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Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using general strikes and economic shut down to demand a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India. Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Riots, it soon became a day of communal violence in Calcutta. [5]
The Soviet famine of 1946–1947 was a major famine in the Soviet Union that lasted from mid-1946 to the winter of 1947 to 1948. It was also the last major famine in Soviet history. [1] The estimates of victim numbers vary, ranging from several hundred thousand to 2 million.
The Airport Homes race riots were a series of riots in 1946 in the West Lawn and West Elsdon neighborhoods of Chicago, Illinois. [1] It was the worst episode of racial inspired violence that the city faced in some thirty years.
Riots and civil unrest in Chicago chronological order; Date Issue Event Deaths Injuries April–July, 1905 Labor 1905 Chicago teamsters' strike - The United Brotherhood of Teamsters started a strike in support for a small union of workers from Montgomery Ward but soon garnered support from most unions in the city. Riots occurred almost daily ...
Poorhouse: Subsidized Housing in Chicago (2nd ed.). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-9068-7. Hirsch, Arnold R. (1983). Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-34244-1. Hunt, D. Bradford (2010). Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public ...
Union League Boys & Girls Clubs provides after school programs at 21 locations in Chicago and a summer camp in Wisconsin. Club One was founded in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood as the Union League Boys Club in 1919. [22] Luminarts Cultural Foundation was founded in 1949 as the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation.
The Milwaukee Club and Woman's Club of Wisconsin have operated at their historic downtown locations since the late 19th century. ... Its Cream City brick building was constructed in 1887 at 813 E ...
Calcutta is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in St. Clair Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,941 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] Historically a rural town, Calcutta developed in the late 20th century as businesses from neighboring East Liverpool moved into larger shopping centers clustered ...