Source: Good News Network

On this day 85 years ago, Hormel corporation’s Minnesota meat packing workers sat down on the job for three days demanding higher wages in what was perhaps the first successful sit-down strike in American labor history (1933)
MORE Good News on this Date:
- Fantasia, the animated film produced by Walt Disney, featuring eight pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, was released (1940)
- The U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional Alabama’s policy of racial segregation on public buses, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott, made famous by Rosa Parks (1956)
- Saddam Hussein agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq, demanded by a UN Security Council Resolution (2002)
- Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year old British model, was reported to be the first person proven to have been ‘cured’ of HIV, after only being prescribed daily supplements (2005)
And on this day in 2010, Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader and Nobel…
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