A People's Calendar
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.
Event of the Day
Night of Terror (1917)Nov 14th, 1917
On this day in 1917, the "Night of Terror" began when the superintendent of the Occoquan Workhouse prison ordered forty guards to brutalize suffragists who were imprisoned after picketing for the right to vote in the U.S. capital.
Image: Suffrage leader Lucy Burns imprisoned in the Occoquan Workhouse, November 1917