2004 Pierre Salinger, journalist/political press officer, dies at 79
2001 Herblock, political cartoonist, The Washington Post, dies at 91
2001 Barbara Olson, "political commentator, writer", Politically Incorrect, dies at 45 - a 9/11 terrorist murder
1997 James Friell, political cartoonist, dies at 84
1996 John Qace Hardbattle, political activist, dies at 51
1996 Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist, dies at 84
1996 Claude Ake, political scientist, dies at 57
1996 William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist, dies at 87
1996 Richard Michael Fraser, political administrator, dies at 80
1996 David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist, dies at 60
1996 David Michael Ifshin, British political campaign organiser, dies at 46
1996 Tony Hymphris, political activist, dies at 45
1996 Ronald George Hayward, political manager, dies at 78
1996 Marion Farouk Political scientist-Sluglett, dies at 59
1996 Olga Havlova, political activist, dies at 63
1995 Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist, dies at 66
1994 Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist, dies at 65
1993 Political campaigners James Carville (49) and Mary Matalin wed
1991 Jan H Christianse, political chairman (CDA), dies
1991 Lee Atwater, political strategists (R), dies of brain tumor at 40
1991 Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands
1990 East and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems
1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
1990 King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties
1990 Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa
1990 U.S.S.R. Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
1990 South Africa's President FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political orgs
1989 South Africa President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu and 4 other political prisoners
1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn U.S. flag as a political expression
1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
1988 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
1983 Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78
1983 Argentina milt regime gives amnesty to military/political assassins
1983 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova requests political asylum in NY
1983 Dutch political party DS'70 disbands
1981 Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75
1980 FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors
1979 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents
1979 Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons
1978 Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties
1976 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties
1975 Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova (18) asks for political asylum
1975 Tennis Star Martina Navratilova requests U.S. political asylum
1975 Czech tennis ace Martina Navratilova asks for political asylum in New York City
1975 All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh
1972 John Lennon's political "Sometime in New York City" released including "Woman is the Nigger of the World" "Attica State" and "Luck of the Irish"
1972 1st black U.S. political convention opens in Gary, Indiana
1971 Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum
1968 Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands
1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
1966 Dutch political party (D'66) forms
1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
1959 Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India
1957 Jacques Fesch, French political assassin/saint?, beheaded at about 26
1956 Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa
1953 Egyptian Premier Gen Naguib disbands all political parties
1950 Tony Hymphris, political activist
1948 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
1948 Indonesia begins it's 2nd political election
1948 Garry Trudeau, political cartoonist, Doonesbury
1947 Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to United Nations pressure
1947 Indonesia begins 1st political election
1947 1st political action of Netherlands Army on Java and Sumatra
1946 Candy Lightner, political activist/founder, MADD
1945 John Qace Hardbattle, political activist
1945 Dutch political party ANJV forms
1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
1944 Hamilton Jordan, political advisor, Crisis, Last Year of Carter Pres
1943 Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed
1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested
1941 German occupiers disband political parties
1941 George F Will, political analyst, Night Line
1940 Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81
1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1939 Claude Ake, political scientist
1938 Patrick Buchanan, conservative political columnist
1936 David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist
1936 Marion Farouk-Sluglett, political scientist
1935 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
1934 Albert Funke Kuppes, political cartoonist, dies
1934 Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser, BBC
1934 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his
1933 Olga Havlova, political activist
1932 Dick Gregory, comedian/political activist/dietician, Bahamian Diet
1932 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, New York City
1932 Mark Russell, Buffalo, New York, political satirist/pianist, Real People
1932 Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party, CDA
1929 William Safire, political columnist, New York Times, speech writer, Nixon
1929 Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist
1929 Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist
1927 Mort Sahl, Montreal, comedian/political satirist/beatnik, Big Party
1926 Frankfurter Zeitung publishes Lenins political testament
1926 Alan Walters, political economist
1925 Gerard John Toorenaar, political commissar in Amsterdam, 1975-79
1925 Hitler's resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
1925 Geoffrey Tucker, British political consultant
1924 1st political convention broadcast on radio - Republicans at Cleveland
1923 Julia Montgomery Walsh, political consultant/writer
1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin
1922 Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
1922 Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard
1922 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
1921 William Henry Mauldin, New Mexico, political cartoonist, Pulitzer-1945, 59
1920 Georges Marchais, political leader, French Communist Party
1920 Maurice Cranston, political scientist
1920 Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
1919 Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political/business views
1918 James MacGregor Burns, political writer, The Lion and the Fox
1918 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41
1918 Wyndraeth Morris-Jones, British political scientist
1918 Nelson Mandela, born in Qunu, South Africa, political prisoner, ANC, /President, 1994-
1918 Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party
1917 Ronald George Hayward, political manager
1916 Corinne Boggs, political administrator
1915 Richard Michael Fraser, political Administrator
1914 1st women elected political agent (Grantham, Linconshire UK)
1912 Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist
1912 John Toland, U.S., political writer, Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971
1912 James Friell, political cartoonist
1910 Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist, Men Around the President
1910 Angus Campbell, U.S., psychologist, Elections and Political Order
1909 Herblock, [Herbert L Block], Roosevelt, Utah, political cartoonist
1909 William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist
1908 CHU (Christian Historic Union) Dutch political party forms
1905 Raymond Aron, French sociologist and political scientist
1905 Netherlands Workers van Vakverenigingen, (NVV) political party forms
1903 American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
1902 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies
1889 American Academy of Political and Social Science organized, Phila
1889 Walter Lippmann, New York City, journalist/political writer, Men of Dystany
1888 East Africa Company political and commercial rights
1879 "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation
1879 George Shepstone, British political affiliate, dies in battle
1877 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist, People/Nutcracker
1874 Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka NZ, Maori political/cultural leader
1871 Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies
1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, born in England, found, Women's Social and Political Union
1858 Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist, Green Amsterdammer
1854 Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair
1852 Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer, Political Struggle in Italy
1843 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)
1840 William G Sumner, U.S. sociologist/political analyst
1840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America
1829 John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold U.S. political office
1823 William Macy "Boss" Tweed, corrupt political boss, New York City
1808 Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw
1806 John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian
1790 Jan Ackersdijk, Dutch political economist
1789 Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses
1780 Elie Decazes, France, Bourbon Restoration political figure
1769 Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, Political Economics
1756 William Godwin, philosopher and political writer, Caleb Williams
1737 Thomas Paine, political essayist, Common Sense, Age of Reason
1648 Gregory King, English statistician, Natural and Political Observations
1611 James Harrington, England, political author, Commonwealth of Oceans
1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots
1577 Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots
1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
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