27 janvier

1593 -- The Vatican begins a seven year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno.

1756 -- Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lives, Salzburg, Austria.

1842 -- François Dumartheray lives, in Collonges, the High Saone. Member of the First International & an anarchist communist.

1850 -- US: Samuel Gompers, first president of American Federation of Labor (AFL), lives.

1862 -- France: Anarchist Louise Michel, spending years teaching, writing, & educating herself — including on the political level — becomes a member of the Union of the Poets.

1903 -- US: Police arrest Emma Goldman & Max Baginski in New York City for being "suspicious persons"; released after questioning.

1920 -- US: Kansas mine workers strike against compulsory arbitration.

1927 -- Canada: Emma Goldman's first two lectures, January 27-30, in Winnipeg draw large audiences: a Yiddish lecture attracts 400 & 1,000 attend an English lecture on "The Labor Situation in Europe."

1952 -- France: International Movement for Fraternal Union Among Races & Peoples is formed, Paris.

1957 -- US: For the second time in a year, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed.

1987 -- France: Clara Thalmann-Ensner dies, in Nice. Swiss revolutionary & anarchist, fought in the Spanish Revolution, founded Serena Commune in Nice in 1953 with her husband Pavel. Catégorie:Janvier