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1900 Belgium Old Age Pensions Act comes into effect.

1920 UK Dockers refused to load arms shipments to be used by White armies in Russia.

1941 Belgium Exactly one year after the German invasion of that country, a group of women walked out of the Cockerill steelworks in Seraing. the movement spread like wildfire throughout Belgium. At the peak of the eight-day-long strike, sixty thousand workers joined in[more]

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