* 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.

To protest against their treatment by authorities, they went on several coordinated hunger strikes ; eventually, they were force-fed.

It contains a copy of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and a newspaper article of a protest she participated in ; it foreshadows the activist group she eventually gets involved in that results in terrorism with which she takes part in bloody demonstrations.

The protest eventually succeeded and the military plan was cancelled.

Mine workers began their protest march near Harwood and many were eventually killed by the Luzerne County sheriff in Lattimer, Pennsylvania | Lattimer in 1897.

) Despite their initial protest, the local citizens eventually came to welcome the government's presence, as it brought life back into their near-dead economy.

Forty other members of the church resigned in protest and the pastor was eventually forced to step down under pressure from his congregation and other members of the community.

This wave of protest eventually forced the government to give in.

Haitink threatened to resign in protest, and the financial situation was eventually settled.

Here certain movements particularly influenced by a philosophy of nonviolence should be mentioned, including Mahatma Gandhi leading a decades-long nonviolent struggle against British rule in India, which eventually helped India win its independence in 1947, Martin Luther King's and James Bevel's adoption of Gandhi's nonviolent methods in the struggle to win civil rights for African Americans, and César Chávez's campaigns of nonviolence in the 1960s to protest the treatment of farm workers in California.

Palestinian activist Khader Adnan went on a 66-day hunger strike starting December 2011 in order to protest, among other things, his own placement under administrative detention without trial or charge ; he was eventually able to agree to cease his strike in exchange for a planned release in April.

Their domination was eventually broken in 1974, when South Africa and India qualified for the final ; however, the final was scratched and South Africa was awarded the Davis Cup after India refused to travel to South Africa for the final in protest of the South African government's apartheid policies.

This eventually led most of the Americans to protest what they perceived to be the president's abuse of power, by withdrawing six weeks before the race was due to start.

They regrouped eventually around the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral and started a protest march around the city, but again they were confronted by the security forces.

In any case, Leigh was cast — despite public protest that the role was too " American " for an English actress — and eventually won an Academy Award for her performance.

The hotel's management stating that the protests " brought to our attention the unintended reaction of you and other conscientious friends ", eventually agreed to the League's calls, prompting the curator of the gallery, Matt Semler, to resign in protest.

Leopold had left Florence for Siena, and eventually for Porto Santo Stefano, leaving a letter to Guerrazzi in which, on account of a protest from the pope, he declared that he could not agree to the proposed constituent assembly.

During this protest Markievicz handed out leaflets, erected great masts: Dear land thou art not conquered yet., participated in stone throwing at pictures of the King and Queen and attempted to burn the giant British flag taken from Leinster House, eventually succeeding, but then seeing James McArdle imprisoned for one month for the incident, despite the Countess testifing in court that she was responsible.

The constitution gave the King large powers he eventually used to strengthen his rule, which provoked strong political protest from the UNFP and the Istiqlal parties that formed the backbone of the opposition.

However, university students mounted a full-scale protest at Porteus ' perceived " blatantly racist theories " and eventually, in 1998, the authorities relented and his name was removed from the building.

On 16 April 1970 he took part in a protest in London demanding the abolition of exchange controls, which Sir Geoffrey Howe eventually abolished in December 1980.

His long monopoly of power caused growing protest which eventually took the form of organised opposition among academics.

In that post, he would frequently clash with the American Governor-General Leonard Wood, and eventually, in 1923, resign from his position together with other Cabinet members in protest of Wood's administration.

Cooke eventually left the paper for good in 1937, in protest over a sensational headline (" Killed Sweetheart, Slept With Body ").

The last two writers introduce strong political bias into their works, and not unlike the union leaders that we will discuss soon, see folklore as a reservoir of protest by a downtrodden and publically silenced mass.

Hong Kong interests loudly protest limiting their exports to Britain, while Spanish and Portuguese textiles pour into British market unrestrictedly.

* Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.

The protest in Eugene turned into a riot where local anarchists drove police out of a small park.

After the November 2000 G8 protest in Montreal, at which many protesters were beaten, trampled, and arrested in what was intended to be a festive protest, the tactic of dividing protests into " green " ( permitted ), " yellow " ( not officially permitted but with little confrontation and low risk of arrest ), and " red " ( involving direct confrontation ) zones was introduced.

* 1773 – American Revolution: Boston Tea Party – Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks dump crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

In 1972 the yacht Vega, a ketch owned by David McTaggart, was renamed Greenpeace III and sailed in an anti-nuclear protest into the exclusion zone at Moruroa to attempt to disrupt French nuclear testing.

Later in 1985 the Rainbow Warrior was to lead a flotilla of protest vessels into the waters surrounding Moruroa atoll, site of French nuclear testing.

His funeral turned into another major protest.

The discipline came into its own in the 1960s and early 70s when inexpensive tape recorders were available to document such rising social movements as civil rights, feminism, and anti – Vietnam War protest.

In June 1956, a protest by workers at the city's Cegielski locomotive factory developed into a series of strikes and popular protests against the policies of the government.

Partisan differences began to sharpen on the question of government intervention in the economy, since lower levels of government were largely in Liberal hands, and protest movements were beginning to send their own parties into the political mainstream, notably the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and William Aberhart's Social Credit Party in Alberta.

The incident turned into a citywide protest that lasted nine days until May 27 and resulted in the Gwangju Massacre.

Eventually Sondhi and his allies developed the movement into a mass protest and later unified under the name of People's Alliance for Democracy ( PAD ).

In 1877 he founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings ( SPAB, sometimes also known as " Anti-Scrape "), which sprang into being as a practical protest against a scheme for restoring and reviving Tewkesbury Abbey.

* May 4 – Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed and 9 wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen, at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.

Even though ÖVP chairman and Vice Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel had announced that his party would go into opposition in that case, he entered into a coalition with the FPÖ – with himself as chancellor – in early 2000 under considerable national and international protest.

There was no violent protest when the Act was passed, and it has been suggested that rioting could have been avoided if the legislature had been more circumspect in enforcing it, although the historical background suggests that insurrection was never far away, and only needed a reason to spark into life.

Whether expressed in a sit-in at lunch counters, a freedom ride into Mississippi, a peaceful protest in Albany, Georgia, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, these are outgrowths of Thoreau's insistence that evil must be resisted and that no moral man can patiently adjust to injustice.

As a result, between 1999 and 2001, IMC newswires tended to be focused on up-to-the-minute coverage of protests, from local demonstrations to summits where anti-globalization movement protests were occurring, with protest coverage continuing into 2007.

Martinelli's book evidently had an effect on public opinion ; in response to Cardinal Altieri's proposal some years later to turn the Colosseum into a bullring, Carlo Tomassi published a pamphlet in protest against what he regarded as an act of desecration.

An investigation was begun into the DoD contract after a protest by Globalstar, to the U. S. General Accounting Office that no tender was provided.