Augusto César Sandino, born on this day in 1895, was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a working class rebellion against the U.S. military occupation of Nicaragua between 1927 and 1933.
On this day in 1827, anarchist polymath Josiah Warren opened the Cincinnati Time Store, a store whose products could be purchased directly with labor power, one of the first practical applications of mutualist economic concepts.
Image: A sample labor for labor note for the Cincinnati Time Store. Scanned from Equitable Commerce by Josiah Warren (1846) [Wikipedia]
On this day in 1980, the Gwangju Uprising began when 200 South Korean students clashed with the army, a protest that quickly escalated into more than 10,000 citizens battling with state forces and seizing the city of Gwangju.
Image: Prisoners tied up in the wake of the uprising [libcom.org]