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
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Publication of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.
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August 9 - 16, 1909
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The Fort William Grain Handlers Strike in Ontario, Canada (to August 16).
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August 9, 1942
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Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony (Symphony #7) premieres in Nazi-besieged Leningrad.
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August 9, 1945
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The United States drops an Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
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August 9, 1966
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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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