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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 1927, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GerryMulligan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GerryMulligan</span></a>, American saxophonist and orchestra leader (Jazz On A Summer Day), born in Queens, New York City (d. 1996). 🕊️ <br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a></p>
World War II Database<p>Today in WW2 History, 6 Apr 1944: [Photo] Lucian Truscott and Ira Eaker at Anzio <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ww2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ww2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onthisday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onthisday</span></a> <a href="https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=22732" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=2</span><span class="invisible">2732</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1918, 107 years ago: Finnish Civil War: The battle of Tampere ends.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
World War II Database<p>Today in WW2 History, 6 Apr 1944: Xinjin Airfield in Chengdu became the forward headquarters of US XX Bomber Command. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ww2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ww2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onthisday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onthisday</span></a> <a href="https://ww2db.com/facility/Xinjin_Airfield/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ww2db.com/facility/Xinjin_Airf</span><span class="invisible">ield/</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1945, 80 years ago: in the context of World War II, Yugoslav partisans liberate Sarajevo from Croatian Nazi forces.</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 1814, 211 years ago: Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates in France. Later he will be exiled to the island of Elba.</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 1970, 55 years ago: German Ambassador Karl von Spreti is assassinated in Guatemala.</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 1930, 95 years ago: At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."</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 1862, 163 years ago: American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.</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 1917, 108 years ago: the United States declares war on Germany in World War I.</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 1503, 522 years ago: on the Caribbean coast of Veraguas (present-day Panama), the natives attack Santa María de Belén (the first village founded by Christopher Columbus on the American mainland), which is still uninhabited today. Ten days later, the Spaniards will leave the village and return to Spain.​</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 1929, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Andr%C3%A9Previn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AndréPrevin</span></a>, German-American conductor (London Symphony), film score composer (My Fair Lady), and jazz pianist, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2019). 🎗<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a></p>
John Arnold<p>_The Evening Post_, 7 April 1925:<br> DRIFTING SAND<br> FORESTRY OFFICERS INSPECT<br> COMBATING RELENTLESS<br> ADVANCE.<br> Good agricultural <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/land" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>land</span></a> in various parts of the Dominion is being seriously threatened by the continuous and unrelenting drift of sand, and although much has been done by the State Forestry Service… to combat this, further experimental work is at present being carried out…. Altogether there are 92,000 acres [37K ha] of dune country in the <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Wellington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wellington</span></a> area, and 183,000 acres [74K ha] in the <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Auckland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Auckland</span></a> district.<br> The menace… has become manifest particularly along the coast of the North Island between Wellington and New Plymouth, and the north coast of Auckland…<br> The theory advanced for the spread of the sand dune country is that before the advent of the European population…, the greater part of the sandy land was more or less stable, and Dr. L. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Cockayne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cockayne</span></a>, hon. botanist to the Department, declares that over-grazing and injudicious stock of land has caused it to become loose.<br> … settlers along the coast… refuted this suggestion…<br> As the waste sandy country is privately owned, very little action is being taken…, but… the Government, by… the Sand Drift Act… has power to undertake the work itself.<br>…<br><a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250407.2.141" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news</span><span class="invisible">papers/EP19250407.2.141</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PapersPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PapersPast</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Dunes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dunes</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Agriculture</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1945, 80 years ago: World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.</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 1812, 213 years ago: British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.</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 1896, 129 years ago: the first Olympic Games of the modern era are held in Athens. They will end on April 15.</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: Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
Chris Bond<p>Recorded <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> 39 years ago:</p><p>The Housemartins - Peel Session 1986</p><p>The complete session recorded by The Housemartins on 6 April 1986 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 14th of that month.</p><p>Tracklist:</p><p>1. Over There (0:07)<br>2. Happy Hour (3:00)<br>3. Get Up Off Our Knees (5:24)<br>4. Caravan Of Love (8:34)</p><p><a href="https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-housemartins-peel-session-1986.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2014</span><span class="invisible">/07/the-housemartins-peel-session-1986.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheHousemartins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheHousemartins</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeelSessions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeelSessions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1958, 67 years ago: 157 km northeast of the Eniwetak atoll (Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), in a hot air balloon at 26.2 km altitude, the United States explodes its 18 kiloton Yucca atomic bomb. It is the 122nd of 1127 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.</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 1782, 243 years ago: King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) establishes the Chakri dynasty.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
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