October 24: This Day In History

National Workers Demand A Raise DAy

1892 – In New Orleans, 25,000 Black workers strike

1923 – Department of Labor said some 500,000 Blacks had left the South in the preceding twelve months.

1929 – “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.1935 – Italy invaded Ethiopia. American Blacks held mass meetings of protest and raised funds for the Ethiopian defenders.

1935 – The first Black-authored play to become a long-run Broadway hit, Langston Hughes’ “Mulatto” opens, 1935

1943 – The Provisional Government of Free India formally declared war on Britain and the United States of America.

1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.

1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam

1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence)

1973 – Yom Kippur War ends

1980 – The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.

1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian “stay-behind” clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s.

2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.

2008 – “Bloody Friday” saw many of the world’s stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.