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1997 Litz Pisk, movement teacher, dies at 87

1994 Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85

1980 BCMA, Black Consciousness Movement of Azania, forms

1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement

1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James

1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota

1973 Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee

1968 Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement

1966 Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement

1964 Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley

1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement

1961 "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC

1960 F S Flint, British translator/poet (imagist movement), dies at 74

1958 Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China

1955 Fidel Castro forms "July 26th Movement"

1955 Benny Alexander, secretary general, South Africa Pan-Africanist Movement

1953 Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime

1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes only party of Syria

1952 Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)

1947 A movement among Card players to protest its 1st meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers is aborted by a talk from owner Sam Breadon

1941 Marcus Garvey, U.S. black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52

1941 Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83

1939 Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader, Inyandza National Movement

1937 Joseph Lee, father of Playgrounds movement, dies

1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt

1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland

1925 Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist, movement objects

1923 Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66

1919 Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy

1910 German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms

1909 Litz Pisk, movement teacher

1905 Black intellectuals and activists organize Niagara movement

1905 Niagara Movement founded by W. E. B. Dubois

1899 Dwight L Moody, U.S. evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies

1896 Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary and leader, Young Frisian Movement

1893 Irene Castle, dancer, leader in anti-vivisection movement

1887 Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among U.S. blacks

1886 Hilda Doolittle, poet/prominent member of imagist movement

1885 F S Flint, born in London, England, translator/poet, imagist movement

1869 Geert A D Wumkes, Frisian theologist/writer, Frision Movement

1860 Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union movement

1860 Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founder, Zionist movement

1847 Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader, English women's movement

1840 Hugo Verriest, Flemish author and poet, Flemish Movement

1838 Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement

1804 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804

1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement

1792 John Keble, Anglican priest/founder, Oxford Movement

1778 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein, gymnastics, movement

1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY

1736 Anna Lee, Manchester England, founder, Shaker movement in America

1707 Charles Wesley, co-founder, Methodist movement



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