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Northern Alliance fighters advance into Kabul. (source: Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 2001 US-backed Afghan fighters from the Northern Alliance recaptured Kabul (Afghanistan's capital) from Taliban forces. Since the early 1990s, Kabul had been under the oppressive rule of the "Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice", a paramilitary wing of the…
American activist Rosa Parks is fingerprinted after being removed forcibly from a Montgomery bus in 1956. (source: Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1956 the United States Supreme Court passed the Browder v. Gayle ruling, stating that the Alabama practice of segregating public buses was unconstitutional. The ruling ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott - which…
Leon Trotsky in 1918. (source: Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1927 Ukrainian politician Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party. Trotsky and a colleague, Ukrainian Grigory Zinoviev, had attempted to stage a commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Bolshevik victory during the October Revolution in November 1917; Joseph Stalin and Trotsky's…
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