Today in Communist History (Part 2)
Political Movements Topics: Abolitionism - Bolshevism - Civil Rights - Feminism - Gay Rights - Marxism - Socialism - Trotskyism - Women's Suffrage
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Historical Events
Results 101 - 200 of 232
1947-12-30 - King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne
1948-01-17 - Trial of 11 US Communist party members begins in NYC
1948-02-20 - Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
1948-02-24 - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1948-02-25 - Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
1948-06-07 - Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Pres Bernes resigns
1948-07-14 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
1948-07-20 - US Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested
1948-08-03 - FDR advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"
1948-08-17 - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1948-09-01 - Communist form North China People's Republic
1948-09-18 - Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)
1949-02-19 - Mass arrests of communists in India
1949-07-13 - Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics
1949-07-30 - British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1949-09-21 - Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China
1949-10-14 - 14 US Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition
1949-11-30 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking
1950-01-06 - Britain recognizes Communist government of China
1950-02-07 - Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1950-02-09 - Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
1950-02-12 - Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist govt employees
1950-04-24 - Pres Truman denies there are communists in US govt
1950-08-18 - Julien Lahaut, the chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium is assassinated by far-right elements.
1950-08-27 - General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist
1950-09-09 - Massive arrests of communists in France
1950-09-12 - Belgian govt dismisses all communist civil servants
1950-11-16 - US pres Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
1950-12-16 - Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
1951-01-30 - Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio
1951-03-12 - Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1951-05-27 - Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1951-12-17 - Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1952-03-18 - Communist offensive in Korea
1952-07-22 - Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
1952-10-05 - 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
1952-11-20 - Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin
1953-07-14 - Communist offensive in Korea
1953-09-12 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of USSR Communist Party
1953-12-03 - Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
1953-12-09 - General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1954-01-01 - Yugoslav parliament chairman/VP Milovan Djilas criticize communism
1954-04-13 - Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
1954-08-11 - Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ yrs of fighting in Indochina between French & Communist Vietminh
1954-08-24 - Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
1954-08-24 - Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954-09-08 - SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communist spread in SE Asia
1956-01-02 - Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections
1956-03-27 - US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1956-04-06 - Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison
1956-11-05 - Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
1957-01-09 - Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"
1957-06-29 - Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj & Sjepilov leave USSR communist party
1958-03-20 - Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting
1958-03-20 - Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission
1958-03-27 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
1958-12-09 - Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
1959-04-13 - Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists
1960-01-30 - Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands
1961-03-13 - Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party
1961-10-09 - US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to Police
1961-12-02 - Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
1962-03-06 - US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
1962-07-19 - Hungarian communist party expels Rákosi & Gero
1962-10-08 - Spiegel scandal: Der Spiegel publishes the article "Bedingt abwehrbereit" ("Conditionally prepared for defense") about a NATO manoeuver called "Fallex 62", which uncovered the sorry state of the Bundeswehr (Germany's army) facing the communist threat from the east at the time. The magazine was soon accused of treason.
1963-02-08 - 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
1965-05-24 - Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1965-10-20 - Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia
1966-01-12 - LBJ says US should stay in S Vietnam until communist aggression ends
1966-04-08 - Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party
1968-02-26 - Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
1969-03-29 - Communist New People's Army found in Philippines
1969-04-17 - Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
1969-06-05 - The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
1970-01-19 - UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
1972-03-05 - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
1972-04-10 - 20 days after he was kidnapped in Buenos Aires, Oberdan Sallustro is executed by communist guerrillas.
1972-09-28 - Japan & Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations
1974-03-26 - Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president
1975-04-17 - Phnom Penh fell to Communist insurgents, ending Cambodia's 5-year war
1975-06-16 - Italy's Communist party PCI, wins
1975-08-23 - Communists take over Laos
1975-12-03 - Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
1976-10-12 - Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party
1976-12-26 - The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded.
1977-03-20 - Communists/socialists win French municipal elections
1977-04-09 - Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
1978-10-01 - The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979-06-02 - John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
1979-09-20 - The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML).
1979-11-08 - The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.
1981-06-21 - Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election
1981-06-23 - French govt of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
1981-06-30 - China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1981-07-18 - Poland communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
1982-02-19 - Hanneke Jagersma installed as Neth's 1st Communist mayor
1982-09-06 - Dutch Internal minister Mr M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1982-10-28 - Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections
1985-05-01 - "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels
1986-12-16 - Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party, known as Zheltoksan, which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Gorbachev's tenure
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