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Democracy
1991 400,000 demonstrate for democracy in Madagascar, 31 killed

1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing

1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship

1957 Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," premieres in Washington D.C.

1948 Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)

1947 Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy

1947 Japan forms a constitutional democracy

1933 Irving Babbitt, U.S. writer (Democracy and Leadership), dies at 67

1933 Hitler promises parliamentary democracy

1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic

1882 Leonard Nelson, German philosopher, Democracy und Fuhrerschaft

1824 John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70

1805 Alexis de Tocqueville, France, statesman/writer, Democracy in America

1784 Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy

1753 John Taylor, Virginia, philosopher, Jeffersonian Democracy

1647 Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies

1641 General court declares RI a democracy and adopts new constitution



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