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On this day in 1969, the Cordobazo Uprising began in the city of Córdoba, Argentina as a general strike, with workers seizing the city, burning the corporate headquarters of Citroën and Xerox, and clashing with the army.

The rebellion took place under the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía, who had seized power in a coup in 1966. Onganía's government had suspended the right to strike, froze workers' wages, suppressed communist movements, and extended the age of retirement.

In the wake of widespread violent state repression against protesters, the labor union "CGT de los Argentinos", led by Agustín Tosco, called for national strike on May 30th, 1969. In Cordoba, the general strike and protests began one day earlier.

On the first day of the protests, police opened fire on thousands of protesters, killing a worker named Maximo Mena, causing the strike to escalate into a citywide revolt, leading to widespread destruction of property and seizing of city spaces. Onganía crushed the rebellion with the military, and Agustín Tosco was arrested for his role in the rebellion.

Working class protest, popular revolt and urban insurrection in Argentina: the 1969 Cordobazo - James P. Brennan

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

SpaceX tried another Starship test, and it went broadly like the last few. That is, the first stage booster pretty much worked as expected, but the upper stage failed. At engine cutoff, it started leaking all over the place and tumbling out of control, then the door they were going to test didn't open and it burned up on reentry again.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't you know this is /why/ they test the rockets are meant to explode you doofus

/s

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's why I'm not counting the first stage failing to land against them for this launch, because they announced beforehand that was pretty much expected this time, because they were pushing it harder than before, not aiming for their catch tower, and reusing an already flown booster.

The second stage continuing to be a failure in ways both new and old was not similarly according to plan.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah sorry I kind of shot off that comment imitating the musk glazers without actually knowing what the goals of the test were

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

No I got that I'm just too autistic about space hardware to not respond literally