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SempaiScuba

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Archaeologist and scuba diver (a sort of "Indiana Cousteau" if you like). IT Trainer and eLearning designer. Genealogist & bibliophile. Woodworker and amateur radio enthusiast.

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 2h

The sacking of #Wexford resulted in the deaths of over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and about 1,500 civilians. #History #Ireland

Although #Cromwell did not order the assault on Wexford or the massacre, he made no attempt to stop it or to punish the perpetrators.

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 2h

11 October 1649: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army stormed and sacked Wexford in south-eastern #Ireland. #History #Cromwell

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 3h

The 1138 #Aleppo earthquake is often described as "the third deadliest earthquake in history" with a death-toll of around 230,000. #History

In fact, the death-toll of 230,000 probably conflates several earthquakes in the region between 1137 and 1139, rather than a single event.

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 3h

11 October 1138: A massive earthquake struck #Aleppo in #Syria. #History

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 11h

10 October 2002: The United States Congress approved the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution. #History #IraqWar

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 12h

10 October 1985: US Navy aircraft intercepted an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and forced it to land in Italy. #History

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 16h

10 October 1973: US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after he was charged with evasion of federal income tax. #History #USA

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 16h

10 October 1967: The Outer #Space Treaty came into force. #History

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The Outer Space Treaty

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

www.unoosa.org

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 17h

PDF version of the "Report on the accident at #Windscale No. 1 Pile on 10 October 1957" #History #UK

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 17h

10 October 1957: A fire in Unit 1 of the two-pile #Windscale nuclear power plant resulted in Britain's worst nuclear accident.

The accident ranked at level 5 out of 7 in severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale. #History #UK

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 18h

10 October 1938: Nazi Germany gained control of the the Sudetenland following the 'Munich Agreement'. #History

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 18h

10 October 1918: RMS Leinster was torpedoed and sunk by U-boat UB-123. 564 people were killed. It was the largest loss of life on the Irish Sea during #WW1. #History

Postcard showing RMS Leinster leaving Kingstown in Ireland.

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 21h

10 October 1913: Major construction work on the #Panama Canal was completed when President Woodrow Wilson triggered the explosion of the Gamboa Dike. #History

The explosion that broke open the Gamboa Dike, marking the completion of major construction work on the Panama Canal.

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 22h

10 October 1903: Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union. #History #Suffragette

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 22h

10 October 1881: The Savoy Theatre opened. It was the first public building in the world to be lit entirely by electricity. #History

The Theatre was built on the site of the old Savoy Palace by Richard D'Oyly Carte for the popular comic operas by Gilbert & Sullivan.

The Savoy Theatre, as pictured in the Illustrated London News in 1881.

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 22h

10 October 1871: The Great Chicago Fire finally burned itself out. About 300 people had died in the fire.

The fire had begun 2 days earlier in, or near to, a small barn belonging to the O'Leary family. The exact cause has never been determined. #History #ChicagoFire #USA

The aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire.

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 1d

10 October 1846: English astronomer William Lassell discovered #Triton, the largest moon of #Neptune. #History #Astronomy

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 1d

10 October 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 struck the Caribbean. It was the deadliest storm ever recorded in the western hemisphere, and killed 20,000–30,000 people. #History

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 1d

10 October 732: A Frankish army commanded by Charles Martel defeated an invading Muslim army near Poitiers in #France. #History

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 1d

10 October 19 CE: The Roman general Germanicus, heir to Emperor Tiberius, died near Antioch. He was convinced that the illness that ended in his death was the result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso. #History #Rome

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday to John Lennon, born 9 October 1940.

Here he is mocking disabled people in the 1960s:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxQB...

Video of John Lennon mocking the disabled surfaces

YouTube video by New York Daily News

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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 2012: A terrorist from the Pakistani Taliban shot and wounded 15 year old schoolgirl #Malala Yousafzai as she rode home on a bus after taking an exam. #History #Pakistan

Malala Yousafzai in 2014 after receiving medical treatment for the injuries she sustained in the murder attempt by the Pakistani Taliban terrorist.

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 2006: North Korea conducted its first nuclear test. #History

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 1981: Capital punishment was abolished in #France. #History

SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 1d

9 October 1967: Ernesto "Che" Guevara was executed in #Bolivia. #History

Portrait photograph of Ernesto "Che" Guevara