A People's Calendar (aPC) is an open-source project that seeks to promote the worldwide history of working class movements and liberation struggles in the form of a searchable "On This Day" style calendar.
On this day in 1985, the French government, in an act of state-sponsored terror, bombed the Greenpeace-operated boat Rainbow Warrior, which was en route to protest a nuclear weapons test planned by the French state.
Image: The Rainbow Warrior in Marsden Wharf in Auckland Harbour after the bombing by French secret service agents. © Greenpeace / John Miller [greenpeace.org]