Simón Bolívar Rises, #Occupy Rome, Dalton Trumbo Dead

September 10: On This Progressive Day

Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru (1823)

Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (1919)

Germany's National Socialists Workers Party forces begin their occupation of Rome (1943)

President B. Hussein Obama receives Prince General Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi in the Oval Office (2009)

b: Otto Strasser (1897), Max Shachtman (1904), Miguel Serrano (1917), Medea Benjamin (1952); d: Huey Long (1935), Dalton Trumbo (1976), Hamida Djandoubi (1977)

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