#OTD vor 92 Jahren: Entlassung von Max Fröde aus dem KZ Halbestadt https://www.gedenkplaetze.info/biografien/max-froede

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#ZeitzeichenWDR #WDR #Zeitzeichen
Ihr Platz in der Welt war der Circus: Frieda Sembach-Krone https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-ihr-platz-in-der-welt-war-der-circus-frieda-sembach-krone-100.html (@wikinaut)

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#KalenderblattDLF #DLF #Kalenderblatt
Produktdesigner - Wilhelm Wagenfeld: Funktion trifft Schönheit https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/15-04-1900-der-produktdesigner-wilhelm-wagenfeld-geboren-100.html (@wikinaut)

15 Apr: feast #otd of Hunna, an aristocrat saint who is patron of laundresses, who died in 679 and was canonized in 1520. Here then, for her feast date are some washerwomen by Gesina Ter Borch, 1640s (Rijksmuseum)

#OnThisDay, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 independent student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the USA.

Baker was a civil rights activist for five decades, and advocated grassroots activism. She also criticised the misogyny she encountered within the movement.

Released42 years ago today
Bad Brains' second album, "Rock for Light," featuring the thrilling song "Big Takeover."

"Big Takeover" (Live) - Bad Brains - New York, CBGB - December 25, 1982

48 years ago today
Rattus Norvegicus (alternative title The Stranglers IV) is the debut studio album by the Stranglers, released on this day in 1977 includes the singles "(Get A) Grip (On Yourself)" and "Peaches"

Remembering Jeffrey Ross Hyman aka Joey Ramone, singer-songwriter of the punk rock band Ramones, who died far too young on this day in 2001 in the New York Presbyterian Hospital

42 years ago today
'Rock for Light' is the second full-length album by The Bad Brains, produced by The Cars' Ric Ocasek and released on this day in 1983

The first Edison Kinetoscope parlor opened in New York City #OTD in 1894.

Price: 25 cents for 5 films (each 15-20 seconds long).

We've been “going to the movies” for 131 years. #FilmMastodon

#OtD 14 Apr 1931 radical workers attacked the women's prison on Carrer Amalia, Barcelona, freeing the prisoners therein. Anarchist Maria Rius was one of the women involved in the assault, who had previously been jailed for planning jailbreaks https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8538/barcelona-women's-prison-jailbreak

#OtD 14 Apr 1919 in Limerick, Ireland, a general strike was declared in protest against the declaration by the British military of a ‘Special Militarised Zone' in the area. The general strike saw the creation of the short-lived Limerick Soviet https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8537/limerick-general-strike-&-soviet

Aus Anlass seines heutigen Geburtstages - Michel Corrette:
"Michel Corrette - Concert Le Phenix par Serioso Celli"
#Klassik
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https://echostreamz.com/watch?v=5mi4lkAC4Qo

14 Apr 1532: Thomas Cromwell becomes Master of the Jewels #otd (NPG)

#OTD 4/14/19 #birds #birding #aBirdAday (or more) Peregrine falcon on the ice plants at Devil's Slide

https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/48117380578/in/album-72157709224876727/

_The Evening Post_, 15 April 1925:
WAIRARAPA
(BY TELEGRAPH.—SPECIAL TO THE POST.)
MASTERTON, This Day.
…
It has been decided to re-establish the #Masterton Collie Club and to hold a two-day sheep dog trial this year. Messrs. W. Aitken, O. Nation, P. C. Taylor, A. Reed, G. Thompson, H. M‘Lennan, M. Wilton, K. Wilton, and G. W. Reed have been appointed a committee, with power to add [act?/co-opt?], to canvass for members and assistance. Mr. J. F. Hebenton is interim secretary. It was decided to approach the old club in regard to funds and officers.
…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250415.2.91

#OtD 14 Apr 1913 700k workers in Belgium went on strike for universal male suffrage. It brought industry to a standstill and forced parliament to reconvene. Suffrage was granted only after WW1, but the strike was a victory for the workers' movement https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8018/belgian-general-strike

#OtD 14 Apr 1901 Valeriano Orobón Fernández, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and lyricist of the revolutionary anthem "A las Barricadas", was born. Active in the CNT, he died of tuberculosis at the age of 31, mere weeks before the Spanish Revolution began https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8536/valeriano-orob%C3%B3n-fern%C3%A1ndez-born

#OtD 14 Apr 1816 using the temporary freedom from work and cover of permitted gathering for festivities, enslaved people in Barbados rose up on the night of Easter Sunday in what became known as Bussa's rebellion https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8535/bussa%E2%80%99s-rebellion

#OtD 14 Apr 1775 the first formal organisation for the abolition of slavery was formed in the United States, in the Rising Sun tavern, Philadelphia. It was called the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8534/1st-abolitionist-society-in-usa