6
Rad street theatrical mob Demolition Decorators go on trial for obstruction, Wells St court, 1978. |
7
Legendary London
Communist Club starts life as Deutsche Demokratische Gesellschaft, Soho, 1840. |
8
Peace activist,
CND founder member,
Peggy Duff born, 1910. |
9
The IRA attempt some
drastic architectural work, Canary Wharf, 1993. |
10
Robert Nixon,
bomber of parliament
& seditious libeler,
jailed for 5 years, 1737. |
11
Legendary Mark Ashton, founder of Lesbians & Gays Support the miners, dies of AIDS, Southwark, 1987. |
12
6 Committee of
100 workers go
on trial for
breach of
Official Secrets
Act, 1962.
|
13
Strike of
East End stick makers
ends in wage rise, 1890. |
14
Hackney
Social Centre squat opens,
Lower Clapton, 2008. |
15
Rioting Tyburn
crowd tries to
rescue
body of executed soldier
from dissection, 1770. |
16
Wicked
feminist novelist Angela
Carter dies, Clapham, 1992. |
17
Muhammad Ali
visits Brixton, 1999 |
18
Socialists
Burns and Cunninghame Graham released from Pentonville Prison, 1888 (after being jailed after Bloody Sunday riot).
|
19
2013: Eileen
House,
Elephant &
Castle, squatted
as
anti-gentrification centre. |
20
1796: Kyd Wake
tried for booing & hissing
George III in anti-war riot:
(gets 5 years hard labour.)
|
21
Mammoth Hyde Park, demo against proposed Anti-Conspiracy Bill: attack on political refugees. 1858. |
22
Bread riots in
Bermondsey, Stepney, Bethnal Green, Shoreditch & other ends, 1855. |
23
Men Against Sexism
National Conference opens, London, 1979. |
24
Riot at
Covent Garden Theatre: poor audiences, demand
cut in entry fees, 1763. |
25
1983: Rooftop Protest
of Greenham Women,
Holloway Prison. |
26
Lollard
William Sawtrey ordered to be burnt for heresy, 1401. |
