22 years ago #OTD, the massive #Bhuj #earthquake in Western #India caused disaster and death.
This is an important milestone in my career, my very first post-earthquake survey... Really a shock in many ways.

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#OtD 23 Apr 1971 Ecuadorian Indigenous communist Dolores Cacuango died aged 89. She fought the dictatorship, established Indigenous schools and took part in the landless workers' movements for decades

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#OtD 24 Apr 1964, the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen was sawn off by a Situationist artist collective, including Jorgen Nash. Homicide detectives investigated the act, but never caught those responsible https://libcom.org/thought/situationists-an-introduction

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#OtD 23 Apr 1976, Catalan anarchist Enric Duran i Giralt ‘Robin Bank' was born. He later robbed dozens of Spanish banks of around half a million euros to finance anticapitalist social movements

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#OtD 16 Apr 1853 Black waiters in New York City organised and demanded a pay rise to $16 a month and encouraged white waiters to do the same

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#OtD 12 Apr 1918 Bolshevik forces attacked 26 anarchist centres in Moscow, as the anarchists were growing larger in strength. At least 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 were arrested and jailed https://libcom.org/history/bolshevik-repression-against-anarchists-vologda

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#OtD 12 Apr 1918 Bolshevik forces attacked 26 anarchist centres in Moscow, as the anarchists were growing larger in strength. At least 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 were arrested and jailed https://libcom.org/history/bolshevik-repression-against-anarchists-vologda

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#OtD 11 Apr 1945 the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by its resistance as US troops arrived. However, many of those interned in camps for homosexuality were not freed by the Allies, but required to serve out the full term of their sentences under the Nazi penal code

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#OtD 5 Apr 1932, in Newfoundland a crowd of 10,000 protested at the central govt. building about price increases & pension cuts. Police attacked but the mob fought back and searched for the PM, who was punched in the face. The govt. later collapsed

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#OtD 17 Mar 1942 communist and member of the Yugoslav resistance in Croatia, Nada Dimić, was executed in the Stara Gradiska concentration camp for helping people escape fascists into partisan areas and shooting a Ustasha agent

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#OtD 17 Jan 1961 the first democratically-elected prime minister of #Congo was murdered following a coup backed by the US and #Belgium. Socialist independence leader Patrice Lumumba was arrested, brutally beaten, tortured and then shot https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/lord-leverhulme-s-ghosts-colonial-exploitation-in-the-congo-jules-marchal

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#OtD 28 Dec 1973 what historians have described as the first strike in space took place when 3 astronauts on the Skylab 4 space station mutinied, demanding more time for contemplating the universe and themselves. After 24 hours NASA agreed a compromise. https://libcom.org/history/1973-skylab-4-mutiny

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#OtD 25 Dec 336 CE was the first recorded celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, a Middle Eastern Jewish refugee and radical, on this date. His early followers practised an informal type of communism. Learn more about them here: https://libcom.org/history/early-christian-communists

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#OtD 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy

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#OtD 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy

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#OtD 21 Dec 1907 possibly the worst massacre of striking workers in history took place as the Chilean army killed over 2,000 people: striking nitrate miners, their wives and children who were camped at a school in Santa María, Iquique https://libcom.org/history/1872-1995-anarchism-in-chile

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