Josip Broz Tito was born on 7 May 1892 in Kumrovec. A Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman, Tito was born Josip Broz in a village in Croatia, then part of Austria-Hungary. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army, was captured by Russia in the First World War and became a communist. During the Second World War he led the Partisan resistance against the Axis occupation and, after the war, ruled Yugoslavia as a one-party state until his death. In 1948 he broke with Stalin, and Yugoslavia followed an independent course, developing a system of workers' self-management and becoming a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement. He kept the multi-ethnic federation together by balancing its nations, and after his death in 1980 it began to unravel, breaking apart in the 1990s.
Before and after
- 3 January 1892Birth of J. R. R. Tolkien
- 26 March 1892Death of Walt Whitman
- 8 April 1892Birth of Mary Pickford
- 3 May 1892Birth of George Paget Thomson
- 7 May 1892Birth of Josip Broz Tito
- 3 June 1892Founding of Liverpool F.C.
- 26 June 1892Birth of Pearl S. Buck
- from 7 July 1892 to 10 May 1897Rise of Katipunan
- 23 July 1892Birth of Haile Selassie I
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