1996 Death Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP, dies at 87 1994 Death Harri Webb, journalist, nationalist, poet, dies at 74 1988 Event Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis 1982 Event FALN (Puerto Rico Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street 1981 Event Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike 1976 Death Gerard Romsee, Flemish nationalist, dies at 74 1975 Death Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87 1970 Death Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45 1959 Death Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68 1954 Event Nationalist China and U.S. sign dike agreement 1954 Event Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China 1950 Event Nationalist China evacuates Hainan Island 1950 Event General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1949 Event Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa 1949 Event Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa 1948 Event South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy 1948 Event Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China 1946 Birthday Zhirinovsky, Edelstein, Russian ultra nationalist/anti semite 1946 Birthday Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Edelstein, Russian nationalist/anti-semite 1937 Event Ponce massacre, police kill 19 at Puerto Rican Nationalist parade 1928 Event U.S. recognizes Nationalist Chinese government 1927 Death John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75 1924 Event Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections 1923 Event Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts) 1922 Death Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush 1922 Death Arthur Griffith, Irish nationalist/president (Sinn Fein), dies 1920 Birthday Harri Webb, Swansea, Wales, journalist, nationalist, poet, volunteered for the Royal Navy, published The Green Desert, a collection of poetry in 1969, Poems and Points in 1983 1919 Event Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India 1916 Death Roger Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916), executed 51 1916 Death Padraic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad 1908 Birthday Henry Diamond, Irish Nationalist MP 1904 Event King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime 1901 Birthday Gerard Romsee, Flemish nationalist 1896 Death Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies 1896 Birthday Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights 1890 Birthday Henry Borginon, Flemish nationalist/senator 1890 Birthday Claro Mayo Recto, Filipino nationalist/opponent of U.S. colonialism 1887 Birthday Chiang Kai-shek, Chekiang Province China, President of Nationalist China 1885 Death Martin R Delany, politician and black nationalist, dies at 72 1868 Death Michael Barrett, Irish nationalist, last British public execution 1865 Birthday Maude Gonne, Irish nationalist, Irish Joan of Arc 1864 Birthday Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist, Easter uprising 1916 1861 Birthday Jose Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist 1851 Birthday John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house member 1846 Birthday Nikola Pasic, Serbian nationalist/premier, 1891..1926 1843 Event British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy 1806 Birthday J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist 1803 Death Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed 1798 Death Theobald W. Tone, Irish nationalist, dies 1767 Birthday Andreas Hofer, Tirol nationalist 1763 Birthday Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist 1759 Birthday Paul Cuffe, Massachusetts, merchant/shipbuilder/black nationalist