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1525

Thomas Müntzer

• Peasant forces led by Anabaptist and proto-Communist Thomas Müntzer are defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen. Müntzer is captured and the Peasant War in Germany ends.

1902

• Soviet pilot and recipient of the Hero of the Soviet Union Sigizmund Levanevsky is born.

1918

• The Finnish Civil War ends.

1919

• The Winnipeg general strike, organized by the Winnipeg Trades and Labour Council begins.

1921

• Basque nationalist and Autonomist activist, and translator Federico Krutwig is born.