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2012 Event - The U.S. House of Representatives votes to end the Jackson-Vanik amendment from 1974, which was intended to effect U.S. trade relations with Communist countries

2012 Event - The United Communist Party of Nepal is removed from the U.S. terror list citing they have made a 'credible commitment to pursuing peace and reconciliation.'

2012 Event - Security chief Zhou Yongkang is asked to be removed by a group of Chinese Communist Party veterans

2012 Event - At the London Book Fair, Ma Jian, Chinese author of the banned novel 'Beijing Coma,' puts red paint over his face and calls Chinese publishers, 'the mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party'

2011 Event - Nepal's Parliament elects Unified Communist Party leader Baburam Bhattarai as Prime Minister

2011 Event - In Cuba, Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party's central committee

2011 Event - In Vietnam, 1,400 members of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam gather to vote for new leaders

2010 Event - In China, 23 elder members of the Communist Party of China call for ending the country's restrictions on free speech

2009 Event - Buddhist Treasures buried during the 1930's Mongolian Communist Purge, were discovered in the Gobi desert

1997 Death - Georges Marchais, Sec General of French Communist Party (1972-94), dies

1997 Death - Zdenek Mlynar, Secretary of Czechoslovakian Communist Central Committee (1968), dies

1997 Death - Deng Xiaoping, head of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 92

1996 Death - Robert J. Morris, lawyer, served New York State Assembly committee investigating Communist activities, dies at 81

1996 Death - Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85

1996 Death - Karoly Grosz, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism, dies at 65

1995 Death - Phillip Piratin, communist, dies at 88

1994 Event - Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal

1994 Event - Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election

1994 Death - Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies

1994 Death - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70

1994 Death - Tawfik Ziad, Palestinian communist/Israeli MP/mayor of Nazareth, dies

1994 Death - Karel Kryl, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime, dies at 49

1993 Death - Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies

1993 Death - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80

1993 Death - Gerben Wagenaar, Dutch resistance fighter (communist), dies at 80

1993 Death - Deng Yingchao, high ranking communist China official, dies at 88

1993 Death - Chris Hani, Secretary-General South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50

1992 Death - Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies

1992 Death - Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies

1991 Event - CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance

1991 Event - Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party

1991 Event - U.S.S.R. suspends Communist Party activities

1991 Event - Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party

1991 Event - Communist coup is crushed in U.S.S.R. in 2 days

1990 Event - South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference

1990 Event - Boris Yeltsin quits Soviet Communist Party

1990 Event - Last issue of Dutch communist daily De Waarheid (The Truth)

1990 Event - U.S.S.R. Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties

1990 Event - Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)

1989 Event - East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution

1989 Event - Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia

1989 Death - Dolores Ibarruri, Pasionaria, Basque/Spanish communist, dies at 93

1989 Event - Hungary proclaims itself a republic and declares communist rule ended

1989 Event - 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms

1988 Event - Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM

1987 Death - Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing

1986 Death - Paul [Saul] de Groot, chairman Dutch Communist party, dies at 87

1985 Event - "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels

1984 Death - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69

1982 Event - Hanneke Jelgersma installed as Netherlands 1st Communist mayor

1981 Event - Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek

1981 Event - China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy

1979 Death - Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90

1979 Event - John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland)

1977 Death - Tibor Dery, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence', dies at 82

1977 Event - Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years

1976 Event - Hua Guo-feng succeeds Mao Tse-tung as chairman of Communist Party

1976 Death - Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82

1975 Event - Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed

1975 Event - Italy's Communist party PCI, wins

1974 Event - Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president

1974 Death - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70

1973 Death - Earl Browder, leader U.S. Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82

1972 Event - Japan and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations

1972 Event - Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves Communist Party

1970 Event - UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist

1969 Event - Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed

1969 Event - Communist New People's Army found in Philippines

1968 Event - Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission

1968 Death - J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist), dies at 56

1968 Death - Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83

1966 Event - Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party

1966 Event - Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends

1965 Event - Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional

1965 Death - Hans Marchwitza, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte', dies

1964 Death - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/Minister of Justice, dies

1964 Death - Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General French Communist Party, dies at 64

1963 Event - 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)

1962 Event - Hungarian Communist Party expels Rakosi and Gero

1962 Event - U.S. promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression

1961 Event - Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovitsj kicked out of Russia's Communist Party

1961 Event - U.S. members of Communist Party obliged to report themselves to Police

1961 Death - William S Foster, chairman (U.S. Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80

1961 Event - Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes President of U.S. Communist Party

1960 Death - Harry Pollitt, England, Britsh communist chairman (1956-60)

1960 Event - Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands

1958 Event - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party

1958 Event - Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting

1958 Event - Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission

1958 Death - Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88

1957 Event - Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganowitsj and Sjepilov leave U.S.S.R. Communist Party

1957 Death - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavian MP (communist), dies at 67

1957 Event - Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"

1956 Event - Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized

1956 Event - Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison

1956 Event - U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker"

1954 Event - Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party

1954 Event - Formal peace takes place, ending 7+ years of fighting in Indochina between French and Communist Vietminh

1954 Event - Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist

1953 Event - General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired

1953 Event - Nikita Khrushchev becomes 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R. Communist Party

1953 Event - Communist offensive in Korea

1953 Event - Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party

1952 Death - Paul Eluard, French communist/poet, dies at 56

1952 Event - 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow

1952 Event - Communist offensive in Korea

1952 Birthday - Giuliano Ferrara, born in Rome, Italy, activist, atheist, communist turned Centre-Right and pro-life, admired Pope Benedict XVI

1951 Event - Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants

1951 Event - Communist troops driven out of Seoul

1950 Event - Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"

1950 Event - U.S. President Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat

1950 Event - Belgian government dismisses all communist civil servants

1950 Event - General Foods blacklists Jean Muir of Aldrich Family as a communist

1950 Death - Julien Lahaut, chairman Belgian Communist Party, murdered

1950 Event - Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees

1950 Event - Britain recognizes Communist government of China

1949 Death - Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgarian communist vice-premier, executed

1949 Event - 14 U.S. Communist Party leaders convicted of sedition

1949 Death - Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66

1949 Event - Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China

1949 Event - Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist catholics

1949 Death - Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54

1948 Event - Communist Madiun-uprising in Dutch Indies (Muso/Sjarifudin)

1948 Event - Communist form North China People's Republic

1948 Event - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent

1948 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt advisor Alger Hiss accused to be a "communist"

1948 Event - U.S. Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested

1948 Event - Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; President Bernes resigns

1948 Death - 43 communist rebels, executed in Athens

1948 Event - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia

1948 Event - Trial of 11 U.S. Communist party members begins in New York City

1947 Event - HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood

1947 Event - Hungarian Communist Party wins election

1946 Birthday - Elfriede Jelinek, born in Murzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004

1946 Event - Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president

1945 Event - U.S.S.R. establishes a communist government in North Korea

1945 Event - U.S. Communist Party forms

1945 Event - Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy

1945 Event - King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government

1944 Death - Ernst Thalmann, German communist, dies in Buchenwald

1944 Event - U.S. Communist Party dissolves

1944 Event - 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death

1944 Event - Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death

1944 Birthday - Karel Kryl, born in Kromenz, Czechoslovakia, folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, wrote protest songs critical of the Communist regime

1944 Event - 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death

1942 Death - 12, Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter/3 NVV-hostages, executed

1942 Death - Nikola J Vaptsarov, Bulgaria poet/communist, executed at 32

1942 Birthday - "Chris" Martin Thembisile Hani, Secretary-General, South Africa Communist Party

1941 Event - Politburo of Yugoslav Communist Party reorganizes

1941 Event - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned

1940 Event - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands

1940 Event - Communist government installed in Lithuania

1940 Death - Tina Modotti, Maria del Carmen, Italian/Mexican communist, dies at 46

1935 Event - CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party

1935 Event - Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China

1934 Event - French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms

1934 Death - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24

1933 Death - Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies

1933 Event - Austrian Communist Party banned

1933 Event - Hitler disallows German Communist Party (KPD)

1933 Event - Final demonstration of German Communist Party in Berlin

1933 Event - Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party

1933 Event - Goring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany

1932 Event - Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party

1932 Event - Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees

1930 Birthday - Karoly Grosz, born in Miskolc, Hungary, politician, Communist Party, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until end of Communism

1929 Birthday - Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of South Africa Communist Party

1927 Event - Communist uprising in West Java

1926 Event - Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java

1926 Event - Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop

1925 Event - Communist Party of Holland splits

1925 Event - Estonia forbids communist Party

1924 Birthday - Henk J Hoekstra, president, Dutch Communist Party

1924 Event - Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted

1924 Birthday - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome

1923 Event - Saxony gets Social Democratic and Communist coalition government

1923 Birthday - Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI, 1951-65

1923 Event - KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies

1923 Event - Workers Party of America (New York City) becomes official Communist Party

1922 Event - Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party

1921 Birthday - Alexander Dubcek, headed Czechoslovakian Communist Party, 1968-69

1921 Birthday - Fre Meis, Dutch MP, Communist

1921 Event - KPB, Communist Party of Belgium forms

1921 Event - Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet

1920 Event - Yugoslav government bans Communist Party

1920 Event - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany

1920 Birthday - Georges Marchais, political leader, French Communist Party

1920 Event - U.S. President Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal

1920 Event - Perserikatan Communist of India (PKI) political party forms

1919 Event - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago

1919 Event - John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago

1919 Event - Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike

1919 Event - 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin

1919 Event - 3 year old German Communist Party (Spartacus) crushed

1918 Event - Bela Can forms Hungarian Communist Party

1918 Event - Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg

1918 Birthday - Rowley I Arenstein, South African attorney/communist/ANC'er

1918 Event - Baku-Turkish Communist Party forms

1918 Event - Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party

1918 Birthday - Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party

1916 Event - Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin

1914 Birthday - Robert J. Morris, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, lawyer, served New York State Assembly committee investigating Communist activities, credited for efforts attributed to Senator Joseph McCarthy

1913 Birthday - Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese communist

1913 Birthday - Ben[jamin S] Polak, born in Netherlands, physician/communist/resistance fighter

1912 Birthday - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/Dutch Communist MP

1912 Event - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)

1911 Birthday - Wilfred Burchett, Australia, communist/writer, Catapult to Freedom

1911 Birthday - Patience Edney, nurse/communist

1911 Birthday - J Borremans, Belgian politician, communist, MP

1909 Birthday - Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana, 1960-66

1909 Birthday - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist

1908 Birthday - Jan Brasser, Dutch resistance fighter, Witte Ko, communist

1907 Birthday - Phillip Piratin, communist

1906 Birthday - Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician, SPD

1904 Birthday - Hertha Kuusinen, Finnish communist

1900 Birthday - Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages

1900 Birthday - Maurice Thorez, Secretary-General, French Communist Party

1899 Birthday - Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician, CPN, Editor, The Truth

1899 Birthday - Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member

1898 Birthday - Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, communist philosopher, Eros and Civilization

1895 Birthday - Paul Eluard, French communist/poet/resistance fighter, Le Phenix

1894 Birthday - Tibor Dery, born in Budapest, Hungary, writer, wrote satire on Hungarian communist regime, primary work, 'The Unfinished Sentence'

1894 Birthday - Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder, Indonesian Communist

1893 Birthday - Palmiro Togliatti, founder, Communist Party of Italy

1893 Birthday - Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister, 1945-52

1890 Death - Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies

1890 Birthday - Hans Marchwitza, born in Szarlej, Poland, writer, poet, proletarian, communist, works include 'In Amerika', 'Gedichte'

1890 Birthday - Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, MP, communist

1889 Birthday - Ludwig Renn, born in Dresden, Germany, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany

1888 Birthday - Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist Party

1886 Birthday - Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate

1884 Birthday - Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier, 1950 - 1952, communist hunter

1883 Birthday - Sam Wood, U.S., communist fighter/director, For Whom the Bell Tolls

1883 Death - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64

1881 Birthday - Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist President of Karelo-Finnish SR, 1940-56

1881 Birthday - William Foster, Massachusetts, Communist President candidate, 1924,28,32

1876 Birthday - Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/president, 1949-60

1873 Birthday - Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist, Communist Tactics

1857 Birthday - Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist

1848 Event - Marx and Engels publish "Communist Manifesto"

1818 Birthday - Karl Marx, philosopher, Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital

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