2 British frigates engage several Chinese junkies. British want the drug trade for themselves. Antonio Gonsalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea. A miner by trade, Wilckens worked in Arizona, where he led a strike in 1916. Despite government attempts to cover up his murder, a nation-wide General Strike was called in protest, shutting down the country.
Most men buy nothing.
After witnessing the agonies of 90 serious casualties as a chemist, Georg Trakl, dies of an overdose of cocaine. His work influenced Germanic poets after both world wars. Bolshevik party, forced by Lenin, takes power during Russian Revolution, Moscow. Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals.