More catching up: On November 7th in history: In 1775 the royal governor of the Colony of Virginia started the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunsmores Offer of Emancipation offering freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with the British. In 1837 in Alton, Illinois, Elijah Lovejoy, printer and anti-slavery campaigner, was killed by a white mob while trying to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time. In 1841 a successful slave rebellion started on the American coastal slave trade ship Creole. In 1867 Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, was born. In 1879 Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian-born Russian revolutionary socialist, was born. In 1888 Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist leader, was born. In 1893 women in the US state of Colorado were granted the right to vote, this was the second US state to do so. In 1908 according to reports Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were killed in San Vicente, Bolivia. In 1910 a miners strike started in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. In 1913 Alfred Russel Wallace, English socialist and co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, died. In 1913 Albert Camus, French writer and philosopher, was born. In 1914 in the US first issue of “The New Republic” was published. In 1916 Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives. In 1917 in Petrograd, Russia, revolutionary forces under the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace and seized power (“October Revolution”). In 1918 the Bavarian monarchy was overthrown in Munich – the overthrow was proclaimed by USPD member Kurt Eisner – the Munich workers and soldiers council (soviet) was created. In 1919 Hugo Haase, USPD leader, died as a consequence of the injuries received in an assassination attempt on 8 October. In 1919 in the US the first of the Palmer Raids took place on the anniversary of Russian Revolution – over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists were arrested in 23 US cities and the foreign-born were prepared for deportation. In 1931 the Chinese Soviet Republic was proclaimed on the anniversary of the Russian Revolution in Jiangxi and other regions in central China under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1938 Herschel Grynszpan, a young Jew, assassinated a German diplomat in Paris - this was used by the Nazis as an excuse for the Crystal Night pogrom against Jewish institutions and businesses. In 1940 in Tacoma, Washington, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in windstorm just 4 months after construction had beencompleted. In 1943 Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter, was born. In 1944 Richard Sorge, Azerbaijan-born German journalist and Soviet spy who had predicted the German invasion of Russia, was executed by the Japanese. In 1956 the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution demanding the immediate withdrawal of British, French and Israeli troops from the Suez Canal Zone. In 1963 in Lengede, West Germany, 11 miners were rescued 14 days after being trapped by a mine collapse (“Wunder von Lengede”). In 1967 US president Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act setting up the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 1967 anti-Vietnam War protests took place during a visit by Robert McNamara, US Secretary of Defense, to Harvard University. In 1968 after slapping German chancellor Kurt Kiesinger in the face and calling him a “Nazi”, Beate Klarsfeld, German Nazi hunter, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment on same day. In 1973 the US Congress overrode US president Richard Nixons veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limited the US presidents power to wage war without congressional approval. In 1989 the government of GDR resigns after mass anti-government protests. In 1990 Mary Robinson became the first woman elected president of Ireland. In 1992 Alexander Dubcek, Czechoslovak communist and leader of the Prague Spring, died. In 2002 Rudolf Augstein, German journalist and founder of “Spiegel”, died. In 2009 Chris Harman, English Marxist theoretician and leader of the British Socialist Workers Party, died.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:45:50 +0000
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