Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/June/June 30
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- 1840 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What Is Property? is published. Proudhon becomes history's first anarchist, and the political philosophy of Anarchism is founded. (pictured)
- 1874 - Fritz Brupbacher born (d. 1945).
- 1882 - Robert Louzon born (d. 1976).
- 1888 - Léon Metchnikoff dies (b. 1838).
- 1909 - Large meeting organized by the Free Speech Society is held at Cooper Union to protest harassment of anarchist speaker Emma Goldman & to win back the right of free speech. Speakers include former congressman Robert Baker, Alden Freeman, Voltairine de Cleyre, James P. Morton, & Harry Kelly. Telegrams from Eugene Debs & others are also read.
- 1920 - Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman travel to Moscow to collect permits necessary for their museum expedition through Russia to gather historical material.
- 1930 - Francisco Saverio Merlino (b. 1856) dies.
- 1936 - Alexander Berkman is buried in Nice.
- 1957 - José Oiticica (b. 1882) dies. Grandfather of the Brazilian artist & anarchist, Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980).
- 1998 - A group of 100 people manages to enter the buildings of the Constitutional Council of France. One of them seizes an original specimen of the constitution, tears it, declaring: "The dictatorship of capitalism is abolished. The workers declare anarchist communism."
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