Petrograd, 4 July 1917. Street demonstration on Nevsky Prospekt just after troops of the Provisional Government have opened fire with machine guns. 10 Historically Significant Political Protests -- Live Science
Iran's capital of Tehran is currently mired in political protests over its recent and disputed presidential election. Most of the demonstrators are gathered in the hopes of forcing a vote recount, and they may well get it, if history is any indication.
Political protests — both violent, peaceful and downright strange — have a rich past, with varied degrees of success in accomplishing what they originally set out to do.
The following historically significant political protests include a decisive event in the Civil Rights movement, two history-changing moments that occurred within one year and the medieval defiance of one man:
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My Comment: I would not put the Iraq War protests on this list, nor the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine. I would put the protests in Moscow (1992) that put Yeltsin in power, as well as the start of the Russian Revolution in 1917 (protests in Leningrad) that started the sequence of events that put Lenin and the Russian Communists into power.
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