#OtD 6 Nov 1986 the Iran-Contra scandal β€” where the US sold arms to Iran to fund right-wing paramilitaries in Nicaragua β€” began to break. Acting Pres Ronald Reagan said the revelations had "no foundation", which turned out to be a lie
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#OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed
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#OtD 3 Nov 1889 Mexican revolutionary Amelio Robles Ávila was born. Assigned female at birth but later lived as a man and insisted on being treated as such. He fought alongside Emiliano Zapata, delivering weapons and extorting money from oil companies
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#OtD 3 Nov 1918 a mutiny in Germany spread to Kiel, and ultimately ended WWI. Sailors refused to fight a suicidal offensive, and instead rebelled and raised red flags. Protests spread across the country and led to revolution. Learn more in this book:
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#OtD 1 Nov 1963 Black tenants began a rent strike in Harlem, NYC. By January, about 2000 tenants were withholding rent. The strike caused the city to create a rat eradication program, legalize rent strikes, and pass laws to improve housing conditions
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#OtD 31 Oct 1926 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni was lynched by fascists, after they accused him of trying to shoot fascist dictator Mussolini during a parade in Bologna celebrating the March on Rome. Repression increased, and some of his relatives jailed
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#OtD 30 Oct 1944 the left-wing Greek People's Liberation Army liberated Thessaloniki from Nazi occupation. They stopped the Nazis from blowing up power plants and food factories and attacked retreating German units, then paraded through the streets
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#OtD 30 Oct 1961 Ford tried to cut tea breaks for British workers from 10 minutes to 5, which unions agreed. But workers protested by taking tea more slowly and kept it up until Mar 1962 when bosses caved. We've made mugs to celebrate tea break struggles:
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#OtD 29 Oct 1940 in France, Iranian Muslim diplomat Abdol Hossein Sardari wrote to the Vichy govt to argue that Jews from Central Asia were not really Jewish under Nazi race laws, which was eventually agreed. He also helped up to 2000 Jews escape
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