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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July 21, 1878
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Publication of the popular labour song “Eight Hours,” written by Jesse H. Jones and I.G. Blanchard.
Eight hours for work,
Eight hours for rest;
Eight hours for what we will.
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July 21, 1925
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The so-called “Monkey Trial” ends in Dayton, Tennessee, with high school teacher John T. Scopes convicted of violating a state law against teaching evolution. The trail drew international attention. Scopes’ conviction is later overturned by Tennessee’s Supreme Court.
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July 21, 1976
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Soldiers of Argentina’s military junta kidnap hundreds of people from two villages in Jujuy province in northern Argentina. Thirty of them, most of them employees of a sugar refinery, are never seen again.
Since 1983, on the Thursday closest to July 21, Madres de Plaza de Mayo (an organization of mothers and wives of the missing) and others walk the 7 km from Calilegua to San Martin, demanding answers about the fate of their loved ones.
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