[Wikipedia] April 19: Emma Goldman

  Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, 
  writing, and speeches.  She was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel 
  woman" by admirers, and derided as an advocate of 
  politically-motivated murder and violent revolution by her critics.  
  Born in the province of Kaunas, Lithuania she moved with her sister 
  Helena to Rochester, New York in the United States at the age of 
  sixteen.  Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket Riot, Goldman was 
  trained by Johann Most in public speaking and became a renowned 
  lecturer, attracting crowds of thousands.  The writer and anarchist 
  Alexander Berkman became her lover, lifelong intimate friend and 
  comrade.  Together they planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an 
  act of propaganda of the deed.  Though Frick survived, Berkman was 
  sentenced to twenty-two years in prison.  In 1917 Goldman and Berkman 
  were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons 
  not to register" for the newly instated draft.  After their release 
  from prison, they were arrested - with hundreds of others - and 
  deported to Russia.  Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik 
  revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of 
  violence and the repression of independent voices.  Eventually she 
  traveled to Spain to participate in that nation's civil war.  She died 
  in Toronto on 14 May 1940.  

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1713:
  With no living male heirs, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI issued the