Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/August/August 9
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- 1888 - During a meeting of the terrassiers strikers Joseph Tortelier (1854-1925), an ardent advocate of the "General Strike," is selected as their lawyer.
- 1898 - Vassil Ikonomov born (d. 1925), Aïtos, Bulgaria.
- 1938 - Emma Goldman offers the International Institute of Social History (IISH) her unpublished sketches & large collection of newspaper clippings as well as Alexander Berkman's diary. She agrees to help IISH obtain other collections of personal papers from her circle of anarchist friends.
- 2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist sociologist and activist, dies.