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#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem. She was later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons

#OtD 21 Mar 1927 800,000 Shanghai workers began a general strike and a 5000-strong workers militia fought state forces. The working class controlled the city until the nationalist Kuomintang, who had been backed by the left, massacred many workers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7858/shanghai-third-uprising

#OtD 21 Mar 1973 the Mental Patients Union was formed in London. They argued that like workers joining unions, mental health patients needed to organise as well, putting forward a list of 24 demands to improve their conditions https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9410/mental-patients-union-founded

#OtD 21 Mar 1960 the Sharpeville massacre occurred in South Africa after armed police fired on anti-apartheid protesters. Shooting went on for 2 minutes, after which 69 Black Africans were dead and 180 seriously wounded, many in the back as they fled https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8021/sharpeville-massacre

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#OtD 20 Mar 1954 Indian anarchist M.P.T. Acharya died. A lifelong fighter in the movement against British colonialism, he moved from nationalism to Bolshevism and finally anarchism https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9296/mpt-acharya-dies

#OtD 20 Mar 1916 Private Abraham Beverstein was shot by firing squad for desertion. Due to disapproval of Jewish enlistment, Beverstein enlisted under the false name of Harris https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9292/abraham-beverstein-executed

Mister Rogers, who was born on this day March 20 in 1928, started every show by putting on a hand-knit cardigan. Who knit them? His mother! He explained, “[Knitting is] one of the ways she says she loves somebody." https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/11027/mister-rogers-neighborhood-fred-rogers-sweaters-smithsonian/#knitting #otd #tv

#OtD 20 Mar 1911 women at the Glasgow Singer factory went on strike after popularizing the @iww slogan "an injury to one is an injury to all" in a non-union factory. They triggered a decade of class struggle that became known as "Red Clydeside" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9291/singer-corporation-strike

@publicdomainrev he got the 2 and 6 right. and one of the zeros. not too bad, isaac, not too bad.

#OtD 20 Mar 1974 during mass protests in Bihar, India, authorities called a curfew on 11 towns. Ordering them to shoot on sight, police killed 22 people and arrested hundreds. Students called for a general strike https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9298/bihar-curfew-imposed

Pioneering French photographer Felix Nadar died #onthisday in 1910. @AllisonCMeier explores his determined efforts to document the beauty and terror of this realm of the dead: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/photographing-the-dark-nadars-descent-into-the-paris-catacombs #otd

@gutenberg_org Alas! It is delusion all…

@CarveHerName Alaska, where men are men.And women win the Iditarod.

#OtD 20 Mar 1946 10 homeless people, some of them WWII veterans, squatted the 20-room Maramanah mansion in King's Cross, Sydney, Australia, which was due for demolition. More joined them until the council agreed to keep the building open for housing https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9295/maramanah-mansion-squatted

#OtD 20 Mar 1975 Operation Red Snake of the Paraná began in Argentina. The Peronist government sent hundreds of police and troops to break the organisation of militant industrial workers. They arrested 307 workers sparking months of resistance https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9299/operation-red-snake-of-the-paran%C3%A1

#OtD 19 Mar 1933 anti-fascist photographer Gerda Taro was arrested in Germany as part of a supposed communist plot to overthrow Hitler. Released after 2 weeks, she was able to escape the country. We've made available one of her iconic photos: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/gerda-taro

#OtD 19 Mar 1969 the UK Labour govt sent troops to invade Anguilla after locals rebelled against being put under the authority of the St Kitts govt - which hated them. The invaders, expecting to fight mafiosi & Black power activists, found nothing https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9123/british-invade-anguilla

#OtD 19 Mar 1935 the 1935 Harlem Uprising took place in NYC when Black people rebelled against police after rumours of brutality. Police banned a demo, and protests escalated, causing $200 million in damages, while three Black people were killed https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9121/harlem-uprising

#OtD 19 Mar 1968 more than 1,000 students at the historically Black Howard University began a 4-day occupation of the administration building. The protesters won several concessions, including a more developed African-American studies curriculum https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9122/howard-university-occupation