This Day in History
(via Working for Change)

1885: Alice Paul, first peace picketer at White House, born. A leading suffragist and, a half-century later, author of the Equal Rights Amendment.

1912: Beginning of IWW-organized "Bread and Roses" textile strike of 32,000 women and children at Lawrence, Massachusetts.

1932: Massacre of Casas Viejas Pueblo in Cadiz, Spain, heralds Civil War. A peasant uprising is put down with the killing of 16 peasants and workers by the civil guard.

1964: U.S. Surgeon General issues report linking cigarette smoking and lung cancer.

1975: CIA assassinates two Puerto Rican independence activists, Luis Chavonnier and Eddie Ramos, also killing a six-year-old child and injuring ten others.