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Monday, 9 October 2017

On this day: 09 October

ON THIS DAY- On this day in 1967, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army. “The US-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while battling his band of guerrillas in Bolivia and assassinated him the following day. His hands were cut off as proof of death and his body was buried in an unmarked grave.” In 1988, Latvians marched on the streets of Riga to pressure Moscow for greater independence from the Soviet Union. Also on this day in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the atomic program, starting the Manhattan Project, which produced the atomic bomb. This time last year, Christine Lagarde was telling us that devaluation and subsidy cuts needed to happen before the IMF could approve a loan and it was also the deadline to register for the value added tax. In 2015, we were fascinated by Netflix’s notion that “hard work is irrelevant.”

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