2014 Event A planned demonstration in Iran against recent acid attacks on women has been prevented by a show of police forces; protesters believe the women were attacked due to improper covering in accordance with the nation's dress code 2012 Event Protestors in Iran clash with riot police during their demonstration against the collapse of the rial, the country's currency 2011 Event Protesters stage the largest demonstration ever against the Mubarak regime; two million people gather in Tahir Square, vowing to stay until Mubarak leaves his post 2011 Event Tunisians take part in a demonstration urging the interim government to step down 2009 Event Tens of thousands in Rome, Italy, participate in a demonstration demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi 1992 Event Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test 1989 Event Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square 1988 Event Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon 1985 Event Massive anti-ETA demonstration in Basques 1984 Event Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead 1979 Event 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC 1968 Event West Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration 1968 Event State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A and M 1963 Event 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London 1962 Event 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia 1962 Event Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia 1962 Event Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam 1957 Event Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC) 1957 Event Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba 1948 Event Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir 1947 Event Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan 1941 Event Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands 1938 Event Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam 1938 Event 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV in London 1935 Event Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews 1933 Event Final demonstration of German Communist Party in Berlin 1932 Event Austria forbids demonstration by Nazi's and anti fascists 1932 Event 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass 1932 Event 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport) 1926 Event 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London 1923 Event Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent 1922 Event Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent 1922 Event Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent 1918 Death Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60 1917 Event Spontaneous demonstration at Tauride-palace Petrograd 1910 Event Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration 1905 Event Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St. Petersburg 1902 Event Nathan Stubblefield makes 1st public demonstration of radio, Penn 1896 Event 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in U.S. (New York City) 1882 Event 1st demonstration of pancake making (Department store in New York City) 1879 Event Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp 1856 Birthday Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, born in Tambov, Russia, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration 1850 Event 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration 1838 Event Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph 1780 Event Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London 1131 Death Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, dies 1048 Birthday Omar Khayyam, born in Nayshapur, Iran, poet, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, wrote, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra
