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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
— James Joyce
JAMES JOYCE
Irish modernist writer, experimental novelist.
FEAST OF NO FEASTS.
ID AL ADHA (Islam).
IMBOLC (Wicca).
BEAR CHASE FESTIVAL, Pyrénées: a pretend bear chases men dressed as women. After an amorous interlude, the bear is 'killed', revived, shaved & killed again — paradoxical play & sexual inversion to contend hierarchies of gender.
[Source: Calendar Riots]
1745 -- English religious writer, best known for her popular tracts & as an educator of the poor, Hannah More lives, Stapleton, Glaucestershire.
1779 -- US: Anthony Benezet refuses to pay taxes to support Revolutionary War.
1826 -- French culinary philosopher Anthelme Brillat-Savarin dies.
1848 -- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends US war with Mexico. After invasion by peace-loving America, Mexico cedes parts of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Colorado & Texas Mexico to the U.S.
1851 -- Mexico: José Guadalupe Posada lives (1851-1913). Engraver & illustrator.Daily Bleed Saint December 17, 2003-4
Master Mexican street artist
& peoples' illustrator.
http://muertos.palomar.edu/posdad.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Guadalupe_Posada
1859 -- Havelock Ellis, American sex reformer, lives.Daily Bleed Saint 2004
Pioneer sexologist, closet pervert, liberated a full generation of uptight Americans."The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
1869 -- Burma Shave?: James Oliver invents the removable tempered steel plow blade.
1870 -- Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, New York.
1870 -- Wales: The Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proves to be gypsum.Dear BleedMeister Dave
You recently described Cardiff as being in England. Cardiff is not in England, it is the capital city of Wales. Wales was the first English colony — conquered in 1282. We have struggled to survive ever since.
We had a brief period of Independence between 1401 - 1410 when we had a war of liberation under the famous Owain Glyndwr (the Owen Glendower of Shakespeare). Then nothing until 1999, when by Referendum we voted to establish our first National Assembly in 600 years. Now the struggle goes on to turn the National Assembly into a sovereign parliament, ending 7 centuries of colonial room.
So please put the Cardiff back into Wales & take Wales out of England for all your readers across the world!
Thanks for all the superb quotes & things - I look forward to my daily e-mail from you!
— Bleedster Paul, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Jan 8, 2001
1872 -- Joshua Norton I, "Dei Gratia" Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico, Fires All Public Officials.The Public Officials having again notoriously betrayed the confidence & trust imposed in them by a trusting people; & having shamefully disregarded the public interest & the people's welfare to feather their own nests; now, therefore, We, Norton I, Emperor of America & Protector of Mexico, do hereby order all such Officials to resign forthwith, & do declare their said offices vacant from the date hereof.
— 1872 (exact date unknown) 1998 was a decent year for Emperor Norton in literary circles...
See Emperor Norton's Ghost : A Fremont Jones Mystery by Dianne Day
& A Rush of Dreamers: Being the Remarkable Story of Joshua Norton Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico by John Cech
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html
1872 -- Russia: Peter Kropotkin leaves during this month (I don't have exact date — ed.) to travel to Switzerland. Upon arriving in Zurich Peter immediately joined the local chapter of the International. He was given socialist literature unavailable in Russia. After reading numerous works on socialism, Peter continued his vigorous study of the subject by traveling throughout Switzerland to question various socialist leaders. At this time, he began to attend the worker's meetings of the International (rather than the leader's meetings). In March, a friend suggests that Peter visit the centers of the Jura Federation in Neuchatel. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/KropotkinPeter.htm
1876 -- US: National Baseball League forms, consisting of Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Louisville & Hartford.Three weeks away before Nummer One Son begins tossing de ball & running the bags:
& the right field bleechers go mad with Chicanos & blacks
& Brooklyn beer-drinkers,
"Tito! Sock it to him, sweet Tito!"
& sweet Tito puts his foot in the bucket
& smacks one that don't come back at all,
& flees around the bases
like he's escaping from the United Fruit Company.
As the gringo dollar beats out the pound.
& sweet Tito beats it out like he's beating out usury,
not to mention fascism & anti-semitism.
& Juan Marichal comes up,
& the Chicano bleechers go loco again...
— excerpt, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Baseball Canto"
1879 -- US: 540 Paiutes arrive at Yakama reservation after a forced march through winter snows from Southern Oregon."Maybe we should not have humored them when they asked to live on reservations. Maybe we should have said, No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us."
— acting Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Ronald Reagan during a trip to Moscow, when a student asks about US treatment of Native Americans
1882 -- James Joyce lives, Dublin, Ireland.http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jjoyce.htm
Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound & John Quinn at Pound's place in Paris in 1923. Quinn was a lawyer who defended the publication of Ulysses in "The Little Review" in 1921.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html
1893 -- US: First movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ.
1894 -- Román Delgado lives (1894-1952). Spanish anarchosyndicalist, emigrated to Cuba, but expelled in 1915, he went to America & joined the Magoniste group in San Antonio, Texass.
1901 -- US: New Army Drills: Congress establishes US Army Dental Corps.I have the US army Nurse Corps formed today & the Dental Corps Mar. 3, 1911; however, I do have the Dental Corps AUTHORIZED on Feb. 1, 1901. Either it took them a long time to get around to it, or one of my dates is wrong. I think my source was "Famous First Facts," 1954 ed.
— ChronologyMeister Robert Braunwart
1902 -- Argentinian anarchist Mika Etchebehere lives (1902-1992, née Michèle Feldman). Militant Marxist & then an anarchist. Mika fought in the Spanish Revolution with the P.O.U.M. & also with Cipriano Mera Sanz.
"Ce qui peut me rester de l'anarchisme, c'est mon incapacité à respecter les hiérarchies imposées et ma foi dans le cercle de l'égalité..."
1905 -- Russian-born Joan Rivers/Phyllis Diller wanna-be & American writer whose work fronts her philosophy of objectivism (moralizing autocrats), Ayn Rand lives.Wrote a pot-boiler, The Fountainhead, extolling greed & individual acts without conscience. Important film critic & so-called defender of the individual against the state & collectivism who slavishly adopted the missionary position before that august governmental body, HUAC (investigating Hollywood actor-communists plotting to take over the world), as a voluntary & friendly witness.
Here she delivered her most damning evidence, that a WWII film is communist propaganda because it shows Russian children smiling. Her testimony was the longest of any witness called, which inspired the TV series "Babylon I-LXIX."
A science fiction writer & the L. Ron Hubbard of her day, she spent much of the '50s appearing on talk shows. (See 6 March for her enlightened defense of genocide.
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"Many writers continued their Hollywood careers under pseudonyms, or "fronts," sometimes with comic results. Alfred Levitt, for example, screenwriter of The Boy with Green Hair (1948), relates how a story conference got off on the wrong foot when he was addressed by four different names."
On Capitalist Liberalism....
Libertarianism: Bogus Anarchy by Peter Sabatini Smokestack Lightning by Bob Black The New Right & Anarcho-capitalism by Peter Marshall Ayn Rand & the Perversion of Libertarianism from Anarchy #34
Blacklist: http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/blacklist.htm
The HUAC hearings were degradation ceremonies. Their job was not to legislate or even to discover subversives (that had already been done by the intelligence agencies & their informants) so much as it was to stigmatize.
For a degradation ceremony to work it needs a denouncer. & the most credible denouncer, with the most impeccable credentials, is the one who has been there himself. The ex-Communists constituted a steady supply of denouncers.
A successful status-degradation ceremony must be fueled by moral indignation. The anti-Communist hysteria of the cold war provided an ideal environment.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/navasky-chap10.html
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/blacklist.htm
http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/11-17-97/boston_books_2.html
http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/0896/08096a.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rand.htm
1918 -- Dutch novelist noted for her innovated historical fiction, including Onverenigbaarheid van karakter ("Incompatibility of Character," 1978) & De groten der aarde ("Great Figures of History," 1981), both written in a collage form using authentic documents to tell her stories, Hella Haasse lives, Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia).
1923 -- Poet/novelist James Dickey (Deliverance, 1970) lives, Atlanta, Georgia. His poetry is most noted for its lyrical portrayal of a world in conflict — predator with prey, soldier with soldier, self with itself."The poet is not trying the tell the truth. He's trying to make it."
http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/otherbooks/suarez.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dickey.htm
1926 -- France: Jules Leroux (1860-1926) dies. Militant anarchist cooperativist. Founded a working coop of shoe makers in Amiens. Began manufacturing in 1902 & in 1906, becomes the "Société coopérative de production à bases socialistes." Forced to close in 1914, they resume activity with the end of the war, animated by Jules Leroux.
[Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]
1927 -- Stan Getz, jazz musician, lives.
1928 -- Cynthia Macdonald, American poet lives. Her first published volume of poetry, Amputations (1970), drew attention with its startling imagery. She founded the creative writing program at the University of Houston in 1979.
1931 -- Poet Judith Viorst lives.
1931 -- Argentinean anarchist Paulino Scarfo dies in a shoot out with police.
http://ytak.club.fr/noms3.html#s
1931 -- US: First American citizens are "repatriated" from the nation as Los Angeles Chicanos are deported to Mexico.As the Depression worsens, public officials across the Southwest decide it's cheaper to send legal residents back to Mexico than carry them on the welfare rolls. During the decade's first four years, well over 400,000 Mexican-Americans, many US citizens living here as long as 40 years, are "repatriated". Some families, as a result, are split because a father or mother — or both — will be considered alien, but the US-born children will be allowed to stay.
1932 -- Switzerland: First world disarmament convention opens, Geneva. All governments, being populated with rational, bright & ethical people concerned only for the welfare of their people, immediately disarm...
1932 --
"It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, 2/2/1932
Duke Ellington had a gift for transcending shifting tastes & making music both trendsetting & timeless. The deep freeze of 1932's winter is belied by the hot vitality of this classic performance, featuring Ivie Anderson's vocals. Years later, Duke would observe:"We did not foresee then that the world would take it ['It Don't Mean A Thing'] to its own as a theme of an era."
The swing era waited for Benny Goodman, but Ellington heard it coming.
— Mark Humphrey, "The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s"
http://www2.blackside.com/blackside/PublishingNewMedia/Depressionmusic2.html
http://www.authentichistory.com/1930s/music/1930s_music_01.html
1938 -- US: Firebrand Emma Tenayuca leads pecan shellers strike, San Antonio, Texass.
In February, low wages in the pecan industry lead to a month-long strike at the Southern Pecan-Shelling Company. Emma Tenayuca, a charismatic young leader, helps to organize the walkout that wins wage increases. Luisa Moreno recruits many of the workers for the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, & Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) union.
[Details / context]
1938 --England: During this month Emma Goldman plans a spring benefit for the SIA; feels more confident about its prospects when more individuals agree to serve as sponsors, including art critic Sir Herbert Read, Laurence Housman, Havelock Ellis, John Cowper Powys, George Orwell, & Rebecca West, among others.
Also, related, an exhibition of drawings by children in Barcelona schools & lace work by women refugees opens at the SIA office but draws only a handful of visitors despite extensive publicity; & the first issue of the S.I.A. bulletin is published.
Source: Emma Goldman Papers
1939 -- England: This month Emma Goldman is frantic with worry until she receives firm news of the whereabouts of anarchists who have escaped from Catalonia after the collapse of the resistance in Spain. Most find sanctuary in France but face harsh conditions in internment camps; others reach Paris without permits.Vázquez's account for the suddenness of the collapse in Catalonia names exhaustion among the armies after the counterattack by Franco's forces on the Ebro front, shortages of military personnel, war-weariness & declining morale among the civilian population exacerbated by food shortages, & the hurried & open removal of the government from Barcelona that led to panic among the population.
Also this month, IISH informs Goldman that her archive has been sent to England in case the Nazis invade the Netherlands.
http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/g/10749558.php
1942 -- Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) dies.Daily Bleed Saint December 30, 2002-2004
"Literary Hooligan," starved to death
in Respected & Beloved Comrade Leader
Uncle Joe Stalin's prisons.There are different accounts of his death. In the gloomiest version, he was simply forgotten after the arrest & eaten in his cell by rats.
This is too much like one of his own stories to be true.
The sanitation commission, while making its rounds of the apartments, saw Kalugin, found him unsanitary & good for nothing & ordered the housing cooperative to throw Kalugin out with the garbage.
They folded Kalugin in half & threw him out as garbage.
— Daniil Kharms,
"The Dream," August 22, 1936http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniil_Kharms
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8926/Kharms/
1944 -- Italy: Salvatore Cassia lives, (1944-2002). Electronics worker, he discovered anarchism in the public library at Trapani which had a rich collection of texts & newspapers from the 19th century. Actively involved in campaigns around the police murder of Giuseppe Pinelli (made famous by Dario Fo’s play Accidental Death of an Anarchist where, like Pinelli, an anarchist is thrown from a police station window) & for the release & pardoning of the framed Valpreda & his comrades.
http://libcom.org/history/cassia-salvatore-1944-2002
1946 -- US: The first Buck Rogers automatic pistol was made for the annual American Toy Fair.
1948 -- Radio broadcast of Antonin Artaud's "Pour En Finir Avec le Judgement de Dieu" is cancelled. A heretic's scatological tirade at the extreme of the linguistic lunatic fringe, it was perhaps Artaud's electronic revenge against his incarcerators — an invective broadcast from the end of the mind.Artaud's piece was commissioned in 1947 by Ferdinand Pouey, director of dramatic & literary broadcasts for French Radio. The work defies description, & although it was actually recorded in the studios of the French Radio at the end of 1947 & scheduled to be broadcast at 10:45 PM on February 2, 1948, the broadcast was cancelled at the last minute by the director of French Radio, Vladimir Porche. Citing Artaud's scatological, vicious & obscene anti-American & anti-Catholic pronouncements as something that the French radio audience could do without, he upheld this censorship in the face of widespread support from many culturally prominent figures including Jean Cocteau, Jean Louis Barrault, Rene Clair & Paul Eluard. Pouey actually quit his job in protest. Artaud died a little over a month later, profoundly disappointed over the rejection of the work. It was not broadcast over the airwaves until 30 years later.
http://wfmu.org/LCD/GreatDJ/artaud.html
1950 -- Spain: Manuel "Manolo" Sabaté (Sabater) Llopart is garroted in Barcelona prison.An anarchist militant, he was accused of having secretly crossed the frontier to take part in the Resistance. One of the main reasons for his harsh sentence of death is that he is the brother of Francisco Sabate, a famous & legendary member of the anarchist guérilla groups.
Francisco Sabaté, see,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/SabateFrancisco.htm
http://es.geocities.com/paisajes_guerrilla/catalonia.html
1951 -- US: First four of seven blacks convicted of raping a Martinsville, Virginia, white woman, Mrs. Ruby Stroud Floyd, died in the electric chair. The remaining three were electrocuted February 5. (By some odd anomaly, to date only one white has ever been executed for rape in Virginia's glorious history.)
"The Martinsville Seven Negroes were electrocuted in Richmond, Virginia for a crime they could not have committed, according to the evidence. The alleged crime was rape of a white woman who had since disappeared.
They were Clabon Taylor, Frank Hairston, Jr., Joe Henry Hampton, James Hairston, Booker T. Millner, Francis Grayson, J.L. Hairston. (Mrs. Josephine Grayson, widow of the executed Francis Grayson & the mother of five children, is one of the present petitioners."
— Civil Rights Congress (including Paul Robeson), "We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People." (New York: 1951).
A good book, but really painful to read.
— Robert Braunwart
1952 -- US: Convicted "trunk murderess" Winnie Ruth Judd escapes from the Arizona State Insane Hospital for the fifth time. She was recaptured 7 February (see 16 October).
http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/judd.html
1954 -- Snow falls on Gibraltar.
1955 --
Way Far Out Strange Stuff: 1955 - A massive black blizzard (a snowstorm combined with black dust & dirt churned from the earth by strong wind) strikes the Southwest & Plains. [Weather Notebook, Feb. 2, 1999]
http://www.passarola.com/strange/febfort.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/damned/damn03.htm
1956 --Italy: La polizia di stato arresta a Partinico (Palermo) Danilo Dolci (definito "noto agitatore politico") ed altre 19 persone mentre partecipavano con 200 braccianti al dissodamento di un terreno incolto.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]
1957 --
Mad psychogeographer
Belgium: First Exhibition of Psychogeography, presented by the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, the Lettrist International & the London Psychogeographical Committee at Taptoe Gallery in Brussels. The catalogue lists paintings & ceramics by Guy Debord, Asger Jorn, Yves Klein, Ralph Rumney, Michèle Bernstein, Mohamed Dahou & a "mad psychogeographer" but only Jorn, Klein & Rumney participate.
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]
1959 -- Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens & the Big Bopper make their last onstage appearances during the GAC Winter Show tour, at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa.
1962 -- US: Land of the Free? University of Washington bans campus speech by Gus Hall, head of Communist Party USA.
http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/curcan/main.html
1966 -- Australia: First burning of conscription papers, Sydney.
1968 --Over the next few days students occupy the university, & demand the expulsion of Heinrich Luebke,a former nazi.
Meanwhile, over in Italy, following the occupation of Univesity of Florence, the movement grows to include Rome. Some professors join the student demonstrators.
"1968: a wall between this century" (no longer online)
1970 -- England: Philosopher/activist Bertrand Russell dies in Penryndeudraeth, Merioneth, three years short of 100. His War Crimes Tribunal was instrumental in providing a world forum which could not be ignored (even by US media), revealing US lies & atrocities perpetrated during the Vietnam War years.
http://www.mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm
1972 -- Ireland: Three days after 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators were shot dead by British paratroopers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, outraged Irish citizens burn down the British embassy in Dublin, the capital of independent Ireland.
1972 -- Tribute for the anarchist poet/author Kenneth Patchen held at City Lights Poets Theater.
1974 -- Keith Emerson injures his hands when a piano prematurely explodes during a concert in Frisco, California. He suffers various cuts & a broken fingernail.
Heads Up, Ayn Rand?: Washington State University professor Steve Parish proposes cows should be fed washing powder mixed in water as an aid to helping them belch after big meals. They produce two or three litres of gas every minute & if they cannot belch, their stomachs are likely to explode within an hour. The inability to break wind is an affliction killing thousands of cattle each year.
1989 --[Source]: http://www.ecn.org/nautilus/vojacob.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_M._Bonanno
http://www.ecn.org/elpaso/cda/press/rb130797.htm#english
1990 -- South African President deKlerk lifts ban on opposition groups; African National Congress (ANC) is now legal.
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/
1990 -- US: Secret Service agents raid Len Rose, aka Terminus. In two days they raid three more computer hackers.
2003 --http://www.ecn.org/nautilus/vojacob.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_M._Bonanno
http://www.ecn.org/elpaso/cda/press/rb130797.htm#english
3000 --"The governors of the world believe, & have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, & that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely & entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, & that virtues based upon lies can only do harm."
— Bertrand Russell
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