#otd - #onthisday

Ein paar Tage zuvor hatte sich Herbert Frahm auf einem Fischerboot versteckt. Am 7. April 1933 betritt dann #WillyBrandt Oslo in Norwegen und beginnt sein #Exil und den Widerstand gegen den #Nationalsozialismus vom Ausland aus: https://geschichteeuropas.podigee.io/220-220

#OTD 1803 geboren: #FloraTristan. Wichtige, oft vergessene Pionierin des Frühsozialismus. 5 Jahre vor Marx & Engels forderte sie in der Schrift „Arbeiterunion“, sich international zusammenzuschließen zum Kampf für die eigenen Rechte. Bereits 1839 war sie 8 Monate lang durch England gereist, um die Arbeitsbedingungen zu studieren. Sie nahm wichtige Forderungen aus dem »Kommunistischen Manifest« vorweg, maß jedoch dem Verhältnis der Geschlechter und der Rolle der Frauen zentrale Bedeutung bei. /1

Am 7. April 1933 - Luckenwalde - Nach einem Demonstrationszug versammelten sich HJ, SA und SS auf dem Marktplatz und verbrannten hauptsächlich die Bücher von Autor*innen aus der Weimarer Republik. #otd #onthisday #erinnerung #Buecherverbrennung https://verbrannte-orte.de/

On this day fourteen years ago, on 6 April 2011, the second radio pulsar discovered with @einsteinathome was published.

Our distributed computing project had started almost exactly two years earlier to analyze data from the Arecibo radio telescope with the help of tens of thousands of volunteers.

This second discovery was special: the pulsar orbits the common center of mass with a white dwarf in just 9.4 hours and it belongs to a rare “species”.

https://www.aei.mpg.de/191149/einstein-home-detects-unusual-stellar-pair

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/732/1/L1

At the time, it was assumed that this pulsar could be used to observe relativistic effects. This was finally achieved in 2022 after many more observations: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44699-22/aa44699-22.html

Heute vor 14 Jahren, am 6. April 2011, wurde der zweite mit @einsteinathome entdeckte Radiopulsar veröffentlicht.

Unser verteiltes Rechenprojekt hatte ziemlich genau zwei Jahre zuvor begonnen, Daten des Arecibo-Radioteleskops mit der Hilfe von zehntausenden Freiwilligen zu durchsuchen.

Diese zweite Entdeckung war besonders: Der Pulsar umrundet mit einem Weißen Zwerg den gemeinsamen Schwerpunkt in nur 9,4 Stunden und er gehört zu einer seltenen „Spezies“.

https://www.aei.mpg.de/367271/einstein-home-detects-unusual-stellar-pair

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2041-8205/732/1/L1

Damals ging man davon aus, dass man mit diesem Pulsar Effekte der Relativitätstheorie beobachten könnte, was nach vielen weiteren Beobachtungen schließlich 2022 gelang: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44699-22/aa44699-22.html

Am 5. April 1933 - Magdeburg - Nach der Stürmung der sozialdemokratischen Volksstimme wird die Bibliothek auf dem Domplatz verbrannt. #otd #onthisday #erinnerung #Buecherverbrennung https://verbrannte-orte.de/

#OnthisDay, 5 Apr 1971, Frances Phipps was the first woman to reach the North Pole, flying crew on a small plane to install a navigation beacon.

#art #history: imagine being such a gifted author that one of  your most radical & inventive novels was mainly a product of automatic writing? best known, perhaps, for providing the screenplay  that would become alain resnais' 'hiroshima mon amour' - which is not a  bad place to start if you've not yet become acquainted with marguerite duras (born #otd in 1914) - she largely escaped acclaim  outside of france. this is regrettable. (threadish)
#margueriteDuras #literature #illustration #france

#OtD 4 Apr 1968 Martin Luther King Jr, legendary civil rights activist and non-violence advocate, was assassinated in Memphis, sparking riots across the US. He was in the city supporting a strike of garbage workers. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10400/mlk-assassinated

#OtD 4 Apr 1525 5000 peasants took part in the ‘Battle of Leipheim', one of the early battles of the German Peasants' War. Confronted by over 8000 better armed troops controlled by local nobles, the peasants lost but the revolt continued https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10398/battle-of-leipheim

#OTD in 1984.

The narrative of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) begins and causes widespread discussion. G. K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) is also set in this year; and Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (2009–2010) is set in a parallel version of it.

There has been a theory that 1984 was chosen simply as an inversion of the year 1948, the year in which it was being completed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Napoleon_of_Notting_Hill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1Q84

#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.

Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.

#OtD 1 Apr 1972 the Situationist International was dissolved. One of the first revolutionary groups to analyse capitalism in its consumerist form, their ideas came to prominence after the France 1968 uprising. Read more: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/situationists

#OtD 1 Apr 1939 the Spanish Civil War ended with victory for Gen Franco's Nationalist forces. The workers, who launched a revolution against the coup attempt, were eventually overcome. We tell its story in our podcast episodes 39-40: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

In addition to phyphox, @DiConX is also working on awesome side projects – like for another device family. A combination of these was published #otd three years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rWjWE4gfDk

Am 1. April 1933 - Wuppertal-Barmen - In Wuppertal finden zwei Bücherverbrennungen statt. Beide wurden hauptsächlich von Schüler*innen organisiert und besucht. #otd #onthisday #erinnerung #Buecherverbrennung https://verbrannte-orte.de/

Am 1. April 1933 - Wuppertal-Elberfeld - In Wuppertal finden zwei Bücherverbrennungen statt. Beide wurden hauptsächlich von Schüler*innen organisiert und besucht. #otd #onthisday #erinnerung #Buecherverbrennung https://verbrannte-orte.de/

It's the 26th anniversary of The Matrix, written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, released on March 31st, 1999, making cinematic history and forever leaving its mark on the Sci-Fi genre.

“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.