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1988 Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Org (1955-79), dies at 65

1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief

1971 European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers

1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"

1953 Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years

1935 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election

1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy and farmers

1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers

1923 Oren Lee Staley, 1st President of National Farmers Organization, 1955-79

1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party

1912 Hendrik Koekoek, Dutch MP, Farmers Party

1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt

1899 Farmers send/guide belegerd Ladysmith Kerstpudding/desire in grenade

1899 Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers

1899 Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers

1880 Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten

1871 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader, Croatian Farmers' Party

1798 Rebellious Flemish farmers occupy Hasselt

1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!

1787 Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails

1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Capt Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass

1625 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria

1525 Battle at Boblingen: Zwabische Union beats rebel Wurttembergse farmers

1328 Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers

1328 Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle


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