt, then the wannabe-dictator abandoned his men and slipped back into #France to stage his coup d'état.

#Yemen was formed in 1990 from two different countries with differing histories. Marxist #SouthYemen, aka the Democratic Republic of Yemen, tried to secede in 1994 on #ThisDayInHistory. When this was not allowed, a #YemeniCivilWar began, and it's never really ended, only paused.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1979, the #WhiteNightRiots broke out in #SanFrancisco. The #LGBTQ community was furious #DanWhite was not convicted of murder for killing #HarveyMilk & #GeorgeMoscone. And they didn't fuck around: 61 cops were hospitalized and 12 #police cars were torched.

The #RinglingBros. & #BarnumAndBailey Circus saw declining interest and audiences, especially after finally retiring its tortured elephants in 2016, & played its last classic show on #ThisDayInHistory in 2017. An all-human (no more tortured animals) #circus revival began in 2023.

The #TreatyOfCiudadJuárez, signed #ThisDayInHistory in 1911, called for long-time dictator #PorfirioDíaz to resign, and ended the first phase of the #MexicanRevolution. But since it mentioned none of the social reforms promised by #FranciscoMadero, the conflict was far from over.

#Russia ended its longest war on #ThisDayInHistory in 1864. The conquest & #genocide of #Circassia (#Adıgey), along the east shores of the #BlackSea, was brutal. In both the fighting and the #CircassianExile that followed, up to 1.5 million were killed in the #CircassianGenocide.

The mass-killing of students at #TrisaktiUniversity proved too great a scandal for the dictatorship of #Suharto to survive and he resigned on #ThisDayInHistory in 1998. He had ruled the country since 1966, with US backing for his #democide of socialists & #genocide in #EastTimor.

#LeviStrauss moved to #SanFrancisco to serve a booming economy and imported a new material from France called serge de Nîmes, shorted to #denim. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1873 he and Jacob Davis received a patent for #BlueJeans with copper rivets — trousers of legendary durability.