January 26
1938: Day of Mourning and Protest marks 150 years since British invasion of Australia and subsequent attempted genocide against the Aboriginal population.
1982: Unemployment reaches 3 million in Britain (one in eight of the working population).
1990: South African railroad workers win 12-week strike. Thirty are killed during the struggle.
January 27
1945: Death camp in Auschwitz is liberated.
1972: The Aboriginal Tent Embassy opens in Canberra.
January 30
1936: Station owner George Bartling is flogged by bushrangers in Oldbury for the mistreatment of his servants.
1948: Ghandi is assassinated.
1972: Bloody Sunday, Derry, Ireland. Thirteen protesters are murdered by British paratroopers.
January 31
1912: Australia's first general strike begins in Brisbane.
1919: Battle of George Square. British soldiers and tanks clash with striking workers in Glasgow, Scotland.
February 1
1834: Troops are called in to quell riots by female prisoners at Parramatta Factory, Sydney.
1960: Four black students sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in North Carolina, USA.
From Green Left Weekly, January 26, 2005.
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