March 6, 1788 The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
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1965, Malcolm X was assassinated, and the 1st chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice was founded in Jonesboro, Louisiana, followed by chapters all across the Deep South.
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#OTDIH 19 February, 1942, POTUS Franklin D. Roosevelt signs EO 9066, authorizing the mass forced removal, dispossession and incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast in concentration camps.
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james cook, painting by nathaniel dance holland 1776
February 14, 1779 Captain James Cook killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua Bay on the Island of Hawaii.
#OTD #OTDIH #history #c18th #history
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Today marks 60 years since Australia switched to decimal currency. 14 February 1966 was Changeover Day, a major logistical operation which saw the pounds and shillings go out, and dollars and cents come in.
#ChangeOverDay #OTDIH
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Vasco da Gama. Porträt von Gregorio Lopes source wikipedia license public commons
February 10, 1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
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Interior shot of the new Institute of Texan Cultures. Guests walk toward the camera at a distance toward the right, and an illuminated flag of Texas adorns the back wall. Other artifacts and visual displays feature prominently in the photo.
Small exhibit featuring Emma Tenayuca and her experience as an activist.
Thread wall exhibit with threads forming negative space that reads, “Common Threads, Hilos Comunes”.
Clapboard sitting atop a director’s chair. The flapboard is an artifact from the second season of “From Dusk Till Dawn,” and the director’s chair is an artifact from the film “Machete Kills.” The flapboard credits Robert Rodriguez as both director and camera operator. The director’s chair features Robert Rodriguez’s name printed on fabric on the back of the chair.
Went to the opening weekend of the #InstituteofTexanCultures — #free admission until tomorrow! They have an exhibit on #EmmaTenayuca and the #PecanShellersStrike (which took place #OTDIH) as well as a rotating exhibit on #mum culture in #Texas.
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Monochrome photo sourced from the San Antonio Light newspaper showing Latinx picketers in 1938 lining the sidewalk of a San Antonio storefront holding signs that read, “This Shop Unfair / Pecan Workers Local 172 / C.I.O.” Demonstrators dress warmly in cold weather with coats, hats, & other garb.
Monochrome photo of Emma Tenayuca sourced from the Museo Del Westside website. Tenayuca wears a a white collared blouse with six buttons forming a capital-letter “T”. Tenayuca is framed candidly off-center, smiling and looking off-camera to the right. She has neck-length hair pulled behind her ears.
Monochrome photo of six Latina pecan shelling workers sourced from the Library of Congress. The workers sit at a narrow table, flanked three on each side facing each other, with small burlap sacks of pecan meat and whole pecans between them on top of the table. The table is positioned in a small corner of a shack. The women wear blouses, dresses, and sweaters of varying patterns. All women stare down at the pecans in their hands while another woman toward the top center looks up at the workers opposite her, possibly in mid-conversation.
Monochromatic photo of protestors clashing with local San Antonio Police Department officers, sources from UT Libraries. The photo shows a chaotic scene from above with officers toward the left inside the entrance to an unidentified building while a larger crowd of protestors to the right, mostly wearing white dress shirts and hats, pressing tightly against the police force to the left.
#OTDIH in 1938, the historic #PecanShellersStrike took place right here in #SanAntonio. Nearly 12,000 workers (mostly #Latina, led by #EmmaTenayuca) walked off the job in protest of wage cuts to already underpaid positions in unsafe working conditions. Read more here 👉🏽 guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil...
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#OTDIH in 1861, weaksauce #Texas governor #SamHouston ignored a cabal of top level state officials who formed an illegal sub-quorum convention to vote overwhelmingly to #secede from the #Union. The state then came to #SanAntonio to seize our arsenal, forcing federal presence to evacuate the city.
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"Whot doth thee thenk of thes trubelsom tiems. Is thar not a caus—ye sin no dout is the caus—but among the many sins that might be named I would naem on and that is slaves keepen" - "Humanity" to John Adams, 23 January 1776 #slaveryarchive #America250 #otdih
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The all-women Supreme Court of Texas in 1925, showing (from left) Ruth Brazzil, Chief Justice Hortense Ward, and Hattie L. Henenberg. The justices pose in a black and white photograph sitting behind a large wooden dais and before large portraits of male Texan political dignitaries. The portraits are flanked by a large garment with tassels, and a passageway leading out the courtroom lies at the right of the image just behind Henenberg.
#OTDIH 101 years ago, #Texas appointed the nation’s first all-female #SupremeCourt (pictured below). #Women didn’t even serve on juries until 1954, so this was a huge step! Shortly thereafter in February, Texas inaugurated America’s second female governor, narrowly missing the milestone by 15 days 🇺🇸
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A relevant post for our #SanAustinio comrades: #OTDIH is Austin’s birth AND death day lol. It was founded (technically incorporated) on this day 185 years ago, 4 years after—to the day—its namesake, Stephen F. Austin, perished from pneumonia. Happy birth- (and death) day to #Austin! 🥴 #Texas
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Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, pins the Navy Cross on Doris "Dorie" Miller, Steward's Mate 1/c, USN, at a ceremony on board a U.S. Navy warship in Pearl Harbor, T.H., May 27, 1942. Sadly, Miller perished less than a year later when his ship was torpedoed in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of the Gilbert Islands. The Navy posthumously honored him with a renaming of a dining hall, barracks, & even a navy destroyer escort, the USS Miller. Later in 2022, the Navy named an aircraft carrier, the USS Doris Miller, after him. TEXAS HONORS: In Waco, a YMCA branch, a park, and a cemetery bear his name; in Houston, an elementary school was named after him; in Austin, an auditorium at Huston-Tillotson College is named after him. Beyond Texas, a school was named after him in Philadelphia, a VFW chapter in Los Angeles, and a foundation for racial understanding in Chicago. Apologies for this lengthy alt text, but 300 characters are not enough to sing this man’s praises! #BlackHeroismMatters #BlackLivesMatter #BlackTexansMatter
#OTDIH: #PearlHarbor happened, and the first #Black American to be honored from WWII, Doris Miller— from #Texas! —courageously left his post in the mess hall to fire artillery at the Japanese, weaponry he had never been trained to use (hint: segregation). He received the Navy Cross for his bravery.
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#OTDIH: 21 years ago today the conservative Catholic magazine First Things published Robert P. George’s “pro-choice” moral justification of the vigilante murder of abortion doctors.
Stop ethics-washing this guy.
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A French Newspaper article reporting the death of Alec Carter and his achievements as a jockey.
#OTDiH 1914: Death of Georges Alexandre (Alec) Carter, a hugely successful pre-war jockey. Born into a British horse racing family in Chantilly, he’d been maréchal des logis with 23e Dragons but died of wounds received while serving as agent de liaison with 226e Régiment d’infanterie. #1GM
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October 6, 1908 Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
#OTDIH #history #OTD
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Locomotion No1 at the Greatest Gathering in Derby, August 2025 A locomotive ‘of the most improved construction’
200 years ago #OTDIH Locomotion No1, driven by George Stephenson, pulled 600 passengers on the Stockton and Darlington railway.
The world’s first steam-hauled passenger train.
The original locomotive at the #GreatestGathering in August
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#OTDIH: Today is the 50th anniversary of Rocky #Horror —that’s all well & good, but did you also know that today is the 50th anniversary of the world release of #DavidCronenberg ‘s #Shivers? It was originally released in the US as “They Came From Within,” and it released right here in #SanAntonio!
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On this day in history, 1666, the great fire of London broke out, destroying most of the houses
Do you know where your fire extinguisher is? #OTDIH
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#OTD (Aug 25) in the year 1823: American fur trapper Hugh Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear while on an expedition in South Dakota. #OTDIH 🗃️ #Skystorians #c19th
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#OTD (Aug 25) in the year 1941: World War II: Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran: The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union jointly stage an invasion of the Imperial State of Iran. #OTDIH 🗃️ #Skystorians
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#OTD (Aug 24) in the year 1662: The 1662 Book of Common Prayer is legally enforced as the liturgy of the Church of England, precipitating the Great Ejection of Dissenter ministers from their benefices. #OTDIH 🗃️ #Skystorians #EarlyModern #17thc
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#OTD (Aug 24) in the year 1938: Kweilin incident: A Japanese warplane shoots down the Kweilin, a Chinese civilian airliner, killing 14. It is the first recorded instance of a civilian airliner being shot down. #OTDIH 🗃️ #Skystorians
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#OTD (Aug 24) in the year 1759: birth of William Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (died 1833) #OTDIH 🗃️ #Skystorians #c18th
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#OTD (Aug 24) in the year 1945: birth of Ronee Blakley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress #OTDIH 🗃️ #Skystorians
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#OTD (Aug 24) in the year 1680: death of Thomas Blood, Irish colonel (born 1618) #OTDIH 🗃️ #Skystorians #EarlyModern #17thc
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#OTD (Aug 24) in the year 1937: Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón. #OTDIH 🗃️ #Skystorians
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#OTD (Aug 24) in the year 1940: birth of Francine Lalonde, Canadian educator and politician (died 2014) #OTDIH 🗃️ #Skystorians
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#OTD (Aug 24) in the year 1540: death of Parmigianino, Italian painter and etcher (born 1503) #OTDIH 🗃️ #Skystorians #EarlyModern
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