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On this day

18 June

1936

• Russian Socialist writer Maxim Gorky is murdered by anti-Soviet reactionary elements.

1942

• Anti-apartheid revolutionary leader and second president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki is born.

1954

A painting by Communist artist Diego Rivera portraying the overthrow of the Arbenz government by U.S. supported reactionaries]

• The CIA supported Guatemala coup of 1954 against Jacobo Arbenz's Democratically elected Social Democratic government begins.

1974

• Soviet military leader, Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union, and recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union award Georgy Zhukov dies at the age of 77.

1984

Political activist Lesley Boulton is attacked by police at the Battle of Orgreave

• The Battle of Orgreave occurs during the United Kingdom Miners Strike of 1984-1985. It began when picketting miners were attacked by police. By the end of the fighting more than 123 people were injured and 95 striking miners were arrested.

1994

• The Unionist terrorist gang Ulster Volunteer Force massacres six Irish Catholic civilians in a put in Loughinisland, Ireland.

2012

• Anti-Nazi fighter and Communist revolutionary author Lina Haag dies at the age of 105.