1840 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What Is Property? is published. Proudhon becomes history's first anarchist, and the political philosophy of Anarchism is founded. (pictured)
1909 - Large meeting organized by the Free Speech Society is held at Cooper Union to protest harassment of anarchist speaker Emma Goldman & to win back the right of free speech. Speakers include former congressman Robert Baker, Alden Freeman, Voltairine de Cleyre, James P. Morton, & Harry Kelly. Telegrams from Eugene Debs & others are also read.
1920 - Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman travel to Moscow to collect permits necessary for their museum expedition through Russia to gather historical material.
1998 - A group of 100 people manages to enter the buildings of the Constitutional Council of France. One of them seizes an original specimen of the constitution, tears it, declaring: "The dictatorship of capitalism is abolished. The workers declare anarchist communism."