Mastodawn

#OtD 27 May 1980 the South Korean army crushed the Gwangju uprising, killing dozens and arresting, torturing and imprisoning hundreds. Workers and students in Gwangju had taken up armed rebellion against the US backed military regime and held the city https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-the-gwangju-uprising-1980/

E53-56: The Gwangju uprising

Podcast miniseries about the May 18 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980 against the US-backed military dictatorship of Chun Doo Hwan. We speak with Kim Yong Ho, David Dolinger and Jeon Yong H…

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Bauer Winter

41m ago

Aus Anlass seines heutigen Geburtstages – Jacques François Fromental Élie Halévy (ursprünglich: Jacques Fromental Élie Levi):

„Fromental Halévy - La Juive – Ouverture

Jacques Fromental Halévy

Work: La Juive, grand opera in five acts, first performance 23 February 1835, Grand Opéra, Paris.
Libretto: Eugène Scribe
Ouverture
Orchestra: Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia
Conductor: Frédéric Chaslin“
#Klassik
#classicalmusic
#OTD
https://fediserve.de/preview.php?v=VMc0eoyoH6Q

Fromental Halévy - La Juive - Ouverture

Working Class History 1h ago

#OtD 27 May 1919 workers in Lima declared a general strike against the high cost of living. The government eventually crushed the strike by killing at least 100 and wounding and jailing hundreds more https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9940/general-strike-in-lima-callao

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Paul Bowler 1h ago

30 years ago #OTD 1996, Doctor Who: The TV Movie first aired in the U.K, staring Paul McGann as the brilliant 8th Doctor - one of our most beloved incarnations of the Time Lord whose adventures continue in novels and Big Finish audios to this day! #DoctorWho

Chris Bond 2h ago

Recorded #OnThisDay 58 years ago:

Fleetwood Mac - Mean Mistreating Mama (Peel Session)

Mean Mistreating Mama by Fleetwood Mac, taken from the Peel Session recorded on 27 May 1968.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_zV4SEyLiE

#FleetwoodMac #PeelSessions #Blues #OTD

Geneee 2h ago

Oscar Wuerstlin ist heute vor 15 Jahren am 27. Mai 2011 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/oscar/wuerstlin

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Geneee 2h ago

Sylvia Amsterdam ist heute vor 20 Jahren am 27. Mai 2006 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/sylvia/amsterdam

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry

Working Class History 2h ago

#OtD 27 May 1963, pacifist and activist Grigoris Lambrakis died in hospital after being attacked by far-right extremists. Protests followed, and connections between police/military officials and the far-right were uncovered

Geneee 3h ago

Dorcas Eillen Wyandt ist heute vor 25 Jahren am 27. Mai 2001 gestorben.
https://geneee.org/dorcas+eillen/wyandt

#OTD #TodayInHistory #YearsAgo #Genealogy #Genealogie #FamilyHistory #Ahnenforschung #Ancestry