Today in Socialist History
Political Movements Topics: Abolitionism - Bolshevism - Civil Rights - Communism - Feminism - Gay Rights - Marxism - Trotskyism - Women's Suffrage
Historical Events
Results 1 - 90 of 90
1873-02-27 - Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1877-12-26 - Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st natl convention
1878-10-21 - German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism"
1878-12-28 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Quod apostolici muneris (socialism)
1888-03-25 - Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1892-07-04 - James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
1895-11-05 - King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
1900-03-25 - US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
1900-06-24 - Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party & Socialistenbond merge
1908-05-24 - Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
1910-04-27 - Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1911-03-04 - Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
1912-11-25 - Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
1914-01-01 - Klaas ter Laan becomes Neth's 1st socialist mayor (Zaandam)
1914-07-16 - Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
1914-11-15 - Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia
1914-11-24 - Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
1918-03-18 - Socialist Youth AJC organizes in Amsterdam
1918-07-10 - Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms
1919-01-05 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
1919-01-15 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
1919-02-03 - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
1920-01-02 - 10,000 US union & socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids)
1921-02-27 - The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
1921-07-29 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1922-11-30 - Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich
1922-12-20 - 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
1923-01-01 - Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
1923-02-05 - Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
1923-05-04 - Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna
1923-05-26 - Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
1923-07-06 - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics form
1924-04-11 - Socialists win Denmark's parliamentary elections
1924-05-30 - Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1925-02-02 - Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism
1925-03-02 - Dutch Socialists demand drastic disarmament
1925-08-18 - Cardinal Mercier warns Belgians against socialism/liberalism
1925-11-05 - Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties
1929-02-03 - Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
1931-03-20 - Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin
1932-11-09 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
1933-05-17 - Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
1934-02-13 - Austrian Dollfuss govt bans socialistic party
1934-03-29 - Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt
1934-07-27 - French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1935-03-03 - Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
1935-06-30 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
1935-11-24 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
1936-01-16 - Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular
1941-06-22 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
1945-11-29 - Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
1946-02-01 - Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
1946-04-21 - SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
1946-06-18 - Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim.
1954-05-01 - Bishops publish Mandement (member socialist org forbidden)
1957-01-26 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms
1963-04-07 - Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1964-09-15 - Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
1968-03-21 - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé
1968-04-06 - 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution
1968-04-08 - New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect
1968-11-10 - Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed
1970-04-20 - Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
1974-12-08 - Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1974-12-20 - Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
1975-04-25 - Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins Portugal's free election
1975-04-26 - Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
1976-09-21 - Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Chilean socialist government of Salvador Allende, overthrown in 1973 by Augusto Pinochet.
1977-03-03 - Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms
1977-03-20 - Communists/socialists win French municipal elections
1981-06-21 - Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election
1982-10-28 - Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections
1983-02-23 - The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.
1983-04-24 - Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1983-04-25 - Portugal's Soares' Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election
1984-09-12 - Ethiopia forms socialist republic
1985-03-10 - French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
1986-02-16 - Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian pres
1986-06-22 - Spain's premier Gonzalez' Socialist Party wins elections
1987-06-15 - Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
1989-02-09 - Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1991-01-27 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
1992-02-23 - The Socialist Labour Party is founded in Georgia.
1992-04-15 - The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
1994-05-29 - Hungary's Socialist Party wins parliamentary election
1994-06-29 - Socialist, Tomiichi Murayama, elected premier of Japan
1994-12-18 - Socialist Party (ex-communist) wins Bulgaria parliamentary election
2004-01-06 - Costas Simitis announces his resignation as president of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement in Greece.
2005-03-05 - The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its first National Convention.
2005-10-15 - Riot in Toledo, Ohio breaks out during a National Socialist/Neo-Nazi protest; over 100 are arrested.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 51 of 51
1760-11-23 - Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist (Tribun du Peuple)
1771-05-14 - Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist
1772-04-07 - F M Charles Fourier, French socialist
1809-01-15 - Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist)
1812-06-21 - Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)
1828-09-28 - Friedrich A Lange, Prussia, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism)
1834-03-24 - William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist
1838-06-24 - Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism)
1847-11-02 - George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions)
1854-10-16 - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist
1855-01-03 - Hubert Bland, English socialist (d. 1914)
1855-11-05 - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1858-04-07 - Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
1859-09-03 - AAJ Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité, Les Preuves)
1863-09-13 - Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934)
1864-11-26 - Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem)
1865-07-02 - Lili Braun, Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen)
1868-06-05 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
1870-04-07 - Gustav Landauer, German socialist
1871-03-05 - Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
1871-07-08 - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam)
1873-01-15 - Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist
1876-01-12 - Jack London, writer/socialist (Call of the Wild)
1876-03-11 - David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist
1877-02-26 - Carel S Adama van Scheltema, Dutch poet/writer (socialism)
1877-06-05 - Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45)
1878-06-17 - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1878-08-13 - Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, Dutch zionist/socialist theorist
1879-07-01 - Leon Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951)
1879-11-17 - Gerardus H de Haas, socialist vicar
1881-03-12 - Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
1884-11-20 - Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist (Pres Candidate 1928-48)
1889-09-25 - George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist
1891-02-09 - Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs (1946-47)
1891-05-07 - Harry McShane, Scottish socialist (d. 1988)
1896-12-21 - Carl Romme, Dutch catholic foreman/KVP-min Socialist Business
1897-01-20 - Mae Busch, Australian/US actress (Cowboy Socialist)
1905-12-31 - Guy Mollet, French socialist premier (1956-57)
1907-11-03 - James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist
1910-11-11 - Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist
1911-04-08 - Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian
1916-06-26 - Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist
1921-01-14 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
1925-08-08 - Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist
1925-09-30 - Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist
1928-02-24 - Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century)
1930-08-04 - John Gorman, printer/socialist historian
1934-02-24 - Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
1934-12-24 - Stjepan Mesić, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia.
1938-01-11 - Michael Fenn, docker/socialist
1938-01-11 - Arthur Scargill, Socialist Labour Party (UK) leader
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 42 of 42
1797-05-27 - Francois-Noal "Gracchus" Babeuf, French utopian socialist, dies at 36
1837-10-09 - Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
1875-11-21 - Friedrich A Lange, philosopher/socialist (Neo-Kantianism), dies at 67
1900-08-06 - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74
1914-07-30 - Jean Jaurès, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
1914-07-31 - A J Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité/Les Preuves), murdered=
1916-05-12 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868)
1918-01-02 - Sijbe K Bakker, vicar/theologist (Christian-Socialism), dies at 42
1919-05-02 - Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies
1919-11-18 - Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies
1920-02-12 - Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten), dies at 77
1924-05-06 - Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47
1924-06-10 - Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists
1926-10-20 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
1927-09-15 - Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62
1932-05-08 - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1937-06-28 - Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64
1938-10-18 - Karl J Kautsky, Austrian marxist/socialist, dies
1941-05-07 - David Wijnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies
1941-07-26 - Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb
1943-04-24 - Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63
1946-03-02 - Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian National socialist (b. 1895)
1953-10-18 - Douwe Kalma, Fries literature/christian-socialist, dies at 57
1960-10-12 - Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61
1960-11-24 - Salomon "Sam" de Wolff, zionist/socialist theorist, dies at 82
1962-11-20 - Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport Ct, dies
1963-03-06 - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91
1965-10-29 - Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris
1967-10-12 - Ram Manohar Lohia, Indian Socialist politician leader
1968-12-19 - Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84
1974-09-11 - Víctor Olea Alegría, Chilean Socialist Party member
1980-01-01 - Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (Socialists), dies at 88
1991-09-08 - Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies
1995-08-29 - Jack Stoddart, designer/socialist, dies at 70
1995-11-16 - Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist, dies at 70
1995-12-15 - James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88
1996-07-28 - Mickey Fenn, docker/socialist, dies at 58
1996-09-19 - Douglas Hyde, socialist/Christian, dies at 85
1996-10-02 - Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85
1996-10-31 - John Gorman, printer/socialist historian, dies at 66
1996-11-30 - Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80
2006-07-30 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
