Seeds of Fire: A People’s Chronology

Recalling events that happened on this day in history.
Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.

Compiled by Ulli Diemer

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August 9, 1854  
Publication of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.
August 9 - 16, 1909  
The Fort William Grain Handlers Strike in Ontario, Canada (to August 16).
Related Topics: Strikes: Canadian
August 9, 1942  
Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony (Symphony #7) premieres in Nazi-besieged Leningrad.
Related Topics: Symphonies
August 9, 1945  
The United States drops an Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
August 9, 1966  
Two hundred people sit in at the New York offices of Dow Chemical Company to protest Dow’s manufacture of napalm.



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