1771 – Robert Owen born. Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
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1881 – Mary Seacole died. Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a ‘British Hotel’ behind the lines during the Crimean War, which she described as “a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers,” and provided succour for wounded servicemen on the battlefield.
She was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991. In 2004 she was voted the greatest Black Briton.
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1940 – Emma Goldman died. Russian anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches.
She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
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