On this day in 1525, 50 representatives of various German peasant groups met to draft the Twelve Articles, what some historians consider the first draft of human rights and civil liberties in continental Europe after the Roman Empire.
Image: The title page of the Twelve Articles [WikiCommons]
Mariya Kislyak, born on this day in 1925, was a Soviet partisan and the leader of a Kharkov underground Komsomol cell where she seduced and killed Nazi officers, actions for which she was executed by the Gestapo at the age of seventeen.
On this day in 1984, the UK Miners' Strike of 1984-85 began, leading to more than 26 million lost workdays in what the BBC termed "the most bitter industrial dispute in British history".
Image: One of seven miners who were arrested near Llanwern Steelworks being led away by the police [https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/]