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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January 24, 1878
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Vera Zasulich shoots Col. Theodore Trepov, the brutal governor of St. Petersburg. Trepov is seriously injured but survives. Zasulich is put on trial, but unexpectedly a sympathetic jury acquits her. She quickly flees to Switzerland before the government can re-arrest her and arrange a different outcome.
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January 24, 1986
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Start of the Wapping dispute: British newspaper publishers set out to break the printers’ and journalists’ unions.
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