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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August 19, 1692
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Five people, four men and a women, one of them the town’s former minister, are hanged in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft.
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August 19, 1936
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The Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is murdered by Franco’s fascists.
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August 19 - 25, 1936
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Moscow Trial of sixteen Old Bolsheviks, including Gregory Zinoviev, former president of the Communist International. They are convicted on fake charges and immediately executed on Stalin’s orders.
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August 19, 1953
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In Iran, a coup sponsored and directed by the CIA overthrows liberal-leaning Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who had nationalized the Iranian oil industry. The coup puts the pro-Western Shah Mohammed Pahlevi into power, who quickly gives control of the oil industry back to U.S. and British oil companies.
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August 19, 1954
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The United States outlaws the Communist Party.
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August 19, 1957
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Violence breaks out at the copper miners’ strike in Murdochville, Quebec when police are ordered by Premier Duplessis to suppress the strike. The government’s actions help to turn public opinion against the reactionary Union Nationale regime, laying the groundwork for the Quiet Revolution.
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August 19, 1989
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Hundreds of black demonstrators are whipped and sandblasted from helicopters as they attempt to picnic on a whites-only beach near Capetown, South Africa.
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August 19, 1989
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Germans, Hungarians and Austrians cross the Hungarian-Austrian border in a demonstration.
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August 19, 1996
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ACTU labour protesters with battering rams and sledgehammers attack the Australian Parliament, Canberra.
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