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27th August 1963 – the Death of W.E.B. Du Bois 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
W.E.B. Du Bois Today we recall the extraordinary and accomplished life of W.E.B. Du Bois, the foremost champion of equal rights for blacks in the United States during the first half of the twentieth ...
26th August 1920 – American Women Get the Vote 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
The 19th Amendment Sisters, ninety-three years ago, the world was still so male dominated that we women were not even allowed to vote. While our most adventurous brothers were becoming heroes of the ...
25th August 1900 – the Death of Friedrich Nietzsche 25 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Elisabeth Nietzsche welcomes Adolf Hitler to the Nietzsche Archives – home of the Nazis' official philosopher, 1934 Friedrich Nietzsche died on this day in 1900. But who dares to celebrate the death ...
24th August 1770 – the Death of Thomas Chatterton 24 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Thomas Chatterton, by Henry Wallis Today we recall the brief, peculiar and tragic life of Thomas Chatterton – English poet, forger of medieval poetry and proto-Romantic – who, aged just seventeen yea...
23rd August 1927 – the Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Memorial to Sacco and Vanzetti Eighty-five years ago today, despite a long campaign of letters and petitions involving such world luminaries as HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Dorothy...
22nd August 1989 – the Death of Huey P. Newton 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Twenty-four years ago today, Huey P. Newton – revolutionary, agitator, rhetorician, co-founder and Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party – was shot and killed when a drug deal went wrong. He ...
21st August 1831 – Nat Turner’s Rebellion 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
“I was intended for some great purpose” – Nat Turner One hundred and eighty-two years ago today, Nat Turner – a slave and lay preacher from Virginia – calmly explained to six of his fellow slaves tha...
20th August 1968 – The End of the Prague Spring 20 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Russian tanks roll into Prague An entry on the brutal suppression of the Prague Spring will appear here shortly.
19th August 1936 – the Death of Federico Garcia Lorca 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
The olive tree at Alfacar close to where Lorca was shot, which has become a place of pilgrimage Throughout his all too short but trailblazing life, death had been his central artistic theme – and sev...
18th August 1987 – the Death of Dambudzo Marechera 18 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Dambudzo Marechera Today we remember the extraordinary and explosive life of Dambudzo Marechera, the Zimbabwean ‘enfant terrible of African literature’ who – twenty-six years ago today – died homeles...
