Auto workers begin sit-down strike for union recognition at GM’s Fisher Body plant in Cleveland - 1936
Country music legend Hank Williams attends what to be his last musicians’ union meeting, at the Elite (pronounced E-light) café in Montgomery, Ala. He died of apparent heart failure three days later in the back seat of a car driving north. He was 29 - 1952
not exactly #LaborHistory: Dec 28 -via- 'Rip's Roster'
1155 -- Archbishop Thomas Becket is brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights of King Henry II of England, apparently on orders of the king.
1793 -- Thomas Paine is arrested in France for treason. Though the charges against him were never detailed, he had been tried in absentia on December 26 and convicted.
1808 -- Andrew Johnson is born.
1846 -- Iowa becomes 29th State.
1856 -- Woodrow Wilson born in Staunton, Virginia
1916 -- James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is published
1932 -- Argentine novelist Manuel Puig is born
1940 -- Germans raid London
1973 -- Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago published
1155 -- Archbishop Thomas Becket is brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by four knights of King Henry II of England, apparently on orders of the king.
1793 -- Thomas Paine is arrested in France for treason. Though the charges against him were never detailed, he had been tried in absentia on December 26 and convicted.
1808 -- Andrew Johnson is born.
1846 -- Iowa becomes 29th State.
1856 -- Woodrow Wilson born in Staunton, Virginia
1916 -- James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is published
1932 -- Argentine novelist Manuel Puig is born
1940 -- Germans raid London
1973 -- Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago published
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