- This day in 1797 saw rioting on the streets of Glasgow, as weavers expressed their anger at wage cuts. Workers burned their looms in the streets, and bricks were thrown at magistrates and soldiers, in protest at the city manufacturers’ proposal to reduce the scale of wages. The disorder resulted in soldiers opening fire on the insurgents and six people were killed.
- 1859 Jean Jaurès, French socialist (L'Humanité, Les Preuves), born in Castres, Second French Empire (d. 1914)
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