2014 Event Zhou Yongkang, China's former security chief, has been arrested on corruption charges and ousted from the Communist Party; Zhou is the highest-ranking official to be arrested in Chinese leader Xi Jinxing's campaign to reduce government corruption 2014 Event Germany commemorates the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall with a balloon-release ceremony and celebrations throughout the country; the wall had been built through Berlin to separate communist East Germany from West Germany 2014 Event Slovakia sets a new precedent by electing Andrej Kiska, a millionaire, as president; Mr. Kiska is the first president without ties to the Communist party to be elected since 1993, when the country was formed out of the breakup of Czechoslovakia 2014 Event Prominent Chinese legal activist, Xu Zhiyong, is sentenced to four years in prison; convicted of 'gathering a crowd to disturb public order,' the case is seen as evidence that Communist Party leaders wish to expunge any challenges to the power or leadership 2012 Event The U.S. House of Representatives votes to end the Jackson-Vanik amendment from 1974, which was intended to effect U.S. trade relations with Communist countries 2012 Event The United Communist Party of Nepal is removed from the U.S. terror list citing they have made a 'credible commitment to pursuing peace and reconciliation.' 2012 Event Security chief Zhou Yongkang is asked to be removed by a group of Chinese Communist Party veterans 2012 Event At the London Book Fair, Ma Jian, Chinese author of the banned novel 'Beijing Coma,' puts red paint over his face and calls Chinese publishers, 'the mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party' 2011 Event Nepal's Parliament elects Unified Communist Party leader Baburam Bhattarai as Prime Minister 2011 Event In Cuba, Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party's central committee 2011 Event In Vietnam, 1,400 members of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam gather to vote for new leaders 2010 Event In China, 23 elder members of the Communist Party of China call for ending the country's restrictions on free speech 2009 Event Buddhist Treasures buried during the 1930's Mongolian Communist Purge, were discovered in the Gobi desert 1997 Death Georges Marchais, Sec General of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies 1997 Death Zdenek Mlynar, Secretary of Czechoslovakian Communist Central Committee (1968), dies 1997 Death Deng Xiaoping, head of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 92 1996 Death Robert J. Morris, lawyer, served New York State Assembly committee investigating Communist activities, dies at 81 1996 Death Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85 1996 Death Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65 1995 Death Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88 1994 Event Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal 1994 Event Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election 1994 Death Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies 1994 Death Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70 1994 Death Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies 1994 Death Karel Kryl, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime, dies at 49 1993 Death Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies 1993 Death Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80 1993 Death Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80 1993 Death Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88 1993 Death Chris Hani, Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50 1992 Death Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies 1992 Death Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies 1991 Event CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance 1991 Event Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party 1991 Event U.S.S.R. suspends Communist Party activities 1991 Event Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party 1991 Event Communist coup is crushed in U.S.S.R. in 2 days 1990 Event South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference 1990 Event Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party 1990 Event Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth) 1990 Event U.S.S.R. Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties 1990 Event Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so) 1989 Event East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution 1989 Event Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia 1989 Death Dolores Ibarruri, Pasionaria, Basque/Spanish communist, dies at 93 1989 Event Hungary proclaims itself a republic and declares communist rule ended 1989 Event 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms 1988 Event Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM 1987 Death Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing 1986 Death Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87 1985 Event "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels 1984 Death Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69 1982 Event Hanneke Jelgersma installed as Netherlands 1st Communist mayor 1981 Event Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek 1981 Event China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy 1979 Death Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90 1979 Event John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) 1977 Death Tibor Dery, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence', dies at 82 1977 Event Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years 1976 Event Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party 1976 Death Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82 1975 Event Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed 1975 Event Italy's Communist party PCI, wins 1974 Event Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president 1974 Death Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70 1973 Death Earl Browder, leader U.S. Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82 1972 Event Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations 1972 Event Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party 1970 Event UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist 1969 Event Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed 1969 Event Communist New People's Army found in Philippines 1968 Event Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission 1968 Death J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56 1968 Death Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83 1966 Event Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party 1966 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends 1965 Event Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional 1965 Death Hans Marchwitza, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte', dies 1964 Death Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/Minister of Justice, dies 1964 Death Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General French Communist Party, dies at 64 1963 Event 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) 1962 Event Hungarian Communist Party expels Rakosi and Gero 1962 Event U.S. promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression 1961 Event Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovitsj kicked out of Russia's Communist Party 1961 Event U.S. members of Communist Party obliged to report themselves to Police 1961 Death William S Foster, chairman (U.S. Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80 1961 Event Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party 1960 Death Harry Pollitt, England, Britsh communist chairman (1956-60) 1960 Event Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands 1958 Event Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party 1958 Event Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting 1958 Event Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission 1958 Death Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88 1957 Event Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave U.S.S.R. Communist Party 1957 Death Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67 1957 Event Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth" 1956 Event Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized 1956 Event Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison 1956 Event U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker" 1954 Event Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party 1954 Event Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh 1954 Event Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist 1953 Event General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired 1953 Event Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party 1953 Event Communist offensive in Korea 1953 Event Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party 1952 Death Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56 1952 Event 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow 1952 Event Communist offensive in Korea 1952 Birthday Giuliano Ferrara, born in Rome, Italy, activist, atheist, communist turned Centre-Right and pro-life, admired Pope Benedict XVI 1951 Event Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants 1951 Event Communist troops driven out of Seoul 1950 Event Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism" 1950 Event U.S. President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat 1950 Event Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants 1950 Event General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist 1950 Death Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered 1950 Event Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees 1950 Event Britain recognizes Communist government of China 1949 Death Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed 1949 Event 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition 1949 Death Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66 1949 Event Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China 1949 Event Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics 1949 Death Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54 1948 Event Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin) 1948 Event Communist form North China People's Republic 1948 Event Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent 1948 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist" 1948 Event U.S. Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested 1948 Event Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns 1948 Death 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens 1948 Event Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia 1948 Event Trial of 11 U.S. Communist party members begins in New York City 1947 Event HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood 1947 Event Hungarian Communist Party wins election 1946 Birthday Elfriede Jelinek, born in Murzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004 1946 Event Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president 1945 Event U.S.S.R. establishes a communist government in North Korea 1945 Event U.S. Communist Party forms 1945 Event Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy 1945 Event King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government 1944 Death Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald 1944 Event U.S. Communist Party dissolves 1944 Event 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death 1944 Event Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death 1944 Birthday Karel Kryl, born in Kromenz, Czechoslovakia, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime 1944 Event 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death 1942 Death 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed 1942 Death Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32 1942 Birthday "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, Secretary-General, South Africa Communist Party 1941 Event Politburo of Yugoslav Communist Party reorganizes 1941 Event British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned 1940 Event Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands 1940 Event Communist government installed in Lithuania 1940 Death Tina Modotti, Maria del Carmen, Italian/Mexican communist, dies at 46 1935 Event CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party 1935 Event Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China 1934 Event French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms 1934 Death Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24 1933 Death Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies 1933 Event Austrian Communist Party banned 1933 Event Hitler disallows German Communist Party (KPD) 1933 Event Final demonstration of German Communist Party in Berlin 1933 Event Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party 1933 Event Goring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany 1932 Event Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party 1932 Event Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees 1930 Birthday Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism 1929 Birthday Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of South Africa Communist Party 1927 Event Communist uprising in West Java 1926 Event Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java 1926 Event Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop 1925 Event Communist Party of Holland splits 1925 Event Estonia forbids communist Party 1924 Birthday Henk J Hoekstra, president, Dutch Communist Party 1924 Event Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted 1924 Birthday Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome 1923 Event Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government 1923 Birthday Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI, 1951-65 1923 Event KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies 1923 Event Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party 1922 Event Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party 1921 Birthday Alexander Dubcek, headed Czechoslovakian Communist Party, 1968-69 1921 Birthday Fre Meis, Dutch MP, Communist 1921 Event KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms 1921 Event Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet 1920 Event Yugoslav government bans Communist Party 1920 Event USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany 1920 Birthday Georges Marchais, political leader, French Communist Party 1920 Event U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal 1920 Event Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms 1919 Event Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago 1919 Event John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago 1919 Event Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike 1919 Event 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin 1919 Event 3 year old German Communist Party (Spartacus) crushed 1918 Event Bela Can forms Hungarian Communist Party 1918 Event Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg 1918 Birthday Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er 1918 Event Baku-Turkish Communist Party forms 1918 Event Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party 1918 Birthday Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party 1916 Event Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin 1914 Birthday 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 Birthday Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist 1913 Birthday Ben[jamin S] Polak, born in Netherlands, physician/communist/resistance fighter 1912 Birthday Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP 1912 Event Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS) 1911 Birthday Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer, Catapult to Freedom 1911 Birthday Patience Edney, nurse/communist 1911 Birthday J Borremans, Belgian politician, communist, MP 1909 Birthday Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66 1909 Birthday Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist 1908 Birthday Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter, Witte Ko, communist 1907 Birthday Phillip Piratin, communist 1906 Birthday Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician, SPD 1904 Birthday Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist 1900 Birthday 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 Birthday Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General, French Communist Party 1899 Birthday Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician, CPN, Editor, The Truth 1899 Birthday Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member 1898 Birthday Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, communist philosopher, Eros and Civilization 1895 Birthday Paul Eluard, French communist/poet/resistance fighter, Le Phenix 1894 Birthday Tibor Dery, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence' 1894 Birthday Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder, Indonesian Communist 1893 Birthday Palmiro Togliatti, founder, Communist Party of Italy 1893 Birthday Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister, 1945-52 1890 Death Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies 1890 Birthday Hans Marchwitza, born in Szarlej, Poland, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte' 1890 Birthday Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, MP, communist 1889 Birthday Ludwig Renn, born in Dresden, Germany, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany 1888 Birthday Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist Party 1886 Birthday Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate 1884 Birthday Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier, 1950 - 1952, communist hunter 1883 Birthday Sam Wood, U.S., communist fighter/director, For Whom the Bell Tolls 1883 Death Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64 1881 Birthday Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist President of Karelo-Finnish SR, 1940-56 1881 Birthday William Foster, Massachusetts, Communist President candidate, 1924,28,32 1876 Birthday Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/president, 1949-60 1873 Birthday Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, Communist Tactics 1857 Birthday Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist 1848 Event Marx and Engels publish "Communist Manifesto" 1818 Birthday Karl Marx, philosopher, Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital
