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Events on Sunday 17 October 1920 1
1887 – 1920John Reed (1887-1920)Died 17 October 1920, aged 32American journalist and communist activist best known for "Ten Days That Shook the World," his firsthand account of the Russian Revolution. He co-founded the Communist Labor Party in the United States. He died of typhus in Moscow and was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.