Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/October/October 24

• 1868 – Belgian-French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer Alexandra David-Néel (pictured) is born in Saint-Mandé
• 1870 – Mikhail Bakunin stays one step ahead of his persecutors, sailing from Marseilles to Locarno
• 1886 – A letter by French anarchist militant Clément Duval of the Panther of Batignolles justifying the group's activities appears in Le Révolté
• 1924 – Italian anarchist militant Ernesto Bonomini is sentenced to eight years hard labor for killing fascist Nicola Bonservizi
• 1970 – A bomb explodes in a government office in Greenford, England during, one of a series of bomb attacks during a Council workers' strike that are credited to the Angry Brigade
• 1975 – Spanish anarchist and CNT activist Cipriano Mera dies in Saint-Cloud, France