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1798
- Irish rebels are defeated at the Battle of Vinegar Hill during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. As many as 1200 rebels are killed.
1913
- Filipino Communist revolutionary Luis Taruc is born.
1919
- During the Winnipeg general strike, Canadian police fire on a crowd of protesting war veterans, murdering two.
1921
- After Colonel Commandant Thomas Lambert is ambushed and killed by the Irish Volunteers in Knockcroghrey, the Black and Tans British military force burns the town.
1964
- Three Statsian civil rights workers with the Congress of Racial Equality are murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.