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15 Jun 1990 LA police attacked ~500 striking janitors and their supporters at a peaceful @seiu protest against cleaning contractor ISS. The workers later won health benefits, better pay & union recognition https://t.co/2RJql8Tnpj https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8695/battle-of-century-city?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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On this day in 1801, Elen Keon Cosgrove died aged 37. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from St. Molaise graveyard, Monea, Devenish, Co. Fermanagh, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/cosgrove1801

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"The air is the only place free of prejudices."

, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's licence, becoming the first licensed civilian African-American pilot in the world.

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On this day in 1803, Judith Bradley died. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Drumcondra, Dublin, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/brad1803

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in 1822.

Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.

The difference engine is based on the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial co-efficients. Some of the most common mathematical functions are built from logarithmic & trigonometric functions, which can be approximated by polynomials, so a difference engine can compute many useful tables.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71292

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, 14 Jun 1939, Ethel Waters stars in The Ethel Waters Show on NBC, becoming the first black person to have their own show on US TV.

Photo is from her radio show.

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13 Jun 1919 200,000 attended in Berlin the funeral procession for martryed revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, who were murdered during the German Revolution by the proto-fascist Freikorps militia https://t.co/n4ZS9L9PIF https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/rosa-luxemburg?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) was born . As a physicist, he ranks alongside Newton & Einstein (“He achieved greatness unequalled”—Max Planck). He also wrote poetry: “Rigid Body Sings” is based on “Comin’ Through the Rye” by Robert Burns

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45774/in-memory-of-edward-wilson-who-repented-of-what-was-in-his-mind-to-write-after-section

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    On this day in 1738, Matilda Morton died aged 36. She was buried at Drumlane, Co. Cavan. Find out more about Drumlane in the Journals: https://bit.ly/morton1738

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    On this day in 1820, Elenor Wheelar Phelan died. Her husband, John, erected a gravestone at St. Martin's near Kilkenny. See more inscriptions from this graveyard in the Journals: https://bit.ly/phelan1820

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    11 Jun 1943 Karl Gorath, 20, a nurse, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp for homosexuality. He managed to survive until the end of the war, but was soon rearrested and jailed under the same Nazi law by the same judge in West Germany https://t.co/QWmTmN9ffk https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8323/karl-gorath-deported-to-auschwitz?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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    "Each time the discovery of new facts, the overthrow or extension of accepted theories, reminded us that science is never finished."

    French physicist Charles Fabry was born in 1867.

    Together with Henri Buisson, they made a groundbreaking discovery by identifying the presence of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere (1913). They used spectroscopic techniques to measure the absorption of ultraviolet light by atmospheric ozone, providing the first definitive evidence of the ozone layer.

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    On this day in 1796, Mary Fairy Burne died aged 59. She was buried with her husband, Tom. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Templeboy, Co. Sligo, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/burne1796

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    “The simple act of walking through a schoolhouse door that had been barred to me, and all people of my color, by the governor of this state - that simple act represented an end to legal segregation in the American South.”

    , 11 June 1963, Vivian Malone defies the Governor of Alabama to become the first Black female student at the University of Alabama.

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    11 June 1936 Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists attempted to hold an impromptu rally in Tonypandy, Wales. 6,000 locals forced the fascists to flee in what would become known as the 'Battle of De Winton Field' https://t.co/QYrb1Z56la https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8322/battle-of-de-winton-field?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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    On this day in 1622, Hugh "Buye" MacGahagan of Castletown, Co. Westmeath, died. His funeral entry names his wife, children and father-in-law. See more 17th-century funeral entries in the Journals: https://bit.ly/mcgah1622

    O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees shows Hugh Buidhe MacGeoghagan's purported descent from Niall of the Nine Hostages: https://bit.ly/macgeoghagan

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    9 June 1885 The Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.

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    9 Jun 2022 Indigenous Maasai people in Tanzania protested against land enclosures by the Tanzanian government to establish a hunting reserve for wealthy tourists. The next day police shot 32 people, and one was "disappeared". But protest continued https://t.co/ni26vVQkSi https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11105/maasai-people-protest-enclosures?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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    9 Jun 1944 99 civilians were hanged from lampposts and balconies by Nazi troops in Tulle, France, in response to anti-fascist resistance fighters killing 40 Nazi soldiers. Others were sent to the concentration camps, leaving 213 dead in total https://t.co/SUXMvEUJXB https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10914/nazi-revenge-massacres?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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    On this day in 1771, Daniel O Boyle died aged 63. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Creevelea Abbey, Co. Leitrim, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/oboy1771

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    Italian mathematician, astronomer and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini was born in 1625.

    His observations & calculations helped to confirm & refine Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. He formulated Cassini’s Law, describing the rotational behavior of the Moon, which was crucial for understanding the Moon's synchronous rotation with the Earth. He was involved in measuring the meridian arc of Paris, contributing to the accurate determination of the shape of the Earth.

    Drawings of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn Robert Hooke, Giovanni Cassini - Observations Made in Italy, Confirming the Former, and Withall Fixing the Period of the Revolution of Mars. In: Philosophical Transactions. Band 1, Nummer 14, 2. Juli 1666, S. 242–245.

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    On this day in 1747, Elizabeth Archer, daughter of Henry, was baptised at Wexford. See more transcripts of this parish register in the Journals: https://bit.ly/archer1747

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    , 8 Jun 1953, Mary Terrell wins her Supreme Court case and desegregates Washington DC's restaurants. She's 93, and celebrates with lunch in the very restaurant that she'd taken to court.

    A painting of Mary Terrell as an older woman. She is an African-American woman with white hair.

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    , 8 Jun 1944, Violette Szabo returns to occupied France by parachute for her second posting with the British Special Operations Executive.

    She is captured two days later, after a gun battle. She's tortured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. She is killed in Jan 1945. Her daughter Tania received the George Cross on her behalf in 1947.

    Violette Szabo's story was filmed as Carve Her Name With Pride (1958).

    photo of Tania Szabo. She is a five-year old white girl in buckle shoes. A senior Army officer is leaning down to look at the George Cross pinned to her summer dress.

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    7 Jun 1971 New York bridge workers completely snarled the city's traffic by leaving drawbridges open in protest against the rejection of their pension demands by New York State https://t.co/cFmahjw4X6 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10720/new-york-bridge-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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