Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/August/August 23

• 1837 - Etienne Faure born (d. 1911).
• 1871 - Alfred Sanftleben (aka "Slovak") born (d. 1952), Thuringe, Germany.
• 1893 - Emma Goldman lectures in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, before traveling to Philadelphia. While in Philadelphia, Goldman meets German anarchist Max Baginski & American-born anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre for the first time.
• 1907 - The arrest of Mexican anarchists Ricardo Flores Magón, Antonio Villarreal & Librado Rivera after their hiding place has been discovered.
• 1927 - Italian immigrant anarchists Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (pictured) executed.
• 1936 - Camillo Berneri, after organizing an Italian column within the Francisco Ascaso Column in the Pedralbes barracks (renamed "Bakunin"), takes part in the harsh engagements on the "bare mountain," where the anarchists Mario Angeloni, Vincenzo Perrone & Michele Centrone died.
• 1948 - Adrienne Montegudet (née Victorine Valdant) (b. 1885) dies.
• 1956 - Ernst Frick (b. 1881) dies.