110 Years Ago Today [March 25, 1911] The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City kills 146 garment workers, mostly women, due to a lack of safety regulations. The public nature of the victims' deaths (most died by jumping to death) led to sweeping safety reforms.3yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
100 Years Ago Today (28 June 1922) Smoke rises from the Four Courts, Dublin on the first day of the Irish Civil War. The explosion you're seeing, in the Irish Public Records Office, destroyed over 1,000 years of Irish history that still has not been recovered.1yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
100 Years Ago Today [March 20, 1921] Leaked photo from the Soviet Union showing some bodies of Kronstadt Sailors (10,000 of whom rebelled against Bolshevik rule earlier in March) who were summarily executed following the suppression of their revolt.3yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/TheGrittyPast
100 Years Ago Today (May 27, 1921) what is widely regarded as the first meme comic, how you think you look in flash photography vs. how you really look is published in Punch Magazine3yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/comicstriphistory
50 Years Ago Today (July 21, 1972) Comedian George Carlin is arrested for profanity at Milwaukee Summerfest for saying his seven words you can't say on television during a set.1yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/milwaukee
50 Years Ago This Week (July 5, 1972) Cubs commentator Harry Caray delivers commentary from the stands while shirtless1yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/CHICubs
50 Years Ago Today (July 21, 1972) Comedian George Carlin is arrested for profanity at Milwaukee Summerfest for saying his seven words you can't say on television during a set. This arrest led to a landmark Supreme Court case on censorship.1yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/FreeSpeech
50 Years Ago Today (July 12, 1972) Fort Worth teenagers at a soda fountain1yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/FortWorth
100 Years Ago Today (June 8, 1921) Lacrosse faceoff between the Vancouver Lacrosse Club and the Victoria Capitals in Vancouver.3yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/lacrosse
50 Years Ago Today (May 3, 1971) NPR's flagship program, All Things Considered, premieres with Robert Conley hosting.3yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/NPR
50 Years Ago Today (February 9, 1972) 23-year-old single sculler Jim Dietz practices for Olympic trials in heavy chop and sleet on Lake Waramaug, Connecticut.2yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/Rowing
100 Years Ago Today (January 1, 1922) An aerial shot of Lower Manhattan, New York City, on the first day of 1922.2yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/AerialPorn
50 Years Ago Today (November 15, 1971) Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.2yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/computerscience
100 Years Ago Today [11 March 1921] A starving boy in the village Blahovischchenka (Zaphorizhizhia Gubernia, Ukraine), who, in his hunger from the 1921 Russian famine, killed and ate his three-year-old brother.3yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/MorbidHistory
50 Years Ago Today [7 March 1971] March against racism in Liverpool.3yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/Liverpool
100 Years Ago Today [March 19, 1921] President Harding greeting disabled World War I veterans. In the foreground is a man with no legs on a plank with wheels; before comprehensive veteran care, solutions like this were improvised.3yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/MorbidHistory
100 Years Ago Today (February 7, 1922) Chief John Smith, famous Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian chief, died of pneumonia in Cass Lake, Minnesota. He claimed to have been 137 years old, but he was probably 99 - until that day, the oldest living Indian chief in the United States.2yr ⋅ ClapboardArchipelago ⋅ r/NativeAmerican
