#otd

#OtD 22 Apr 1993 Stephen Lawrence, a Black British man, was murdered by racists in London. Public pressure following the failure to convict the killers led to revelations of institutional racism within the British Police https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9445/stephen-lawrence-murdered

**The First European To Reach Brazil**

On this day in 1500 Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral is credited with being the first European to reach Brazil.

#OTD #History #Portugal #Brazil

Wer sich Lenin, heute vor 155 Jahren geboren, kritisch nähern will, findet bei Wladislaw Hedeler schlaue Gedanken und spannende Texte. Er zeichnet Lenins Geschichte als Visionär + Pragmatiker nach und arbeitet heraus, warum Lenins Erbe nicht der Leninismus ist: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/wladimir-iljitsch-lenin-oder-revolution-gegen-das-kapital

#lenin #onthisday #leninismus #russland #revolution #OTD

22 Apr 1593: Thomas Wentworth future Lord Deputy of #Ireland & Earl of Strafford is baptised at St.Dunstan-in-the-West #London #otd (NPG)

22 Apr 1659: Under duress Richard Cromwell Lord Protector of #England #Ireland #Scotland dissolves #parliament #otd - and passes power to the army (NPG/BM)

#OtD 22 Apr 1973 the first LGBT+ rights protest took place in Chile when 40 young people demonstrated in Santiago demanding an end to police harassment. Led by sex workers and gender nonconforming people the protest was widely condemned by the press https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11256/chile's-first-lgbt+-protest

#OtD 22 Apr 1944 200 Black people, mostly @HowardU students, held a sit-in at a segregated restaurant in Washington DC. The disruption forced HQ to order the branch to start serving Black customers. A key organiser was LGBT+ Pauli Murray (pictured) https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9444/thompson's-cafeteria-sit-in

#OtD 22 Apr 1891 anarchist Nicola Sacco was born in Italy. Moving to the US, he was later framed with Bartolomeo Vanzetti for murder, sparking an international campaign for their release, but they were both executed https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9442/nicola-sacco-born

22 Apr 1616: d. Miguel de Cervantes in #Madrid #otd His Don Quixote is one of the most translated books ever. The first translation into any other language was to #English by Thomas Shelton of #Dublin

22 Apr: feast of St Theodore of Sykeon, Galatia, all round miracle worker, bishop, exorcist & hermit.

Died #otd in 613.

Zaga Christ, c. 1610 – #otd 22 Apr 1638 By Giovanna Garzoni, 1635. (© 2020 Philip Mould & Co.)

Zaga Christ was an Ethiopian man who apparently claimed to be the son of Emperor Yaˁəqob I of Ethiopia. In Rome from 1632 he attracted considerable attention.

22 Apr 1527: Reginald Pole, future Cardinal and Archbishop of #Canterbury is admitted to the prebend of Knaresborough in #York minster #otd

“We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution — real girls’ talk.” Nina Simone died on this day (21 april) in 2003. A celebrated musician, prominent civil rights activist, and radical, Simone brought revolutionary praxis to her music.

Read: Nina Simone Was a Radical https://jacobin.com/2021/04/nina-simone-radical-music-lorraine-hansberry #OTD

22 Apr 1548: Sir Edward Bellingham appointed Lord Deputy of #Ireland #otd He served from 21 May - 29 Dec 1549. Richard Stanihurst said of him: "feared for his severity & beloved for his integrity".

#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histodons

On this day in 1370, construction begins of the Bastille, the fortress that came to symbolise French despotism. #Bastille

On this day in 1915, the use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon along a 6 km front in the Second Battle of Ypres. #WW1

On this day in 2016, more than 170 countries sign the Paris Agreement on climate change, a landmark treaty to reduce greenhouse gas. #ParisAgreement

#OTD #OnThisDay #OnThisDayInEurope #Europe #History

@histodons #OTD 22.4.1938

"Studie Grün": Hitler plant die Zuspitzung der "Sudetenkrise", die mit der Zerschlagung der Tschechoslowakei endete.

https://www.ns-archiv.de/krieg/1938/tschechoslowakei/fall-gruen-22-04-1938.php

#OTD vor 131 Jahren: Die Widerständlerin Anna Hahn wird in Dresden geboren https://www.gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/johannes-und-anna-hahn

#OTD vor 92 Jahren: Der KPD-Funktionärssohn Rudolf Hering wird aus der Haft entlassen https://www.gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/ehemaliges-wohnhaus-der-widerstaendler-innen-martin-frieda-und-rudolf-hering-und-kurt-boethig

#OTD vor 92 Jahren: Walter Kaiser, KPD-Mitglied aus Struppen, wird aus der "Schutzhaft" entlassen https://www.gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/hohe-strasse-1-ehemaliges-wohnhaus-von-ns-opfer-walter-kaiser