This Day in Radical History- August 30th-Richmond dodges a bullet

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August 30
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

1784: "Empress of China" arrives in Guangzhong (Canton), beginning the China trade.

1797: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelly, author of Frankenstein, is born in London, the daughter of anarchist philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

1800: Coachman Gabriel Prosser's plans for a slave revolt in Richmond, Va., are betrayed by a pair of house slaves attempting to save their master. Prosser's plan, which involved over 1,000 slaves, would have resulted in the death of all slave-owning whites, but would have spared Quakers, Frenchmen, elderly women, and children.

1819: The Kickapoo cede their territory, which spans central Illinois, and move to Missouri. In 1670, the Kickapoo lived in what would become Wisconsin. They moved to Illinois and Indiana in 1765. The nation gave up some 3 million acres in 1809, when Indiana's territorial governor, William Henry Harrison, bribed and intimidated the older and more moderate tribal leaders. Continually pushed by white settlers, the Kickapoo move again from Missouri to Kansas. In 1852, they are forced to Texas. Then some move to Mexico while others move to an Oklahoma reservation.

1838: The first African-American magazine, "Mirror of Freedom," begins publication in New York City.

1900: Oregon Labor Press founded.

1901: Birth of civil rights leader Roy Wilkins, St. Louis. Editor of "Crisis" magazine for 15 years. Head of the NAACP in 1955, a post he held for 22 years. During the era of radical civil rights reform, Wilkins personified the more "moderate" African American leader that repeated clashed with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his allies.

1906: Birth of Luisa Moreno, union and civil rights leader. Guatemala.

1918: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik revolution and first head of Soviet Russia, is shot and wounded by Fanya Kaplan after speaking at a factory in Moscow. Kaplan and her accomplice sister, Dora, are thought to be members of the Social Revolutionary Party, a political party in opposition to Lenin's Bolshevik revolutionaries. 1918: World War I opponent Prince Hopkins pleads guilty in Los Angeles for violating the Espionage Act, a common charge against war oppoents. He is fined $27,000.

1935: Death of French anti-war author Henri Barbusse (“Under Fire”) at age 57. Moscow, U.S.S.R.

1941: German troops achieve enclosure for the Siege of Leningrad.

1942: General strike in response to German "annexation," Luxembourg.

1959: Elections held in South Vietnam give parties loyal to President Diem unanimous control of the National Assembly, when all opposition candidates are forbidden to take their seats. CIA will later OK his assassination when he forgets who owns him.

1963: White House/Kremlin "hot line" installed.

1964: Democratic Party convention refuses to seat black protest delegation in place of all-white delegation from state of Mississippi. Outside, 200 protesters rally to oppose Vietnam War. Atlantic City, NJ.

1967: U.S. Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first black justice on U.S. Supreme Court.

1968: As Democratic convention riots continue, Chicago police finest invade the headquarters of anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, dragging staffers from their beds and beating them. CBS anchor Walter Cronkite will tell prime-time television viewers (quote): "I want to pack my bags and get out of this city."

1971: Ten empty school busses are blown up in Pontiac, Michigan only eight days before the daily bussing of 8,700 children to achieve racial balance in the city's schools was scheduled to begin.

1974: World Population Action Plan declared at Bucharest, Rumania.

1979: In what may have been the nadir of his ridicule by the media, President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia.

1980: Polish government is forced to sign a 21-point bill of rights allowing workers to organize in independent unions. An unprecedented concession by a Communist governmnet, the move was necessitated by a crippling strike that began in the shipyards two months earlier and spread to other industries.

1997: British government announces it will surrender the power to intern prisoners (usually political prisoners) without trial in Northern Ireland.

1999: East Timorese vote overwhelmingly for independence despite danger from Indonesian military.

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