Today in Communist History
Political Movements Topics: Abolitionism - Bolshevism - Civil Rights - Feminism - Gay Rights - Marxism - Socialism - Trotskyism - Women's Suffrage
Related Topics: Soviet Union
Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 231
1848-02-26 - Marx & Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"
1912-05-05 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
1916-01-27 - Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin
1918-03-09 - Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918-06-25 - Baku-Turkish communist party forms
1918-11-13 - Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg
1918-11-17 - Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
1918-11-24 - Béla Can forms Hungarian Communist Party
1919-01-11 - 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
1919-03-02 - 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
1919-03-03 - Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1919-08-31 - John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago
1919-09-02 - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
1920-01-01 - The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
1920-03-23 - Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms
1920-05-05 - US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1920-10-30 - The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
1920-12-07 - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
1920-12-29 - Yugoslav government bans communist party
1921-01-21 - The Italian Communist Party was founded at Livorno.
1921-04-13 - Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party.
1921-07-01 - The Communist Party of China is founded.
1921-07-23 - Chinese communist party forms under Henk Sneevliet
1921-09-03 - KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms
1921-11-14 - The Communist Party of Spain is founded.
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin
1922-04-03 - Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1923-02-05 - Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
1923-04-07 - Workers Party of America (NYC) becomes official communist party
1923-05-19 - KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
1923-10-10 - Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government
1924-03-01 - Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
1924-05-04 - German Republic election fascists & communists win
1924-10-08 - British Labour government of MacDonald falls to Conservatives
1924-12-07 - German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis & Communists lose)
1925-02-02 - Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism
1925-02-12 - Estonia forbids communist Party
1925-04-16 - During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1925-05-11 - Communist Party of Holland splits
1925-12-26 - The Communist Party of India is founded.
1926-05-22 - Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China
1926-05-22 - Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop
1926-11-13 - Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java
1927-01-01 - Communist uprising in West Java
1927-03-19 - Bloody battles between communists & nazis in Berlin
1930-02-03 - Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
1930-02-03 - The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
1930-04-04 - The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
1932-02-12 - Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
1932-10-11 - Stalin forces Zinoviev & Kamenev out of Communist Party
1933-02-02 - Goering bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany
1933-02-15 - Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party
1933-02-16 - Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists
1933-02-24 - Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
1933-02-27 - Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on Communists
1933-02-28 - Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
1933-03-09 - Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
1933-05-27 - Austrian communist party banned
1933-09-03 - Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7495 m).
1933-09-25 - 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China
1933-11-29 - Japan begins persecution of communists
1934-07-27 - French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
1935-10-20 - Mao Tse Tung & his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China
1935-12-04 - 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
1935-12-31 - CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
1936-01-16 - Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular
1936-08-24 - FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists
1936-12-25 - Belgian bishops condemn fascism & communism
1937-03-19 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini redemptoris against communism
1940-05-04 - 21 "not neutral" nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
1940-06-16 - Communist government installed in Lithuania
1940-07-20 - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands
1941-01-17 - Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-Shek open fire at communist forces, resuming the Chinese Civil War after World War II.
1941-01-21 - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned
1941-06-22 - Various Communist and Socialist French Resistance movements merge to one group.
1941-07-04 - Politburo of Yugoslav communist party reorganizes
1941-11-08 - The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
1943-06-18 - SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau
1944-02-29 - 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death
1944-04-04 - De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists
1944-04-20 - Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1944-05-08 - 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death
1944-05-20 - US Communist Party dissolves
1944-12-03 - The Greek Civil War breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between communists and royalists.
1945-03-02 - King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
1945-03-12 - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945-07-27 - US Communist Party forms
1945-08-08 - USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea
1946-02-01 - Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
1946-03-05 - Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1946-05-17 - KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
1946-11-10 - Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
1947-02-01 - Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems & communists
1947-02-17 - Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"
1947-03-07 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.
33rd US President Harry Truman
1947-03-12 - Pres Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1947-05-31 - Communists grab power in Hungary
1947-08-31 - Hungarian communist party wins election
1947-10-20 - HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1947-11-17 - The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1947-11-24 - Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 62 of 62
1818-05-05 - Karl Marx, Trier, Prussia, philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), (d. 1883)
1857-07-05 - Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist
1869-09-20 - Marcel Cachin, co-founder (French Communistic Party)
1873-01-02 - Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist (Communist Tactics)
1876-01-03 - Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/pres (1949-60)
1881-02-25 - William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
1881-10-05 - Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist pres of Karelo-Finnish SR (1940-56)
1883-07-10 - Sam Wood, US, communist fighter/director (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
1884-12-28 - Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier (1950-52)/communist hunter
1886-03-05 - Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)
1886-04-16 - Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate
Communist Philosopher Karl Marx (1818-05-05)
1888-10-06 - Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Tse-tung (Chinese Communist Party)
1890-01-04 - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, MP (communist)
1890-12-22 - Harry Pollitt, Droylsden United Kingdom, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain
1893-02-13 - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52)
1893-03-26 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy)
1894-04-15 - Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Kalinovka, Dmitriyevsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64)
1894-10-14 - Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder (Indonesian Communist)
1897-03-05 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960)
1898-07-18 - Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, communist philosopher (Eros & Civilization)
1899-02-07 - Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
1899-07-19 - Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN)/Editor (The Truth)
1900-04-28 - Maurice Thorez, secretary-general (French Communist Party)
1900-11-04 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
1901-08-26 - Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)
1902-12-20 - Sidney Hook, anticommunist philosopher (Paradoxes of Freedom)
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev (1894-04-15)
1904-02-14 - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist
1904-10-01 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
1905-11-22 - James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism)
1906-07-11 - Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician (SPD)
1907-05-15 - Phillip Piratin, communist
1908-03-02 - Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter (Witte Ko)/communist
1909-01-13 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist
1909-09-09 - Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana (1960-66)
1909-11-14 - Joseph R McCarthy, (Sen-R-Wisc), anti-communist lunatic
1910-10-08 - Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000)
1911-05-14 - J Borremans, Belgian politician (communist)/MP
1911-08-27 - Patience Edney, nurse/communist
1911-09-16 - Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer (Catapult to Freedom)
1912-09-27 - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP
1913-09-12 - Ben[jamin S] Polak, Neth, physician/communist/resistance fighter
1913-11-10 - Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist
1915-06-02 - Alexandru Nicolschi, Russian communist (d. 1992)
1915-09-25 - Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
1916-04-04 - Nikola Ljubicic, Yugoslav general, Serbian communist politician (d. 2005)
1918-01-07 - Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader (Communist Party)
1918-07-09 - Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er
1920-03-05 - José Aboulker, Jewish Communist
1920-06-07 - Georges Marchais, political leader (French Communist Party)
1921-11-27 - Alexander Dubcek, headed Czech Communist Party (1968-69)
1922-05-15 - Enrico Berlinguer, Italian communist/sec-gen (CPI) [or May 25]
1923-07-30 - Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI (1951-65)
1924-02-06 - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Road to Rome)
1924-06-17 - Henk J Hoekstra, president (Dutch Communist Party)
1929-07-25 - Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
1929-08-21 - Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of S Afr Communist Party
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-03-02)
1931-03-02 - Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91)
1935-07-25 - Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
1938-02-07 - S. Ramachandran Pillai, Indian communist leader
1939-02-08 - José Maria Sison, Filipino communist
1942-06-28 - "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, sec-gen (South African Communist Party)
1953-03-17 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino communist revolutionary (d. 2001)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 62 of 62
1883-03-14 - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
1933-06-20 - Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies
1934-01-10 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24
1940-01-05 - Tina Modotti, [Maria del Carmen], Ital/Mexican communist, dies at 46
1942-07-23 - Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32
1942-10-16 - 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed
1943-11-27 - Ivo Lola Ribar, Croatian communist and partisan (b. 1916)
1944-08-28 - Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald
1948-05-06 - 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens
1949-02-14 - Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
1949-04-16 - Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54
Communist Philosopher Karl Marx (1883-03-14)
1949-09-22 - Sam Wood, US communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66
1949-12-16 - Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed
1950-08-18 - Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered
1952-11-18 - Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56
1954-04-17 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist (b. 1900)
1957-03-16 - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67
1958-02-12 - Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88
1960-06-27 - Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain dies at 69
1960-07-15 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b. 1897)
1961-09-01 - William S Foster, chairman (US Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80
1963-10-21 - Józef Franczak, last cursed soldier - anticommunist underground in Poland(b. 1918)
1964-07-11 - Maurice Thorez, sec-general French communist party, dies at 64
1964-08-21 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies
1965-04-03 - Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter (born 1897 or 1898)
1968-01-04 - Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83
1968-02-08 - J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56
1970-03-29 - Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (b. 1885)
1973-06-27 - Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82
1974-03-19 - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70
Chinese Prime Minister Mao Tse-Tung (1976-09-09)
1976-09-09 - Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese communist party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82
1977-03-22 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
1984-02-09 - Yuri Andropov, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), dies at 69
1984-02-15 - Leamon Hunt, US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists
1986-08-03 - Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87
1987-07-28 - James Burnham, philosopher (Coming Defeat of Communism), dies at 81
1987-12-27 - Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
1989-05-03 - Edward Ochab, Polish Communist politician (b. 1906)
1990-01-19 - Herbert Wehner, German ex-communist/chairman (1958-73), dies at 83
1992-05-25 - Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies
1993-02-08 - N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader
1993-04-10 - Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
1993-07-11 - Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88
1993-08-31 - Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80
1993-09-01 - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80
1993-11-14 - Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies
1994-07-04 - Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies
1994-08-23 - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
1994-10-22 - Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies
1995-12-10 - Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88
1996-11-06 - Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85
1997-02-19 - Deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92
1997-04-15 - Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968), dies
1997-11-16 - Georges Marchais, Sec Gen of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies
2001-02-06 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
2005-01-19 - Bill Andersen, New Zealand communist and trade union leader (b. 1924)
2005-05-22 - Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician, long-time General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1914)
2005-10-30 - Shamsher Singh Sheri, Indian communist leader (b. 1942)
2008-08-20 - Hua Guofeng, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding Mao Zedong in 1976 and being replaced by Hu Yaobang in 1981 (b. 1921)
2010-07-21 - Luis Corvalán, Chilean communist leader (b. 1916)
2011-01-08 - Vang Pao, charismatic Laotian general who commanded a secret army of his mountain people in a long, losing campaign against Communist insurgents, dies at 81
2011-10-07 - Ramiz Alia, the former communist leader and first president of the Albanian pluralist (b. 1925)
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