Mildred -- Millie – Beik was born on this date. A historian and librarian, she’s the author of a highly regarded book, The Miners of Windber, about the immigrants and labor struggles of coal miners in her hometown of Windber, Pennsylvania.

Mildred -- Millie – Beik died on this date. A historian and librarian, she’s the author of a highly regarded book, The Miners of Windber, about the immigrants and labor struggles of coal miners in her hometown of Windber, Pennsylvania.

Terrence V. Powderly, a resident of the Petworth neighborhood in Washington, D.C., in the last years of his life, dies at his home there. He is buried at nearby Rock Creek Cemetery. Powderly was an American labor union leader, politician and attorney, best known as head of the Knights of Labor in the late 1880s, one of the largest American labor organizations of the 19th century. Powderly led the Knights to a membership that was upwards of 800,000 and included both African Americans and women, although many lodges in the U.S. South were segregated.