José Martí Organizes, Emiliano Zapata Dead, Dolores Huerta Born

On this day: April 10

José Martí founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party (1869)

Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos (1919)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps is created (1933)

b: Frances Perkins (1880), Claire Boothe Luce (1903), Dolores Huerta (1930); d: Emiliano Zapata (1919), Issam Sartawi (1983)

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