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2011 Event - At its conference in Sydney, Australia's Labor Party turns to support gay marriage, laying the groundwork for legislation

2011 Event - South Australia swears in their new Premier, Jay Weatherill after officially electing him as the leader of the Australian Labor Party

2010 Event - Britain's Labor Party leader Ed Miliband launches a review of the British Labor Party, calling upon activists to help make it the 'People's Party' once again

2008 Death - Norman Hogg, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1983 - 1997, dies after a long illness, at 70

2003 Death - Penny Singleton, actress/labor activist, Blondie, dies at 95

1998 Death - Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies

1996 Death - David Whitton, politician, Labor party, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, dies at 44

1995 Death - Simon Bailey, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson, died while distributing leaflets for the Labor Party

1994 Death - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91

1993 Death - Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61

1992 Death - Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies

1992 Event - Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends

1989 Event - Polish labor union granted legal status

1989 Event - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms

1986 Event - Democratic Labor Party wins parliamentary election in Barbados

1982 Event - Poland bans Solidarity and all labor unions

1980 Event - Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity

1980 Event - Solidarity labor union in Poland forms

1980 Event - Poland's Solidarity labor union forms

1980 Death - George Meany, labor leader, dies at 86

1979 Death - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90

1976 Event - Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract

1970 Event - Players and management end labor dispute up minimum salary to $12,000

1967 Event - A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley

1965 Death - Frances Perkins, U.S. 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83

1964 Event - Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract

1961 Event - Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education and Labor

1960 Event - Broadway theaters close, labor dispute between owners and Actors Equity

1958 Birthday - Alan Milburn, born in Tow Law, County Durham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Darlington, served in Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health, resigned, rejoined Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

1957 Birthday - Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix

1955 Birthday - Simon Bailey, born in Halifax, England, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson

1955 Birthday - Nigel Griffiths, born in Glasgow, Scotland, politician, Labor party, Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South

1955 Birthday - John Hutton, born in Westcliff-on-Sea, England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Secretary of State for Defence

1954 Birthday - Michael O'Brien, born in Worcester, England, Mike O'Brien, politician, Labor Party, since 1992, serves as Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire, served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, became Minister of State for Health Services, 2009

1953 Birthday - John Denham, born in Seaton, England, John Yorke Denham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, served, then resigned as, Minister of State at the Home Office in 2003, over the Iraq War

1952 Birthday - Robert Ainsworth, born in Coventry, England, Robert William Ainsworth, politician, Labor Party, 2009, assumed roles of Secretary of State for Defense, since 1992, serves as a Member of Parliament for Coventry North East

1952 Event - Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index

1952 Birthday - Andrew Smith, born in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, Andrew David Smith, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Oxford East

1952 Birthday - Eveline Herfkens, born in The Hague, Netherlands, Dutch politician, member of the Dutch parliament from 1981 - 1990, served on the Council of the Labor Party

1951 Birthday - Chris Smith, born in Barnet, London, Christopher Robert 'Chris' Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, politician, Labor Party, Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, Cabinet minister, first openly gay MP member, HIV positive

1951 Birthday - David Whitton, born in Scotland, politician, Labor party, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden

1951 Birthday - John Battle, born in Bradford, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Leeds West, attended University of Leeds

1951 Birthday - Gordon Brown, born in Govan, Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, former television journalist

1951 Birthday - Gordon Prentice, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, politician, Labor Party, serves as Member of Parliament for Pendle, joined Graham Stringer in calling for resignation of Gordon Brown in July, 2008

1950 Birthday - Anthony Lloyd, born in England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, gay rights supporter, voted against the Iraq War and against renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System

1950 Birthday - Peter Hain, born in Nairobi, Kenya, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the House of Commons, Cabinet member for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Member of Parliament for Neath

1950 Birthday - Glyn Ford, born in Gloucester, England, politician, author, Labor Party, member of Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party, Member of European Parliament for South West England, expert on Asia, wrote, 'North Korea on the Brink: Struggle for Survival'

1949 Birthday - Owen Arthur, born in Barbados, statesman, politician, Barbados Labor Party, Prime Minister of Barbados 1994 - 2008

1948 Death - Peter JM Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, dies at 77

1948 Birthday - Jimmy Hood, born in Lesmahagow, Scotland, Member of Parliament for Lanark and Hamilton East, Labor Party, worked as a mining engineer

1948 Birthday - Peter Mond, born in England, 4th Baron Melchett, Lord Melchett, heir to Sir Alfred Mond's fortune, Labor Party whip, researched cannabis addition, Greenpeace activist

1947 Birthday - Lewis Moonie, born in Dundee, England, Baron Moonie, politician, life peer, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Kircaldy

1947 Birthday - Adam Ingram, born in Glasgow, Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for East Kilbride, Stathaven, Lesmahagow

1946 Birthday - Robert Reich, U.S. Secretary of Labor, Clinton

1946 Event - KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections

1946 Event - Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms

1946 Event - United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor

1945 Birthday - Clive Hollick, born in Britain, Labor Party, financier, youngest director of Hambros Bank, 1973, CEO, Mills & Allen International, MAI

1945 Event - General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms

1944 Event - Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany

1944 Event - 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor

1943 Birthday - Alun Michael, born in Bryngwran, Anglesey, politician, Labor Co-operative party, 1st Secretary for Wales 1999 - 2000

1943 Birthday - Ronald Campbell, born in Tynemouth, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Blyth Valley

1943 Birthday - Eddie McGrady, born in County Down, Northern Ireland, born Eddie Kevin McGrady, Member of Parliament for South Down, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labor Party

1943 Event - Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps

1943 Event - Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed

1943 Event - Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry

1943 Birthday - Win Griffiths, born in Wales, born Winston James Griffiths, politician, Labor Party, served as Member of Parliament for Bridgend, member of the European Parliament, Chairman of Bro Margannwg NHS Trust

1942 Birthday - Tessa Blackstone, born in England, Baroness Blackstone, politician, university administrator, Labor Party, life peer, House of Lords, Baroness Blackstone of Stoke Newington in Greater London

1942 Birthday - Frank Field, born in Edmonton, London, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Birkhead, served as Minister of Welfare Reform

1942 Event - Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"

1942 Event - SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp

1942 Event - National War Labor Board created

1941 Birthday - Ann Dore McLaughlin, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1987 - 1989

1941 Event - German occupiers begin youth labor

1940 Event - 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)

1940 Birthday - Ed Garvey, labor leader, Major League Baseball Players Association

1940 Birthday - Anne Campbell, born in England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Cambridge, portrayed by Harriet Walter in 10 Days to War, a BBC drama on events leading up to the Iraq War

1939 Birthday - Lynn Martin, U.S. secretary of Labor, 1991 - 1993

1939 Birthday - Bryan Gould, born in New Zealand, politician, Rhodes Scholar, Labor Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, served as Shadow Chief Secretary

1938 Event - U.S. forbids child labor in factories

1938 Birthday - Stuart Bell, born in County Durham, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough

1938 Birthday - Norman Hogg, born in Scotland, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth 1983 - 1997

1937 Birthday - Alice Mahon, born in Halifax, England, trade unionist, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Halifax 1987 - 2005

1937 Birthday - Peter Pike, born in England, born Peter Leslie Pike, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Burnley

1935 Event - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms

1935 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act

1935 Birthday - Tom Pendry, born in England, Baron Pendry, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde 1970 - 2001

1935 Birthday - Paul Flynn, born in Cardiff, Wales, born Paul Philip Flynn, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Newport West

1933 Event - Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor

1933 Event - Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member

1933 Event - 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor

1933 Birthday - Charles Williams, born in Oxford, England, cricketer, batsman, Labor peer, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Baron Williams of Elvel

1932 Birthday - Eric Varley, born in England, born Eric Varley, Baron Varley of Chesterfield in the County of Derbyshire, politician, Labor Party, Cabinet Minister, Member of Parliament for Chesterfield

1932 Birthday - Dennis Skinner, born in Derbyshire, England, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Bolsover, attended Ruskin College, left-wing supporter, homosexual and pro-choice advocate

1931 Birthday - Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine

1930 Birthday - William E. Brock, Sen-D, U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1985 - 1987

1930 Death - Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies

1930 Birthday - Ken Coates, born in Britain, politician, Labor Party, Member, European Parliament 1989 - 1999, chair, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation

1930 Event - Child labor laws established in Belgium

1929 Event - Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)

1928 Birthday - Albert Shanker, American labor leader, American Federation of Teachers

1927 Birthday - Kenneth Eastham, born in England, politician, Labor Party Member of Parliament for Manchester Blackley 1979 - 1997

1927 Birthday - John Gilbert, born in England, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Dudley East, life peer as Baron Gilbert, of Dudley in the County of West Midlands

1927 Birthday - Cesar Chavez, born in Yuma, Arizona, farm labor leader, United Farm Workers

1926 Event - Railway Labor Act became law

1925 Birthday - Roy Hughes, born in Pontllanfraith, Wales, born Royston John Hughes, Baron Islwyn, politician, Labor Party, union organizer, Member of Parliament for Newport, Member of Parliament for Newport East

1924 Death - Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 74

1924 Event - British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with U.S.S.R.

1924 Death - Josef Labor, composer, dies at 82

1924 Event - Child labor laws strengthened in Holland

1924 Event - Hitler sentenced to 5 years labor but General Ludendorff acquitted

1923 Birthday - Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister

1922 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws

1922 Birthday - Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union, ACV 1968-87

1921 Event - Supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional

1920 Event - Farmer Labor Party organized, Chicago

1920 Event - U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal

1920 Birthday - Frances K Bairstow, educator/labor relations consultant

1919 Event - Labor conference committee in U.S. urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week

1919 Event - John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago

1918 Birthday - Malcolm Shepherd, born in England, born Malcolm Newton Shepherd, Lord Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd of Spalding, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the House of Lords

1918 Event - Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional

1918 Event - U.S. employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor

1916 Birthday - Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep

1916 Event - Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)

1915 Death - Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder

1915 Birthday - Moe Biller, New York City, labor union officer, AFL-CIO, Postal Workers

1914 Birthday - Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator, Fair Employment Practices

1914 Event - High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands

1913 Birthday - Michael Foot, born Plymouth, England, born Michael Mackintosh Foot, writer, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition

1913 Birthday - Jimmy Hoffa, missing labor leader

1913 Event - Department of Commerce and Labor split into separate departments

1912 Birthday - Victor Reuther, Wheeling, West Virginia, labor leader

1911 Birthday - Leonard Woodcock, labor leader, UAW

1909 Birthday - Roy Reuther, Wheeling, West Virginia, labor leader

1909 Event - Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands

1908 Birthday - James "Jimmy" Johnson, English Labor MP, 1950-59, 64-83

1907 Birthday - Walter Reuther, labor leader/president, UAW and CIO

1905 Event - Carroll Wright appointed 1st U.S. Commissioner of Labor

1903 Event - U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor forms

1895 Event - French labor union CGT (Confederation Generale du Travail) forms

1895 Event - Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years hard labor for being a sodomite

1894 Birthday - Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor

1894 Birthday - George Meany, New York City, labor leader, headed AFL-CIO

1894 Event - Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday

1893 Event - British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader)

1892 Birthday - David Dubinsky, labor leader, Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom

1889 Event - Belgium rules on women/child labor law

1889 Birthday - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, Railroad Porter's Union

1888 Event - Congress creates Department of Labor

1887 Event - Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati

1887 Event - Oregon becomes 1st U.S. state to make Labor Day a holiday

1886 Event - American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president

1885 Birthday - John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM, Labor, 1941-45

1884 Birthday - Rose Schneiderman, New York state department of labor sect, 1937-44

1883 Event - 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions

1882 Event - 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in New York City

1881 Event - American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)

1881 Birthday - Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader

1880 Birthday - Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position, Labor

1878 Event - Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio)

1877 Event - Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention

1874 Event - Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force

1874 Event - 1st Chamber accept law against child labor

1874 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law

1873 Birthday - William Green, president of American Federation of Labor, 1924-52

1873 Event - Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor

1871 Birthday - Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, 1918-25

1869 Event - Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms

1869 Event - Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia

1869 Event - Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention

1855 Birthday - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate

1850 Birthday - Samuel Gompers, Dutch/U.S. 1st president, American Federation of Labor

1842 Event - Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)

1842 Birthday - Josef Labor, composer

1842 Event - 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)

1837 Birthday - Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch, lib, minister, child labor laws

1834 Event - 1st U.S. labor newspaper, "The Man," published, New York City

1834 Event - President Jackson orders 1st use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute

1787 Event - Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor

1784 Death - Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor), dies

1714 Birthday - Cesar F Cassini, de Thury, French astronomer, geodesic labor

1648 Event - 1st U.S. labor organization forms, Boston Shoemakers

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