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2012 Event - In France, voters participate in a legislative election, with the Socialist Party winning a majority

2010 Event - Hungary's parliamentary election results in 28 regional seats for the left-wing Hungarian Socialist Party, and 26 regional seats for the far-right Movement for a Better Hungary

1996 Death - Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80

1996 Death - John Gorman, printer/socialist historian, dies at 66

1996 Death - Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85

1996 Death - Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian, dies at 85

1996 Death - Mickey Fenn, docker/socialist, dies at 58

1996 Death - Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65

1995 Death - James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88

1995 Death - 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 Death - Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist, dies at 70

1995 Death - Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist, dies at 70

1994 Event - Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election

1994 Event - Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan

1994 Event - Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election

1991 Death - Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies

1989 Event - Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election

1987 Event - Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy

1986 Event - Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections

1986 Event - Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian president

1984 Event - Ethiopia forms socialist republic

1983 Event - Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election

1977 Event - Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms

1975 Event - Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal

1975 Event - Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election

1974 Event - Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state

1974 Event - Irish Republican Socialist Party forms

1972 Death - Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87

1971 Death - Max Trapp, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement, dies at 83

1970 Event - Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria

1968 Death - Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84

1968 Event - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed

1968 Event - New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect

1968 Event - 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution

1968 Event - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tome

1967 Birthday - Sergei Grinkov, born in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian ice skater, Olympic and World figure skating champion

1965 Death - Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris

1964 Event - Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"

1963 Death - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91

1962 Death - Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, dies

1960 Death - Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, zionist/socialist theorist, dies at 82

1960 Death - Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61

1956 Death - Juan Negrin, Spanish anatomy/socialist premier (1937-39), dies at 67

1955 Birthday - 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 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Hugo Chavez, born in Sabaneta, Venezuela, politician, United Socialist Party, Fifth Republic Movement, President of Venezuela

1954 Event - Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)

1953 Birthday - Andree van Es, born in Den Haag, Netherlands, politician, member, House of Representatives, GreenLeft and Pacifist Socialist Party, director-general of Government and Kingdom Relations

1950 Birthday - 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 Event - Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Secretary-General of UN

1945 Event - Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed

1943 Death - Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63

1941 Death - Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb

1941 Death - David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies

1938 Death - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist, dies

1938 Birthday - Ricardo Lagos, born in Santiago, Chile, politician, lawyer, Socialist Party, Party for Democracy, 33rd President of Chile, professor, Brown University

1938 Birthday - Michael Fenn, docker/socialist

1937 Death - Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64

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

1934 Event - French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms

1934 Event - Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt

1934 Birthday - Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier, 1983-87

1932 Death - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician

1930 Birthday - John Gorman, printer/socialist historian

1930 Birthday - Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism

1929 Event - Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam

1928 Birthday - Michael Harrington, St. Louis, socialist/author, Fragments of Century

1927 Death - Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62

1925 Event - Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties

1925 Birthday - Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist

1925 Birthday - Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist

1924 Birthday - Mario Soares, Socialist, premier of Portugal, 1976-78, 1983-

1924 Death - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists

1924 Event - Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists

1923 Event - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form

1923 Event - Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg

1923 Event - Bloody street battles between Nazi's, socialist and police in Vienna

1923 Event - Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established

1920 Death - Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten), dies at 77

1920 Event - 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)

1919 Death - Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies

1919 Death - Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies

1919 Event - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)

1919 Event - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party

1918 Event - Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms

1918 Event - Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam

1916 Birthday - Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist

1915 Death - Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard, dies at 75

1914 Event - Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party

1914 Event - Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia

1914 Death - A J Jean Jaures, French socialist (L'Humanite/Les Preuves), murdered=

1914 Death - Jean Jaures, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris

1914 Event - Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski and Rosa Luxemburg)

1914 Event - Klaas ter Laan becomes Netherlands 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam)

1912 Event - Socialist International rejects that world war is coming

1911 Birthday - Douglas Hyde, socialist and Christian

1911 Event - Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in U.S.

1910 Birthday - Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist

1910 Event - Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights

1908 Event - Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election

1907 Birthday - James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist

1905 Birthday - Guy Mollet, French socialist premier, 1956-57

1900 Death - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74

1900 Event - U.S. Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis

1897 Birthday - Mae Busch, Australian/US actress, Cowboy Socialist

1896 Birthday - Carl Romme, Dutch catholic foreman/KVP-Minister Socialist Business

1892 Event - James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house

1891 Birthday - Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs, 1946-47

1889 Birthday - Juan Negrin, Spanish anatomy/socialist premier, 1937-39

1889 Birthday - George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist

1888 Event - Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber

1887 Birthday - Max Trapp, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement

1885 Birthday - Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement

1884 Birthday - Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist, President Candidate 1928-48

1879 Birthday - Gerardus H de Haas, socialist vicar

1879 Birthday - Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951

1878 Birthday - Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, Dutch zionist/socialist theorist

1878 Birthday - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician

1877 Event - Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention

1877 Birthday - Johan W. Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister, 1939-45

1876 Birthday - David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist

1876 Birthday - Jack London, writer/socialist, Call of the Wild

1875 Death - Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67

1873 Event - Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor

1873 Birthday - Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist

1871 Birthday - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor, Zaandam

1870 Birthday - Gustav Landauer, German socialist

1865 Birthday - Lili Braun, born in Prussia, feminist/socialist writer, Im Schatten Titanen

1864 Birthday - Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet, May, Tiny Hero's Poem

1863 Birthday - Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker, Nobel 1934

1859 Birthday - AAJ Jean Jaures, French socialist, L'Humanite, Les Preuves

1858 Birthday - Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician, SDAP

1855 Birthday - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate

1854 Birthday - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist

1847 Birthday - George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author, violent revolutions

1840 Birthday - Edouard Vaillant, French socialist politician/communard

1837 Death - Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies

1834 Birthday - William Morris, England, designer, craftsman, poet and socialist

1828 Birthday - Friedrich A Lange, Prussia, philosopher/socialist, Neo-Kantianism

1809 Birthday - Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician, libertarian socialist

1797 Death - Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36

1772 Birthday - F M Charles Fourier, French socialist

1771 Birthday - Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist

1760 Birthday - Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist, Tribun du Peuple

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