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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.