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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

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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