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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/Netherlands 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 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 U.S. 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 hour work day in Belgium 1924 Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam 1924 Brian Rix, born in Cottingham, England, born Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, actor, appeared in film, The Night We Got The Bird, charity worker for Mencap 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 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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