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GarveyLives
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14 May 2022: 10 people are murdered (and 3 others injured) in a white supremacist terrorist mass shooting at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo, New York, United States.
Those murdered were: Ruth Whitfield (86); Roberta Drury (32); Aaron Salter (55); Heyward Patterson (67); Pearl Young (77); Geraldine Talley (62); Celestine Chaney (65); Katherine Massey (72); Margus Morrison (52); and Andre Mackneil (53).
Those murdered were: Ruth Whitfield (86); Roberta Drury (32); Aaron Salter (55); Heyward Patterson (67); Pearl Young (77); Geraldine Talley (62); Celestine Chaney (65); Katherine Massey (72); Margus Morrison (52); and Andre Mackneil (53).
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17 May 1959: 32 year-old Antiguan, Kelso Cochrane, dies in Notting Hill after being attacked by a group of men outside the Earl of Warwick pub on Golborne Road, with one arm in a sling, while on his way back from nearby St Mary’s Hospital after fracturing his left thumb at work.
To this day, no-one has ever been charged with taking part in the attack which left Kelso Cochrane dying of a stab wound to the heart. On 6 June 1959, over a thousand people attended Kelso Cochrane's funeral at St Michael and All Angels Church.
In 2011, BBC documentary maker Mark Olden claimed in his book, Murder In Notting Hill, that one of those arrested following the murder, Patrick Digby, had confessed to the murder to a group of friends. Patrick Digby died aged 69 in 2007 from a heart attack.
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Following parliament's invitation for him to return, on 25th May 1660 Charles II landed in Dover, according to Pepys's diary "the shouting and joy expressed by all is past imagination".
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On this day in 1926, Ukrainian Jewish anarchist Shalom Schwartzbard shot Symon Petliura, a Ukrainian politician and military leader whose forces carried out pogroms during the Russian civil war. Schwartzbard made no attempt to deny having shot Petliura but insisted his actions were justified, and a jury agreed, finding him innocent of murder:
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Schwartzbard, Shalom (1886-1938)
Short biography of Jewish anarchist poet and participant in both 1905 and 1917 Russian revolutions Shalom Schwartzbard, who carried out a revenge assassination of a leading anti-Semitic pogromist in Paris.
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Oh, and turns out today is also the anniversary of the killing of George Floyd:
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Thora Hird was born on this day in 1911
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Wulfstan, Archbishop of York and principal advisor to Cnut, died on this day exactly 1000 years ago.
petee
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the mother was born on this day in 1913.
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10 years since the killing of Clement Meric:
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Neither forgiving nor forgetting, only scores to settle
A translation of a leaflet from France, regarding the murder of anti-fascist Clément Méric by members of a far-right group.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Here's a pic of the Champagne cork that Bill picked up floating in the sea at Ouistreham as he landed 79 years ago OTD. He carried it as some sort of memento/charm throughout the Liberation of Europe until he ended up somewhere near to Eindhoven. My old Dad still has the cork.
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After the battle of Naseby, today in 1645, parliamentary forces hacked 100 women to death thinking they were Irish, although they were actually Welsh.
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43 years ago today 
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1,096 years ago today the treaty of Eamont Bridge saw various kings submit to Aethelstan, allowing him to style himself the first "King of the English" and "King of All Britain".
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Also on this day in 1712 Richard Cromwell died, England's longest-lived male ruler.
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Mrs SFM and I got married on the 9/9/99 - date was set after she and her sister were E’d up at a rave in Catford and, being similarly spangled, enthusiastically agreed.
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On this day in 2016, 28-year-old Jimi Joonas Karttunen died of his injuries after having been attacked by nazis from the Finnish Resistance Movement.
Man Assaulted by Finnish Neo-Nazi Group Linked to the Soldiers of Odin Dies
Our readers who have been following ARC's series on the Canadian branch of the Soldiers of Odin are aware that the group originated in Finl...
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Trollface is 15 years old today:
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