|
History Home Events Birthdays Deaths Years |
|
Add "Today in History" or "Today's Birthdays" to Your Site - it's Easy! |
|
|
|
History Home Events Birthdays Deaths Years |
|
Add "Today in History" or "Today's Birthdays" to Your Site - it's Easy! |
|
Communist
|
|
|
1997 Georges Marchais, Sec General of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies
1997 Zdenek Mlynar, Secretary of Czechoslovakian Communist Central Committee (1968), dies 1997 Deng Xiaoping, head of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 92 1996 Robert J. Morris, lawyer, served New York State Assembly committee investigating Communist activities, dies at 81 1996 Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85 1996 Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65 1995 Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88 1994 Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal 1994 Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election 1994 Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies 1994 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70 1994 Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies 1994 Karel Kryl, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime, dies at 49 1993 Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies 1993 Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80 1993 Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80 1993 Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88 1993 Chris Hani, Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50 1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies 1992 Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies 1991 CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance 1991 Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party 1991 U.S.S.R. suspends Communist Party activities 1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party 1991 Communist coup is crushed in U.S.S.R. in 2 days 1990 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference 1990 Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party 1990 Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth) 1990 U.S.S.R. Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties 1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so) 1989 East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution 1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia 1989 Dolores Ibarruri, Pasionaria, Basque/Spanish communist, dies at 93 1989 Hungary proclaims itself a republic and declares communist rule ended 1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms 1988 Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM 1987 Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing 1986 Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87 1985 "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels 1984 Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69 1982 Hanneke Jelgersma installed as Netherlands 1st Communist mayor 1981 Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek 1981 China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy 1979 Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90 1979 John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) 1977 Tibor Dery, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence', dies at 82 1977 Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years 1976 Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party 1976 Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82 1975 Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed 1975 Italy's Communist party PCI, wins 1974 Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president 1974 Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70 1973 Earl Browder, leader U.S. Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82 1972 Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations 1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party 1970 UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist 1969 Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed 1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines 1968 Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission 1968 J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56 1968 Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83 1966 Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party 1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends 1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional 1965 Hans Marchwitza, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte', dies 1964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/Minister of Justice, dies 1964 Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General French Communist Party, dies at 64 1963 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) 1962 Hungarian Communist Party expels Rakosi and Gero 1962 U.S. promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression 1961 Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovitsj kicked out of Russia's Communist Party 1961 U.S. members of Communist Party obliged to report themselves to Police 1961 William S Foster, chairman (U.S. Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80 1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party 1960 Harry Pollitt, England, Britsh communist chairman (1956-60) 1960 Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands 1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party 1958 Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting 1958 Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission 1958 Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88 1957 Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave U.S.S.R. Communist Party 1957 Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67 1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth" 1956 Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized 1956 Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison 1956 U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker" 1954 Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party 1954 Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh 1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist 1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired 1953 Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party 1953 Communist offensive in Korea 1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party 1952 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56 1952 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow 1952 Communist offensive in Korea 1952 Giuliano Ferrara, born in Rome, Italy, activist, atheist, communist turned Centre-Right and pro-life, admired Pope Benedict XVI 1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants 1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul 1950 Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism" 1950 U.S. President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat 1950 Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants 1950 General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist 1950 Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered 1950 Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees 1950 Britain recognizes Communist government of China 1949 Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed 1949 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition 1949 Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66 1949 Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China 1949 Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics 1949 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54 1948 Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin) 1948 Communist form North China People's Republic 1948 Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent 1948 Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist" 1948 U.S. Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested 1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns 1948 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens 1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia 1948 Trial of 11 U.S. Communist party members begins in New York City 1947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood 1947 Hungarian Communist Party wins election 1946 Elfriede Jelinek, born in MŸrzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004 1946 Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president 1945 U.S.S.R. establishes a communist government in North Korea 1945 U.S. Communist Party forms 1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy 1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government 1944 Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald 1944 U.S. Communist Party dissolves 1944 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death 1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death 1944 Karel Kryl, born in Kromenz, Czechoslovakia, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime 1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death 1942 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed 1942 Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32 1942 "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, Secretary-General, South Africa Communist Party 1941 Politburo of Yugoslav Communist Party reorganizes 1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned 1940 Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands 1940 Communist government installed in Lithuania 1940 Tina Modotti, Maria del Carmen, Italian/Mexican communist, dies at 46 1935 CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party 1935 Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China 1934 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms 1934 Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24 1933 Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies 1933 Austrian Communist Party banned 1933 Hitler disallows German Communist Party (KPD) 1933 Final demonstration of German Communist Party in Berlin 1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party 1933 Goring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany 1932 Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party 1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees 1930 Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism 1929 Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of South Africa Communist Party 1927 Communist uprising in West Java 1926 Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java 1926 Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop 1925 Communist Party of Holland splits 1925 Estonia forbids communist Party 1924 Henk J Hoekstra, president, Dutch Communist Party 1924 Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted 1924 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome 1923 Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government 1923 Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI, 1951-65 1923 KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies 1923 Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party 1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1921 Alexander Dubcek, headed Czechoslovakian Communist Party, 1968-69 1921 Fre Meis, Dutch MP, Communist 1921 KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms 1921 Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet 1920 Yugoslav government bans Communist Party 1920 USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany 1920 Georges Marchais, political leader, French Communist Party 1920 U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal 1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms 1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago 1919 John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago 1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike 1919 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin 1919 3 year old German Communist Party (Spartacus) crushed 1918 Bela Can forms Hungarian Communist Party 1918 Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg 1918 Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er 1918 Baku-Turkish Communist Party forms 1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party 1918 Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party 1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin 1914 Robert J. Morris, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, lawyer, served New York State Assembly committee investigating Communist activities, credited for efforts attributed to Senator Joseph McCarthy 1913 Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist 1913 Ben[jamin S] Polak, born in Netherlands, physician/communist/resistance fighter 1912 Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP 1912 Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) 1911 Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer, Catapult to Freedom 1911 Patience Edney, nurse/communist 1911 J Borremans, Belgian politician, communist, MP 1909 Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66 1909 Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist 1908 Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter, Witte Ko, communist 1907 Phillip Piratin, communist 1906 Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician, SPD 1904 Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist 1900 Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages 1900 Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General, French Communist Party 1899 Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician, CPN, Editor, The Truth 1899 Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member 1898 Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, communist philosopher, Eros and Civilization 1895 Paul Eluard, French communist/poet/resistance fighter, Le Phenix 1894 Tibor Dery, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence' 1894 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder, Indonesian Communist 1893 Palmiro Togliatti, founder, Communist Party of Italy 1893 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister, 1945-52 1890 Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies 1890 Hans Marchwitza, born in Szarlej, Poland, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte' 1890 Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, MP, communist 1889 Ludwig Renn, born in Dresden, Germany, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany 1888 Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist Party 1886 Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate 1884 Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier, 1950 - 1952, communist hunter 1883 Sam Wood, U.S., communist fighter/director, For Whom the Bell Tolls 1883 Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64 1881 Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist President of Karelo-Finnish SR, 1940-56 1881 William Foster, Massachusetts, Communist President candidate, 1924,28,32 1876 Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/president, 1949-60 1873 Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, Communist Tactics 1857 Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist 1848 Marx and Engels publish "Communist Manifesto" 1818 Karl Marx, philosopher, Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital |
|
|
|
|
| History Home Copyright 2009 BrainyMedia.com | |