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Camillo Berneri

• 1864 - Joan Montseny (aka Federico Urales) born (d. 1942), Reus, Spain.
• 1877 - Pierre Jules Ruff born (d. 1942), Algiers, Algeria. Arrested & perished in a Nazi concentration camp.
• 1888 - In Seville, Spain, Ricardo Mella republishes the newspaper Solidaridad.
• 1894 - Large anarchist gathering in New York welcomes Emma Goldman back. Among the speakers are Voltairine de Cleyre, English anarchist Charles Mowbray, & Italian anarchist Maria Roda.
• 1897 - Cesare Zaccaria born (d. 1961), Genova.
• 1903 - Strandzha Commune established.
• 1921 - Georges Darien dies.
• 1936 - Camillo Berneri (pictured), after organizing an Italian anarchist column within the Francisco Ascaso Column in the Pedralbes barracks (renamed "Bakunin"), with Angeloni & de Santillán (from the CNT-FAI), leaves Barcelona for the Aragonese front.
• 2000 - Luce Fabbri (b. 1908) dies.
• 2006 - Great Lakes Anarchist Gathering, Bowling Green, Ohio, (August 19-20th).