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Omaha Steve

(99,613 posts) Wed Jul 15, 2015, 08:11 PM Jul 2015

7-15-15 John Ball was Executed in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/july-15-john-ball-was-executed-1436966203/

July 15, 2015
On this day in Labor History and we are going all the way back to the year of 1381. That was the day John Ball, the leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in England was executed. Due to the plague, the Black Death, in 1348, many peasants had died.

Two minute audio at link.

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