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On this day in 1977, the San Francisco Chronicle reported allegations that the CIA assisted anti-Castro terrorists in spreading the African Swine Fever virus in Cuba, causing the disease's first outbreak in the Western hemisphere.
On this day in 1894, the anti-colonial Donghak Peasant Rebellion began with the "Gobu Uprising", where 1,000 peasants stormed the county of Gobu, freeing prisoners, occupying government buildings, and causing the county ruler to flee.
Francisco Ferrer, born on this day in 1859, was an anarchist educator who founded a network of secular libertarian schools in and around Barcelona, Spain. Following a sham trial in 1909, Ferrer was executed by the state.
Julio Mella was a Cuban communist activist who helped found the international Cuban Communist Party. On this day in 1929, Mella was assassinated by an unknown assailant while walking home with revolutionary photographer Tina Modotti.
On this day in 1978, prominent critic of the Nicaraguan Somoza regime Pedro Chamorro was assassinated in downtown Managua. His death led to a popular uprising against the government, successfully ousting Anastasio Somoza in 1979.
On this day in 1860, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts collapsed, killing around 150 people, mostly Scottish and Irish women. Despite workers testifying that the building was unsafe, no one was punished for the disaster.