1898 – Italy: Two day General Strike and riots in Ancône following an increase in bread prices. The army occupies the city. Errico Malatesta (publishing the newspaper L'agitazione), Luigi Fabbri and several other anarchists are charged (tried on April 21-28, 1898), with a "criminal conspiracy" against public security and property.
1915 – Lucy Parsons led the Chicago Hunger Demonstrations.
1917 – Ben Reitman was convicted of advocating birth control, and sentenced to six months in jail.
1920 – After being deported from the USA, Luigi Galleani restarted publishing the newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva (Subversive Chronicle) in Turin, Italy.
1920 – The US Military ship, the S.S. Buford, nicknamed the Red Ark, landed at Hangö, Finland after leaving New York Harbor December 21, 1919. On Board were 249 "undesirables" consisting of labor activists, anarchists and radicals, including famous anarchist Emma Goldman. On January 19 the deportees are met at the Russo-Finnish border by Russian representatives and received warmly at a mass meeting of soldiers and peasants in Belo-Ostrov.
1947 – Eugène Lanti (true name Eugène Adam) (1879-1947), ardent Espérantist, anarchist, dies. A founding member of the French Communist Party, he left it after several disillusioning trips to the USSR. Founder of Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (SAT), dedicated to the liberation of the working class, the eradication of national boundaries, and the use of Esperanto as a means in this struggle.
1985 – Japan: Hashimoto Yoshiharu, 55, dies in Tokyo.
