British politician and Secretary General of the Communist Party of Great Britain (born 1890)

Harry Pollitt

Harry Pollitt was a British communist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from July 1929 to September 1939 and again from 1941 until his death in 1960. Pollitt spent most of his life advocating communism. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, Pollitt was an adherent particularly of Joseph Stalin even after Stalin's death and rise of Nikita Khrushchev. Pollitt's acts included opposition to the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and Polish–Soviet War, support for the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, both support for and opposition to the war against Nazi Germany, defence of the communist coup in Czechoslovakia, and support for the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.

Born

1890

November 22

Died

1960

Era

1890s

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1890 Born
1960 Died

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1210 The Castle of Termes falls to Simon de Montfort after a four-month siege during the Albigensian Crusade.
1220 Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Honorius III.

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The world in 1960

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april 1 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
april 13 The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
april 15 At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
april 19 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

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Also born in 1890

Agnes Macphail 1890–1954 Canadian educator and politician (born 1890) Aimee Semple McPherson 1890–1944 Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (died 1944) Charles de Gaulle 1890–1970 French general and politician, President of France (died 1970) Conrad Richter 1890–1968 American journalist and novelist (died 1968) Marjorie Main 1890–1975 American actress (born 1890) Marjory Stoneman Douglas 1890–1998 American journalist and activist (died 1998) Max Immelmann 1890–1916 German lieutenant and pilot (born 1890) Norman Bethune 1890–1939 Canadian soldier and physician (died 1939) Ronald Fisher 1890–1962 English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist (died 1962)

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