2013 Event Russia's parliament passes bills banning homosexual 'propaganda'; police near the Duma take gays into custody after they anti-gay extremists hit them with eggs 2012 Event In China, thousands protest plans to introduce national patriotism lessons in Hong Kong school, labeling it Chines propaganda 2010 Event Hossein Marashi, former Vice-President of Iran, is put in jail after being accused of spreading propaganda 1988 Event Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM 1965 Event Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional 1950 Event Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda" 1941 Event NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio 1936 Event Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates 1933 Event Josef Gobbels becomes German minister of Information and Propaganda 1932 Death Willem M van Rossum, cardinal/prefect of Propaganda Fide, dies at 77 1898 Birthday Hanns Eisler, German/U.S. composer/East German minister for propaganda 1854 Birthday Willem M van Rossum, Dutch cardinal/prefect of Propaganda File
