The London Dock Strike was a massive industrial dispute involving more than 100,000 workers in the Port of London, beginning on this day in 1889. Workers established strong trade unions and won better working conditions.
Image: Dockers' strike march, 1889 [libcom.org]
Mariola Sirakova, born on this day in 1904, was a wealthy Bulgarian actress who organized with the revolutionary anarchist movement in Bulgaria, sheltering wanted anarchists from the state before being executed at the age of 20.