Faye Schulman, born on this day in 1919, was a Jewish partisan who took up arms against the Nazis responsible for killing her family. "I want people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter."

Friedrich Engels, born on this day in 1820, was a German philosopher, journalist, and revolutionary socialist who co-authored the "Communist Manifesto" and edited Marx's "Das Kapital". "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."