Charles-François Thibault took three photos during the June Days uprising on this day and the following in 1848. Two of them became the first photos to accompany a newspaper report. / On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag, made specifically to represent the LGBTQ community, was flown for the first time at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, history enthusiasts, you get not one, but two events
in history today on with the show. Greetings everyone, welcome
to this day in History class, where we bring you
a new tidbit from history every day. The day was
(00:22):
ju in Paris during the June Days Uprising, a French
photographer named Charlotte Francois Tibau took the first photograph used
to illustrate a newspaper report. The June Days Uprising occurred
after the French Second Republic instituted democratic reforms. One such
(00:43):
reform was the creation of the National Workshops, which provided
work for the unemployed. But a new assembly of mainly
moderates and conservatives was elected and they shut down the
National Workshops. Employed and unemployed workers, student and other supporters
joined up to protest workers being cut off the state
(01:04):
payroll and the rolling back of radical social reforms. On
June twenty two, eighteen forty eight, protesters staged a demonstration
against the government's decree that eighteen to twenty four year
olds in the workshops had to join the army and
older people had to join public works projects, and on
the twenty three the so called June Day's Uprising began
(01:27):
when barricades went up in many working class sections of
the city, the National Guard was sent to Paris to
stop the writing. General Louis Lugene Cavignac used artillery against
the barricades, and after just four days of conflict, the
uprising had ended and the working class movement had been suppressed.
More than ten thousand Parisians were arrested, of which several
(01:50):
thousand were eggs out to Algeria as punishment. Several thousand
troops and Parisians were killed during this uprising. Photographer Charlotte
front Swatchi Bow took three Daguerreo types, two on June
and the other on the morning of June. A Daguera
type invented by Louis Daguerre in eighteen thirty nine is
(02:11):
a photographic image on a silver plated sheet of copper.
Tibaut took the photos from four Rue du Faubourg du temp,
a home owned by a market gardener named Jean Pierre Pivert.
Tibau also stayed in that house in eighteen forty eight
and eighteen forty nine. The first two photos Tibou took
(02:32):
show a deserted street the route du Faubourg du Temple
with barricades at intersections, and one of them, a woman
in a white hat named Pauline Pompon, appears to look
at the photographer from a nearby window, and the other
the woman is not at the open window. The photo
taken on the is a blurrier, but shows the same
(02:54):
street with cannons, soldiers and shopkeepers present after General Lamoriciere's attack.
He took the photo from a rooftop above the street.
Woodcuts were made from the image, including the woman and
the one taking on the twenty six, and those wood
engravings were published alongside a story about the uprising and
the weekly newspaper Lily Streon in early July. The engravings
(03:18):
were also published in a special issue of Journet ils
revolution Da eighteen forty eight in August of that year.
The images are considered the earliest photos to a company
and newspaper report. Before photographs existed, news articles were accompanied
by illustrations, but early on photographers deemed news events worthy
(03:38):
of capturing. Hermann Bo, known for his photos of Hamburg, Germany,
after it was destroyed by a fire in May of
eighteen forty two, took what are considered some of the
first ever photographs of a news event, and in April
of eighteen forty eight the newspaper Illustrated London News printed
to Daguera types. The Muse door Say in Paris per
(04:00):
just two of t bows de Gara types at a
Southebys auction in two thousand two. The other was donated
to the Carnavale Museum in nine. I'm Eve Jeff Coote
and hopefully you know a little more about history today
than you did yesterday. And if you haven't gotten your
fill of history after listening to today's episode, you can
(04:20):
follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at t d
I h C podcast And if you are so inclined,
you can listen to a new podcast I host called Unpopular,
which is about people in history who resisted the status
quo and we're persecuted for it. Thanks again for listening
and we'll see you tomorrow. Hey y'all, I'm Eves and
(04:46):
welcome to This Day in History class, a podcast for
people who truly believe that you learned something new every day.
The day was nineteen seventy eight. The rainbow flag, made
specifically to represent the LGBTQ community, was flown for the
(05:08):
first time at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
Over the years since his creation, the rainbow flag has
become an international symbol, both to celebrate LGBTQ pride and
in the fight for lgbt Q rights. The rainbow flag
was designed by Gilbert Baker. Born in nineteen fifty one
in Chanout, Kansas, Baker gravitated towards art and fashion design
(05:30):
at a very young age. He was drafted into the
United States Army in nineteen seventy, where he experienced a
significant amount of homophobia. Eventually stationed in San Francisco as
an army medic, he found a sense of community there
in the burgeoning post Stonewall gay rights movement. He decided
to stay in San Francisco after his honorable discharge from
(05:51):
the military. Baker design banners for various pro gay and
anti war protests. Over time, people began suggesting that Baker
design and create a symbol specifically for the gay and
lesbian rights movement. Until that point, many people used paint
triangles as a pride symbol. During World War Two, Nazis
used pink triangles to mark suspected gay males and concentration
(06:15):
camps and the gay community had reclaimed the symbol as
a symbol of pride, but many people were calling for
a new original symbol to represent the gay rights movement.
One such person was Harvey Milk, who was a friend
of Baker's. Milk had recently been sworn in as the
first openly gay elected official in California. Baker felt that
(06:35):
the different colors of the rainbow represented the variety of
people in sexualities that made up the LGBT hugh community.
The original flag consisted of eight stripes, with each symbolizing
something different. He assembled a group of around thirty volunteers
who died and sowed the flags at a laundry mat
and a gay community center. On June, the flag was
(06:58):
raised in the United Nations Alza in San Francisco for
the Gay Freedom Day Parade. The flag gained even more
noticed by the public a few months later when Harvey
Milk was assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on November.
Demand for the flag skyrocketed. In the wake of the assassination,
the Paramount Flag Company in San Francisco began mass producing
(07:20):
the flag as demand increased. The flag went through a
few different iterations. The color hot pink was removed from
the flag design since it was too hard to find
for mass production and ray It became the top stripe,
which was consistent with a rainbow in nature. Turquoise was
later dropped and the rainbow flag became the sixth stripe
(07:41):
design most commonly seen today. The flag has also been
the subject of controversy. In John Stout, a resident of
West Hollywood, sued his landlord for attempting to prohibit him
from flying the flag on his balcony. Stout won the lawsuit.
In two thousand four, as a form of test against
the Australian government's refusal to recognize same sex marriages, a
(08:04):
group of LGBTQ activists planted the rainbow flag on the
uninhabited corral Sea Island's territory off the coast of Australia
and claimed it as an independent micro nation for the
gay community. Besides the rainbow flag, there are other flags
that represent LGBTQ communities, like the transgender Pride flag created
(08:24):
by Monica Helms. Baker enjoyed a successful career as a
vexilographer or flag designer. By the time he died in
two thousand, seventeen, he hadn't made a significant amount of
money from creating the rainbow flag, and he never copyrighted
the design because he wanted it to belong to everyone.
He once said, the following the moment I knew that
(08:46):
the flag was beyond my own personal experience, that it
wasn't just something I was making, but was something that
was happening, was the March on Washington. From my home
in San Francisco. I watched the march on c SPAN
and saw hundreds of thousands of people carrying and waving
rainbow flags. On a skill I never imagined the flag
(09:08):
lives on as a ubiquitous and internationally recognized symbol of
LGBTQ pride. I'm each Jeff Coote and hopefully you know
a little more about history today than you did yesterday.
And if you have any comment ser suggestions, feel free
to send them our way. We're at T D I
h C Podcast on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We can
(09:29):
also hit us up via email where at this day
at iHeart media dot com. And a special shout out
today to Alexis and two Chandler, the super producers on
this show, who has always continued to do amazing work
by For more podcasts from i Heeart Radio, visit the
iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to
(09:51):
your favorite shows.
Hey, history enthusiasts, you get not one, but two events
in history today on with the show. Greetings everyone, welcome
to this day in History class, where we bring you
a new tidbit from history every day. The day was
(00:22):
ju in Paris during the June Days Uprising, a French
photographer named Charlotte Francois Tibau took the first photograph used
to illustrate a newspaper report. The June Days Uprising occurred
after the French Second Republic instituted democratic reforms. One such
(00:43):
reform was the creation of the National Workshops, which provided
work for the unemployed. But a new assembly of mainly
moderates and conservatives was elected and they shut down the
National Workshops. Employed and unemployed workers, student and other supporters
joined up to protest workers being cut off the state
(01:04):
payroll and the rolling back of radical social reforms. On
June twenty two, eighteen forty eight, protesters staged a demonstration
against the government's decree that eighteen to twenty four year
olds in the workshops had to join the army and
older people had to join public works projects, and on
the twenty three the so called June Day's Uprising began
(01:27):
when barricades went up in many working class sections of
the city, the National Guard was sent to Paris to
stop the writing. General Louis Lugene Cavignac used artillery against
the barricades, and after just four days of conflict, the
uprising had ended and the working class movement had been suppressed.
More than ten thousand Parisians were arrested, of which several
(01:50):
thousand were eggs out to Algeria as punishment. Several thousand
troops and Parisians were killed during this uprising. Photographer Charlotte
front Swatchi Bow took three Daguerreo types, two on June
and the other on the morning of June. A Daguera
type invented by Louis Daguerre in eighteen thirty nine is
(02:11):
a photographic image on a silver plated sheet of copper.
Tibaut took the photos from four Rue du Faubourg du temp,
a home owned by a market gardener named Jean Pierre Pivert.
Tibau also stayed in that house in eighteen forty eight
and eighteen forty nine. The first two photos Tibou took
(02:32):
show a deserted street the route du Faubourg du Temple
with barricades at intersections, and one of them, a woman
in a white hat named Pauline Pompon, appears to look
at the photographer from a nearby window, and the other
the woman is not at the open window. The photo
taken on the is a blurrier, but shows the same
(02:54):
street with cannons, soldiers and shopkeepers present after General Lamoriciere's attack.
He took the photo from a rooftop above the street.
Woodcuts were made from the image, including the woman and
the one taking on the twenty six, and those wood
engravings were published alongside a story about the uprising and
the weekly newspaper Lily Streon in early July. The engravings
(03:18):
were also published in a special issue of Journet ils
revolution Da eighteen forty eight in August of that year.
The images are considered the earliest photos to a company
and newspaper report. Before photographs existed, news articles were accompanied
by illustrations, but early on photographers deemed news events worthy
(03:38):
of capturing. Hermann Bo, known for his photos of Hamburg, Germany,
after it was destroyed by a fire in May of
eighteen forty two, took what are considered some of the
first ever photographs of a news event, and in April
of eighteen forty eight the newspaper Illustrated London News printed
to Daguera types. The Muse door Say in Paris per
(04:00):
just two of t bows de Gara types at a
Southebys auction in two thousand two. The other was donated
to the Carnavale Museum in nine. I'm Eve Jeff Coote
and hopefully you know a little more about history today
than you did yesterday. And if you haven't gotten your
fill of history after listening to today's episode, you can
(04:20):
follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at t d
I h C podcast And if you are so inclined,
you can listen to a new podcast I host called Unpopular,
which is about people in history who resisted the status
quo and we're persecuted for it. Thanks again for listening
and we'll see you tomorrow. Hey y'all, I'm Eves and
(04:46):
welcome to This Day in History class, a podcast for
people who truly believe that you learned something new every day.
The day was nineteen seventy eight. The rainbow flag, made
specifically to represent the LGBTQ community, was flown for the
(05:08):
first time at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
Over the years since his creation, the rainbow flag has
become an international symbol, both to celebrate LGBTQ pride and
in the fight for lgbt Q rights. The rainbow flag
was designed by Gilbert Baker. Born in nineteen fifty one
in Chanout, Kansas, Baker gravitated towards art and fashion design
(05:30):
at a very young age. He was drafted into the
United States Army in nineteen seventy, where he experienced a
significant amount of homophobia. Eventually stationed in San Francisco as
an army medic, he found a sense of community there
in the burgeoning post Stonewall gay rights movement. He decided
to stay in San Francisco after his honorable discharge from
(05:51):
the military. Baker design banners for various pro gay and
anti war protests. Over time, people began suggesting that Baker
design and create a symbol specifically for the gay and
lesbian rights movement. Until that point, many people used paint
triangles as a pride symbol. During World War Two, Nazis
used pink triangles to mark suspected gay males and concentration
(06:15):
camps and the gay community had reclaimed the symbol as
a symbol of pride, but many people were calling for
a new original symbol to represent the gay rights movement.
One such person was Harvey Milk, who was a friend
of Baker's. Milk had recently been sworn in as the
first openly gay elected official in California. Baker felt that
(06:35):
the different colors of the rainbow represented the variety of
people in sexualities that made up the LGBT hugh community.
The original flag consisted of eight stripes, with each symbolizing
something different. He assembled a group of around thirty volunteers
who died and sowed the flags at a laundry mat
and a gay community center. On June, the flag was
(06:58):
raised in the United Nations Alza in San Francisco for
the Gay Freedom Day Parade. The flag gained even more
noticed by the public a few months later when Harvey
Milk was assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on November.
Demand for the flag skyrocketed. In the wake of the assassination,
the Paramount Flag Company in San Francisco began mass producing
(07:20):
the flag as demand increased. The flag went through a
few different iterations. The color hot pink was removed from
the flag design since it was too hard to find
for mass production and ray It became the top stripe,
which was consistent with a rainbow in nature. Turquoise was
later dropped and the rainbow flag became the sixth stripe
(07:41):
design most commonly seen today. The flag has also been
the subject of controversy. In John Stout, a resident of
West Hollywood, sued his landlord for attempting to prohibit him
from flying the flag on his balcony. Stout won the lawsuit.
In two thousand four, as a form of test against
the Australian government's refusal to recognize same sex marriages, a
(08:04):
group of LGBTQ activists planted the rainbow flag on the
uninhabited corral Sea Island's territory off the coast of Australia
and claimed it as an independent micro nation for the
gay community. Besides the rainbow flag, there are other flags
that represent LGBTQ communities, like the transgender Pride flag created
(08:24):
by Monica Helms. Baker enjoyed a successful career as a
vexilographer or flag designer. By the time he died in
two thousand, seventeen, he hadn't made a significant amount of
money from creating the rainbow flag, and he never copyrighted
the design because he wanted it to belong to everyone.
He once said, the following the moment I knew that
(08:46):
the flag was beyond my own personal experience, that it
wasn't just something I was making, but was something that
was happening, was the March on Washington. From my home
in San Francisco. I watched the march on c SPAN
and saw hundreds of thousands of people carrying and waving
rainbow flags. On a skill I never imagined the flag
(09:08):
lives on as a ubiquitous and internationally recognized symbol of
LGBTQ pride. I'm each Jeff Coote and hopefully you know
a little more about history today than you did yesterday.
And if you have any comment ser suggestions, feel free
to send them our way. We're at T D I
h C Podcast on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We can
(09:29):
also hit us up via email where at this day
at iHeart media dot com. And a special shout out
today to Alexis and two Chandler, the super producers on
this show, who has always continued to do amazing work
by For more podcasts from i Heeart Radio, visit the
iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to
(09:51):
your favorite shows.
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