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2012 Event - Hostess Brands reveals its plan to file for bankruptcy and liquidate its assets, claiming contract disputes from the bakery's union worker strike crippled its operations; about 18,500 workers will be laid off

2012 Event - The governing Worker's Party takes control of Brazil's financial capital and largest city when Fernando Haddad is elected mayor of Sao Paulo

1997 Event - Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker

1996 Death - Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker, dies at 86

1996 Death - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86

1996 Death - Christopher John Seward, aid worker, dies at 45

1995 Death - Gwen Swire, socila worker, dies at 61

1995 Death - Marion Pitt, social worker/writer, dies at 56

1995 Death - Leonard Ernest John Chant, social Worker, dies at 57

1995 Event - Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport

1994 Death - Asta ER Elstak, Suriname/Netherlands welfare worker, dies at 74

1993 Death - Cesar Chavez, U.S. farm worker (United Farm Workers), dies at 66

1991 Death - Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23

1991 Event - Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers

1991 Event - Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike

1990 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested

1987 Death - Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua

1986 Death - Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered

1986 Death - Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75

1985 Death - Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed

1984 Event - Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa

1983 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years

1982 Death - Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered

1982 Death - Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide

1970 Death - Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies

1966 Event - 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City subway

1965 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years

1963 Event - South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested

1963 Event - South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested

1962 Death - Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51

1960 Birthday - Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader

1960 Event - 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker and Fiorello! win

1959 Death - Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator, dies at 76

1959 Event - William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in New York City

1958 Event - U.S. newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication

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

1954 Birthday - Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader

1953 Event - Ike promises to fire as Red any federal worker taking 5th amendment

1953 Birthday - James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU

1952 Death - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66

1949 Birthday - Christopher John Seward, aid worker

1948 Event - W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party

1948 Birthday - Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader

1946 Birthday - Patty Duke, Anna Marie, born in Elmhurst, New York, actress, Miracle Worker

1943 Birthday - Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964

1943 Birthday - Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964

1941 Event - British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned

1939 Birthday - Marion Pitt, social worker/writer

1939 Death - Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at 60

1939 Event - U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)

1938 Birthday - Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker

1935 Event - Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms

1934 Birthday - Hilly Axwijk, Suriname social worker

1934 Birthday - Gwen Swire, British social worker

1934 Event - Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt

1933 Event - Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands

1933 Event - Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction

1932 Birthday - Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer

1932 Birthday - Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader

1931 Birthday - Anne Bancroft, Graduate, Miracle Worker, Mrs Mel Brooks.

1929 Event - U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia

1928 Death - Alphonse MAJ Ariens, Dutch RC pastor/social worker, dies at 68

1924 Event - General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hour work day in Belgium

1924 Event - Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam

1924 Birthday - Brian Rix, born in Cottingham, England, born Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, actor, appeared in film, The Night We Got The Bird, charity worker for Mencap

1923 Event - German Republic day with laws against worker

1922 Event - Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London

1922 Birthday - Arthur Penn, Philadelphia, director, Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde

1921 Birthday - Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75

1918 Birthday - Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker

1917 Birthday - Wilhelmus C Wijen, Broeder Pius, social worker, Curacao

1917 Birthday - Asta E R Elstak, Suriname/Dutch social worker

1916 Death - Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73

1910 Birthday - Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader

1910 Birthday - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker

1910 Birthday - Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker

1907 Birthday - Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader

1906 Birthday - Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker

1905 Event - Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms

1905 Birthday - Clara "Mother" Hale, U.S. social worker, Hale House

1901 Birthday - Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker, Nobel 1954, 1962

1900 Event - Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party and Socialistenbond merge

1898 Birthday - Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter

1898 Birthday - Leo Szilard, Hungary, physicist/A-bomb worker/peace activist

1897 Birthday - Mari Andriessen, Dutch sculptor, Dock Worker

1894 Event - Social-Democratic Worker's party (SDAP) forms

1888 Event - Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes

1885 Birthday - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader

1883 Birthday - Maria Baers, Flemish social female worker/senator

1878 Birthday - Grace Abbott, Grand Island, Nebraska, social worker, US Children Bureau

1875 Birthday - Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state

1875 Birthday - Albert William Ketelbey, Aston England, composer, Wonder Worker

1863 Birthday - Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker, Nobel 1934

1861 Birthday - Emily Perkins Bissell, welfare worker, 1st christmas seal drive, 1907

1860 Birthday - Jane Addams, U.S., pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel 1931

1847 Birthday - Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader

1845 Birthday - John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker, 1st Belgian farm gilde

1845 Birthday - Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker

1835 Birthday - Richard Garnett, English author, Ananda the Miracle Worker

1833 Birthday - Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader

1777 Birthday - Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker

1758 Death - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78

1680 Birthday - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker

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