Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/August/August 20


 * 1886 - Sentences are handed down against The Haymarket Trial defendants. Found guilty despite the obvious innocence of some, seven anarchists are condemned to death: George Engel, Samuel Fielden, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, Albert Parsons, Michael Schwab & August Spies (pictured). Oscar Neebe is sent to prison for 15 years. A small measure of grace intervenes for Schwab & Fielden, their sentences reduced to life imprisonment on November 10, 1887. The hangings take place on November 11, 1887.
 * 1913 - The Chinese anarchist journal, Hui-ming-lu ("The Voice of the Cock Crowing in the Dark"), begins publication (ceases in 1916).
 * 1934 - Fredy Perlman born in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
 * 1937 - Founding National Congress of the anarchist women's group, Mujeres Libres, in Valencia, Spain.
 * 1975 - Beginning date of Lluis Fernandez The Naked Anarchist, a Catalonian gay novel, a heady mix of literature & scandal in post-Franco Spain.
 * 1989 - José Peirats (b. 1908) dies.
 * 1996 - Maria Occhipinti (b. 1921) dies, in Rome, Italy.
 * 1999 - Jesús Guillen Bertolin (aka Guillembert) dies, Béziers.