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AVAILABLESOON! GET YOUR 2025 CALENDAR! Order your copy of The Progressive’s 2025 Hidden History of the United States calendar! Use the form below to order your calendar or order online at progressive.org/HiddenHistory. AUGUST 2025 MARCH 2024 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Women’s History Month begins Saturday 1 2 1807 U.S. Congress bans the importation of enslaved people, effective January 1, 1808 1790 First U.S. census authorized 3 4 5 1913 Women’s suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. 1952 Communist teachers are banned from public schools 6 7 International Women’s Day 8 1967 Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran who was ousted in a CIA- backed coup in 1953, dies while under house arrest 1789 First U.S. Congress meets and declares Constitution in effect 1918 Influenza pandemic begins in Fort Riley, KS 9 1782 Pennsylvania militiamen massacre 96 pacifist Moravian Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten, now in OH 1916 Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa leads a raid on border town of Columbus, NM 1932 Police fire on Ford Hunger March in Detroit, MI, killing four Daylight Saving Time begins 10 Ramadan begins 11 12 1930 Mahatma Gandhi and his followers begin march against tax on salt 1947 Truman Doctrine unveiled 1913 Harriet Tubman dies 2006 First of a series of rallies for immigrants held in multiple U.S. cities 2020 WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic St. Patrick’s Day 17 1969 Golda Meir becomes first woman prime minister of Israel 1965 First Vietnam teach-in begins at University of Michigan 2018 Hundreds of thousands join March for Our Lives student- led protests against gun violence 24 Easter 31 18 1963 U.S. Supreme Court requires free legal counsel for the poor (Gideon v. Wainwright) 1970 First U.S. postal strike begins Spring Equinox 19 2003 Iraq War begins [based on U.S. time zones] 1965 NYC police arrest 49 people protesting loans to South Africa Holi National LGBTQ+ Health Awareness Week begins 1894 Coxey’s Army of unemployed workers begin march to Washington, D.C. 1911 146 workers killed in Triangle Shirtwaist fire in NYC 25 26 1979 Judge grants preliminary injunction against The Progressive’s publication of an article on H-bomb design 1927 César Chávez is born 1870 Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first Black person to vote in the U.S. after 15th Amendment adopted 13 14 15 16 20 1969 Mexican American students stage school walkout against discrimination in Denver, CO 1879 Albert Einstein is born 1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is born 1827 Freedom’s Journal, first Black newspaper in U.S., begins publication 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre in Vietnam 21 1937 Police fire on Nationalist protesters, killing 19 people and wounding more than 200 Ponce, PR 22 Purim begins 1965 Horst Faas first reports U.S. troops using chemical warfare against Vietcong 1972 Equal Rights Amendment passed by U.S. Senate and sent to states for ratification 1932 The Norris- LaGuardia Act establishes workers’ right to strike 23 27 1915 Mary Mallon, known as Typhoid Mary, is put into quarantine for the second time 1981 Solidarity Movement in Poland holds strike, 12 million participate 1979 Partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant 28 Good Friday 29 2022 President Biden signs Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal hate crime 1870 15th Amendment certified, giving Black men the right to vote 1952 Charlotta Spears Bass becomes first Black woman to run as Vice President, for the Progressive Party 30 Yes! Please send me ____ copies of The Progressive’s 2025 Hidden History of the United States calendar! (Each calendar is $15.95 + $3.00 shipping and handling.) You may order now and we will ship the calendars when they become available. Name (please print) Address  My check made out to The Progressive is enclosed.  Please charge my credit card:  Mastercard  Visa  Discover  Amex City State Zip Card number Exp. date Email Phone Number Signature Security Code ➨ Please return to The Progressive, P.O. Box 1021, Madison, WI 53701 • (608) 257-4626 (You may use the postpaid envelope provided in the middle of this magazine.) GET YOUR OWN FIGHTING BOBBLEHEAD! An original bobblehead in the likeness of Senator Robert M. “Fighting Bob” La Follette, founder of The Progressive. This unique gift can now be yours to commemorate Wisconsin’s progressive tradition. Only $20! Order TODAY to take advantage of this special offer. Yes! Please send me _____ Fighting Bobbleheads while they last! (Bobbleheads are $20 each, plus $5 for domestic ground shipping.) Name (please print) Address  My check made out to The Progressive is enclosed.  Please charge my credit card:  Mastercard  Visa  Discover  Amex City State Zip Card number Exp. date Email Phone Number Signature Security Code ➨ 2 | OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2024 Please return to The Progressive, P.O. Box 1021, Madison, WI 53701 • (608) 257-4626 (You may use the postpaid envelope provided in the middle of this magazine.)
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GET YOUR 2025 CALENDAR!

Order your copy of The Progressive’s 2025 Hidden History of the United States calendar!

Use the form below to order your calendar or order online at progressive.org/HiddenHistory.

AUGUST 2025

MARCH 2024

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Women’s History Month begins

Saturday 1 2

1807 U.S. Congress bans the importation of enslaved people, effective January 1, 1808

1790 First U.S. census authorized

3

4

5

1913 Women’s suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. 1952 Communist teachers are banned from public schools

6

7

International Women’s Day

8

1967 Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran who was ousted in a CIA- backed coup in 1953, dies while under house arrest

1789 First U.S. Congress meets and declares Constitution in effect 1918 Influenza pandemic begins in Fort Riley, KS

9

1782 Pennsylvania militiamen massacre 96 pacifist Moravian Christian Indians at Gnadenhutten, now in OH

1916 Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa leads a raid on border town of Columbus, NM

1932 Police fire on Ford Hunger March in Detroit, MI, killing four

Daylight Saving Time begins

10

Ramadan begins

11

12

1930 Mahatma Gandhi and his followers begin march against tax on salt 1947 Truman Doctrine unveiled

1913 Harriet Tubman dies 2006 First of a series of rallies for immigrants held in multiple U.S. cities 2020 WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic

St. Patrick’s Day

17

1969 Golda Meir becomes first woman prime minister of Israel

1965 First Vietnam teach-in begins at University of Michigan 2018 Hundreds of thousands join March for Our Lives student- led protests against gun violence

24

Easter

31

18

1963 U.S. Supreme Court requires free legal counsel for the poor (Gideon v. Wainwright) 1970 First U.S. postal strike begins

Spring Equinox

19

2003 Iraq War begins [based on U.S. time zones] 1965 NYC police arrest 49 people protesting loans to South Africa

Holi National LGBTQ+ Health Awareness Week begins

1894 Coxey’s Army of unemployed workers begin march to Washington, D.C. 1911 146 workers killed in Triangle Shirtwaist fire in NYC

25

26

1979 Judge grants preliminary injunction against The Progressive’s publication of an article on H-bomb design

1927 César Chávez is born 1870 Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first Black person to vote in the U.S. after 15th Amendment adopted

13

14

15

16

20

1969 Mexican American students stage school walkout against discrimination in Denver, CO

1879 Albert Einstein is born 1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is born

1827 Freedom’s Journal, first Black newspaper in U.S., begins publication 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre in Vietnam

21

1937 Police fire on Nationalist protesters, killing 19 people and wounding more than 200 Ponce, PR

22

Purim begins

1965 Horst Faas first reports U.S. troops using chemical warfare against Vietcong 1972 Equal Rights Amendment passed by U.S. Senate and sent to states for ratification 1932 The Norris- LaGuardia Act establishes workers’ right to strike

23

27

1915 Mary Mallon, known as Typhoid Mary, is put into quarantine for the second time 1981 Solidarity Movement in Poland holds strike, 12 million participate 1979 Partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant

28

Good Friday

29

2022 President Biden signs Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching a federal hate crime

1870 15th Amendment certified, giving Black men the right to vote 1952 Charlotta Spears Bass becomes first Black woman to run as Vice President, for the Progressive Party

30

Yes! Please send me ____ copies of The Progressive’s 2025 Hidden History of the United States calendar! (Each calendar is $15.95 + $3.00 shipping and handling.) You may order now and we will ship the calendars when they become available.

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