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I just went to the Computer History Museum website because, well, that's not important, but I learned that on this day in history in 1983, Microsoft announced Windows. Which rolled out in 1985. Happy birthday to premature software announcements www.computerhistory.org/tdih/
What Happened Today, November 10th | This Day in History | Computer History Museum
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November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
Wilmington Massacre (#tdih 1898) is a clear example of need for reparations.

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote lesson ⬇️ because "reparations are nowhere in the textbooks my school district has adopted to help me teach young people in the U.S. about their past."
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Repair: Students Design a Reparations Bill
In this activity, students take on the role of activist-experts to improve upon a Congressional bill for reparations for Black people.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
"Lost in the fire that destroyed 'The Daily Record' were the lives of Black citizens and the spirit of a thriving Black community, and also the most promising effort in the South to build racial solidarity." -- @theatlantic.com ⬆️

Like Tulsa & many more.
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May 31, 1921: Tulsa Massacre
In one of countless white supremacist massacres in U.S. history, white supremacists destroyed a thriving Black community in Oklahoma, known today as the Tulsa Massacre.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
#tdih 1898 in Wilmington, NC:

-- massacre of African Americans by white supremacists
-- Black press & businesses burned
-- coup d’etat of elected, interracial Reconstruction era government #terrorism
💔

🧵including Reconstruction lessons & @pbs.org doc ⬇️
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Nov. 10, 1898: Wilmington Massacre
The elected and interracial Reconstruction era local government was deposed in a coup d’etat in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
gwill2k.bsky.social
#tdih 1973

In a real life Fahrenheit 451 scenario, 36 copies of “Slaughterhouse-Five” were burned on order by Drake, ND’s school board. The board never read the book, but proceed anyways. Backlash ensued as the town was compared to Nazism.

Vonnegut’s Dissent:
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#booksky
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Introduction by Jess Walter Illustrated by Julian De Narvaez Frontispiece by Edith Vonnegut https://suntup.press/slaughterhouse-five/
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
gwill2k.bsky.social
#tdih 1928

The first installment of All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s acclaimed novel of World War I, appears in the German magazine Vossische Zeitung.

In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power, All Quiet became one of the first “degenerate” books to be publicly burnt.

#booksky
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Description I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow…  This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.    Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another…if only he can come out of the war alive.  About the Author Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) was born in Germany in 1898 and drafted into the German army during World War I. His novel All Quiet on the Western Front was published in 1929 and was an instant best seller. When the Nazis came to power, Remarque left Germany for Switzerland; he lost his German citizenship, his books were burned, and his films banned. He went to the United States in 1938 and became a citizen in 1947. He later lived in Switzerland with his second wife, the actress Paulette Goddard. He died in September 1970.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
loquaciousscribble.bsky.social
#TDIH
eji.org Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 21h
On November 10, 1898, a shocking coup was executed in Wilmington, North Carolina, as white mobs led by former Confederate Col. Alfred Moore Waddell overthrew the city’s elected biracial government and massacred 60 or more Black people.
The Wilmington Massacre of 1898
A shocking coup was executed Wilmington, North Carolina.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
bsucompsci.bsky.social
OTD: Nov. 10, 1983
Microsoft announces a new product, Windows. After several delays, Windows 1.0 finally became available to the public in 1985. Although Windows 1.0 saw some use, the Windows interface did not gain general acceptance until version 3.0. www.computerhistory.org/tdih/novembe...
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
gwill2k.bsky.social
Gordon Lightfoot
#bestsongheardtoday

In a musty old hall
in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell chimed
till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the
Edmund Fitzgerald

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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#musicsky #musicchallenge #tdih
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
kenmist.bsky.social
#TDIH - November 10, 1949 - First flight of the Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw (company model number S-55). HO4S variant shown as flown by the Royal Canadian Navy.
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
waterblusky.bsky.social
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June 8, 1961: Freedom Riders Arrested
Freedom Riders traveling from New Orleans, Louisiana to Jackson, Mississippi were arrested in 1961.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
kenmist.bsky.social
#TDIH - November 9, 1944 - First flight of the Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter, a long-range heavy military cargo aircraft developed from the B-29 and B-50 bombers. My photo of a survivor at the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
#tdih 1938 in Germany & Austria: organized terrorism by Nazis against Jews.

Hundreds of synagogues destroyed, 30,000 Jewish men arrested & sent to concentration camps, & more. 💔

As in 📷 below, many people in towns — & the world — just looked on. 🧵
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Nov. 9, 1938: Pogromnacht in Germany and Austria
Violent anti-Jewish demonstrations in Europe in which hundreds of synagogues were destroyed; 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, homes, and schools were plundered; 91 Jews were murdered; and 30,000 Jewish ...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
Thanks for recommending this poetry collection from @haymarketbooks.org. We'll add it as a companion resource on the Creole revolt #tdih post.
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
#tdih 1892. When Board of Trade said it would sign agreement with indiv. unions, but not Triple Alliance with primarily Black workers, more than half NOLA's workforce launched labor strike.

They said NO to racist "divide and conquer" tactics. #TeachTruth

Read ⬇️
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Nov. 8, 1892: Massive Labor Strike in New Orleans
Thirty thousand factory and dock workers staged the 1892 New Orleans general strike.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
rastasack.bsky.social
She's on the $10 bill, and buried in the cemetery, on the Robie Street side, 8 rows back, I think, and there's signs.
#History #HumanRights #EqualRights #NewGlasgow #TDIH #OTD #ViolaDesmond
cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 2d
On this day in 1946, Viola Desmond's car broke down in New Glasgow, NS. She went to a movie and sat in a Whites-Only area. Her refusal to move helped spark the modern Canadian civil rights movement.

Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
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A black-and-white portrait of a woman with neatly styled, voluminous hair, wearing a light-colored dress and a heart-shaped necklace. She is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile.
November 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
feministory.bsky.social
11/7/1916 — Jeanette Pickering Rankin, American suffragist, peace activist, reformer, becomes the first woman elected to the United States Congress, Montana-R (1917-19) #womenshistory #gov #law #SheIsTheFirst #TDIH
Jeannette Rankin For Congress postcard
November 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
gwill2k.bsky.social
#tdih 2016 Death of a true ladies man, Leonard Cohen.

His 🎵, his ✍️, the way he lived his life; all an inspiration. Very lucky to see him in concert during his career resurgence. To honor LC, I offer my fave live performance & quote from another admirer.

Lover Lover Lover
song.link/xLLL

#musicsky
FIELD COMMANDER COHEN ALBUM COVER; HIS TOUR OF 1979 "When people talk about Leonard, they fail to mention his melodies, which, to me, along with his lyrics, are his greatest genius. Even the counterpoint lines-they give a celestial character and melodic lift to every one of his songs. As far as I know, no one else comes close to this in modern music. His gift or genius is in his connection to the music of the spheres." - Bob Dylan
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
gwill2k.bsky.social
#tdih 1932 Powell v. Alabama

SCOTUS overturns convictions of 9 young Black men wrongfully accused of raping 2 white women on an Alabama train. Ruling determined the defendants lacked adequate representation.

The Scottsboro case inspired Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

#history #booksky
Despite early moves by the federal government to become more inclusive, racial tensions throughout the country continued to present challenges to the nation. A long history of discrimination and unfair treatment at the federal and state level often stalled reform. Many of the biggest injustices experienced by African Americans took place within the nation's court system. For this reason, the "Scottsboro Boys" cases served as an early call to activism when it was revealed that the defendants did not receive fair trials. While U.S. legal precedence requires a defendant have access to an attorney and be tried by a jury of their peers, these rights weren't always afforded to marginalized groups. In 1931, an all white jury, on flimsy and conflicting testimony, convicted nine young black youths, ranging in ages from 13 to 21, of raping two young white women while riding a freight train. The accusations emerged after black and white male passengers fought when white riders refused to share a train car that both groups were illegally traveling on as hobos. It was also later revealed that the women accusing the black defendants of rape did so to avoid separate charges of vagrancy and illegal activity. All 9 defendants, with the exception of 13 year old Roy Wright, were sentenced to death. In this July 16, 1937 file photo, Charlie Weems, left, and Clarence Norris, Scottsboro case defendants, read a newspaper in their Decatur, Ala. jail after Norris was found guilty for a third time by a jury which specified the death penalty. After this initial verdict, national protests emerged. One of the female accusers in the case eventually recanted the rape charges and began appearing at rallies on behalf of the defendants. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually overturned the Scottsboro convictions in Powell v. State of Alabama. The nation's highest court demanded a retrial on the grounds that the young men did not have adequate legal representation and were not represented by a jury of their peers. A series of retrials and re-convictions followed. Although the state of Alabama eventually dropped the charges against the four youngest defendants and granted parole to the other men, their lives were ruined. By the end of the ordeal, the Scottsboro Boys collectively served more than 100 years in prison. The last defendant was released after being incarcerated for 19 years. American society and culture, however, absorbed the young men's inequitable experience. Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was loosely based on the Scottsborro cases and helped bring the issue of discrimination to readers across the globe.
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
#tdih 1841, Madison Washington & 18 other enslaved people aboard "Creole" (en route Richmond to NOLA) rebelled & sailed ship to Bahamas where most secured freedom, one of largest US slave revolts.

Via @blackpastonline.bsky.social, "The Creole Mutiny," more. ⬇️
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Nov. 7, 1841: The Creole Mutiny
Madison Washington and eighteen other enslaved people rebelled onboard the Creole, a ship involved in the U.S. slave trade.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
chris2fur1943.bsky.social
Canada has 460,000 km of paved two-lane (or equivalent) highways.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
#tdih 1965, five men burned their draft cards in NYC in direct violation of federal law.

An act of solidarity with David Miller who publicly burned his draft card 3 wks earlier, was arrested by FBI, got 2 year prison sentence.

A. J. Muste on right. Read ⬇️ 🧵
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Nov. 6, 1965: Draft Card Protest
Draft cards burned in solidarity with David Miller, a Catholic pacifist who was one of the first to publicly burn his draft card.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
zinnedproject.bsky.social
#tdih 1867, Reconstruction era Alabama delegates drafted a new state constitution, established first state-financed public schools in South.

By 1871, Black & white children attended public schools.

Read "Educational Reconstruction" by @hngreen.bsky.social ⬇️ 🧵
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Nov. 5, 1867: Alabama State Constitution
Delegates gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, to draft a new state constitution during Reconstruction.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
kenmist.bsky.social
#TDIH - November 5, 1981 - First flight of the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, the second generation of the Harrier Jump Jet family.
November 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
bsucompsci.bsky.social
OTD: Nov. 4, 1952
CBS News borrows a UNIVAC computer to make a scientific prediction of the 1952 presidential election, a race between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson. www.computerhistory.org/tdih/novembe...
Image: By U.S. Census Bureau; From Wikipedia: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM