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On this day in 1984, the Battle of Orgreave took place in Rotherham, England when 6,000 cops attacked 5,000 picketing miners during the UK Miners' Strike (1984-85), leading to one of the most violent clashes in British industrial history.
Image: Police officers charge striking miners, mass picket of the Orgreave coking plant, miners' strike, Yorkshire. Photo by John Harris. [theguardian.com]
George Donisthorpe Thompson, born on this day in 1804, was a prominent British anti-slavery orator and liberal reformer who gave lecturing tours and worked for abolitionist legislation while serving as a member of Parliament.
Mariya Kislyak was a Soviet partisan and leader of a Kharkov underground Komsomol cell, where she seduced and killed Nazi officers, actions for which she was executed by the Gestapo on this day in 1943 at the age of seventeen.