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
West Indies Regiment Mutiny (1918)Dec 6th, 1918
On this day in 1918, members of the British West Indies Regiment began a four-day mutiny, facing pay and rank discrimination within the British Army. ~60 soldiers were tried for mutiny, and one was executed by firing squad.
Image: British West India Regiment troops in France, 1916. Photograph copyright Imperial War Museum