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18 Jul 1887 the Argentinian anarchist bakers' union was founded in Buenos Aires with the help of Italian anarchists Errico Malatesta and Ettore Mattei. It publicly launched on 4 Aug and held its first strike the following year https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8989/argentina-bakers'-union-formed

, 11 July 1871, Margaret E Knight wins a patent lawsuit and is awarded the patent for flat-bottomed paper bag making machines.

No reliable image, so here's a bag in use.

gif of an orange cat popping up from inside a brown paper bag.

Very early , 7 Jul 1944 Krystyna Skarbek parachutes into France to work as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. The British SOE worked with resistance fighters across German-occupied Europe.

Skarbek had been the first woman to be an SOE agent when she'd previously been sent to Hungary and Poland in 1939-41.

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Krystyna Skarbek, second from right, with a group of male maquis fighters. The maquis are wearing combat gear and berets.

German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born in 1646. @jwyg looks at how Leibniz's early vision of computation and the “combinatorial art” speak to our own age of data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/let-us-calculate-leibniz-llull-and-the-computational-imagination

, 8 Jun 1944, Violette Szabo returns to occupied France by parachute for her second posting with the British Special Operations Executive.

She is captured two days later, after a gun battle. She's tortured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. She is killed in Jan 1945.

Her daughter Tania received the George Cross on her behalf in 1947.

Violette Szabo's story was filmed as Carve Her Name With Pride (1958).

photo of Violette Szabo. She is a white woman with dark hair.
photo of Tania Szabo. She is a five-year old white girl in buckle shoes. A senior Army officer is leaning down to look at the George Cross pinned to her summer dress.

47 years ago today
Paul Simonon from The Clash playing in front of a crowd at Rock Against Racism -> 'Carnival Against the Nazis' concert, April 30, 1978.

Photo by Syd Shelton