On this day in 1925, twelve organizers with the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) were arrested and charged with violating the Mutiny Act of 1797. Six served time in prison after refusing to renounce communism.

Calixto García Íñiguez, born on this day in 1836, was a general in three separate Cuban uprisings for independence - the Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the War of 1895, which bled into the Spanish-American War.

Paul Avrich, born on this day in 1931, was a historian of anarchism whose works address topics such as the Kronstadt Rebellion, the Haymarket Affair, and the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. "Every good person deep down is an anarchist."

Sheldon Wolin, born on this day in 1922, was a political theorist notable for coining the term "inverted totalitarianism" in his landmark 2008 text "Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism".