On this day in 1848, more than 40,000 French workers initiated the June Days Uprising after the state closed National Workshops that provided work to the unemployed, causing 10,000 casualties and 4,000 workers to be deported to Algeria.
The National Workshops had only been formed a few months earlier, when, on February 25th, a group of armed workers interrupted a session of the provisional government to demand "the organization of labor" and "the right to work".
In late June, the Second Republic began planning to close the workshops, leading to a national uprising. In sections of the city, hundreds of barricades were thrown up. The National Guard was sent in to quell the rebellion, and workers seized weapons from local armories to fight back.
The violence, which lasted just three days, resulted in more than 10,000 casualties and 4,000 participants to be deported to Algeria. Among the dead was Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris, killed while trying to negotiate peace with an angry crowd.
The rebellion was successfully crushed, and the episode put a hold on revolutionary ambitions of radical Republicans at the time. In its aftermath, the French Constitution of 1848 was adopted, mandating that executive power be wielded by a democratically elected president.
The first president under this framework was Napoleon Bonaparte, who dissolved the constitution during his first term in office.
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Replying to a comment in last week's news thread...
That shit was loud as fuck. I was half-awake when I heard it. It wasn't the typical thunderstorm where the wind picks up, the rain starts pelting, and you hear the thunder rolling in. There weren't really any strong winds or anything going on. Maybe a light rain, and then genuinely probably one of the loudest explosions I ever heard in my life out of nowhere. Several car alarms were set off in my neighborhood. I knew it was just the weather, but it was loud enough for me to ponder, "damn, how crazy would it be if there were actually consequences for shit."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyquake
I grew up hearing these, we called them Seneca guns. They were usually mild enough that it was obvious what they were, but every so often they were closer or louder and it sounded like imminent destruction. No idea if that's what was going on, but it definitely sounds similar