1917 – An anarchist-inspired motion is passed at the first Congress of Factory Councils in revolutionary Russia in favour of workers' self-management
1923 – Anarchist Beat poet Philip Whalen is born in Portland, Oregon.
1945 – In the course of the Spanish Revolution, anarchist guérillas "El Quico", Jaime "Abisinio" Pares Adán and Juan "Roget" Salas Millón, help three prisoners escape from a Barcelona jail at the behest of the Committee of Resistance of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo