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 Jamsetji
Nasarawanji Tata established India's
textile industry, its iron and steel industry,
and its hydroelectric industry. He also pledged a
portion of his vast personal fortune towards the
establishment of an Indian Institute of Science. |
 The Industrial
Workers of the World was organized in Chicago on June 27,
1905, by opponents of the moderate policies in
the labor movement. It wanted to bring all
workers of each industry into one industrial
union, and sought to overturn the capitalist
system and set up a socialist government. |
 Ezra
Cornell earned a fortune as the
principal stockholder of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, which he helped found in 1855.
He used part of that fortune to found Cornell
University in 1865. |
 The Father's
Day we know today began in Spokane,
Washington, thanks to the efforts of Sonora
Louise Smart Dodd, who believed that fathers
should be celebrated with a special day just as
mothers were. The first Father's Day was
celebrated on June 19, 1910. |
 The Aryan
Brotherhood is a prison gang that originated at San
Quentin Penitentiary in California in 1967. Its
original purpose was to provide protection for
White prisoners from Black and Hispanic gangs,
and was formed in response to a series of racial
incidents that had occurred at San Quentin the
previous year. |
 Eugene
Victor Debs became a believer in
Socialism after spending six months in jail for
leading a railroad strike. A founder of the
Socialist Party of America in 1904, he was that
party's candidate for President in 1904, 1908,
1912, and 1920. His last campaign was conducted
while serving time in a federal prison for
criticizing the United States's entry into World
War I. |
