Examples of The First International in the following topics:
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- The International Workingmen's Association, often called the "First International," was an international organization that aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, communist, and anarchist political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
- Its first congress was held in 1866 in Geneva.
- The anti-authoritarian sections of the First International were the precursors of the anarcho-syndicalists, who sought to, "replace the privilege and authority of the State," with the, "free and spontaneous organization of labor."
- The incident became known as the Haymarket Affair, and was a setback for the labor movement and the struggle for the eight-hour day.
- Although it had initially been conceived as a one-off event, by the following year, the celebration of International Workers' Day on May Day had become firmly established as an international worker's holiday.
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- The first and best known of these trials, described as "[t]he greatest trial in history" by Norman Birkett, one of the British judges who presided over it, was the trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT).
- Jackson played an important role not only in the trial itself, but also in the creation of the International Military Tribunal.
- The International Military Tribunal was opened on November 19, 1945, in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg.
- The first session was presided over by the Soviet judge, Nikitchenko.
- Eventually, over 50 years later, this led to the adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
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- Media outside the US covering the invasion had a negative outlook, despite the OAS request for intervention, Soviet and Cuban presence on the island, and the presence of American medical students at the True Blue Medical Facility.
- The date of the invasion is now a national holiday in Grenada, called Thanksgiving Day, and the Point Salines International Airport was renamed in honour of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.
- The U.S. stated this was done at the request of Barbados through the OAS, Dame Eugenia Charles, of Dominica.
- The invasion, which commenced at 05:00 on 25 October 1983, began when forces refuelled and departed from the Grantley Adams International Airport on the nearby Caribbean island of Barbados before daybreak en-route to Grenada .
- It was the first major operation conducted by the U.S. military since the Vietnam War.
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- He coined the term Eugenics in 1883 and in 1909 wrote the foreword to
the first volume of the Eugenics Review,
the journal of the Eugenics Education Society, which named him as its honorary president.
- Three
International Eugenics Congresses were held between 1912 and 1932, the first
taking place in London.
- Since poverty was
associated with prostitution and "mental idiocy,"
women of the lower classes were the first to be deemed "unfit" and
"promiscuous."
- Indiana became the first state
to enact sterilization legislation in 1907, followed closely by Washington and
California in 1909.
- Eugenics was a popular pseudoscience in the early decades of the 20th century and was promoted through three International Eugenics Congresses between 1912 and 1932.
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- The Sierra Club was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president.
- By 1977, there were 15 to 20 Greenpeace groups around the world, and on October 14, 1979, Greenpeace International came into existence.
- A major milestone in the environmental movement was the establishment of Earth Day, which was first observed in San Francisco and other cities on March 21, 1970, the first day of Spring.
- The United Nation's first major conference on international environmental issues, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (also known as the Stockholm Conference), was held on June 5–16, 1972.
- Around this time, more mainstream environmentalism was starting to show force with the signing of the Endangered Species Act in 1973 and the formation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in 1975.
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- The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers.
- The company's owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, who survived the fire by fleeing to the building's roof when the fire began, were indicted on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter in mid-April; the pair's trial began on December 4, 1911.
- The jury acquitted the two men of first- and second-degree manslaughter, but they were found liable of wrongful death during a subsequent civil suit in 1913 in which plaintiffs were awarded compensation in the amount of $75 per deceased victim.
- The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first U.S. unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s.
- The first, in 1909, was known as “the Uprising of 20,000” and lasted for fourteen weeks.
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- Prior to the Revolutionary War, agriculture created the livelihood for 90 percent of the population.
- Cotton, for example, was one of the first and most extensively commercialized crops.
- Cotton prices continued to increase as the South remained the primary supplier in the world.
- International markets were important for commercial agriculture, especially for cotton.
- The commercialization of agriculture changed the economic base for the South and West.
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- The protesters were tolerated at
first, but after the U.S. entry into the war in 1917, they were arrested by
police for obstructing traffic.
- Sanger
opened a family planning and birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York, on
October 16, 1916, the first of its kind in the United States.
- The CRB was the first
legal birth control clinic in the United States, staffed entirely by female
doctors and social workers.
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1946, Sanger helped found the International Committee on Planned Parenthood,
which evolved into the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1952, soon
becoming the world's largest, non-governmental family planning organization.
- She
served as the organization's first president and remained in the role until she
was 80.
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- The final battles of the European theatre of World War II, as well as the German surrender to the Allies, took place in late April and early May 1945.
- The surrender came just over three months after the surrender of the Axis forces in Europe.
- This foreign presence marked the first time in its history that the island nation had been occupied by a foreign power.
- During the occupation, leading Japanese war criminals were tried at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal).
- After the Battle of Berlin, Soviet soldiers hoist the Soviet flag on the balcony of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin.
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- As one of the first total wars, World War I mobilized women in unprecedented numbers on all sides .
- World War I saw many women taking traditionally men's jobs for the first time in American history.
- For the first time, department stores employed African-American women as elevator operators and cafeteria waitresses.
- The AFL unions strongly encouraged their young men to enlist in the military and fiercely opposed efforts to reduce recruiting and slow war production by the anti-war groups like the International Workers of the World (IWW) and left-wing Socialists.
- Anti-war socialists controlled the IWW, which fought against the war effort and was in turn shut down by legal action by the federal government.