International Day of Climate Action
1840: Volunteer Rangers under Colonel Moore massacred 140 Comanches (men, women and children) in their village on the Colorado and captured 35 others (mostly small children).
1868: Anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer Alexandra David-Néel was born in Saint-Mandé, France.
1870: Mikhail Bakunin stays one step ahead of his persecutors, sailing from Marseilles to Locarno.
1871: Anti-immgration mob in Los Angeles lynches 24 Chinese workers.
1886: A letter by French anarchist militant Clément Duval of the Panther of Batignolles justifying the group’s activities appears in Le Révolté.
1892: General strike in New Orleans begins. Main demand is a 10 hour work day.
1904: A. K. Golam Jilani born in Nawabganj Upazila, Bangladesh. He was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement.
1905: Trotskyist Pierre Frank born in Paris. He served on the secretariat of the Fourth International from 1948 to 1979 and wrote The Long March of the Trotskyists.
1914: Last issue of the anarchist journal Il Ribelle is published in Milan.
1924: Italian anarchist militant Ernesto Bonomini is sentenced to eight years hard labor for killing fascist Nicola Bonservizi.
1938: US forbids child labour in factories.
1940: 40 hour work week under the Fair Labor Standards Act goes into effects in the United States.
1943: Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting.
1964: Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia.
1968: The People’s Democracy stages a protest demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings in Belfast.
1969: The first meeting of the University of Toronto Homophile Association is held.
1970: A bomb explodes in a government office in Greenford, England during, one of a series of bomb attacks during a Council workers’ strike that are credited to the Angry Brigade.
1970: Salvador Allende, socialist & head of Unidad Popular Party, elected Chile’s president.
1975: Spanish anarchist and CNT activist Cipriano Mera dies in Saint-Cloud, France.
1975: 90% of Icelandic women strike from their jobs & homes, stopping the country.
1980: The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
1981: The first National Conference on Lesbian and Gay Aging is held in California.
1990: Exposure of Gladio, a secret Italian paramilitary group responsible for attacks falsely implicating communists and anarchists.
2005: Rosa Parks dies in Detroit.
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