On this day in 1985, hereditary chief lead blockade of loggers from Western Forest Products, on Haida Gwaii (then called Queen Charlotte Islands). The campaign lasted 3 months and 72 Haida citizens including elders Ethel Jones, Ada Yovanovich and Watson Pryce were arrested by the RCMP and charged with Contempt of Court. "The elders themselves decided that," Haida hereditory chief Gidansda Guujaaw said. "In fact, they were asked not to [protest]. They insisted, they wanted to be the first ones to make their point. And they were quite willing to take the consequence, no matter what that was." The campaign was successful and in 1988, approximately 1,470 sq. km of Haida Gwaii was transformed into the South Moresby National Park Reserve, which was later renamed the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve. A Legacy pole honoring the struggle and Haida land stewardship was raised on August 15, 2013. It was the first pole raised in the Gwaii Haanas region in over 130 years.

On October 26, 1950, President of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Albizu Campos was holding a meeting in Fajardo, when he received word that his house in San Juan was surrounded by police waiting to arrest him. Although they had been planning for a revolution in two years time, Campos ordered the revolution to commence, upon hearing that the other nationalist leaders were already arrested. On October 30, the Nationalists staged uprisings in the towns of Ponce, Mayagüez, Naranjito, Arecibo, Utuado (Utuado Uprising), San Juan (San Juan Nationalist revolt), and Jayuya. The "governor", Luis Muñoz Marín, declared martial law. The United States sent ten P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes out of Ramey Air Force Base to bomb the town of Jayuya. The planes dropped 500-pound bombs and machine-gunned nearly every rooftop in the town, leaving the town in ruins. Although an extensive part of Jayuya was destroyed, news of the military action was prevented from spreading outside of Puerto Rico. Instead, the American media reported President Truman saying it was "an incident between Puerto Ricans."