#ThisDayInHistory in 1864, US military attacked a peaceful band of #Cheyenne & #Arapaho who flew an American flag in the #SandCreekMassacre. 170 unarmed people were butchered. The chief had signed away 90% of their land when #gold was found on it. #Genocide was always the point.

#ThisDayInHistory in 1864, US military attacked a peaceful band of #Cheyenne & #Arapaho who flew an American flag in the #SandCreekMassacre. 170 unarmed people were butchered. The chief had signed away 90% of their land when #gold was found on it. #Genocide was always the point.

It is the 80th anniversary of one of history's greatest #WarCrimes. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1945, the USA dropped an atomic weapon on the city of #Hiroshima. President Truman lied and called it a military base. One key purpose was to intimidate the #USSR.

https://www.dw.com/en/japan-passing-on-the-pain-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki/a-73534584

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1962, leader of the #BritishUnionOfFascists and wannabe dictator Sir #OswaldMosley tried to give a speech in Manchester. Thousands of #antifascists pelted him with fruit, knocking his arse down, and police had to stop his shit speech after seven minutes.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1962, leader of the #BritishUnionOfFascists and wannabe dictator Sir #OswaldMosley tried to give a speech in Manchester. Thousands of #antifascists pelted him with fruit, knocking his arse down, and police had to stop his shit speech after seven minutes.

On # #ThisDayInHistory in 1990, #NelsonMandela was released by the #apartheid state of #SouthAfrica. He served 27 years as a political prisoner, often in isolation. In the negotiations and vote that followed, formal segregation was dismantled, but whites still own 3/4 of the land.