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1916

• James Connolly executed after the Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland.

1926

• The 1926 General Strike, organized by the Trade Union Congress in the United Kingdom ends.

1927 The Shanghai Massacre against Communists, Trade Unionists and other Leftists orchestrated by the Kuomintang begins.}}

1968

• National Liberation Front of South Vietnam engages with Australian troops at FSB Coral in Bình Dương province, begining the Battle of Coral–Balmoral.

1981

• Francis Hughes dies on hunger strike in HM Prison Maze he is the second to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Stike.