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Farmers
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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