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1811 Luddite rebellion begins |
1956 USSR invades Hungary |
2:00am Set clock BACK one hour |
| | | | | 1938 Kristallnacht (beginning of the Jewish holocaust) |
1969 Native Americans begin occupation of Alcatraz |
1989 opening of the Berlin Wall |
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| 1915 labor organizer Joe Hill executed |
| 1945 Nuremberg trials began |
1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz begins |
| | 1909 - garment workers' strike - first mass strike by women in the US |
| | 1859 Darwin's "Origin of Species" published |
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1953 UK begins bombing 'Mau Mau' anti-colonial insurgency |
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Dec |
| | 1095 pope launches first crusade |
1967 MLK announces Poor People's Campaign: "not just black people" |
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1999 WTO meeting in Seattle shut down by protesters |
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| 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal |
1997 Land mine ban signed by 122 countries. (The USA hasn't signed.) |
| 1969 Fred Hampton and Mark Clark assassinated by FBI & Chicago Police |
| 1955 Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott begins |
| 1865 slavery abolished (13th amendment) |
| 1941 FDR goads Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor |
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1954 Joseph McCarthy censured |
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