1996 Cleveland Indians strike out 23 Baltimore Orioles in 12 inn playoff game
1995 NBA settles strike of referees, refs to return on Dec 12
1995 Baseball season begins after lengthy strike
1995 Baseball exhibition season begins late due to strike
1995 Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike
1995 Tiger manager Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike
1995 1994-95 NHL Season begin after a lengthy strike
1995 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike
1995 NHLPA and owners agree to end NHL strike
1994 NHL goes on strike
1994 Members of the Major League Baseball Players Association strike
1994 Baseball players decide to strike on Aug 12, 1994
1993 Red Sox Roger Clemens pitches 2,000th strike out, Danny Tartabul-NY
1993 Clinton orders cruise missle strike on Iraqi secret service in Baghdad
1992 U.S. Air goes on strike
1992 Seattle's Randy Johnson ties AL record for lefties with 18 strike outs
1992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
1992 NHL strike ends after 10 days
1992 NHL players begin 1st strike in 75-year history
1992 Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
1991 NHL owners present contract to players, leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike
1991 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03
1991 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike
1991 Railroad workers go on strike in U.S.
1990 New York Daily News goes on strike (lasts through March, 1991)
1990 Mariner Matt Young becomes 21st AL'er to strike out 4 in 1 inning
1990 Greyhound Bus goes on strike
1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
1989 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1989 Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
1989 Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81
1989 Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51
1988 Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
1988 Writers guild end their 6 months strike
1987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
1987 NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike
1987 NFL players' strike
1987 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
1987 NFL players go on strike for 24 days
1987 South Africa longest mine strike in history ends
1987 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
1986 Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)
1986 New York Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons
1986 Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000
1986 General strike against Pinochet regime in Chile
1986 1 day general strike in South Africa
1986 Mariners strike out 16 times, set record of 36 in 2 consecutive games
1985 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
1985 Baseball players end a 2 day strike
1985 Major League Baseball Players' Association stages a midseason baseball strike (lasts 1 day)
1985 Baseball players go on strike for 2 days
1985 Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
1985 1st hotel strike in New York
1985 National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike
1984 New York Met Dwight Goodin sets rookie strike out record at 251
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1983 US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
1983 Some 675,000 employees strike AT&T
1983 Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players' strike not entitled to salaries for that period
1983 Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out
1983 Phillies Steve Carlton passes W Johnson with 2nd most strike outs
1983 Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
1982 Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike
1982 National railroad strike in Belgium
1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1982 NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1982 Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike
1981 Due to strike, Yanks, A's, Philles and Dodgers declared 1st champs
1981 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike
1981 42 day old, 2nd major league baseball strike ends
1981 3rd baseball strike starts
1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1981 Mariners beat Orioles 8-2 at Kingdome, then players go on strike
1981 Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record
1981 Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike
1981 Bobby Sands, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike
1981 Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st lefty to strike out 3,000 batters
1981 10,000 copper workers in Chile strike
1981 Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike
1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison
1981 Exec Board of Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29
1981 Exec Board of Baseball Players Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
1980 IRA's Sean McKenna becomes critically ill, ends hunger strike
1980 In Lenin Shipyard Gdansk, Poland, 17,000 workers go on strike
1978 Iranian oil workers go on strike
1978 RR clerks go on strike, halting more than 2/3s of rail service
1978 Baseball umps stage a 1 day strike
1978 U.S. Postal Service and unions agree on a contract averting mail strike
1978 Memphis fire fighters halt 3-day strike under a court order
1978 General strike in Peru
1977 Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends
1976 Busby Berkeley, U.S. choreographer/dir (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80
1975 New York Met Tom Seaver is 1st to strike out 200 in 8 consecutive seasons
1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
1974 Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at 71
1974 British mine strike
1974 England begins 3 day work week during mine strike
1973 Harbor strike in Gent/Antwerp, Belgium
1972 British harbor strike ends
1972 British premier Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to harbor strike
1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer
1972 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
1972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
1972 Major league baseball players stages 1st collective strike
1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
1972 British Government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike
1971 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
1971 Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar
1970 Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
1970 4 day NFL strike ends
1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major postal strike
1970 SF city employees begin 4-day strike
1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike
1968 Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" and strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters
1968 Students of San Francisco State Counsel go on strike
1968 Belgian construction workers strike
1968 178,000 employees of U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike
1968 1st U.S. Teachers strike in Florida
1967 Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at
1966 U.S. airline strike, until Aug 19th
1966 12 day New York City transit strike ends
1966 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City subway
1965 General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
1965 40 tornadoes strike U.S. midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000
1964 Artisans strike in Belgium ends
1964 Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches
1963 Toledo, OH newspaper strike began
1963 Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382
1963 New York City's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1963 200,000 French mine workers strike
1963 Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York City
1962 Mick Sweda, heavy metal, Bulletboys, King Kobra-Ready to Strike
1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants
1960 Dutch Builders strike for CLA
1960 Protest strike in Poznan Poland
1959 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
1956 650,000 U.S. steel workers go on strike
1956 156-day strike against Westinghouse ends
1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
1955 Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week
1955 English harbor strike ends
1955 Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
1955 Armed military action taken against bureaucratic strike in Amsterdam
1954 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala)
1954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
1953 Earthquake/tsnunami strike Honshu Japan
1953 4-5 million French go on strike against economizations
1952 Earthquake and flood strike Kamshatka-South America
1952 Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strikes out and is also ejected for arguing
1952 General strike against overtime conscription in Belgium
1952 President Truman settles 53-day steel strike
1952 650,000 metal workers go on strike in U.S.
1952 President Truman seizes steel mills to avert a strike
1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
1951 Robert Lindsay, Ilketson England, actor, Strike it Rich, King Lear
1951 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase
1951 Timothy Zahn, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Cobra Strike
1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
1950 Rotterdam harbor strike end
1950 Rotterdam harbor strike begins
1948 Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike
1946 Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam and Amsterdam
1946 President Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
1946 400,000 U.S. mine workers strike
1946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo, Hawaii
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1945 Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12
1945 17-day newspaper strike in New York begins
1944 British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece
1944 Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers
1944 Paris police strike against nazi occupiers
1944 Paris railroad workers strike against nazi occupiers
1944 Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen
1944 4 tornadoes strike Appalachia, killing 153
1943 Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
1943 U.S. bombers accidentally strike Enschede Neth, causing 151 deaths
1943 Denmark, declares a universal strike against Nazi occupiers
1943 Strike against obligatory labor camps ends, after 200 killed
1943 Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry
1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt nazi registration
1942 German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yanks score 4 and win 7-4
1941 James Scott, director, Strike it Rich
1941 Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed
1941 Utrecht and Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
1941 February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
1940 Leidse students strike
1940 Japan eliminates U.S. terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
1940 "Strike Up Band," opens
1937 Busmen strike in London
1937 New York City college students stage 4th annual peace strike
1937 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends
1936 United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
1934 France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists
1933 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn
1933 Spanish anarchists call for general strike
1933 Henderson, DeSylva and Brown's "Strike Me Pink," premieres in New York City
1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1933 Ijmuider fishing strike begins (till July 11th)
1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables
1932 200,000 English textile workers strike
1932 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
1930 Herb Edelman, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5
1929 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1927 General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai
1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
1926 British general strike ends
1926 General strike hits Britain
1926 British coal-miners go on strike
1924 Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
1924 8 month Twenste textile strike ends
1924 Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
1924 Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
1924 London public transport strike ends
1923 Textile strike in Enschede Neth, against lower wages, begins
1923 London harbor strike ends
1923 Harbor strike in Hull/Grimsby/Cardiff/Bristol over to London
1923 Belgium's Theunis government falls because of mine, post and railroad strike
1923 Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
1923 General harbor strike begins in New York City
1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
1923 Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages
1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
1923 Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
1923 Typography strike in Amsterdam
1922 Italian general strike broken by fascist terror
1922 Italy's general strike against fascist violence
1922 Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1922 State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg, South Africa
1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends
1921 Black Friday- Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1921 British coal miners goes on strike
1920 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
1919 Boston's police force forms strike
1919 General steel strike in France
1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day and minimum wages
1919 General strike in Germany, crushed
1919 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1919 Revolutionary strike in Barcelona
1919 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
1918 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers
1918 Strike on Berlin ammunition's factory
1917 Limburgse mine workers strike
1917 Bea Wain, U.S. singer/radio host, Lucky Strike Hit Parade
1914 Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights)
1914 33 killed by soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
1914 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
1913 1st strike settlement mediated by U.S. Department of Labor-RR clerks
1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
1913 Bread and Roses Strike begins
1912 Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01)
1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA
1911 Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning
1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day
1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
1905 Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
1905 Harbor strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam
1905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1903 General railroad strike against "worgwetten" (anti-strike laws)
1903 Kuyper government launches anti strike laws
1903 Dutch railroad workers strike
1903 Warren Hull, Gasport, New York, actor, Strike it Rich, Who in the World
1902 Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1
1900 Diamond workers in Amsterdam strike
1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike
1894 In New York City, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
1894 2000 fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1894 American Railway Union under Eugene V Debs goes on strike
1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company
1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
1892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St. Louis Mo
1891 Cotton pickers organize union and staged strike in Texas
1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
1888 Drentse and Friese peat cutters go on strike
1886 U.S. general strike for 8 hour day, begins
1877 U.S. Army breaks railroad strike
1877 General strike brings U.S. railroad to a stand still
1877 U.S. railroad builders strike against wage reduction
1869 Amsterdam typographer strike
1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages
1849 Garibaldi in Rome begins hunger strike
1845 Hunger strike in Hague
1815 Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French
1740 Hunger strike in Rotterdam
1720 French government proclaims strike on banknotes
1699 People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter
1648 Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples
1568 Treaty of Longjumeau: French huguenots go on strike
1552 Emperor Karel and Markgraaf Albecht strike siege for Metz
1537 Weavers of Leiden Netherlands strike
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