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#OtD 13 Oct 1909 Francisco Ferrer, radical Spanish educator, was executed. He was sentenced to death by a military tribunal despite no solid evidence being brought against him. His murder caused protests across the world. This is a collection of his work: https://t.co/5XV8eJpPUI

#OtD 20 Sep 1763 Filipina revolutionary anti-colonial leader Gabriela Silang was executed by Spanish authorities. The previous week she attempted to besiege Vigan, but was forced back to Abra, where she was captured.

#OtD 19 Sep 1793 during the Haitian revolution, 600 British soldiers sent from Jamaica landed at Jérémie, Haiti. French property owners had made an agreement with Britain for Saint Domingue to become a British colony with slavery reinstated.

#OtD 21 Aug 1791 the Haitian revolution began as 100,000 enslaved people rose up and eventually overthrew both slavery and French rule, creating the world's first Black republic. This article looks at the significance of the revolution over 200 years on: https://t.co/z50t4WLkpQ

#OtD 11 Jul 1937 Jack Sirai, Japanese cook who went to Spain to fight the fascists in the civil war, was killed in combat. A volunteer in the US Abraham @LincolnBrigade, he was shot fetching supplies for his starving unit. More about the war in our pod: https://t.co/Kw7S0BTsYR

#OtD 8 Jul 1763 General Jeffrey Amherst, commander of British forces in North America, wrote to one of his colonels asking: "Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians? We must [...] reduce them". Learn more: https://t.co/A9vnFS2TLE

#OtD 2 June 1863 the Combahee River raid took place, Harriet Tubman led 150 Black Union soldiers. The only woman-led military operation during the American civil war. 750 slaves were freed and the estates of several slaveowners were looted and burned. https://t.co/Knywl5DzZK

#OtD 13 Apr 1890 Black Philadelphia docker and @IWW member, Ben Fletcher, was born. He joined the IWW in 1913 and organised a multiracial union on the Philadelphia docks when many unions were still segregated. Learn more about the IWW in our podcast: https://t.co/PKYbWpQLBG

#OtD 7 Apr 1872 radical doctor, feminist, anti-war activist, lesbian and @iww supporter Marie Diana Equi was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Later jailed for 3 years in San Quentin for opposing World War I #herstory #lgbtq https://t.co/kbZygTUjHv

#OtD 9 March 1991, mass demonstrations against Slobodan Milosevic and his regime's control of the news spark a week of protest and a ends with the release of political prisoners and a removal of several lower ranking politicians.