On This Day In History
This day 22 years ago – 2 December 1999 – Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish Constitution were officially changed in line with the Good Friday Agreement.
It now said, “It is the entitlement and birthright of every person born in the island of Ireland to be part of the Irish Nation.” pic.twitter.com/hhksgTujlo
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#OTD in 1988, Benazir Bhutto became Prime Minister of Pakistan - the first female elected premier in a Muslim-majority nation. The first world leader to give birth in office, Bhutto was PM for two terms. In divisive and turbulent times, she was assassinated in 2007. pic.twitter.com/NE2IRfqGyj
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On this day in 1975, Montgomery police shot and killed Bernard Whitehurst Jr., a 32-year-old Black man, and planted a gun on his body. To this day, no one has been held accountable for his death. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/Tv4pRTy9wO
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This day 157 years ago – 3 December 1864 – Anna Johnston, also known by her pen name Ethna Carbery, was born in Ballymena, Co Antrim.
She founded the newspaper Shan Van Vocht (Poor Old Woman) with Alice Milligan in 1896.
She was also an active member of Conradh na Gaeilge. pic.twitter.com/YU0S7KdjMY
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In December 1892 Jo Van Gogh-Bonger staged, in Amsterdam, the first exhibition of work by an unknown painter - her late brother-in-law, Vincent Van Gogh. It was her work that established his posthumous reputation as a great artist. https://t.co/SpakosneRX
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On this day in 1970, Cesar Chavez was sentenced to an indefinite jail term for his work boycotting lettuce produced by farms that had used coercive tactics against the United Farm Workers. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/hCFENNnpQO
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This day 50 years ago – 4 December 1971 – a UVF bomb exploded in McGurk's Bar in Belfast, killing 15 people, the single biggest loss of life in the city during the Troubles.
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#otd in 2009 Catherine Hamlin, pioneer in"compassionate and love-driven care" received a Right Livelihood award (an 'alternative Nobel prize') for lifelong work in obstetrics. With her husband, Hamlin built a hospital in Ethiopia, now a centre of expertise in fistula repair. pic.twitter.com/cQF2gJNCce
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On this day in 1969, Chicago Police officers assassinated Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by firing over 90 bullets during a pre-dawn apartment raid. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/57mdYtDos7
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This day 381 years ago – 5 December 1640 – Anglican Bishop John Atherton was publicly hanged in Dublin for the crime of sodomy.
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In 1778 Begum Samru, a former courtesan and canny alliance-builder, became ruler of a Mughal kingdom in Uttar Pradesh. She commanded 3000 troops and immense wealth, converted to Christianity and was a significant power broker for five decades in India. https://t.co/4MuaZ90qei pic.twitter.com/n7KgTLtMKm
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On this day in 1910, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled an 8-year-old girl was prohibited from attending her local public school because she was one-sixteenth Black. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/WIDWpTVPAq
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This day 41 years ago – 8 December 1980 – Margaret Thatcher attended the first Anglo-Irish summit in Dublin Castle.
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In 1868, self-taught UK engineer & inventor Henrietta Vansittart was awarded British Patent 2877, for the Lowe-Vansittart propeller, which went on to be used by the Royal Navy. In 1869 she took out US Patent 89712: on the construction of screw propellers. https://t.co/LU2fSuIvlf pic.twitter.com/rlkXSoKqmT
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On this day in 1915, a white mob raped and lynched a Black woman named Cordelia Stevenson in Columbus, MS, and left her naked body hanging by a railroad to terrorize Black community members. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/vLnHEbUsYx
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This day 85 years ago – 12 December 1936 – the abdication of Edward VIII allowed Éamon de Valera to reduce the role of the British monarch in Ireland.
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In 1951 Annie Dodge Wauneka was elected to the Navajo Nation Council. She worked to improve the health & education of her nation, with a focus on eradicating TB. In 1963 she became the first Native American to receive the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. https://t.co/kMzkHjmzgx pic.twitter.com/cdFbEaIwfU
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On this day in 1922, over 1,000 white people lynched Arthur Young in Perry, Florida. The mob then attacked the Black community, burning homes and community buildings. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/m6rgxN1qID
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) December 12, 2021
December 13th:
1577 Francis Drake sets sail from England on a circumnavigation of the world
1636 The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. Recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard.
1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the South Island of present day New Zealand; initially he calls it Staten Landt and changes it a year later to Nieuw Zeeland [1]
1920 League of Nations establishes the International Court of Justice in The Hague
2002 The European Union announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004
2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit, during Operation Red Dawn by US forces
Did You Know?
Francis G. Pease’s interferometer at Mount Wilson Observatory is the first to measure the diameter of a star – the Betelgeuse
Today in history in 1920
Would You Believe?
Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months; Celestine hoped to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
Today in History in 1294
This day 22 years ago – 13 December 1999 – the North/South Ministerial Council, set up under the Good Friday Agreement, first met in Armagh.
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