1997 Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker
1996 Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86
1996 Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86
1996 Christopher John Seward, aid worker, dies at 45
1995 Gwen Swire, socila worker, dies at 61
1995 Marion Pitt, social worker/writer, dies at 56
1995 Leonard Ernest John Chant, social Worker, dies at 57
1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
1994 Asta ER Elstak, Suriname/Neth welfare worker, dies at 74
1993 Cesar Chavez, U.S. farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66
1991 Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23
1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
1991 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike
1990 South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1987 Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua
1986 Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered
1986 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75
1985 Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed
1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa
1983 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years
1982 Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered
1982 Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide
1970 Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies
1966 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City subway
1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years
1963 South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested
1963 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested
1962 Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51
1961 Otto E. Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker), dies at 67
1960 Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader
1960 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker and Fiorello! win
1959 Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76
1959 William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in New York City
1958 US newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication
1956 U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1954 Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader
1953 Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment
1953 James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU
1952 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66
1949 Christopher John Seward, aid worker
1948 W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party
1948 Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader
1946 Patty Duke, [Anna Marie], Elmhurst, New York, actress, Miracle Worker
1943 Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1943 Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1941 British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1939 Marion Pitt, social worker/writer
1939 Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60
1939 U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)
1938 Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker
1935 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
1934 Hilly Axwijk, Suriname social worker
1934 Gwen Swire, British social worker
1934 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
1933 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands
1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction
1932 Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer
1932 Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader
1931 Anne Bancroft, Graduate, Miracle Worker, Mrs Mel Brooks.
1929 U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1928 Alphonse MAJ Ariens, Dutch RC pastor/social worker, dies at 68
1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium
1924 Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam
1923 German Republic day with laws against worker
1922 Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London
1922 Arthur Penn, Philadelphia, director, Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde
1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75
1918 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker
1917 Wilhelmus C Wijen, [Broeder Pius], social worker, Curacao
1917 Asta E R Elstak, Suriname/Dutch social worker
1916 Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73
1910 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader
1910 Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker
1910 Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker
1907 Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader
1906 Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker
1905 Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
1905 Clara "Mother" Hale, U.S. social worker, Hale House
1901 Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker, Nobel 1954, 1962
1900 Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party and Socialistenbond merge
1898 Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter
1898 Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist
1897 Mari Andriessen, Dutch sculptor, Dock Worker
1894 Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms
1893 Otto E. Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor-in-chief, Negro Worker
1888 Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes
1885 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader
1883 Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator
1878 Grace Abbott, Grand Island, Nebraska, social worker, US Children Bureau
1875 Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state
1875 Albert William Ketelbey, Aston England, composer, Wonder Worker
1863 Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker, Nobel 1934
1861 Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker, 1st christmas seal drive, 1907
1860 Jane Addams, U.S., pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel 1931
1847 Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader
1845 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker, 1st Belgian farm gilde
1845 Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker
1835 Richard Garnett, English author, Ananda the Miracle Worker
1833 Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader
1777 Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker
1758 Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78
1680 Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker
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