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• 1839: Joseph Cinqué leads successful slave revolt on the ship Amistad.
• 1840: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s What Is Property? is published.
• 1874: Socialist writer Fritz Brupbacher born in Zürich.
• 1882: Robert Louzon born in Paris. He was an engineer, revolutionary syndicalist, anarchist and socialist. Louzon was involved in the Confédération générale du travail (CGT) and then in the anarchist Confédération nationale du travail (CNT).
• 1885: Chicago Streetcar Strike begins.
• 1892: Start of the Homestead Steel Strike.
• 1909: Large meeting organized by the Free Speech Society is held at Cooper Union to protest harassment of anarchist speaker Emma Goldman and to win back the right of free speech. Speakers include former congressman Robert Baker, Alden Freeman, Voltairine de Cleyre, James P. Morton, and Harry Kelly. Telegrams from Eugene Debs and others are also read.
• 1918: Eugene Debs arrested in Cleveland for obstructing drafting for the army and navy.
• 1920: Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman travel to Moscow to collect permits necessary for their museum expedition through Russia to gather historical material.
• 1921: Fedir Shchus dies in a fight with the 8th Division of Red Cossacks. He was a commander in the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine of Nestor Makhno.
• 1930: Francisco Saverio Merlino dies in Rome. He was a lawyer, anarchist activist and theorist of libertarian socialism.
• 1935: Alexander Berkman is buried in Nice.
• 1936: The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
• 1957: Anarchist, poet, and activist José Oiticica dies in Rio de Janeiro. Grandfather of the Brazilian artist and anarchist, Hélio Oiticica.
• 1960: Congo gains independence from Belgium.
• 1966: The National Organization of Women (NOW) is founded in Washington, DC.
• 1967: Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers union merges into United Steelworkers of America.
• 1983: Start of Phelps Dodge Strike in the copper towns of Arizona as 2,000 miners strike.
• 1984: Lillian Hellman dies in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. She was a left-wing author who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
• 1998: A group of 100 people manages to enter the buildings of the Constitutional Council of France. One of them seizes an original specimen of the constitution, tears it, declaring: “The dictatorship of capitalism is abolished. The workers declare anarchist communism.”
• 1998: 40,000 construction workers demonstrate in Manhattan over Metropolitan Transportation Authority contract to a non-union company.