Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), died at 78
The Bonus Army was a group of 40,000+ people, including almost 20,000 World War I veterans, who were demanding payment on certificates for payment that they were given after service in World War I and whose payments were held up in the early 1930s due to the economic collapse in the US.
In 1989, the goal of the protest movement staged by Chinese students in Tiananmen square was to bring about Democratic reforms.