#OnthisDay

#OnThisDay 1984. Police intercept and arrest 292 miners travelling to Ravenscraig to picket.The miners, from Fyfe, disembarked, sat down and linked arms blocking the A80 before police arrested the men

OnThisDayTheIRA

#OnThisDay in 1990 the IRA murdered Patsy Gillespie, 42. Married father of 3. Catholic canteen worker in army base. Used by the IRA as a “human bomb”. Kidnapped & family

Franklin D. Roosevelt died 75 years ago #OnThisDay – 3:35 pm on 12 April 1945 – in Warm Springs, Georgia. He was 63. The last known photos of #FDR show

English Radical History

“Would it be in order to sing God Save the King?”Will Crooks, trade unionist and one of the first Labour MPs, was born in Poplar, London #OnThisDay 1852. A strong

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ReckellMemories

CLIP THREAD #ByRequest #OnThisDay in 1986, the fallout of Bo’s paternity continued to break the Brady family apart. Part 1: Bo and Shawn.#PeterReckell #FrankParker #PeggyMcCay #Days86 #Days CLIP THREAD #ByRequest

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Fought #OnThisDay 23 Sept 1803 The Battle of Assaye.Wellesley commanded 6,500 Indian & British troops against 40,000- 200,000 Mahratta troops led by Hanovarian mercenary PohlmannAsked what his greatest vistory was

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Fought #OnThisDay 27 Sept 1810 The Battle of Bucasso.To block Marshal Massena's invasion of Portugal, Wellington chose a very strong position on the heights of Bucasso.His army consisted of 25,000

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A sombre #OnThisDay 14 September 1852, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington passed away at Walmer Castle, he was 83 years old. He had likely suffered a series of strokes overnight

#OnThisDay 1990Yes, Sachin scored his 1st test century.Do listen to this SPECIAL Master Class discussion !(4 Part Upload)(1/4)#TGIF @sachin_rt @rohangava9 @bhogleharsha @sanjaymanjrekar @RaviShastriOfc @BCCI #VHSArchives @BoriaMajumdar #OnT

#WomenArtists: Today I want to talk about #DutchGoldenAge watercolourist and draftswoman #GesinaTerBorch. She wrote love poetry too. "Self-portrait", 1659. Most of her work consisted in #watercolour painting albums in which

The Trivia Zone

#OnThisDay in 1899, the Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock was born... here's a small trivia thread on him-Drop your favourite Hitchcockian thrillers in the comments@mohanstatsman@RishitShukla @samyak_07 @thefallingsweep @rahulstarrcb@

FC Barcelona (from 🏠)

#OnThisDay | April 25, 1947Johan Cruyff, the winningest manager in Barça history, would have been 73 today. Johan was the father of the Dream Team, which won the Club's first

#OnThisDay 4 years ago we were almost a year into touring our third album Wilder Mind. Having already played a bunch of our favourite ever shows in New Orleans we

Beautiful pic of the happy Ferrari crew welcoming #FrenchGP winner Jacky Ickx home #OnThisDay in '68 after he'd scored his maiden GP win at Rouen in this achingly elegant Ferrari

82 years ago #OnThisDay the #Kristallnacht pogrom took place. Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked across Germany and Austria and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied

BL Asian and African

#OnThisDay #Alexander the Great was born in 356BC. His story, popular especially in Persian, is told in this thread on Add Ms 18804, a Shahnama from Northern India dated 1719.