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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September 5, 1839  
The First Opium War: Britain declares war on China in order to compel the Qing Dynasty to allow opium imports, a lucrative source of profits for the British.
Related Topics: ChinaDrug TraffickingImperialismIntervention
September 5, 1917  
In 48 coordinated raids across the United States (the Palmer Raids, so-called because they were ordered by Attorney General Palmer), federal agents arrest hundreds of activists and radicals, and seize records and destroy equipment and books.
September 5 - 12, 1917  
The third ‘Zimmerwald’ conference of anti-war socialists takes place in Stockholm.
September 5, 1957  
Publication of On the Road, by Jack Kerouac.
September 5, 1977  
German business leader Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne by the Red Army Faction and is later murdered.
Related Topics: Kidnapping
September 5, 1981
“Women For Life On Earth” set up the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp outside Greenham Air Base in England.
Related Topics: Peace Movement



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