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Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union (1927)
The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the infamous exploding whale incident (1970)
Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev (1982)
b: Bahá'u'lláh (1817), Maximilian von Weichs (1881), James P. Mitchell (1900), Naomi Wolf (1962); d: H. R. Haldeman (1993)