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1793
- Queen Marie Antoinette is convicted for treason during the French Revolution.
1944
- After announcing a ceasefire with the Soviet Union, Miklós Horthy is overthrown by Nazi Germany.
1966
- Marxist revolutionaries Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found the Black Panther Party.
1987
- Marxist-Leninist revolutionary Thomas Sankara is assassinated in a coup at the age of 37 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
1990
- Anti-communist Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Price.