- 1879 - Carlo Tresca (pictured) was born in Italy.
- 1883 - Louise Michel led a demonstration of unemployed, and received six years of solitary confinement, this was the first known instance of the display of the black flag.
- 1901 - Leo Tolstoy was excommunicated from the Russian Orthodox Church.
- 1939 - Cipriano Mera's IV Division defeated Communist forces that had besieged the National Council of Defense.