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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November 1, 1914
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Leading anarchists, including Peter Kropotkin, publish statements and articles in the anarchist newspaper Freedom calling on anarchists to support the Allies (Russia-France-Britain) in the World War. There is one dissenting article, by Errico Malatesata.
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November 1933
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Osip Mandelstam writes The Kremlin Highlander, also known as the Stalin Epigram, a satirical poem about Stalin. He is subsequently arrested and sent into exile in Cherdyn in the northern Urals.
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November 1, 1954
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Sixty bombs are set off in Algiers, setting off the Algerian War of Independence. Over the next eight years, 1.5 million Algerians and 30,000 French will die. Algeria gains its independence in 1962.
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November 1, 1956
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An explosion in a coal mine in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners. Eighty-eight others are rescued through the heroic efforts of rescue teams composed of other miners.
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November 1, 1971
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The first issue of the gay liberation newspaper The Body Politic is published in Toronto.
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November 1, 1974
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The Native People's Caravan begins a cross-Canada trek to raise awareness of broken treaties and grievances against the Canadian government.
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