1589 Caterina De' Medici dies at 69 years of age.
1878 Birth of Nelly Roussel. Free thinker, anarchist and feminist.
1914 Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new
daily minimum wage of $5 and an (shortened) eight-hour work day.
1919 Revolt in Berlin by the Spartacists. led by Karl Liebknech
and Rosa Luxembourg.
1977 Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer speaks
in Bucarest, Romenia to other leaders about Eurocommunism.
1979 Charlie Mingus dies.
1969 Birth of Marylin Manson.