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The #CatholicChurch has often inserted itself into politics, sometimes for worse reasons than others. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1493 Valencia-born #PopeAlexanderVI, Roderic Llançol i de #Borja, split the world between rival powers Spain & Portugal in the papal bull #InterCaetera.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 56m ago

#OceanLiner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Große of Germany's #NorddeutscherLloyd was launched #ThisDayInHistory in 1897. She was the fastest in the world for two years and the first four-stack liner, starting a trend that lasted until WWI. She was scuttled after a fierce battle in 1914.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 1h ago

Dutch actress #AudreyHepburn, born in 1929 on #ThisDayInHistory, began her performing career entertaining #antifascist resistance activists during #WWII. Born to a baroness & a banker, both #fascists, the brutality of #Nazism radicalized her; she remained a humanitarian for life.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 1h ago

#CassingaMassacre, #ThisDayInHistory in 1978, was an assault on a #SWAPO/#PLAN base and #Namibian #RefugeeCamp by #Apartheid #SouthAfrica. They bombed the camp, then dropped ~400 paratroopers into the southern #Angola town, killing more than 600 people, mostly women and children.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 2h ago

The #MayFourthMovement began #ThisDayInHistory in 1919 with student protests in #TiananmenSquare. The young nationalists were incensed at Beijing's acquiescence to the #VersaillesTreaty awarding parts of #Shandong to Japan (the region had been held by Germany before World War I).

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 20h ago

To-day features obscure artist #TheAction of #England (#UnitedKingdom).

https://youtu.be/Dgqn8vvdT0c https://youtu.be/e2zxvsuC1UQ
https://youtu.be/XljJSwqZSGI
https://youtu.be/f8A0ACAtXpA
#PsychedelicSunday #LunchtimeListens

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 22h ago

#PeteSeeger, American #folk musician and #socialist activist, was born in New York on #ThisDayInHistory in 1919. A prolific songwriter, he achieved fame with #TheWeavers in the 1940s & '50s, but was sadly #blacklisted for a while in the #McCarthyite era.

https://zurl.co/ZT7E0

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 22h ago

#Jacksonville, #Florida, experienced the third-worst urban fire in US history on #ThisDayInHistory in 1901. The #GreatFireOf1901 ripped through a city made largely of wood that had been suffering a prolonged drought. Seven people were killed and 2367 structures were destroyed.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 23h ago

Already losing the media war, #Southern #racists in Birmingham, AL, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1963 unleashed the #police department, which turned fire hoses and attack dogs loose on unarmed school kids, showing #liberals who otherwise ignored the violence what #JimCrow looked like.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD 23h ago

Threatened by the success of #JapaneseAmerican farmers, #California enacted the #AlienLandLaw in 1913 on #ThisDayInHistory, barring #AsianAmericans, even citizens, from owning or leasing land. People often forget CA has a history of #racism & #segregation equaling the Deep South.