The Empire Zinc Strike, also known as the Salt of the Earth strike, was a 15-month-long miners' strike that began on this day in 1950, against the Empire Zinc Company in protest of its discriminatory pay and company housing practices.

On this day in 1961, French police, led by Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, attacked a rally of 30,000 pro-Algerian protesters, drowning dozens of people in the Seine. The massacre was denied by the state for 37 years, until 1998.

Concha Pérez Collado, born on this day in 1915, was an anarchist involved with the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and anti-fascist soldier during the Spanish Civil War.

On this day in 1985, following a breakdown in negotiations with the government, thousands of nurses in Victoria, Australia went on an indefinite, state-wide strike for the first time in the state's history.