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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 1h

Chief #Kintpuash (aka #CaptainJack) and three #Modoc warriors were hanged on #ThisDayInHistory in 1873 for their part in the well-fought #ModocWar – a response to the #CaliforniaGenocide. The remaining 153 members of his band were held as prisoners of war in Oklahoma until 1909.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 2h

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1992, #SinéadOConnor hurt her career by tearing up a picture of #PopeJohnPaulII on #SNL. She was made a pariah, driven to break-downs and obscurity, but she was right to call out the #ClericalSexualAbuse that the #Vatican has long covered up and excused.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 2h

The #UnitedNations #HumanRightsCouncil voted, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2017, to condemn application of the #DeathPenalty for #apostasy, #blasphemy, #adultery, and #homosexuality. The United States and twelve other countries, like #SaudiArabia & #Iraq, voted against the resolution.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 3h

#DafyddApGruffudd, the last native #PrinceOfWales, was hanged, drawn, & quartered on #ThisDayInHistory in 1283, on order of #KingEdwardI of England, who finished the conquest of #Wales that year. Dafydd ap Gruffudd had led an uprising against occupation but was captured in June.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 3h

#Vercingetorix, a leader of the #Celtic #Gauls, surrendered to the #Roman forces of #JuliusCaesar on #ThisDayInHistory in 52 BCE, ending the siege & #BattleOfAlesia. #Caesar's #genocidal conquest of what eventually became France was lionized in his propaganda work #TheGallicWar.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 4h

The #IDF struck #Dahiya (#Dahieh), #Lebanon, again on #ThisDayInHistory in 2024. Such attacks on civilian areas are discussed in the #DahiyaDoctrine (named for the #Beirut suburb), which advocates large-scale destruction of #infrastructure & residential areas to pressure leaders.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 4h

#Mussolini's Italy invaded #Ethiopia on #ThisDayInHistory in 1935, launching the #SecondItaloAbyssinianWar. The #Fascist forces used tanks, #ChemicalWeapons, and #ConcentrationCamps to subjugate the only African country not to have been colonized. The world stood by and watched.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 5h

A US AC-130 gunship attacked a hospital in #Kunduz, #Afghanistan, run by #MédecinsSansFrontières (#DoctorsWithoutBorders) on #ThisDayInHistory in 2015. At least 42 were killed and 30+ wounded. #USAF changed its story twice, and the gunship crew questioned the strike's legality.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Mormon settlers in #Utah, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1853, committed the #NephiMassacre. Seven men, one woman, and two children from the peace-seeking #Goshute Indigenous nation were invited into the #LDS fort. The men were beaten & shot dead; the woman and children were enslaved.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the #TlatelolcoMassacre, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1968, the #Mexican government (with #CIA support) murdered 400 #student #protesters and savagely beat a thousand. The students were upset at money wasted on the upcoming #OlympicGames in light of extreme poverty in the country.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1937, US-backed dictator #RafaelTrujillo of the #DominicanRepublic began a #genocide of #Haitians near the border in what's apocryphally called the #ParsleyMassacre, killing up to 35,000. Demonization of Haitians often used #Vodou as a mark of identity.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Cryptofascist commentator #JacksonHinkle stopped pretending, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2024, that his criticism of Israel was rooted in #antiZionism, and admitted instead, quite bluntly, to his #Judeophobic and #antisemitic #ChristianNationalism. Be careful who you follow, people.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sailing a zig-zag at 28+ knots to evade submarines, #RMSQueenMary, filled with troops for the war in Europe, rammed ageing cruiser #HMSCuracoa on #ThisDayInHistory in 1942, cutting her in half. Unable to stop and assist, QM had to leave 337 men to drown; 101 were later rescued.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The #GreatCheeseRiot began in #Nottingham on #ThisDayInHistory in 1766. Women angry at overpriced #cheese at the annual #GooseFair stole wheels of it. When some were arrested, the building holding them was attacked. Soldiers were then used to suppress the #anticapitalist revolt.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#MohammedBinSalman, de facto leader of #SaudiArabia, oversaw the assassination in #İstanbul, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2018, of Saudi dissident and #WashingtonPost reporter #JamalKhashoggi. His body was dismembered and destroyed, and the murder was covered up with US assistance.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#BalianOfIbelin surrendered the city of #Jerusalem to #SalahAdDin (#Saladin) on #ThisDayInHistory in 1187 after a brief siege. Salah ad-Din ensured the worship rights of all faiths, and aside from ransoming nobles, allowed passage to Christian lands for the remaining #Crusaders.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#YosemiteNationalPark, one of the most beautiful places on Earth, was established by Congress on #ThisDayInHistory in 1890, preserving for future generations (and saving from loggers & developers) a pristine #California forest of soaring trees and awesome mountains & waterfalls.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Union #DirectAction has, on rare occasion, gone too far. Between 1906 & 1911 the #IW carried out 110 bombings of ironworks, mostly minor. But in 1910 on #ThisDayInHistory, a member blew up the #LosAngelesTimes building, killing 21 & injuring 100+; a record crime for #California.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We lost #KrisKristofferson on #ThisDayInHistory in 2024. Many tributes mentioned his consolation of #SinéadOConnor, a truly touching moment. But I'd like to direct you to another side of his humanity – his earnest acknowledgement of, and real concern for, the #Palestinian plight.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The #WaltDisneyWorld resort opened to the public on #ThisDayInHistory in 1971, five years after namesake #WaltDisney's death. Specifically, the #MagicKingdom opened, its equivalent to #Disneyland. The next park on the site, #EPCOTCenter, also opened on #ThisDayInHistory, in 1982.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#SenecaVillage, in #NewYorkCity, was a vibrant community of free #Black Americans and Irish & German #immigrants. In 1857 the city seized it all through #EminentDomain and evicted everyone there, finishing the process on #ThisDayInHistory, and built #CentralPark open its bones.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ever unwilling to respect the national sovereignty of other countries, Israel on #ThisDayInHistory in 1985 carried out #OperationWoodenLeg. In it, the #IDF bombed the #PLO's headquarters in #Tunisia – the country to which #Israel agreed to evacuate the PLO when it left #Lebanon.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1946, the sentences in the #NurembergTrials were handed down. 12 #Nazis were condemned to death. Meanwhile, countless thousands of politicians, officers, commandants, & #WarCriminals were reintegrated into society and government. The Nazis never went away.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Israel invaded #Lebanon again on #ThisDayInHistory in 2024, with the #IDF proceeding to the #LitaniRiver, viewed by #GreaterIsrael advocates as #Israel's natural northern border. This was its fifth such invasion since 1978, and its sixth counting the incursions during the #Nakba.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#AlexanderTheGreat, so-called, defeated #DariusIII, and the #Achaemenid #PersianEmpire, in the #BattleOfGaugamela on #ThisDayInHistory in 331 BCE. Alexander got lucky when the #Persian cavalry rushed to loot his supply train rather than attacking his exposed #phalanx from behind.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(2 of 2) The #ElaineMassacre from #ThisDayInHistory in 1919 began with #Black farmers organizing for better pay and facing a white mob that opened fire on them. They shot back, and the mob killed up to 800 of them, with dozens of survivors imprisoned for supposedly inciting it.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(1 of 2) When #conservatives talk about a right to #SelfDefence, they do not mean against them, and they fear losing control of the state monopoly of violence. On #ThisDayInHistory in #Elaine, #Arkansas, in 1919 they killed hundreds of #Black innocents for daring to fight back...

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The #CaravanOfDeath set out on #ThisDayInHistory in 1973. A #Chilean Army #DeathSquad, it served the violent #FarRight dictatorship of #AugustoPinochet by traversing the country, south to north, torturing, mutilating, & killing 97 #leftists, and tossing them into unmarked graves.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#RMSMauretania of 1906, one of #CunardLine's most successful #OceanLiners, captured the westbound Atlantic speed record from her running mate #RMSLusitania on #ThisDayInHistory in 1909, and held the #BlueRiband in both directions for the next twenty years, an unprecedented feat.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Racial #segregation is far from a uniquely American evil, and on #ThisDayInHistory in 1953, #communist boxer #LenJohnson faced it in the #OldAbbeyTaphouse in #Manchester, England. Refused service for being #Black, he organized a 200-strong picket of the pub that desegregated it.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The #MunichAgreement between #NaziGermany, Italy, the UK, and France was signed on #ThisDayInHistory in 1938. It sold out #Czechoslovakia, passing their #Sudentenland region to Germany... who then exceeded this by seizing the rest of #Czechia six months later with no consequence.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#BarbaraCastle, the Labour MP for Blackburn, wrote in #Tribune on #ThisDayInHistory in 1955 about British atrocities in colonial #Kenya, where over 50,000 Kenyans were tortured and killed for resisting the #BritishEmpire in the #MauMauRebellion. Only about 100 whites were killed.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first of the great #FreeSpeechFights of the #IWW was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1909, in #Missoula, #Montana, to combat ordinances against public #FreeSpeech by #union members. They lined up, spoke, got arrested, filled the gaols, and got the laws changed. #PeoplePower works.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TRIGGER WARNING: SA Having refused the advances of three young #fascists from wealthy families, #RosariaLopez (age 19) and #DonatellaColasanti (age 17) were kidnapped, tortured, & raped on #ThisDayInHistory in 1975. Their attackers were released early and did it to others. #KYLR

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#VirginiaTonelli, a #communist nurse and #partisan, was burnt alive by #fascists on #ThisDayInHistory in 1944. An #antifa activist since 1930, she was seized whilst transporting documents and tortured for days but revealed nothing, earning a posthumous medal for military valour.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join me in some Schadenfreude for the death, on #ThisDayInHistory in 2024, of German #Neonazi #AndreasMünzhuber. The treasurer for #TheThirdWay tripped on an exposed root on #Untersberg mountain in Hitler's beloved #BerchtesgadenAlps, falling 60 metres to a richly deserved death.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The #LeagueOfNations #MandateSystem was a thinly-disguised form of #colonialism in which a Mandatory power got to refashion a place into a permanent subordinate. The #FrenchMandate for #Syria & #Lebanon, and the #BritishMandate for #Palestine, began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1923.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At #Istaliff, #Afghanistan, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1842, a British force decided, as revenge for anti-imperialist insurgency, to butcher a whole town. They set out to kill every male in a population of 15,000, then burnt the houses & orchards, leaving women & children to starve.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1980 the first episode of #CarlSagan's #Cosmos aired, to my delight. It helped inspire in me a lifelong interest in science, and is why I've been talking about #GlobalWarming, #Evolution, #Environmentalism, and #SpaceExploration for more than forty years.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#StarTrek: The Next Generation was first seen on #ThisDayInHistory in 1987. It successfully revived & expanded Roddenberry's optimistic future, inspiring a new generation of fans and showcasing the power of empathy. Every Star Trek series is worth seeing but #TNG remains special.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The #OmahaCourthouseLynching was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1919. A lynch mob ~10,000 strong in #Omaha shot at police who tried to protect a #Black suspect, then brutally killed poor #WillBrown, who died protesting his innocence. The Army put down the riot but no-one was prosecuted.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The #OpelousasMassacre was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1868. The #KnightsOfTheWhiteCamelia, a #KKK-like group in #Louisiana, assaulted teacher #EmersonBentley for promoting voter registration, and when #Black people tried to help him, the #racists went on a rampage, killing over 150.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1917, the US government used the #EspionageAct disingenuously to arrest 166 #IWW members, charging them with disloyalty and refusal of duty to the country. 101 were convicted and sent to prison in an act meant to break #socialist organization of #workers.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Demanding food during a famine and trying to prevent the rich from exporting it at a profit are moral acts. But on #ThisDayInHistory in 1846, British Royal Dragoons opened fire on starving people who tried to seize grain from the docks and from bakeries in #Dungarvan, #Ireland.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1955, the #Catalan #anarchist #ElQuico used a homemade mortar through a taxi cab sunroof to distribute #antifascist literature during a visit to Barcelona of the dictator #FranciscoFranco. Take heart from the courage of such folks to stand against tyranny.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The #FirstInternational was formed in London on #ThisDayInHistory in 1864. Officially the International Workingmen's Association (#IWMA), an alliance of #socialist, #anarchist, & #union leaders from around the world, the anarchists were driven out in 1872 & it collapsed in 1876.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SilentSpring by #RachelCarson was published on #ThisDayInHistory in 1962. It highlighted the effects of rampant #pesticide use, helping to kick off a global #environmental movement. She was attacked as a "hysterical" communist for daring to question the actions of corporations.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After an awful collision at sea with fishing ship #SSVesta on #ThisDayInHistory in 1854, #OceanLiner #SSArctic, an American paddle steamer & #BlueRiband holder, sank 50 miles from Newfoundland. Of 400 aboard, only 64 crew & 24 male passengers escaped after stealing the lifeboats.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#RMSQueenMary greatly shortened #WorldWarII as the most successful troopship in history. Nicknamed the #GreyGhost, the #OceanLiner carried over 800,000 soldiers across 600,000 miles of open ocean unescorted. #QueenMary completed her last trooping voyage on #ThisDayInHistory 1946.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD @liamomaraiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Organizing leftists can be a bit like herding cats but is crucial for saving this world. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1913 the #FirstInternationalSyndicalistCongress began in #London, a great success with heated debates. #Syndicalists aim for a stateless order run by workers councils.

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