On this day

[Sprocket.]

I recall writing an essay about the White Rose Resistance and Sophie and Hans Scholl. I had to explain what the point and results were of their actions.
I went beyond the usual essay plan and it ended up a total rant.

 

[brogdale]

I recall writing an essay about the White Rose Resistance and Sophie and Hans Scholl. I had to explain what the point and results were of their actions.
I went beyond the usual essay plan and it ended up a total rant.

 

[Sprocket.]

This is a very emotive telling of the story. Great film, hard to imagine the courage needed to take on the Nazis at their peak.
Do students still study Nazi Germany for A level History?

 

[A380]

 

[Wookey]

Stalin died on this day in 1953.

In researching this post, I also discovered that 100 people were crushed to death at his funeral, and his medicine cabinets were discovered to be full of high grade cocaine.

 

[RubyToogood]

Ah! I have been really wanting to watch that

 

[brogdale]

382!

 

[flypanam]

44 years ago loyalist/British armed forces detonated a car bomb in my home town killing one and injuring 17 others.

 

[dessiato]

44 years ago loyalist/British armed forces detonated a car bomb in my home town killing one and injuring 17 others.

Castleblayney?

 

[dessiato]

1754 the Marquis of Enseñada became the premier of Spain.

 

[krtek a houby]

Dylan releases Subterranean Homesick Blues, 1965

 

[flypanam]

Castleblayney?

Yes!

 

[brogdale]

The Battle of Towton

 

[mystic pyjamas]

One of the largest and bloodiest battles on British soil.

 

[brogdale]

Feeling old?

30 years today.

 

[Sprocket.]

The Battle of Towton

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It is one of those strange places where when you stand, you feel surrounded by silence.

 

[brogdale]

39 years ago today Bobby Sands died.

3 days afterwards I found myself in the middle of this protest in Paris as it gathered at the British Embassy on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré:

 

[brogdale]

40 years since Ian Curtis took his life.
40 years!

 

[Sprocket.]

40 years since Ian Curtis took his life.
40 years!

Yep, the pudding!
Seems like yesterday.

 

[mx wcfc]

Yep, the pudding!
Seems like yesterday.

Seems like centuries ago to me. I remember being pretty blown over by it and my bassist didn't speak to anyone for a week. I am wearing my Unknown Pleasures t-shirt today in tribute. I'm sure I saw a "listening party" advertised on the internet for evening - I must find it.

 

[Pickman's model]

1891 attempt to expel queen nathalie from serbia frustrated by students; she was sent to austria the next day

 

[A380]

18 May 1991 Helen Sharman launches to visit Mir as the first British cosmonaut / astronaut.




(Yes Michael Foal and Piers Sellers were British but they had to become a US citizens to move from working for NASA to flying for them. Also not counting the dual national space tourists... full list here: Category:British astronauts - Wikipedia

 

[Serge Forward]

40 years since Ian Curtis took his life.
40 years!

I was involved in the Manchester music scene back then and Ian's death was very sad.

I saw Joy Division twice, once as Warsaw at the Electric Circus and once as JD at Bolton Tech (where they performed in front of about 15-20 people). To be honest, I never really got them. I suppose Warsaw were okay (more punky) but I didn't like Joy Division and thought they were rubbish - only marginally better than their terrible support band called the Curb (or Kerb). That said, the band I was in still tried to copy Joy Division's sound

 

[Steel Icarus]

Feeling old?

30 years today.

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That's a mad, amazing photo

 

[A380]

14 June 2020. 38 years since the war in the Falklands ended and three years since the Grenfell Tower fire.

 

[A380]

16 June 1963 Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space.

 

[GarveyLives]

16 June 1976: Student Mbuyisa Makhubo carries fatally injured Hector Pieterson after he was shot by South African troops during the 1976 Soweto uprising, during which African children - several hundred of them, according to some estimates - were massacred by the white supremacist government in South Africa.

 

[Maggot]

On this day in 2016 Jo Cox was murdered.

 

[Sprocket.]

I remember the Soweto massacre happening. It still disgusts me that England cricketers thought it okay to go and play there.

 

[Streathamite]

In 1877 on this day St Albans Abbey became St Albans Cathedral.

Well they kept that one bloody quiet. That's where I was growing up at the time, and I don't remember any publicity to that end