Political activist Abbie Hoffman and a group of protesters threw dollar bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The majority of commentators hold the view that Davison did not intend to martyr herself, but rather wished to attach a ‘Votes For Women’ scarf to the horse as a way to gain publicity for the movement.
Official figures reported 241 deaths as a result of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests but unofficial estimates, including one by the US Ambassador at the time, place the figure at more than twice that.
The Greensboro sit-ins began when four black students sat at the ‘whites only’ lunch counter in the Woolworth department store.
Over 14,000 Australian gold miners gathered at Forest Creek in Victoria for a protest known as the Monster Meeting.
Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.
The closure of Palmer’s Shipyard was a devastating blow to the people of Jarrow, where unemployment had hit 70%.
The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter’s Field in Manchester, when a group of over 60,000 protesters were charged by cavalry.
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death at a busy crossroads in Saigon.
Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four Kent State University students.
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