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2012 Event - Mexico swears in its new President, Enrique Pena Nieto, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party

2012 Event - A naval base located on the Strait of Hormuz, near Bandar Langeh, is established by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps

2012 Event - The winner of Mexico's presidential elections is Enrique Pena Nieto, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party

2007 Event - Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone

2003 Event - Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275

1997 Event - Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris

1996 Death - Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82

1990 Event - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq

1983 Event - Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"

1982 Death - Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered

1975 Event - Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established

1972 Event - Vietcong forms revolutionary government in Quang Tri South Vietnam

1967 Death - [Ernesto] Che Guevara [Serna], Arg/Cuban revolutionary, dies

1961 Death - Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36

1958 Event - Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana

1941 Death - David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies

1940 Death - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62

1940 Event - Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21

1939 Death - Bela Kun, Balazs Kolozsvary, Hungarian revolutionary, dies at 53

1939 Death - Nadezjda K Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70

1938 Event - Revolutionary offensive of Ebro Spain (Hollander Piet)

1936 Death - Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies

1935 Event - Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms

1935 Birthday - Manuel dos Santos Lima, Angolian revolutionary/poet, Pele do Diabo

1933 Death - Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71

1932 Event - Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta

1929 Event - Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam

1929 Death - Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28

1928 Birthday - Che Guevara, Argentina/Cuba revolutionary, Cuba

1925 Birthday - Patrice E. Lumumba, born in Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo

1925 Death - Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58

1923 Death - L Martov, Joulij O Tsederbaum, Russ revolutionary, dies at 49

1919 Event - Revolutionary strike in Barcelona

1919 Death - Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47

1919 Death - Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered

1918 Event - Kiel in hands of revolutionary sailors

1918 Death - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies

1918 Event - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

1917 Event - Petrograds garrison accepts Revolutionary Military Committee

1914 Birthday - Anna Larina, revolutionary

1909 Birthday - Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese Revolutionary

1905 Event - Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St. Petersburg

1891 Death - Antera Tarquinis de Quental, Portuguese poet/revolutionary, dies at 49

1886 Birthday - Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, Sergo, Russian revolutionary politician

1883 Birthday - Adolf A Joffe, Russian revolutionary/writer, Brest-Litovsk

1881 Death - Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69

1879 Birthday - Leon Davidovitsj Trotsky, Leib Bronstein, Russian revolutionary

1879 Birthday - Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, President of 1st Soviet,

1879 Birthday - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader

1877 Birthday - Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president, 1924-28

1876 Death - Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

1876 Birthday - David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist

1874 Death - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, French politician and revolutionary, dies

1873 Birthday - L Martov, Yuly O Tsederbaum, Russian revolutionary

1873 Birthday - Francisco Madero, Mexico, revolutionary, president, 1911-13

1872 Death - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66

1871 Birthday - Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist, Sparta Party

1871 Birthday - [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian, French revolutionary

1869 Birthday - Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin

1869 Birthday - Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, Soc-Dem

1867 Birthday - Kurt Eisner, German premier of revolutionary Bavaria, 1918-19

1863 Birthday - Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary

1861 Death - Laselo Teleki, Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide

1859 Birthday - Theodor Batthyanyi, Hungarian statesman/contra revolutionary

1856 Birthday - Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist

1850 Death - Jose Francisco de San Martin, South American revolutionary hero, dies

1850 Death - Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned

1850 Death - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, U.S. feminist/revolutionary, dies

1847 Death - Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65)

1847 Birthday - Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist, Catechism Revolutionary

1842 Birthday - Peter Kropotkin, Russian Revolutionary

1842 Death - Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34

1833 Death - Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran, dies at 88

1832 Death - Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, dies at 20

1831 Death - Vincente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero, dies

1830 Death - Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37

1821 Event - Revolutionary forces occupy Mexico City as Spanish withdraw

1817 Event - San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes

1815 Event - Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos

1815 Death - Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards

1814 Birthday - Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

1811 Birthday - Evariste Galois, French revolutionary/mathematician, Theory of G

1811 Birthday - Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician

1810 Birthday - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, U.S. feminist/revolutionary, New York Tribune

1808 Birthday - Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, Cortes

1807 Birthday - Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin, born in Paris, France, French politician and revolutionary

1806 Birthday - Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary, 1848-49

1805 Birthday - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary, Il Apostolato Popolare

1805 Birthday - Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary, workers' leader

1803 Death - Samuel Adams, U.S. revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party), dies at 81

1803 Death - [Francois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture/Haitian revolutionary, dies

1802 Event - Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends

1801 Death - Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dies in London

1799 Death - Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary

1797 Death - Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies

1795 Death - William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier, dies

1795 Death - Ignac Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded

1794 Event - Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France

1794 Event - Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics arrested in Vienna

1794 Death - Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary/avocat (1781), guillotined

1794 Event - France revolutionary regime begins trials

1794 Death - Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34

1794 Death - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary

1793 Death - Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday

1792 Birthday - Frederic L G, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary

1792 Event - France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars

1789 Event - Society of St. Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of New York City political bosses

1784 Event - Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris

1783 Event - Treaty of Paris signed (ending U.S. Revolutionary War)

1783 Event - Hostilities cease in Revolutionary War

1782 Birthday - Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary, Souvenirs

1781 Event - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends

1781 Event - Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War

1781 Event - French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeat British under Admiral Graves at battle of Chesapeake Capes in Revolutionary War

1780 Event - Charleston, South Carolina falls to British (Revolutionary War)

1779 Event - John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain

1777 Death - Button Gwinnet, U.S. revolutionary leader, dies from wounds

1776 Death - Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War

1776 Event - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War

1776 Event - 1st revolutionary flag displayed

1775 Event - American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal

1775 Event - American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured

1772 Event - 1st naval attack of Revolutionary War takes place in Providence, RI

1759 Birthday - Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/Minister of Justice

1759 Birthday - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary

1758 Birthday - Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat, 1781

1757 Birthday - Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary

1752 Birthday - George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War

1748 Birthday - Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general

1747 Birthday - Kasamir Pulaski, U.S. general in the Revolutionary War

1741 Birthday - Benedict Arnold, U.S. general turn traitor, Revolutionary War

1738 Birthday - Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter, lead the Green Mtn Boys

1722 Birthday - Samuel Adams, revolutionary rabble rouser, Lieutenant Governor-Mass, 1789 - 1794

1605 Birthday - Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor













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