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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 1996 Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65 1995 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88 1995 Simon Bailey, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson, died while distributing leaflets for the Labor Party 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 president 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 1972 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87 1971 Max Trapp, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement, dies at 83 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 1955 Simon Bailey, born in Halifax, England, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson 1954 Aleksander Kwasniewski, born in Bialogard, Poland, served as President of Poland 1995 - 2005, post-communist socialist politician, independent party, Chairman European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation 2008 1954 Hugo Chavez, born in Sabaneta, Venezuela, politician, United Socialist Party, Fifth Republic Movement, President of Venezuela 1954 Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden) 1950 Glyn Ford, born in Gloucester, England, politician, author, Labor Party, member of Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party, Member of European Parliament for South West England, expert on Asia, wrote, 'North Korea on the Brink: Struggle for Survival' 1946 Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Secretary-General 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 Ricardo Lagos, born in Santiago, Chile, politician, lawyer, Socialist Party, Party for Democracy, 33rd President of Chile, professor, Brown University 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 1930 Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism 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 Italian 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-Minister 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 1887 Max Trapp, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement 1885 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement 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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