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![President Ben Bella in 1965, the year he was deposed. [Agence France-Presse via the NY Times]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Individuals/ahmedBenBella.jpg)
Ahmed Ben Bella, born on this day in 1916, was an Algerian politician, soldier, and socialist revolutionary who served as the first Prime Minister of Algeria from 1962 to 1965.
Image: President Ben Bella in 1965, the year he was deposed. [Agence France-Presse via the NY Times]
The Baptist War, also known as the Christmas Rebellion, was an 11 day rebellion of sixty thousand of Jamaican slaves that began on this day in 1831. The rebellion lasted into January, and more than 300 enslaved people were executed.
On this day in 1951, LAPD officers beat 7 imprisoned civilians, an event known as "Bloody Christmas". Police leadership covered up the abuse, but, after an investigation, 8 officers were indicted, 54 transferred, and 39 suspended.
Image: A still from the movie L.A. Confidential, showing a Los Angeles Times front-page story with the headline "BLOODY CHRISTMAS Police Assault Prisoners in Jailhouse Melee"
On this day in 1922, the founding congress for the International Workers' Association, a federation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions, began in Berlin. Germany declared the congress, representing more than 2 million workers, illegal.
On this day in 1521, one of the earliest known slave revolts in the Americas began when slaves in the Spanish colony of La Española launched a violent rebellion against their colonizers.
On this day in 1837, Africans and Native Americans who had formed Florida's Seminole Nation decisively defeated an invading U.S. force more than twice their size, led by slaveowner and future U.S. president Zachary Taylor.
On this day in 1951, the home of Harry and Harriette Moore, civil rights activists and educators, was bombed by white supremacists. Harry died while en route to the nearest hospital that would treat black people, more than 30 miles away.
Wilhelm "Willi" Jelinek, born on this day in 1889, was an anarchist revolutionary from Germany who survived the violence of the Third Reich and was imprisoned by Soviet authorities, dying in an East German prison in 1952.