German physician, sexologist and champion of homosexual and transgender rights, Magnus Hirschfeld, died in exile in France on May 14, 1935. He was the founder and leader of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and the Institute for Sexual Research. #OTD #Germany #TransRights

Three days of protests against hearings on 'communist subversion' by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in San Francisco, California, culminated in a 5,000 strong rally on May 14, 1960 after police fired water hoses at protesters the day before. #OTD

German physician, sexologist and champion of homosexual and transgender rights, Magnus Hirschfeld, died in exile in France on May 14, 1935. He was the founder and leader of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and the Institute for Sexual Research. #OTD #Germany #TransRights

Cai Chang was born May 14, 1900. An early member of the Communist Party of China and student at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East in the USSR, she participated in the Long March and after 1949 led the All-China Women's Federation. #OTD #China

French unions and left-wing parties called for a 24-hour general strike in support of student protests on May 13, 1968 while students regained the Sorbonne and proclaimed its permanent occupation, opening it to round the clock debates and meetings. #OTD #France #Mai68

German communist journalist Wilhelm Guddorf, AKA Paul Braun, was executed on May 13, 1943 after his arrest for his work in the clandestine anti-Nazi network known as the 'Red Orchestra.' Guddorf had been the editor of the Die Rote Fahne (Red Flag) newspaper. #OTD #Germany #Antifa

German communist journalist Wilhelm Guddorf, AKA Paul Braun, was executed on May 13, 1943 after his arrest for his work in the clandestine anti-Nazi network known as the 'Red Orchestra.' Guddorf had been the editor of the Die Rote Fahne (Red Flag) newspaper. #OTD #Germany #Antifa

French unions and left-wing parties called for a 24-hour general strike in support of student protests on May 13, 1968 while students regained the Sorbonne and proclaimed its permanent occupation, opening it to round the clock debates and meetings. #OTD #France #Mai68

Mother's Day originated as Mother's Work Day in 1858 as a protest by Ann Jarvis against against disease and poor sanitation in Appalachian communities and became a day of antiwar protest in 1872 at the initiative of pacifist and suffragist Julia Ward Howe. #OTD #CallYourMother

The leadership and many supporters of the Romanian Socialist-Communist Party were arrested May 12, 1921, the last day of its founding Congress, and charged with treason after voting to affiliate with the Communist International. This would lead to the Dealul Spirii Trial. #OTD

French communist revolutionary, Louis Auguste Blanqui, and five hundred of his followers in the Society of the Seasons captured the Hôtel de Ville of Paris on May 12, 1839. The insurrection would be defeated after two days of fighting. #OTD #France

Mother's Day originated as Mother's Work Day in 1858 as a protest by Ann Jarvis against against disease and poor sanitation in Appalachian communities and became a day of antiwar protest in 1872 at the initiative of pacifist and suffragist Julia Ward Howe. #OTD #CallYourMother

French communist revolutionary, Louis Auguste Blanqui, and five hundred of his followers in the Society of the Seasons captured the Hôtel de Ville of Paris on May 12, 1839. The insurrection would be defeated after two days of fighting. #OTD #France

The leadership and many supporters of the Romanian Socialist-Communist Party were arrested May 12, 1921, the last day of its founding Congress, and charged with treason after voting to affiliate with the Communist International. This would lead to the Dealul Spirii Trial. #OTD

High ranking British intelligence officer and Soviet double agent 'Kim' Philby died in Moscow on May 11, 1988. An important source of intelligence to the USSR during World War II, Philby fled to the Soviet Union in 1963 when he became aware that he had been exposed. #OTD #USSR

The Pullman Strike began May 11, 1894 as a strike at the Pullman Company railway car factory in Chicago, but grew, under the leadership of Eugene Debs, then President of the American Railway Union, into a nationwide railroad strike before it was broken by the U.S. Army. #OTD

The Pullman Strike began May 11, 1894 as a strike at the Pullman Company railway car factory in Chicago, but grew, under the leadership of Eugene Debs, then President of the American Railway Union, into a nationwide railroad strike before it was broken by the U.S. Army. #OTD

High ranking British intelligence officer and Soviet double agent 'Kim' Philby died in Moscow on May 11, 1988. An important source of intelligence to the USSR during World War II, Philby fled to the Soviet Union in 1963 when he became aware that he had been exposed. #OTD #USSR

Salvadoran revolutionary and poet, Roque Dalton, a member of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), was executed on May 10, 1975 as a result of an internal struggle over the political direction of the ERP, possibly at hand of its leader, Joaquín Villalobos. #OTD #ElSalvador

May 10, 1968 became known as the 'Night of the Barricades' after students in Paris tore up paving stones and used automobiles and buses to erect burning barricades to repel increasingly violent attacks by riot police in the Latin Quarter. #OTD #France #Mai68