1996 Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80
1996 John Gorman, printer/socialist historian, dies at 66
1996 Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85
1996 Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian, dies at 85
1996 Mickey Fenn, docker/socialist, dies at 58
1995 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88
1995 Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist, dies at 70
1995 Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist, dies at 70
1994 Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
1994 Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
1994 Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election
1991 Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies
1989 Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1987 Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
1986 Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections
1986 Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres
1984 Ethiopia forms socialist republic
1983 Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election
1974 Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
1974 Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1970 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
1968 Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84
1968 Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed
1968 New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
1968 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1968 Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tome
1965 Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris
1964 Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
1963 Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91
1962 Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, dies
1960 Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, zionist/socialist theorist, dies at 82
1960 Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61
1956 Juan Negrin, Spanish anatomy/socialist premier (1937-39), dies at 67
1954 Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)
1946 Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
1945 Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
1943 Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63
1941 Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
1941 David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies
1938 Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist, dies
1938 Michael Fenn, docker/socialist
1937 Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64
1935 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
1934 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
1934 Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier, 1983-87
1932 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1930 John Gorman, printer/socialist historian
1929 Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
1928 Michael Harrington, St. Louis, socialist/author, Fragments of Century
1927 Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62
1925 Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties
1925 Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist
1925 Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist
1924 Mario Soares, Socialist, premier of Portugal, 1976-78, 1983-
1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists
1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1923 Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1923 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
1923 Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna
1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
1920 Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten), dies at 77
1920 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
1919 Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies
1919 Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies
1919 Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms
1918 Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
1916 Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist
1915 Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard, dies at 75
1914 Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
1914 Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia
1914 A J Jean Jaures, French socialist (L'Humanite/Les Preuves), murdered=
1914 Jean Jaures, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
1914 Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski and Rosa Luxemburg)
1914 Klaas ter Laan becomes Netherlands 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam)
1912 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
1911 Douglas Hyde, socialist and Christian
1911 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in U.S.
1910 Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist
1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1908 Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
1907 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist
1905 Guy Mollet, French socialist premier, 1956-57
1900 Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74
1900 U.S. Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
1897 Mae Busch, Australian/US actress, Cowboy Socialist
1896 Carl Romme, Dutch catholic foreman/KVP-min Socialist Business
1892 James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
1891 Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs, 1946-47
1889 Juan Negrin, Spanish anatomy/socialist premier, 1937-39
1889 George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist
1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1884 Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist, President Candidate 1928-48
1879 Gerardus H de Haas, socialist vicar
1879 Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951
1878 Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, Dutch zionist/socialist theorist
1878 Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1877 Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention
1877 Johan W. Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister, 1939-45
1876 David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist
1876 Jack London, writer/socialist, Call of the Wild
1875 Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67
1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1873 Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist
1871 Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor, Zaandam
1870 Gustav Landauer, German socialist
1865 Lili Braun, born in Prussia, feminist/socialist writer, Im Schatten Titanen
1864 Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet, May, Tiny Hero's Poem
1863 Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker, Nobel 1934
1859 AAJ Jean Jaures, French socialist, L'Humanite, Les Preuves
1858 Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician, SDAP
1855 Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1854 Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist
1847 George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author, violent revolutions
1840 Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard
1837 Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
1834 William Morris, England, designer, craftsman, poet and socialist
1828 Friedrich A Lange, Prussia, philosopher/socialist, Neo-Kantianism
1809 Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician, libertarian socialist
1797 Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36
1772 F M Charles Fourier, French socialist
1771 Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist
1760 Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist, Tribun du Peuple
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