Lambing Flat Riots (1860 - 1861) On this day in 1861, the worst violence of the Australian Lambing Flat Riots occurred when a mob of 3,000 white people attacked 2,000 Chinese miners and drove them...
Congo Crisis (1960) On this day in 1960, the Republic of the Congo became independent from Belgian colonizers, beginning a four year period of civil war which killed approximately 100,000 people,...
Kwame Ture (1941 - 1998) Kwame Ture, born on this day in 1941 as Stokely Carmichael, was a prominent civil rights activist, serving as "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party and...
Henry Gerber (1892 - 1972) Henry Gerber, born on this day in 1892, was a German-American queer rights activist who, in 1924, founded the first American pro-homosexual organization, known as the...
Samar Badawi (1981 - ) Samar Badawi, born on this day in 1981, is a Saudi Arabian feminist activist who participated in the driving campaigns of 2011-12, sued the government for the right to vote,...
Chris Hani (1942 - 1993) Chris Hani, born on this day in 1942, was a leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of "uMkhonto we Sizwe", the armed wing of the African National...
Emma Goldman (1869 - 1940) Emma Goldman, born on this day in 1869, was an anarchist writer and activist in the United States whose works, including "My Disillusionment in Russia" and her journal...
Olive Morris (1952 - 1979) Olive Morris, born on this day in 1952, was a Jamaican Black Panther, squatter's rights activist, and founder of the Brixton Black Women's Group who died prematurely...
Salvador Allende (1908 - 1973) Salvador Allende, born on this day in 1908, was a Chilean physician and politician who became the first Marxist leader to be elected president in a Latin American...
Carl Braden (1914 - 1975) Carl Braden, born on this day in 1914, was a left-wing trade unionist, journalist, and activist who was charged with sedition by the state of Kentucky after purchasing a...
Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) On this day in 1876, the Battle of Little Bighorn took place, a major defeat of the U.S. Army by the combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho...
Radom Riots (1976) The Radom Riots began in Poland on this day in 1976 when tens of thousands of people began protesting and rioting in response to government increases in the price of food,...
Korean War Begins (1950) On this day in 1950, the northern Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parallel in an offensive to crush the Republic of Korea, an imperialist puppet state established by...
June Days Uprising Begins (1848) 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...
Taft-Hartley Act (1947) On this day in 1947, the Taft-Hartley Act became U.S. law after a heavily bipartisan vote, greatly restricting the legal rights of organizing workers during an...
Sanrizuka Struggle Begins (1966) On this day in 1966, the Japanese government announced the construction of an airport on farmland in rural Sanrizuka, without permission of displaced locals. The...
James Maxton (1885 - 1946) James Maxton, born on this day in 1885, was a socialist Scottish politician, pacifist, and leader of the Independent Labour Party, a dissident working class party to the...
Edward Snowden (1983 - ) Edward Snowden, born on this day in 1983, is an American whistleblower who leaked highly classified information from the NSA in 2013 when he was working as a CIA employee,...
Freedom Summer Murders (1964) On this day in 1964, civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were assassinated by white supremacists in Philadelphia, Mississippi....
Speckled Snake Speaks (1829) On this day in 1829, Speckled Snake, an indigenous man more than a century old, gave a speech to a council of chiefs on the genocidal nature of U.S. policy of...
