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Workers at the Jamaican port of Falmouth started a strike and protests spread across the country

89
years ago

21 May 1935,

Workers at the port of Falmouth in Jamaica started a strike. When the bosses threatened to send strikes or shackles, the workers began the incidents. The police go to press the protests and kill a worker. During those days the workers’ protests spread throughout the country.

On this day
1937'Havana' left Santurtzi with 3,840 Basque children fleeing war to the United Kingdom
1937The ship Havana left the port of Santurtzi to the United Kingdom with 3,868 refugee children under the age of 15
1968Constitution of the Staff and Students Action Commission to coordinate its actions in the May 68 uprising
1980Pac-Man video game launch in Japan

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