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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]

1974

1984

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

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.