#OnThisDay in 1931, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley died from pneumonia contracted after walking home in a snowstorm. In 1885, the self-educated farmer from Vermont, using a homemade camera, became the first person to photograph a snow crystal: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-snowflake-man-of-vermont #otd

#OtD 23 Dec 1961 Dutch Spanish Civil War volunteer, Fanny Schoonheyt, known as the queen of the machine gun, died. She was the only Dutch woman volunteer who fought the fascists, serving on the Aragon front until wounded. Learn more about the war: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

#OtD 23 Dec 2013 after an unfavourable review with a manager, a Citibank worker downed 90% of the bank's networks. He did it so management could "see what the guys on the floor [are] capable of doing when they keep getting mistreated" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9554/citibank-worker-sabotage

#OtD 23 Dec 1961 Dutch Spanish Civil War volunteer, Fanny Schoonheyt, known as the queen of the machine gun, died. She was the only Dutch woman volunteer who fought the fascists, serving on the Aragon front until wounded. Learn more about the war: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

#OtD 23 Dec 2013 after an unfavourable review with a manager, a Citibank worker downed 90% of the bank's networks. He did it so management could "see what the guys on the floor [are] capable of doing when they keep getting mistreated" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9554/citibank-worker-sabotage

#OnThisDay in 1931, Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley died from pneumonia contracted after walking home in a snowstorm. In 1885, the self-educated farmer from Vermont, using a homemade camera, became the first person to photograph a snow crystal: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-snowflake-man-of-vermont #otd

#OtD 23 Dec 1948 Argentine revolutionary martyr, Clarisa Rosa Lea Place, was born. She was arrested by the US-backed dictatorship in 1971 after delivering food to a poor neighbourhood. She later escaped from prison but was recaptured and executed https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9551/clarisa-rosa-lea-place

#OtD 23 Dec 1948 Argentine revolutionary martyr, Clarisa Rosa Lea Place, was born. She was arrested by the US-backed dictatorship in 1971 after delivering food to a poor neighbourhood. She later escaped from prison but was recaptured and executed https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9551/clarisa-rosa-lea-place

#OtD 22 Dec 1988 Brazilian rubber worker activist, environmentalist and Indigenous rights advocate, Chico Mendes, was assassinated in his home by rancher, Darly Alves Da Silva, for trying to protect the Amazon rainforest. Commemorated here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/tsotm-dec-2024-just-gardening

#OtD 22 Dec 1997 45 Indigenous people who were supporters of the Zapatista rebel movement in Chiapas, Mexico were massacred by paramilitaries with the assistance of govt troops, as they attended a pacifist prayer meeting. Learn more about the movement: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/zapatistas

#OtD 22 Dec 1988 Brazilian rubber worker activist, environmentalist and Indigenous rights advocate, Chico Mendes, was assassinated in his home by rancher, Darly Alves Da Silva, for trying to protect the Amazon rainforest. Commemorated here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/tsotm-dec-2024-just-gardening

#OtD 22 Dec 1997 45 Indigenous people who were supporters of the Zapatista rebel movement in Chiapas, Mexico were massacred by paramilitaries with the assistance of govt troops, as they attended a pacifist prayer meeting. Learn more about the movement: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/zapatistas