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2003 Robert Atkins, diet doctor, Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, dies at 72
1984 "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince and Revolution peaks at #1 1983 Revolution in Burkina 1978 Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup 1974 Marcello Caetano overthrown in Portugal (Carnation revolution) 1970 Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution" 1969 Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris 1969 Max F Eastman, U.S. critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86 1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution" 1967 Cultural Revolution in Albania 1966 China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution" 1964 Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence 1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria 1962 Algerian Revolution against French ends (Algeria gains ind on 7/5) 1954 Algerian Revolution against French begins 1950 Peggy Noonan, author, What I Saw at the Revolution 1944 Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala 1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution 1934 Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies 1927 General Chiang Kai-shek begins counter revolution in Shanghai 1925 Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council 1921 Pierre Laporte, Canada, journalist/statesman, Revolution Script 1918 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution 1917 October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power 1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace 1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution 1917 Russian revolution breaks out in Petrograd 1917 Russian revolution breaks out 1917 February revolution begins in Russia 1913 Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution" 1911 Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz 1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero 1899 Benjamin Peret, French writer/poet, La revolution surrealiste 1894 Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops 1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution 1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet, Ode to Revolution 1890 Daughters of American Revolution forms 1890 Daughters of American Revolution organizes 1889 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens, commemorates French Revolution 1885 Veit Valentin, German/US historian, Deutsche Revolution 1875 Sons of American Revolution organizes 1871 Vernon Louis Parrington, author, Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928 1859 Karl Bleibtreu, German author, Revolution of Literature 1840 Flora Adams Darling, founded Daughters of American Revolution 1830 Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution) 1830 Revolution in France replaces Charles X with Louis Philippe 1830 Revolution breaks out in Paris, opposing laws of Charles X 1823 Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53 1795 Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian, French Revolution 1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution 1795 Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy 1793 In the French Revolution, the "Reign of Terror" begins 1791 Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman 1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution 1789 Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille 1785 Haym Salomon, dies in Philadelphia at 44, helped finance the revolution 1778 British kill 17 Stockbridge indians in Bronx during Revolution 1777 British troops occupy Philadelphia during American Revolution 1776 British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution 1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution 1775 Green Mountain Boys capture Ft. Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution 1775 Revolution begins-Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world" 1770 Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian, Naples Revolution 1799 1770 Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of U.S. Revolution 1760 Camille Desmoulins, born in France, journalist, pamphleteer and revolution leader 1752 Philip Freneau, poet of American Revolution, The American Village 1741 Benedict Arnold, general and traitor, U.S. revolution 1738 George III, English King during American Revolution, 1760-1820 1693 Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages 1689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution 1630 Failed palace revolution against Richelieu France |
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