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Photograph of Bhagat Singh taken in 1929, when he was 21 years old [Wikipedia]
Bhagat Singh Executed (1931)March 23rd, 1931

On this day in 1931, Marxist Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh was executed by the colonial British government at 23 years of age after assassinating a police officer and exploding two bombs in a government building.

Image: Photograph of Bhagat Singh taken in 1929, when he was 21 years old [Wikipedia]

Photo collage of U.S. Congressman George W. Norris (left) and NYC Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (right) [Wikipedia]
Norris-La Guardia Act (1932)March 23rd, 1932

The Norris-La Guardia Act, passed on this day in 1932, is a U.S. labor law that bans yellow-dog contracts, federal injunctions against non-violent labor disputes, and employers from interfering in workers' attempts to form a union.

Image: Photo collage of U.S. Congressman George W. Norris (left) and NYC Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (right) [Wikipedia]

Walter Rodney (1942 - 1980)March 23rd, 1942

Walter Rodney, born in Guyana on this day in 1942, Pan-African, Marxist intellectual who was assassinated by the Guyanese government in 1980 at 38 years old. "If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means."