Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/June/June 20

Albert Parsons

• 1848 - Albert Parsons (pictured) born (d. 1887), Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1907 - Anarchist congress held June 16 - 20, in Rome, where Luigi Fabbri raises the question of anarchist organization, concludes.
• 1909 - Rebel forces of the anarchist Flores Magon brothers attack Casas Grandes, Chih.
• 1912 - Voltairine de Cleyre dies (b. 1866), age 45, following a long illness.
• 1925 - Vassil Ikonomov dies. Tracked down by the army & paramilitary groups, the anarchist revolutionary guerilla Ikonomov is killed under mysterious circumstances today while bathing in a river close to the village of Belitsa, Bulgaria.
• 1926 - Original date for the União Anarquista Portuguesa (UAP; Portuguese Anarchist Union) congress. Scheduled today in Lisbon, the right wing coup on May 28 forces postponing the congress for a year & moving it outside of Portugal. (It secretly convenes in July 1927 in Valencia, Spain.)
• 1945 - François Le Leve dies (b. 1882).
• 1992 - Nicolas Faucier dies.