#OnThisDay, 12 Feb 1983, around 200 to 300 women protested the Law of Evidence in Lahore. The law effectively made women’s testimonies worth half that of men’s.

The police used tear-gas and batons before arresting 50 of the protestors. The day is now Pakistan's Women's Day.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

ActivityPub, the protocol that powers much of the fediverse and allows the various fediverse platforms and servers to talk to each other, has become an official W3C standard 8 years ago!

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#fediverse #activitypub #standards #OpenWeb #W3C #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay

ActivityPub is now a W3C Recommendation

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

^W3C

#OnThisDay
JANUARY 16, 1865: SPECIAL FIELD ORDER NO. 15

Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, which set aside 400,000 acres of land in the South to be divided into 40-acre plots for formerly enslaved Black families. Although later revoked, this order inspired the phrase “forty acres and a mule”.

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Jan. 16, 1865: Special Field Order No. 15

Demands by Black ministers after the Ebenezer Creek Massacre led to the short-lived land distribution during Reconstruction known as Special Field Order No. 15.

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Recorded #OnThisDay 37 years ago:

Snuff - Peel Session 1989

The complete session recorded by Snuff on 15 January 1989 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 30th of that month.

Tracklist:

1. Win Some (0:07)
2. For Both Sides / I Think We're Alone Now (3:19)
3. Another Girl (7:06)
4. Now You Don't Remember / No One Home (10:07)

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#Snuff #PeelSessions #OTD #Punk

Snuff - Peel Session 1989

The blog for the uploads to the group of Vibracobra23 channels on YouTube, featuring thousands of John Peel Sessions.

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