April 27
1936
The UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America), gained autonomy from the AFL, becoming the first democratic, independent labor union concerned with the rights of unskilled and semi-skilled laborers.
1937
The first Social Security payment was made.
The Social Security Debate Today
1979
Navajos demonstrate as Gulf Oil sinks a uranium mine into sacred mountain
1989
Thousands of Chinese students took to the streets in Beijing to protest government policies and issued a call for greater democracy in the communist People’s Republic of China. The protests grew until the Chinese government ruthlessly suppressed them in June during what came to be known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Ignoring government warnings of violent suppression of any mass demonstration, students from more than 40 universities began a march to Tiananmen on April 27.
The students were joined by workers, intellectuals, and civil servants, and by mid-May more than a million people filled the square.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 