This Day in Radical History- August 25th-Reagan outed!

[underpants]

August 25
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

383: Gratian, Roman Emperor, slain at Lugdunum.

1689: Twelve hundred Iroquois warriors attack Montreal.

1819: Birth of Allen Pinkerton, whose strike breaking detectives ("Pinks") gave us the word "fink." Today, Pinkerton is not only, globally, a leading private security corporation, but in the forefront of building and managing private prisons.

1830: Belgium revolts against Netherlands.

1893: "Colored Peoples' Day" at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

1900: German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche dies, Weimar, Germany.

1925: Birth of Althea Gibson, Silver, South Carolina. First African American tennis player to compete at the U.S. Open in 1950 and at Wimbledon the following year.

1925: African American activist A. Philip Randolph founds Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

1944: French divisions march into Paris followed by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. Nazi resistance was light, and a quick surrender is negotiated, ignoring Hitler's orders to burn the city to the ground.

1945: One million Saigonese demonstrate in support of Ho Chi Min'h.

1948: Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors founded in Philadelphia.

1967: FBI circulates memo detailing plans to "disrupt" Black Liberation groups. Results in infamous "COINTELPRO" program.

1967: George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, is shot dead in Arlington, Virginia. Former aide John C. Patler is arrested for the shooting.

1968: Battle of Lincoln Park; as the Democratic Convention begins in Chicago, so does a week of rioting between 10,000(?) demonstrators and 11,000 Chicago police, 6,000 National Guard, 7,500 U.S. army troops and 1,000 FBI, CIA, and Army and Navy intelligence services agents.

1969: U.S. troops refuse to advance after five days of heavy casualties. One of scores of nonviolent mutinies durintg Vietnam War. Sonchang Valley, Vietnam.

1985: The King was a fink: White House confirms that Ronald Reagan was an FBI informant (with his own secret number) in Hollywood in the late 1940s when heading the Screen Actors Guild.

1992: 19-year-old Rosebud Abigail Donovo killed by police in demonstration at the Chancellor's Mansion of the Univ. of California-Berkeley.

1998: Two killed in Islamic militant bomb attack on restaurant, Cape Town, South Africa.

1998: Federal court finds that the rights of political death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal had been violated by prison authorities.

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[BOSSHOG]

1. 1944

My father in law was part of the force marching towards Paris. On 12 August 1944 he was hit with shrapnel in the Village of Vier, France, and eventually lost his left arm. He never got to march triumphally into Paris, he was laid up in a hospital. He lived a long and successful life, passing onto the staff of the supreme commander in December 2004. Cheers to you Dad!

[acmejack]

2. Salute smartly rendered to your Dad!

To!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. George Lincoln Rockwell assassinated

I remember that.

[Blue_Tires]

4. ttt n/t