2015 Event Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi encounters resistance to proposed labor reforms as 150 million workers go on strike for a day in protest; Modi is seeking to make the Indian business environment more attractive to investment by foreign companies 2014 Event Twenty-First Century Fox, headed by Rupert Murdoch, rescinds its offer to buy Time Warner Inc. after the latter's resistance to the proposal 2012 Event One of the heroes of the French Resistance, Raymond Aubrac, dies at the age of 97 2010 Event Northern Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army is accused of abduction and forced recruitment of 697 people in the past year and a half 2010 Event The BBC finds evidence of a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed 1996 Death Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86 1996 Death Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader, dies at 85 1996 Death Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82 1996 Death Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician, dies at 76 1996 Death Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72 1995 Death Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine, dies at 86 1995 Death Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found paper (Typhoon), dies at 82 1994 Death Rossano Brazzi, It resistance fight/actor (Final Justice), dies at 78 1994 Death Jo Vis, Dutch resistance fighter (Yad Vashem), dies at 88 1994 Death Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter, dies at 77 1994 Death Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies 1994 Death John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81 1994 Death [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79 1994 Death Harry la Fontaine, Danish/US resistance fighter/producer, dies at 81 1994 Death Knut Haukelid, Norway/U.S. resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82 1993 Death Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80 1993 Death Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80 1993 Death Ben[jamin S] Polak, Dutch physician/resistance fighter, dies 1993 Death Mohammed Hussein Nagdi, Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered 1993 Death Fer A Olthoff, Dutch WW II resistance fighter (Het Parool), dies 1993 Death Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (helped Anne Frank), dies at 87 1991 Death John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies 1991 Event Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital 1990 Death J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies 1989 Death Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, commander (French resistance), dies 1980 Death Fabian von Schlabendorff, German resistance fighter/judge, dies at 73 1978 Death Gesina Van der Molen, Dutch WWII resistance fighter/lawyer, dies at 86 1976 Death Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89 1972 Death Frans Masereel, Flem WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil), dies at 82 1963 Death Lourens GM Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter, dies at 68 1962 Event Blacks begin passive resistance in Cairo Ill 1961 Death Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60 1953 Death Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 68 1951 Event Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden 1948 Death Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43 1945 Event Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina 1945 Death Pater Bleijs, Louis, resistance fighter, dies in car accident 1945 Death Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies 1945 Death Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47 1945 Death J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed 1945 Death Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish resistance fighter (in Dachau), dies at 29 1945 Death Hendrik N Werkman, resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at 63 1945 Event Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima 1945 Death Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29 1945 Death J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies 1945 Event Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police 1945 Death J Woortman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen at 39 1945 Event Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman 1945 Death H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald 1945 Death Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 Death Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm 1945 Death HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen 1945 Death Wim Speelman, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 Death ... de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed 1945 Death J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Neugengamme 1945 Death George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau 1945 Death Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1945 Death Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1945 Death Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1945 Event Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam 1944 Death Pieter A Roodenburgh, student/resistance fighter, dies at 26 1944 Death JW Ummels, Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies 1944 Death EMHCH Houtappel, resistance fighter: in Neuengamme, dies 1944 Death Maarten Reuchlin, resistance fighter, executed 1944 Death Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22 1944 Death Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter, dies 1944 Death Jaap P Musch, Dutch resistance fighter, murdered by Nazis 1944 Event Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal, Netherlands 1944 Death Jan van Gilse, composer/Dutch resistance fighter, dies at 63 1944 Death Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered 1944 Event 5 resistance fighter executed in Terneuzen 1944 Death Willem M Groenewegen, resistance fighter, executed 1944 Death Izaak van der Horst, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1944 Death Morten Nielsen, Danish resistance fighter, dies 1944 Death Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death 1944 Event Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance 1944 Event Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter 1944 Event Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen 1944 Death John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed 1944 Death Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies 1944 Event Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London 1944 Death French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed 1944 Death Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed at 28 1944 Event Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested 1944 Death Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 1944 Event Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison 1944 Death Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37 1944 Event Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested 1944 Event 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death 1944 Event Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested 1944 Event Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested 1944 Event Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested 1944 Event Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterd 1944 Death J Verleun, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1943 Event Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr. Ribar 1943 Death Marcel Verhamme, Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1943 Death Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32 1943 Death Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Death Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26 1943 Death Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24 1943 Death Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed 1943 Death Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1943 Death Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24 1943 Death Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Death Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20 1943 Death Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1943 Death Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35 1943 Death John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Death Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20 1943 Death Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21 1943 Death Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27 1943 Death Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Death Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32 1943 Death Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19 1943 Death Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36 1943 Death Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42 1943 Death C Bergsma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 1943 Death J Janzen, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 1943 Death J Posthuma, Dutch resistance fighter (Waalsdorpervlakte), dies 1943 Death Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50 1943 Death Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed 1943 Death Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed 1943 Death C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed 1943 Death Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1943 Death Karl Groger, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Death Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 1943 Event SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1943 Event Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting 1943 Death Andre Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1943 Death Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1943 Death Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged 1943 Death Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Death Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Death Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded 1943 Death Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose), dies 1943 Death Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose), beheaded at 24 1943 Death Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose), beheaded 1943 Event 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw" 1943 Event Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis 1943 Event Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau 1943 Death ... Reydons, wife of General Reydons, shot to death by resistance 1943 Event Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt 1943 Death Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis 1943 Event Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis 1943 Death Jan R T Campert, Dutch resistance fighter/poet (18 Dead), dies at 40 1942 Event Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway 1942 Death Adolf Opalka, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot down 1942 Death John Kubris, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28 1942 Death Josef Gabcik, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, shot by Heydrich 1942 Death Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician/resistance fighter, executed at 50 1942 Death Captain Moravec, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, commit suicide 1941 Event Nacht and Nebel Erlass, resistance fighter sent to concentration camps 1941 Death Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40 1941 Death Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter, executed at 35 1941 Event Last meeting of resistance fighter Comte d'Estienne d'Orves 1941 Event Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation 1941 Event Trial against resistance fighter comte d'Estienne d'Orves begins 1941 Death A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Death Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Death E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Death J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed 1941 Event 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague 1941 Event 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague 1941 Death Ko Boezeman, Dutch resistance fighter, dies 1941 Event Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet 1940 Event Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst 1939 Event Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance 1924 Birthday Julius Moormann, student/resistance fighter, WW II 1923 Event Stresemann Government ends resistance against occupiers in Ruhrgebied 1922 Birthday Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter 1922 Birthday Boy Ecury, Aruba, resistance fighter 1922 Birthday Morten Nielsen, Denmark, poet/resistance fighter 1921 Birthday Cornelis A H Wagtho, student/resistance fighter 1921 Birthday Jacob J Hage, Dutch farmer/WW II resistance fighter 1920 Birthday Albertus Meintser, office clerk/resistance fighter 1920 Birthday Hendrikus J Wittebold, civil servant/resistance fighter 1919 Birthday Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician 1919 Birthday John Noorda, resistance fighter 1919 Event Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act 1918 Birthday Peter A. Juten, office clerk/resistance fighter 1918 Birthday Willem Oosterheers, resistance fighter 1918 Birthday Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter, Die Weisse Rose 1918 Birthday Rob de Vries, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/dir/actor, Ciske de Rat 1918 Birthday John Intoxication, resistance fighter 1917 Birthday Jacob Everaers, office clerk/resistance fighter 1917 Birthday Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter 1917 Birthday Hon Montague Woodhouse, Greek resistance organiser 1917 Birthday Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter, WW II 1916 Birthday Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter 1916 Birthday John de Young, resistance fighter 1916 Birthday Robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter 1916 Birthday George Maduro, Antillian resistance fighter, Willemsorde/Madurodam 1916 Death Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed 1915 Birthday Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter, Mensch op Weg 1915 Birthday Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter 1915 Birthday Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter 1915 Birthday Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter, Skoven 1914 Birthday Lute T de Cock, student/resistance fighter 1914 Birthday [Hendrik] Jan Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist, Parool 1914 Event Armed resistance against British rule begins in Ulster 1914 Birthday Max Manus, resistance fighter 1913 Birthday Omer Vanaudenhoven, Flemish industrial/resistance fighter 1913 Birthday Ben[jamin S] Polak, born in Netherlands, physician/communist/resistance fighter 1913 Birthday John Kubris, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter 1912 Birthday Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP 1912 Birthday Thijmen Kuijt, resistance fighter/co-found newspaper, The Typhoon 1912 Birthday Josef Gabcik, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, attacked Heydrich 1912 Birthday Wilhelmus Berkelmans, civil servant/resistance fighter 1911 Birthday Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader 1911 Birthday Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer 1910 Birthday Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter, Orange Newspaper 1910 Birthday Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter, WW II 1910 Birthday Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter, WW II 1909 Birthday Henricus Verbunt, civil servant/resistance fighter 1909 Birthday Madeleine Barot, resistance heroine 1909 Birthday Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader 1909 Birthday Simone Weil, born in Paris, social philosopher/Resistance fighter, WW II 1908 Birthday Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter, Witte Ko, communist 1906 Birthday Jo Vis, resistance fighter, Yad Vashem-distinction 1906 Birthday Johannes Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter, passage fight 1906 Birthday Beene Dubbelboer, Dutch writer, Secret Resistance 1905 Birthday Maurice Charles Emile Barlier, French resistance fighter 1905 Birthday Jan Louis Guillaume "Yvan" Doornik, Netherlands resistance fighter in France 1904 Birthday Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch politician, SDAP, resistance fighter 1902 Birthday Gerrit Jan van der Veen, Wolffensperger, Dutch resistance fighter 1901 Birthday Jan H de Groot, Dutch resistance fighter/co-founder, Free Netherlands 1901 Birthday Cor[nelis RJ] Kieboom, Dutch resistance fighter/chairman, Feyenoord 1901 Birthday H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter 1899 Birthday Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance, WW II 1899 Birthday Jan F van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter 1898 Birthday Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter 1898 Birthday Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter 1896 Birthday Freerk Siemon Wolters, notary/resistance fighter 1895 Birthday Paul Eluard, French communist/poet/resistance fighter, Le Phenix 1895 Birthday Mary Marquet, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, actress, Matter of Resistance 1895 Birthday Lourens G M Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter 1893 Birthday Antoon Schweigmann, Dutch religious poet/resistance fighter 1892 Birthday Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter 1891 Birthday Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician, stage, author and resistance fighter 1891 Birthday Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter 1889 Birthday Frits Slomp, Frits de Rover, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter 1886 Birthday Pieter "Pierre" Balledux, stage manager/Dutch resistance fighter 1884 Birthday Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician and resistance fighter 1882 Birthday Hendrik N Werkman, painter/printer/resistance fighter, Hot printing 1881 Birthday Jan van Gilse, composer/resistance fighter, Frau Helga von Staveren 1880 Birthday Johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader, OD 1846 Event Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance 1828 Death Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35 1795 Event French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance 1792 Birthday Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter 1667 Event Resistance of Androsovo in Russia-Poland 1540 Event Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
