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The #UnitedNations, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1993, set this day as #InternationalDayForBiologicalDiversity, noting #GlobalWarming, #InvasiveSpecies, polllution, etc., as threats to #biodiversity. Help the world by killing your wasteful grass lawn & planting a native-plants garden.

#Yemen was formed in 1990 from two different countries with differing histories. Marxist #SouthYemen, aka the Democratic Republic of Yemen, tried to secede in 1994 on #ThisDayInHistory. When this was not allowed, a #YemeniCivilWar began, and it's never really ended, only paused.

Having guided #Panama's successful independence from #Colombia the year before to gain control of the #PanamaCanalZone, the USA on #ThisDayInHistory in 1904 began construction on its attempt at the #PanamaCanal. Over 25k people total died building it, many of them #AfroCaribbean.

Threatened by the success of #JapaneseAmerican farmers, #California enacted the #AlienLandLaw in 1913 on #ThisDayInHistory, barring #AsianAmericans, even citizens, from owning or leasing land. People often forget CA has a history of #racism & #segregation equaling the Deep South.

@LiamOMaraIV An outrageously embarrassing speech from an outrageously embarrassing president during an illegal war based on outrageously embarrassingly bad lies. Bush II made Reagan look like the good old days.It's saying something that the current regime is now doing for Dubya what Dubya did for Reagan.

Worker #DirectAction has often involved sabotage. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1951, dock workers in #Aotearoa/#NewZealand pulled off the #HuntlyRailBridgeBombing. Train drivers were warned about it so no-one was hurt, but loss of the bridge disrupted coal movement. No-one was caught.