Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/June/June 17


 * 1876 - Bologna anarchist trial ends. Malatesta and six others acquitted.
 * 1906 - Alexander Berkman released from prison for attempted murder of Henry Clay Frick. Emma Goldman & others address a crowd of 2,000 people who gather to greet Berkman.
 * 1911 - Tijuana recaptured by Porfirio Díaz's former Federal troops, now led by Francisco I. Madero, spelling the final dissolution of the anarchist PLM forces by defeat & desertion.
 * 1923 - Kurt Wilckens (b. 1886) dies after being shot in his prison cell by a rightwing guard a day prior.
 * 1932 - Angelo Sbardellotto (b. 1907), is executed at 5:45 am by firing squad, having admitted to the Tribunal Spécial (fasciste) his plan to assassinate Benito Mussolini.
 * 2006 - Mexico: The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca occupies Oaxaca City, beginning a period of self-governance by popular assemblies