On this day in 2011, known as the "Day of Anger", millions of people took to the streets in massive anti-government protests all across Egypt, including the cities of Cairo, Alexandria, Suez, and Ismaïlia.

Image: Tahrir Square during February 8th, 2011, shot by "Mona" from Flickr [Wikipedia]

On this day in 1979, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, a labor union representing migrant farm workers, initiated a boycott against Campbell's and Nestle products to achieve union recognition and higher wages.

Image: A FLOC boycott poster c. 1982, spoofing Andy Warhol's pop image of a Campbell's soup can, renamed "Cream of Exploitation Soup" [cultjones.com]

Fumiko Kaneko, born on this day in 1903, was a Japanese anarchist, nihilist, and opponent to Japanese imperialism in Korea. She authored "The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman" while jailed for treason.

Image: Fumiko Kaneko sits on her knees wearing a striped kimono with her hands clasped in front of her, staring intently ahead. c. 1925, author unknown [Wikipedia]

The Passaic Textile Strike was a walkout by 15,000 mill workers that began on this day in 1926 in New Jersey. It began as the one of the first communist-led strikes in the U.S., however the AFL took over on condition that radicals step aside.

Image: Children of strikers in the 1926 Passaic Textile Strike used to picket outside the White House, Washington, D.C. [Wikipedia]