Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/August/August 8

Ross Winn

• 1849 - Vera Zasulich is born into a noble family in Russia. Later becomes an anarchist revolutionary before joining the Mensheviks.
• 1873 - Cantonal rebellion: The Canton of Algeciras is dissolved.
• 1897 - Italian anarchist Michele Angiolillo assassinates Spanish Prime minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo and allows the authorities to arrest him.
• 1912 - Ross Winn (pictured), Texan anarchist writer and publisher, dies from tuberculosis.
• 1918 - Michel Zevaco, French journalist, novelist, publisher, film director, and anti-clerical anarchist activist, dies.
• 1936 - Spanish Civil War: The Iron Column leaves Valencia, headed for the Teruel front.