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 Gen 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/traitor, US 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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