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Kwame Nkrumah, born on this day in 1909, was a Ghanaian politician and pan-African socialist revolutionary. "I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me."
Lev Chernyi was a Russian individualist anarchist theorist, poet, and leading figure of anti-Bolshevik rebellions who was executed without trial on this day in 1921. He had been detained after anarchists bombed Bolshevik headquarters in 1919.
Orlando Letelier was a Chilean economist, politician, and diplomat under Salvador Allende who was assassinated by fascists via car bomb on this day in 1976, in Washington D.C. Despite personally ordering the killing, Pinochet was never charged.
On this day in 2007, bike factory workers who were occupying their workplace in Nordhausen, Germany announced their plan to begin producing a limited edition "Strike Bike", bought as a pre-order to help initiate production.
Image: A photo of "Das StrikeBike"
Teresa Soler i Pi, better known by her stage name, "Teresa Rebull", was a Marxist, feminist, and singer-songwriter born on this day in 1919.