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 30, 1797
Birth of Mary Shelley. (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin). She is the daughter of two radical philosophers and writers, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Goodwin, and is herself best known for her novel Frankenstein.
August 30, 1958  
Birth of Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist, author, and human rights activist.


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