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#OTD in 1968 – An Aer Lingus plane, the St Phelim, crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock, Co Wexford, killing all 61 passengers and crew.

The plane, a Vickers Viscount, was on a flight from Cork to London Heathrow when it crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock without warning. There were no survivors. St Phelim was an 11-year old Viscount with the Vickers aircraft very popular with Aer Lingus for short and medium haul flights. A total of 20 were in service over almost two decades with the carrier. The passengers and crew were from…

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"Into the Sea" by Tuskar - From "Matriarch" (2022)

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I would take nothing with me from here, because I’ve looked into what’s coming, and I don’t need anything from here.

I would leave everything here: the valleys, the hills, the paths, and the jaybirds from the gardens, I would leave here the petcocks and the padres, heaven and earth, spring and fall, I would leave here the exit routes, the evenings in the kitchen, the last amorous gaze, and all of the city-bound directions that make you shudder, I would leave here the thick twilight falling upon the land, gravity, hope, enchantment, and tranquility, I would leave here those beloved and those close to me, everything that touched me, everything that shocked me, fascinated and uplifted me, I would leave here the noble, the benevolent, the pleasant, and the demonically beautiful, I would leave here the budding sprout, every birth and existence, I would leave here incantation, enigma, distances, inexhaustibility, and the intoxication of eternity; for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me from here, because I’ve looked into what’s coming, and I don’t need anything from here.

― László Krasznahorkai, "The World Goes On" in "The World Goes On" (Tuskar Rock Press, November 2017)

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The Illustrated London News

No. 1709.—vol. LX. Saturday, June 8, 1872.

Page 549

The steamer Tripoli ashore near the Tuskar Rocks, Wexford.

Page 561

Loss of a steamer. [text]

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Thursday Thrill: Music Madness Festivals & Award Shows!

Get ready to immerse yourself in music and cultural experiences as February draws to a close and March gears up! This month offers a diverse selection of festivals, from celebrating established artists to showcasing up-and-coming talents. Here's a quick glimpse of what awaits you: aBroadfest 29 Feb – 2 Mar This year is a celebration of 10 years of Abroadfest holding its ground in one of the fragile climates. Where festivals have taken the biggest hit, some of the best festivals are having to take a break, because of the cost of living crisis!  However aBroadfest Is back for its 11th inception.  Any festival loving person up for up for a roadtrip of sorts wont be disappointed, some of the biggest festival take place in this magnifiacnet city. Its also a great start to the global festival season. Abroadfest is taking festival-goers to a beautiful european destination. Thankfully returning again this year for an even bigger and better shindig. Expect 3 days of a full-on music program, set in the majestic surroundings of Barcelona, Spain with its unique production alongside one the best artist line-up. Letting your senses run wild as you enjoy this quirky experience. This is a weekend for true dance music lovers. The festival line-up for 2024 includes Noizu, Kream, plus many more Tickets & More Info The Brit Awards 2 Mar Back for its 44th cermony, the star-studded UK celebrity music event is going to go off with a bang.  Hosting this years event is Clara Amfo, Maya Jama and Roman Kemp. Expect fun a froics at the O2 London,  where the winning nominees music artists for each catoergires receive the very special Brit award.  This is a ticket event that the general public can attend and see some of the most famous music artists from the UK and around the globe, including newcomers all coming together for one big party. But for those you, who just like sitting back at home and having a Brit partty of you're own thankfully the Brits cermony can be seen live on the TV.  Lets just hope theres no naughtiness going on.  With special preformances from Dua Lipa, RAYE, Kylie Minogue, Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding, Jungle, Chase & Status, Becky Hill and Rema plus other. The Brits is always a very special night on the UK music calender and definitley one for your bucket list.. Tickets & More Info Masters of Riff 1 - 3 Mar London Doom Collective proudly presents the Masters of the Riff festival back for its third year.  Taking place over the weekend at Oslo, Hackney, London.  For those that love all things metal or/and rock music. This headbanging festival its defo one for you.  Its a celebration of rock gods from the heavy rock scene.  Its lookings like London is cookin up a storm for the weekend. Tickets are still avaliable so go check the finest riffs in the capital The 3 day line-up features Dopethrone, Elephant Tree, The Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Firebreather, Margarita Witchcult, Dystopian Future Movies, Dead Witches, Grave Lines, Tuskar, Hundred Year Old Man, Trippy Wicked, Gurt, Dunes, Black Orchids, Wall, Helve, Novere, Godless Suns, Mountain Caller, Bodach and Orme. Tickets & More Info Read the full article

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Kolejne ogłoszenia RSF2024! / Next announcements for RSF2024!

Acid Rooster – Endless Trippy Kraut Experience from Germany FB: https://www.facebook.com/acidrooster YT: https://youtu.be/w4XRVlNQYSk?si=RPfoR6nwDlbcF-6g

Kanaan - Band - Blazing Freeform Psychedelic Rock From Norway FB: https://www.facebook.com/kanaanband YT: https://youtu.be/S9BrsNG-yJo?si=LHiOBUjqTcVbFm8r

Perilymph – Beautiful Psychedelic Sounds From Germany FB: https://www.facebook.com/Perilymph YT: https://youtu.be/51id88wB4iE?si=Gh1jHnZy-TVxv2fb

Tuskar – Heavy Doomed Hammer From UK FB: https://www.facebook.com/TUSKARBAND YT: https://youtu.be/NxbZYnfdo0g?si=GUCMvtjceIxUs2WB

Save the date 12-14.07.2024 Bilety niebawem! / Tickets soon!

The Less You Know The Better

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The Tuskar Rock Lighthouse stands on a rocky islet 11.3km or 7 miles off the south east corner of the island of Ireland. The lighthouse was  constructed to warn ships of what has long been a graveyard of sailors, part of a band of treacherous waters running along the coasts of Counties Waterford and Wexford. In the folklore of County Wexford and the communities of its ports, the lighthouse has long loomed large in the ocean and in memory. LINK

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Gandalf The Green Returns with ‘A Billion Faces’

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

Hailing from Leeds, England, this is GANDALF THE GREEN. The stoner-doom trio is one of a handful of younger bands comprised of members in their late-teens and early-twenties that have been impressing us lately, joining company with Montana's Wizzerd, Toronto's Horse Lung, Portland's SAOLA and Ape Cave, as well as Witchers Creed from Sweden.

Something interesting I've observed about what I'll dub the Dopesmoker generation is their affinity for large-scale compositions. Horse Lung shot for Bach-like complexity with their fugal composition Rattenkönig and have just released a pair of tracks clocking in at 18 and 28 minutes respectively on 'ἔσχατον' (2019). Likewise, Ape Cave released the massive double album, 'Language of the Earth' (2018), with Sleep producer Billy Anderson, who actually invited these kids to come in and record it after hearing their 2016 album Pillars of Evolution.

With Gandalf The Green's latest single, we find them similarly thinking on a grand scale. The near fourteen-minute epic "A Billion Faces" is the foretaste of the glory to come, as the band readies to release their full-length via APF Records this fall. Staged in three interlocking segments, the track is a real trip and holds up well to repeated listens. Execution-wise, Andrew Flint (guitar, vox), Jack Walker (drums, vox), and Danny Wrigley (bass guitar) have never sounded tighter as a unit. Compositionally, the fuzz-trippers show they can achieve balance and depth within a big-picture framework, without betraying flow or nuance. Fans of Slomatics and Conan will surely find this a joy to listen to from start to finish.

I think the band describes it best: "A 13-minute psych-infused stoner doom filth fest. All the tone. All the distortion. Titanic-sized knuckle-dragging gnarly riffs amped into pure oblivion through a Matamp rig of doom. We are excited for you to hear it." Look for "A Billion Faces" out Thursday, March 28th, as a digital download via APF Records, with artwork by Dominic Sohor Design.

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An Interview with

    Gandalf The Green

For those new to Gandalf The Green, tell us about how you formed and your history.

It started with Andy writing a bedroom demo for 'The Right' in 2015, we'd previously been in a deathcore band together (we know, we were 16, cut us some slack) and knew we all liked slow and heavy music, so got in touch and we started rehearsing with ghetto equipment in Andy's bedroom in Huddersfield. The name came from a friend who'd just bought a Gandalf style pipe and we found the pun hilarious for a Stoner Doom band, so we used it. We released our Debut EP 'King of the Ashes' in September 2016 as a 4-piece band with two guitarists, though soon after we split with our drummer and put Jack behind the kit as a trio. After that things began moving properly. Since then, we've been gigging more, collecting more equipment, and worsening our tinnitus by turning up louder. In the last year or so we've finally started getting proper slots on festivals and local gigs, though we're still yet to play a headline show!

What music has influenced your sound, and who are your musical heroes?

Our philosophy is that we want to play stupidly low-tuned, crushingly heavy music, but not in a way that sounds too evil or miserable, then combine that with trippy, ambient cleans for a huge dynamic change. Someone once put it eloquently as 'The brutality of Mordor with the serenity of the Shire.'

From a writing perspective, our main influences are Conan, Sleep, YOB and Elephant Tree. Though with all the spacey ambient bits it's quite difficult to pin exactly where a lot of that comes from, mainly just going a bit nuts with effects and seeing what comes out.

AF: My musical idol is forever Dave Grohl, even if this band doesn't sound much like his stuff. My favourite guitar players are the ones for the bands listed, plus Tony Iommi, of course.

JW: We all listen to very varied stuff, so there’s all sorts, but for this genre my influences are, Yob, The Body, Elephant Tree, Khanate, Om, Weedeater, Windhand, BongCauldron. Musical heroes? Fenriz, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams III, Mike Scheidt.

DW: My influences change around a lot but probably The Body, Sleep, Conan, Thou and Full of Hell. As for heroes the first that comes to mind is Jordan Dreyer.

What’s been your favourite gig to play so far?

AF: I'd say Gizzardfest 2018 as it was our largest crowd, but one of my amps blew up during sound check so I was a bit miffed. Other than that, the Holy Spider Promotions show Terence Larkin booked at the Mulberry Tavern in Sheffield last year was brilliant. A tiny, sweaty venue crammed with people who were really digging the music.

JW: Yeah Gizzardfest was really cool, but for me I'd say that Sheffield gig, it was Mulberry Tavern with Khost, Oak, Ritual King, Regulus and Stonelung. When we went onstage the venue was rammed so the atmosphere was great for us, it WAS proper sweaty but that's the best way.

DW: Got to agree with Gizzardfest I was amazed by the amount of people there and the reception we got cancelled out the problems by a long shot for me.

King of the Ashes by Gandalf the Green

How do you look back on your 'King of the Ashes' EP two and a half years on?

We recorded it for £0 in Andy's bedroom with whatever mics we had on hand and did the drums with some University students. Other than 'The One Ring', it's not very representative of our sound these days though, as we were finding our feet and trying lots of writing styles, with speedier Stoner Rock tracks like 'King of the Ashes' and 'The Right', which we don't really play these days.

It's fun to see how the tracks have evolved for our live performances though, 'The One Ring' now screams with feedback, has reverb swells and washed out cleans, while 'Old Toby' has a massively slowed down outro riff and stereo panning oscillating delay at the beginning. If you enjoy the debut, definitely come check us out live to see how it's evolved.

AF: I'm still pretty happy with it and loved the super DIY bedroom recording. I felt the production quality came out great, given the circumstances. Seeing how I’ve changed my vocal style and tuned my guitar down so much lower makes comparing the new and old material interesting.

JW: I have a lot of fond memories from that time writing and recording, but since we were so new to it all it doesn't quite have as good sound quality as I'd like. It's alright, but we've grown as a band and the stuff we're writing now has a way more unique sound and is better in every way I can think of.

DW: I still listen to it a fair bit honestly. I think it still holds up, but I'm excited to start showing how we've developed over the past few years and how we come across out of a bedroom. What music are you digging right now?

AF: Right now I'm on a massive hype for the gnarliest, darkest stuff I can find, such as Grey Widow, Coltsblood, Ommadon, Bismuth, and Glasghote, and I imagine these bands are going to work into my writing style for our next release.

JW: I listen to a shit load of country, like every day, maybe even more than I listen to metal. Artists like Benjamin Tod, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams III, Jesse Stewart, Crywank, The Native Howl, etcetera. But for this genre the stuff on rotation right now is bands like Windhand, Grime, The Body, Yob, Bell Witch, Ommadon, Bismuth, Sloth Hammer, Primitive Man, Elephant Tree, Goblinsmoker, Tuskar.

DW: I've been binging on grindcore and hardcore recently, a lot of Full of Hell and Wormrot on repeat. Other than that the new Body Void EP has been blowing me away every time I listen.

You’ve recently signed with APF Records. Which bands on the label do you share an affinity with?

AF: The reason we approached APF to begin with is because we love so many bands on the roster, it's hard to pick out a few! Personally, I'd say BongCauldron, Battalions, and Under, though there really isn't a bad band on APF.

JW: BongCauldron, since they were the main influence on me (and I think the others too) when starting this band. They were one of the first bands to help me get into this kind of music, since I found them when Andy's old band supported them in Bad Apples years ago and through that found more doom/stoner bands.

DW: Yes, BongCauldron, for pretty obvious reasons. Also I've been listening to Under- Stop Being Naive a lot since seeing them at Gizzardfest they've got such a unique and crushing sound.

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Tell us about "A Billion Faces" -- what’s it about, and how did the track come together?

AF: It was the first track I wrote after we tuned down to drop F and bought a bunch of new effects, so I was really playing with all the new toys and trying to make something with a big dynamic change from the gentle intro to when it kicks in. We've been performing it live for a while, so the song's evolved over time to include the sexy wah solo and, because Jack and Danny love noise music, we added the noise/screaming section in the outro. The original demo was only 9 minutes compared to the final 13!

We were approached by a friend of a friend (Alex Tune, assisted by Jake Bonnett) who needed a band to record for his University coursework, it seemed mutually beneficial, and we'd get to record in the gorgeous Phipps Hall and borrow a bunch of Huddersfield Uni's Matamp equipment for free to use with ours, so we took him up on it. We live recorded the track in December 2018 and mixed and mastered the track ourselves, so again got away with paying £0 for the release. It sounded lovely in the room, but we really didn't expect the final product to sound quite as good as it did. Lyrically, the track is about parallel universes and how, if they exist, every different possible version of you exists somewhere in a big infinite tree of possible yous, experiencing the best and worst things all at once. I was wondering where I'd be if I'd taken a different turn in life and moved to a different city, and I realised that there'd be a version of me in a parallel universe where I did move there, wondering right now where he'd be if he took the turns I did. We're both thinking about each other amongst a billion different versions of ourselves, but unable to know who the other is and what their life is like.

The song comes with a cracking video. How did that come about?

A friend of the band, and vocalist/guitarist in Andy's other band, Andrew Johnston (he uses the moniker 'AEVJohnston' for music) offered to help. We thought it'd be a crime to not get video footage of us performing in such a beautiful venue, so he came along free of charge, brought his fancy lighting rig, bathed the room in green light, rented a couple of cameras from the University, and filmed us while we recorded. We edited the footage ourselves cut from various different takes we did. Again, we paid nothing for the video because we're cheap (do you see a theme?).

JW: Shout out Johnston for being a sick bloke, nice one mate it turned it really well, thank you. Sadly though, I don't think the video shows just how beautiful that room really was. Like the video is great, don't get me wrong, but actually being stood in that room with that lighting rig made it look gorgeous. Such a great atmosphere for it. Again, cheers Johnston, that was a huge help, I think the video of it really brings this release together.

What’s your plans for the rest of 2019?

We're working on our next release, of which we have over half an hour written already. Andy is busy with University, and the other two of us with real life things. Put simply, in 2019 we want to push to play more gigs and write more music. Hopefully we'll have another release done or out by the end of the year. We're aiming not to fuck about as much for it as we did for this one, because it took a long time to get going.

If your house was on fire and you could grab one thing from it before it burned down, what would that be?

AF: My Green Matamp GT1 amplifier, it's like my child.

JW: My bong, it's like my child.

DW: My cat, it's like my child.

Finally: anything to declare?

JW: Yeah, we just want to say how much we appreciate everything that's happened to us since finishing the single. We love every one of you who's checked us out or gave us a chance. Big shout out and lots of love to Andrew Field for signing us to APF, to every promoter for putting us on and every one of you for listening. It means the world to us, thank you.

AF: We also love all the sound guys who keep telling us to turn down on stage, even if you don’t love us.

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Live Review: Conjurer with Tuskar & Sugar Horse at The Dome, Tufnell Park, London (04/11/22)

Three of the best bands in the world. Three fantastic sets. One unforgettable night.

Exceptional noise-mongers Conjurer have been smashing stages across Europe throughout October and marked the beginning of November by doing the same across the UK. The last date of their headline tour, The Dome in London is the place to be. Especially as Conjurer aren’t alone. Bringing along the self-styled ‘monotonous rock’ band Sugar Horse and ear-bashing doom/sludge metal band, Tuskar, for an…

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Aug 29 1918 Spanish cargo ship Atxeri Mendi sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the Tuskar Rock, Ireland by SM UB-125, the sub's 1st kill https://t.co/1GFpeXMwnF https://t.co/yPK9K2tXyQ http://twitter.com/ThisDayInWWI/status/1034808697455669250

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#OTD in 1968 – An Aer Lingus plane, the St Phelim, crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock, Co Wexford, killing all 61 passengers and crew.

#OTD in 1968 – An Aer Lingus plane, the St Phelim, crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock, Co Wexford, killing all 61 passengers and crew.

The plane, a Vickers Viscount, was on a flight from Cork to London Heathrow when it crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock without warning. There were no survivors. St Phelim was an 11-year old Viscount with the Vickers aircraft very popular with Aer Lingus for short and medium haul flights. A total of 20 were in service over almost two decades with the carrier. The passengers and crew were from…

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As search for avalanche survivors continues, details emerge of terrifying moments before disaster struck

As search for avalanche survivors continues, details emerge of terrifying moments before disaster struck

Deep in the Himalayan mountains, Tuskar Singh Rana watched in disbelief as the avalanche roared his way. The deadly mixture of ice, rock and water approached at a furious pace from miles away, consuming nearly everything in its path.

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Looking at 1968 to Learn How to Survive 2020

It’s been suggested recently that this is the worst year in modern American history, which would make it worse than 1968, when both Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy were killed, plus a US Presidential Election brought to power Richard Milhous Nixon and the Uber-corrupt Spiro Theodore Agnew. This year we’ve already had COVID-19, the resurgence of the struggle for equal treatment under the law for People of Colour (which has been essentially ignored and left un-dealt with for well over a century), plus a complete nitwit of a President* who seems to be trying to create either a ‘Police State’ or an ‘untouchabe Emperor Structure of Governance,’ and we’re not even half-way through the year yet!

The Silent Parade was organized by W.E.B. DuBois on July 28, 1917 in New York to protest violence against African Americans nationally. Universal Animated Weekly, Vol 5, Issue 83, 1917. This clip was recovered in 1978 after having been buried in Dawson City, Yukon, for 49 years. pic.twitter.com/Hm7Nydgqcq

Check out the GIF through that link. See? That’s 1917. And that’s only what we have film of, and the first instance of human trafficking in what we now call the United States was in the early 1600s.

So… let’s take look at what people had to deal with in 1968, not with an eye to state we’ve got it so bad right now and to feel hard-done-by in comparison to the ‘Boomers,’ but to see what they dealt with, and then considering what we can learn about how they didn’t go insane while dealing with all the crap they had to. This way, we can protect our mental health in order to get through what we’ve got now.

I’ve grouped events to the end of May into three chronological blocks — Civil Rights (mostly U.S. events, but also elsewhere), General (political events of mostly non-North American locales), and the Vietnam War (including other formalized military events not directly part of the Vietnam conflict) — with the mid-March protests at Howard University being placed in both the ‘Civil Rights’ and ‘Vietnam’ categories, owing to both of those being fundamental to the causation of that particular event.

Civil Rights Events:

February 8: a civil rights protest staged at a white-only bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; 3 college students are killed

February 13: civil rights ‘disturbances’ occur at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

March 1: the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 receives Royal assent in the UK [learn more about that here]

March 6: the then un-recognized nation of Rhodesia executes 3 black citizens, the first executions since unilaterally declaring its independence

March 19–23: students at Howard University in Washington, D.C. signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. by staging rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in; laying siege to the administration building; shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War; and demanding a more inclusive and Afrocentric curriculum

April 2: while filming an NBC television special, white British singer Petula Clark touches African American singer Harry Belafonte affectionately on the arm [read about the details of the filming here]

April 3: the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, Jr delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech in Memphis, Tennessee

April 4: the Rev Dr King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, casing riots in major American cities lasting for several days afterwards

April 6: a shootout between Black Panthers and Oakland police results in several arrests and deaths, including the 17-year-old treasurer and the first Panther recruit Robert James "Lil’ Bobby” Hutton, who was walking towards the police bare-chested with his hands raised

April 8: Ms Clark’s television special is broadcast by NBC with high ratings, critical acclaim, a Primetime Emmy nomination, and is the first instance on American television of physical contact between a black man and a white woman

April 11: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968

April 20: English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, which criticised mass immigration, especially Commonwealth immigration to the UK of the variety which was blocked in March by the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968

Events in General:

January 8: British Prime Minister Harold Wilson endorses the I'm Backing Britain campaign for working an additional half-hour each day without pay as an economic stimulus measure, causing rifts within his Labour Party supporters who see him as kow-towing to Big Business and un-doing decades of efforts by labour organizations

January 15: an earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000

February 19: the Florida Education Association (FEA) initiates a mass resignation of teachers to protest state funding of education; in effect the first statewide teachers' strike in the USA

February 27: singer Frankie Lymon is found dead from a heroin overdose in Harlem. Mr Lymon was formerly the lead singer of the squeaky-clean doo wop group “The Teenagers,” noted for being one of rock music's earliest successes and being rock's first all-teenaged act

March 2: Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country of England (environmentally good, but little was done for workers’ job placement in new positions)

March 12: U.S. President Johnson barely edges out antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy [no, not that McCarthy] in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, over Vietnam

March 15: the U.K. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party George Brown resigns after many months of public drunkenness and wide-spread unacceptable behaviour, culminating in him shouting incoherently at the PM in his office

March 16: U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination

March 22: eight French students occupy the administrative offices of the University of Nanterre, setting in motion a chain of events that lead France to the brink of revolution two months later

March 24: Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashes en route from Cork to London near Tuskar Rock, Wexford, killing 61 passengers and crew

March 28: Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students; being one of the first major events against the military dictatorship

March 31: President Johnson announces he will not seek re-election

April 2: bombs explode at midnight in two department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main; Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin are later arrested and sentenced for arson; months later, the two escape from prison and with other people form the anarchist/extremist group  Red Army Faction (also commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof Group)

April 6: a double explosion in downtown Richmond, Indiana, the first caused by faulty natural gas lines, the second caused inside the building above by a store of gunpowder; 41 are dead, 150 are injured, and a total of forty buildings are eventually condemned; given racial tensions of the time, some are understandably panicked

April 8: the US Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) is created under the Department of Justice, thereby codifying the racialization of the ‘War on Drugs’ we see today; [read this ACLU document]

April 10: the ferry TEV Wahine strikes a reef at the mouth of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, with the loss of 53 lives, during Cyclone Giselle (still the windiest conditions ever recorded in New Zealand)

April 11: Josef Bachmann attempts to assassinate the most prominent member and unofficial spokesman of the left-wing student movement Außerparlamentarische Opposition (APO,) Rudi Dutschke, in Germany

April 11: the same day — also in Germany and unrelated to the above —  German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press HQ in Berlin and many are arrested (one of them being Ulrike Meinhof; remember him?)

May 13: one million people march through the streets of Paris, sparking the period called “May 68,” which includes demonstrations, general strikes, the occupation of universities and factories, and causing both the brief cessation of a functioning government (after President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled to Germany) as well as the nation’s economy to come to a complete halt

May 16: just two months after opening, a 23 floor tower block in Canning Town, east London, called Ronan Point, partially collapses after a gas explosion, killing 5

Vietnam War (and others):

January 21: the Battle of Khe Sanh begins

January 21: a U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs

January 30: the Tet Offensive begins, as Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam

January 31: Việt Cộng soldiers attack the US Embassy, Saigon

February 1: the Viet Cong officer Nguyễn Văn Lém is executed by a South Vietnamese National Police Chief in the middle of the street, the event photographed by Eddie Adams as well as an NBC film crew, which makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the 1969 Pulitzer Prize, and swaying U.S. public opinion against the war.

February 12: the Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre

March 19–23: students at Howard University in Washington, D.C. signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. by staging rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in; laying siege to the administration building; shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War; and demanding a more inclusive and Afrocentric curriculum

February 24: the nearly month-long Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Huế

February 25: the Hà My massacre

March 7: the First Battle of Saigon ends

March 8: the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sinks with all 98 crew members, about 90 nautical miles (104 miles / 167 km) southwest of Hawai’i

March 10–11: the Battle of Lima Site 85, the largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members during the (at the time) secret war later known as the Laotian Civil War

March 14: nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, immediately killing 6,249 sheep over 30 miles away in Skull Valley, Utah, as well as necessitating the euthanisation of a further 1,877 after they are declared ‘unmarketable’ even for their wool

March 16: American troops kill scores of civilians in the My Lai Massacre, which will first become public in November 1969, helping to further undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam

March 17: a demonstration against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in London's Grosvenor Square leads to violence; 91 people are injured, and 200 demonstrators are arrested

March 19–23: Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C. signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S., with students staging rallies, protests, a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more inclusive and Afrocentric curriculum

April 23–30: student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university

April 26: the 1.3Mt nuclear weapon "Boxcar" is tested 1.16km underground at the Nevada Test Site in the biggest detonation of Operation Crosstie

May 17: Catholic activists called ‘The Catonsville Nine’ enter the Selective Service offices in Catonsville, Maryland, take 378 draft files, pour homemade napalm over them in the parking lot, and burn them, all as a protest against the Vietnam War; some of the Nine being out on bail after pouring human blood on draft cards the previous October

May 19: Nigerian forces capture Port Harcourt and form a ring around the Biafrans, contributing to a humanitarian disaster as the then surrounded population were already suffering from hunger and starvation

May 22: the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores

The next three weeks see the shooting and subsequent death of Robert Kennedy; the arrest of the American white supremacist, fugitive, and felon who assassinated the Rev Dr King, Jr. (their trial and conviction taking place the next year); the first round of the French elections to be held as a result of the protests the month before; and the official establishment of the CIA’s “Phoenix Program,” involving cooperation between American, South Vietnamese and Australian militaries.

So… that’s where they were at this point in the year. While I’m not about to list all of the things that have happened to us in the last five months (this has taken me a good five hours to assemble, for one thing), it’s probable that 2020 is a fair  equal to 1968, if not actually surpassing the collective effect of the earlier year by this point in the calendar.

How did they get through it then? Good question! I’m gong to call my mid-70s-aged Father to find out. You should call someone at least 65 years old and do the same, as everyone copes in different ways. After reading all of this, at least you’ll have a common understanding of what they went through.

Good luck to us all.

[beautifulcentury]

<strong>August 25, 1906 <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/">by National Library of Ireland on The Commons</a></strong>

"We're back with the SS Copeland, literally, as this photo is from 1906 and we've already uploaded later photos from 1910 - 18 June and 30 July.

While sailing from Glasgow to Cork on 2 December 1917, this ship was torpedoed and sank off Tuskar Rock with the loss of 12 crew.

Thankfully, we now know that John Davies escaped the sinking as he moved to Australia in 1912 (id-ed by his great grand-daughter Christine).

Date: 25 August 1906

NLI Ref.: P_WP_1605a"

[thisdayinwwi]

Sep 3 1918 United Kingdom cargo ship Highcliffe sunk in the Atlantic off the Tuskar Rock, Ireland (51°56′N 5°54′W) by SM UB-87 ( 1st of 4 kills for the sub) with the loss of a crew member https://t.co/0F6XQ2OZhg https://t.co/KPYUQcQAdA http://twitter.com/ThisDayInWWI/status/1036648307701903360