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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June 16, 1816
The birth of Frankenstein: After an evening of telling ghost stories around a log fire in a house near Lake Geneva, eighteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (soon to become Mary Shelley), has a vivid dream:
“I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion.” Mary begins writing a story based on her vision; choosing the title “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus.”
Related Topics: Ghost Stories
June 16, 1976
The Soweto uprising: South African police open fire on black students in Soweto who are peacefully protesting a law requiring them to learn Afrikaans, the language of the small white majority presiding over the racist regime known as apartheid. Over 150 are killed and hundreds more are injured in the shooting.



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