"J'Accuse...!" was published #OTD in 1898 in the newspaper L'Aurore by Émile Zola in response to the Dreyfus affair.
Zola addressed President of France Félix Faure and accused his government of antisemitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer who was sentenced to lifelong penal servitude for espionage.