Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/June/June 4


 * 1848 - During this month Mikhail Bakunin participates in Slav Congress in Czechoslovakia, where he speaks & presents papers; he also participates in the Whitsuntide insurrection here. Also during this month, Karl Marx publishes a false report that Bakunin is a Russian agent responsible for the arrest of Poles.
 * 1850 - During this month Mikhail Bakunin's death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment in Germany. Extradited to Austria, he is imprisoned in Prague. (He was condemned to death on January 14, 1850 while held in the Königstein fortress.)
 * 1857 - John William Lloyd born (1857- 194?), Westfield, New Jersey. Anarchist, poet, writer, doctor, editor of "Free Comrade," & wrote for Benjamin Tucker's Liberty. He was known as the "drugless physician."
 * 1861 - During this month Mikhail Bakunin escapes from Siberia (today or tomorrow), via the Amur River, arriving in Nikolavsk in July; he sails on the Strelok to Kastri where he boards an American merchant ship, Vickery, to Hakodate, Japan.
 * 1898 - Laurance Labadie born (1898-1975), Individualist anarchist, son of Joseph Labadie.
 * 1917 - On the eve of the official military registration day, Emma Goldman, among others, addresses a mass meeting organized by the No-Conscription League.
 * 1919 - Nestor Makhno is declared an outlaw by Bolshevik government.
 * 1928 - The Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by the Empire of Japan, leaving behind a power vacuum which eventually led to the formation of the Korean People's Association in Manchuria.
 * 1986 - Umberto Marzocchi (1900-1986) dies. Italian anarchist shipyard worker, and maqui partisan.