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1381

• During the Peasants' Revolt in England, rebels arrive in London and set fire to the Savoy Palace.

1850

• The American League of Colored Laborers is founded with Samuel Ringgold Ward as its president.

1943

• Kočo Racin, a Macedonian poet, communist, partisan and writer, is shot to death under mysterious circumstances.

1943

• Communist partisan leader Sava Kovačević dies in battle against Nazi Germany.

1971

The first Pentagon Papers article in the New York Times

• The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers after they are leaked to them by Daniel Ellsberg.

1980

• Guyanese Marxist historian Walter Rodney is murdered, likely by the government of Guyana.