50+ Music<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 2008, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AlWilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlWilson</span></a>, American soul singer ("Show and Tell"; "The Snake"), died of kidney failure at 68. 🪦<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a></p>
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50+ Music<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 2016, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PrinceRogersNelson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrinceRogersNelson</span></a>, American funk, rock, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RAndBsinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAndBsinger</span></a>-songwriter and musician ("1999"; "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PurpleRain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PurpleRain</span></a>"), died from an accidental overdose of painkillers at 57. 💐<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 1759, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GeorgeFridericHandel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeFridericHandel</span></a> is buried in Westminster Abbey, London.</p>
Wellington Chinese History<p>A party of 31 Chinese from Canton who intend to make their homes in New Zealand, arrived in Auckland in the Monowai on Monday. The majority of them are unable to speak English. The party included eight women and several children. Central Hawke's Bay Press <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> 21 April 1949 <br><a href="https://wellingtonchinesehistory.fandom.com/wiki/Chinese_Settlers_Arrive,_Central_Hawke%27s_Bay_Press,_21_April_1949,_Page_2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wellingtonchinesehistory.fando</span><span class="invisible">m.com/wiki/Chinese_Settlers_Arrive,_Central_Hawke%27s_Bay_Press,_21_April_1949,_Page_2</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 1896, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JohnPhilipSousa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnPhilipSousa</span></a>'s operetta "El Capitan" premieres on Broadway at Broadway Theatre, NYC.</p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1914, 111 years ago: In the United States, President Woodrow Wilson orders U.S. troops to occupy Veracruz, Mexico.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 2015, 10 years ago: Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1990, 35 years ago: in Spain, the Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar Pietri is awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 2021, 4 years ago: State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1902, 123 years ago: Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 2010, 15 years ago: The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1946, 79 years ago: The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1946, 79 years ago: Chinese Communists occupy Changshá.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 2020, 5 years ago: For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1949, 76 years ago: Amethyst incident: The People's Liberation Army attacks HMS Amethyst (F116) travelling to the British embassy in Nanjing during the Chinese Civil War.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
Today On Screen<p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, April 20, 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie successfully isolated radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende in their laboratory in Paris (depicted in Radioactive, 2019) </p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Movies</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Film</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Cinemastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cinemastodon</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Letterboxd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Letterboxd</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/TodayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TodayInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1884, 141 years ago: Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1988, 37 years ago: in Belgium, Jean-Luc Dehaene gives the post to Wilfried Martens at the head of the Government, after 128 days without effective Government in the nation.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1897, 128 years ago: in Barcelona (Spain) the Decree of Aggregation comes into force, according to which the municipalities of Gracia, San Martín de Provensals, San Andrés de Palomar, San Gervasio de Cassolas, Sants and Les Corts are integrated into the city.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 1908, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LionelHampton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LionelHampton</span></a>, American jazz vibraphone player, pianist, drummer, and actor, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2002). 💐<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a></p>
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