1074 -- All married Roman Catholic priests are excommunicated. Now the priests can fully focus their attention on little boys & girls.


1170 -- England: A UFO is sighted over St. Ostwyth, Essex, a "wonderfully large dragon ... borne up from the earth through the air."


1454 -- Amerigo Vespucci explorer lives. How fickle is history? Instead of living in Ameriga, many Bleeders could be living Vespucciland.



1562 -- Italy: Public kissing becomes a capital offence in Naples.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'


1749 -- Compte de Mirabeau lives.


1763 -- Radical British journalist William Cobbett lives.


1797 --

Strange Event:

Mirage of a walled town seen at Youghal, County Cork, Ireland. [Report fails to mention just what the reportees were drinking...] http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/damned/damn03.htm

1809 -- Lord Byron's "English Bard & Scotch Reviewers" is published.


1841 -- US: Slaves who mutinied & took over the Spanish slave ship Amistad — subsequently captured by the US warship Washington — are declared free men by the Supreme Court. The slave leader, Joseph Cinque (who serves, 130 years later, as the inspiration for Symbionese Liberation Field Marshall Cinque) returned to Africa to become a slaver himself.



1862 -- US: The Monitor battles the Merrimac to a draw, in the first battle of iron-clad ships. The Monitor was unique; built by union labor, it came with an iron-clad 30 day guarantee.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1862.html



1865 -- Panama: US forces land "to protect US interests" during a revolution.


1865 -- México: Gen. Winfield Scott & 10,000 US troops land at Veracruz, Mexico.


1879 -- France: Carloman François Rose lives (1879-1961). Anarchiste, trade unionist (CGT, UD, CGTU), served on the editorial board of "Germinal" & a salesman for "Libertaire". Organized support for the Black Sea Mutineers in 1921.


1879 -- US: Anarchist militant Carlo Tresca lives.

Tresca was an outspoken foe of Fascism in Germany & Italy & of "Communism" in the Soviet Union. The FBI accumulated a mere 1,358 pages on this outstanding citizen. Murdered by an unknown assailant, presumably by fascists or the Mafia.

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."

Tresca edited a number of papers which stood up for workers rights & denounced the hypocrisy & corruption of those in power. One of his favorite targets was the clergy, whom he attacked relentlessly. Tresca was a skilled labor agitator, leading strikes & urging workers to stand up for their rights.

See Gallagher's All the Right Enemies. See also H. L. Mencken's article on Tresca.

1883 -- France: Large demonstration of the unemployed at the Esplanade of Les Invalides is broken up by police. A large contingent marches across Paris, headed by Louise Michel, Joseph Tortelier & Émile Pouget (who initiated the demonstration), waving black flags.

There were three incidents of loaves of bread being looted from bakers' shops. Michel & Pouget were charged as "leaders & instigators of looting committed by a band."

According to historian George Woodcock, Michel flew the black flag today, the earliest instance found of anarchists using a black flag.

Imprisoned again, Louise Michel was condemned to six years of solitary confinement, & 10 years of police supervision, & Pouget got eight years. In her memoirs Louise notes of today's events:

"It is not a question of bread crumbs. What is at stake is the harvest of an entire world, a harvest necessary to the whole future human race, one without exploiters & without exploited."

http://struggle.ws/ws98/ws55_louise.html
http://www.ac-creteil.fr/lycees/93/lmichelbobigny/louise/chrono/chrono.htm

1885 -- Eat This, Louise?: Bread treated with carbon dioxide patented. Yummy.


1892 -- Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) lives. English poet & novelist, descendent of the one of the great families of England, proprietors of Knole in Kent. Sackville-West was the chief model for Orlando in Virginia Woolf's novel of the same title.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sackvill.htm


1892 -- US: Ida B. Well's friend & neighbor Tom Moss is lynched, prompting her anti-lynching campaign, the destruction of her printing press, & her move from Memphis to New York.

In response to the alarming increase in lynchings of African-Americans, she compiled & published an 1895 statistical study on lynching, A Red Record.

Wells-Barnett also was an integral part of the early civil rights movement, participating as a secretary of the National Afro-American Council & member of the "Committee of Forty" that lead to the formation of the NAACP. See Giddings, "Ida B. Wells" (Buhle, Buhle & Kaye, eds., The American Radical, 1994)

"There is nothin' which so fills the soul with horror, loathing & fury as the outragin' of a white woman by a negro. It is the race question in the ugliest, vilest, most dangerous aspect. The negro as a political factor can be controlled, but neither laws nor lynchings can subdue his lusts."

— Memphis Commercial, May 17, 1892.

http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0012

1901 -- Russia: Author, pacifist & anarchist Leo Tolstoï is excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church (February 24 for the Julien calendar).

Because he propagates,

"with the ardor of a fanatic, the inversion of all the dogmas of the Orthodox Church & the very essence of Christian faith....”

— extract from the decree of excommunication

http://ytak.club.fr/mars08.html

1907 -- Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) lives. Romanian-born historian of religion & fiction writer, one of the preeminent interpreters of world religion in this century. Wrote The Myth of the Eternal Return.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eliade.htm


1908 -- Henri Jullien lives, Hanoi, son of Paule Mink. A socialist, trade unionist, then mutualist & anarchist.

In 1928 Jullien became close friends with Victor Meric. A journalist, then a lawyer, Jullien was a founder of the first confederated trade union of journalists in 1935. He joined the resistance in WWII. An active anarchist in Marseilles after the war, he became president of S.I.A. (Solidarité internationale antifasciste) in 1949, & a supporter of the C.I.R.A. in Marseilles (Centre International de Recherche sur l'Anarchisme).

http://cira.marseille.free.fr/
http://biosoc.univ-paris1.fr/maitron/Dico/fem1.htm
http://ytak.club.fr/mars09.html

1911 -- US: Frank Little & the other IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) free-speech fighters are released from jail in Fresno, Calif. Little is later murdered by mine owners in Montana.


1913 -- The manuscript of Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, is delivered to publisher Gerald Duckworth. She is 31.


1914 -- US: Emma Goldman delivers lecture in Philadelphia; notes free-speech victory with complete retreat of police authorities.


1916 -- US: In response to the US recognition of Carranza, Pancho Villa's guerrillas cross into New Mexico, & attack Columbus, killing several Americans. New Mexico's Senator Albert Bacon Fall calls for a half million US Army occupation of Mexico.

Villa split his assault group into two columns. One attacking the center of the sleepy town & the other a tent encampment of US Army regulars called Fort Furlong.

Of interest according to Gilly's book, p. 223, Villa may have attacked the US in retaliation for several Mexican citizens being forced to take a "petrol bath," & then set on fire.

http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19160309.htm
http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/revolution.html

1916 -- Spain: Carles Fontseré lives (1916-2007) One of the important Catalan anarchist poster artists of the Spanish Revolution.

A Catalan artist loyal to the memory of revolutionary Spain, Fontseré produced many of the best-known & inspiring posters of the Spanish Revolution.

Fontseré's greatest achievements, both inspired by the anarchist flame, came at the start & the end of his life. He was the youngest — & the last survivor — of the revolutionary poster artists of 1936. Fontseré published a three-volume autobiography, Memòries d'un cartellista català (Memoirs of a Catalan Poster Artist, 1995), Un exiliat de tercera (A Third-Class Exile) & París, Mèxic, Nova York (both 2004), excellently written books providing detailed, historically researched accounts of his Civil War & exile experience.

http://raforum.info/article.php3?id_article=4277&lang=en
Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4630463717257801763
Posters: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/visfront/newadd25.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/feb/20/guardianobituaries.spain
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carles_Fontser%C3%A9

1918 -- Who is John Gall?: Mickey Spillane (aka the ol' rightwing windbag Ayn Rand in drag), creator of vigilante-philosopher-killer John Gall, in Atlas Drugged lives, Brooklyn.

Of his distinctly highbrow Left-wing oeuvre, Spillane says:

"There are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar."

Originally wrote for comic books, pulps, & in the late 40s did undercover work for federal drug agents. Spillane stopped writing full-length novels for 8 years (1953-1961) after conversion to the Jehovah's Witnesses, & 16 years (1973-89), when he advertised Miller Lite beer. His only other series character, Tiger Mann, was first introduced in Day of the Gun (1964).

1921 -- Russia:

"Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman [part of an anarchist mediation group who had the ear of the Kronstadt Soviet] had an interview with Zinoviev...Their mediation scheme was a complete failure...

Most of the Russian members of the mediation groups were arrested.

I was not — an indulgence which I owed to the good opinion that Zinoviev, Zorin & a few others had of me..."

       — Victor Serge, "Kronstadt 1921" (A former anarchist, now a sympathizer, believed the Kronstadt rebels were right, but toed the Bolshevik line.)

alt: Cronstadt
http://struggle.ws/rbr/rbr4_serge.html
[Details / context]


1922 -- Eugene O'Neill comedy "The Hairy Ape" opens in NY.


1923 -- Russia: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Lenin suffers a massive stroke & retires from the leadership of the Soviet Union.


1930 -- Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht opera "The Rise & Fall of the Town of Mahagonny" (revised version) premiers, Leipzig. It is picketed (& later banned) by the Nazis.
http://www.youkali.com/weill.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bradsweb/brecht.htm

1936 -- Edgar Rice Burroughs novel Tarzan & the Tarzan Twins is published. Somebody been monkeying around...


1937 -- Italy: Tutti i dipendenti statali sono obbligati a iscriversi al partito nazionale fascista.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]


1938 -- Spain: Franco's forces, with overwhelming air superiority, launch a major assault on the Aragon front; the Republican forces, torn by internal disputes, collapse; & by April 15 the Nationalists reach the coast, splitting Republican territory in two.
Emma Goldman Papers
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Guide/chronology2040.html



1939 -- Spain: In Madrid, the anarchist Cipriano Mera (1896-1975), heading the IV army corps, routs the counter-revolutionary communist troops which besiege the National Council of Defense. See Cipriano Mera by Joan Llarch.



1940 -- "Arch Oboler's Plays" broadcasts Johnny Got His Gun (based on the Dalton Trumbo novel) on NBC radio.


1940 -- The most cryptic crossword puzzle ever appears in the "Times," by Max Beerbohm, "with clues signifying nothing - nothing whatsoever."


1945 -- England: "Foodless Lunch" for hungry of Europe held at Waldorf hotel in London.


1945 -- Japan: US makes its first B-29 incendiary raid on Tokyo; 200,000 die.



1947 -- US: American suffragist Carrie Catt Chapman dies, New Rochelle, New York.
Daily Bleed Saint 2003
American suffragist leader, proto-feminist educator.

"Hundreds of women gave the accumulated possibilities of an entire lifetime, thousands gave years of their lives, hundreds of thousands gave constant interest, & such aid as they could. It was a continuous, seemingly endless, chain of activity. Young suffragists who helped forge the last links of that chain were not born when it began. Old suffragists who forged the first links were dead when it ended."

— Carrie Chapman Catt & Nettie Rogers Shuler

1953 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Secretary of State Dulles says world peace is more likely since Stalin's death. Yep-a-doodle!


1953 -- Gene Barry movie "The War of the Worlds" is released.


1955 -- James Dean/Julie Harris movie "East of Eden" (based on John Steinbeck's novel) opens, NY.


1956 -- Tunisia: US facilities in Tunis are wrecked by a French mob for "actively fostering terrorism"; meanwhile, the Marshall Islands Congress asks for US nuclear tests to stop.

1958 -- France: Louis Moreau (b.1883) dies.

Artist, engraver, libertarian & militant pacifist

Trained as a lithographer, in 1900 he settles in Paris to practice his trade & develops a passion for drawing, then painting & engraving on wood.

Moreau began contributing to Jean Grave's "Temps Nouveaux." Mobilized during WWI, he nevertheless contributed to Pierre Chardon's clandestine newspaper "Semeur" (1916).

Elisee Reclus by Louis Moreau

Between the two disastrous World Wars, his "Femme libérée" illustrates "l'Idée Libre," the review of Lorulot, & he contributed wood engravings to E. Armand's "Néo-Naturien" & "l'En Dehors", etc.

With Germain Delatouche, like him also an engraver & libertarian, & other artists, they form, in 1924, the group "Les Partisans."

Portraits of famous anarchists, antimilitarist illustrations, bucolic or naturist landscapes, & various wood engravings by Moreau decorate many books & libertarian journals: "Les Humbles," "La Revue Anarchiste," "l'Almanach de la paix" (1934), "l'Unique" (until 1956), & numerous titles from Joseph Ishill's Oriole Press, etc.

« Rejected stardom » An artist of major talent, Moreau rejected stardom, making complete fun of any official recognition. His artist friend Manuel Devaldès wrote a biography of him in 1935.

The artist whose work is most often associated with the Oriole Press is Louis Moreau (1883-?), the French wood-engraver. It was Moreau who designed Ishill's printer's mark, & he contributed a large number of woodcuts for Ishill's publications.

http://www.todotango.com/English/creadores/jdfiliberto.html
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/reclus/ishill/frontpiece.html

1959 -- William Faulkner finishes his novel The Mansion.


1961 -- The Dalai Lama appeals to the UN to restore the independence of Tibet.


1963 -- In a "New Yorker" review of Oscar Wilde's letters W. H. Auden writes: "From the beginning Wilde performed his life & continued to do so even after fate had taken the plot out of his hands."

"I think I am rather more than a Socialist. I am something of an Anarchist, I believe..." — Oscar

1964 -- Cyprus: Fighting breaks out between Greeks & Turks, Ktima.


1964 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Cross-Dresser J.Edgar Hoover visits LBJ's White House to discuss Martin Luther King's sex life.


1965 -- US: Unlivable City Award? Reverend James Reeb, a Boston minister who had traveled to Selma to join demonstrators, is viciously beaten by a white gang & dies two days later.
http://www.uua.org/world/2001/02/


1965 -- Shelley Mydans novel Thomas (i.e., Becket), is published, US.


1966 -- Spain: Franco's police arrest 30 students at a free campus meeting, Barcelona.


1966 -- US: The head of the commission to abolish HUAC is banned from speaking at the University of North Carolina.


1967 -- US: Fillmore in San Francisco opens 6 nights a week. Haight people start to hear about & visit Morning Star Farm (Sonoma) & Berkeley Barb features smokable banana rumor. The rumor, as it turns out, is true.


1967 -- US: Frisco police bust shops selling "Let's Liberate Posters" poster.


1968 -- Eight rock n roll performers or band members make the 1968 edition of "Who's Who in America," the first to be included since Elvis Presley & the Beatles: the Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Mamas & Papas, Doors, Monkees & Donovan.


1969 -- "The Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour," which featured such rock bands as the Beatles, the Who, Jefferson Airplane & the Doors, is canceled by CBS-TV. This is in the wake of controversy over the on-air censorship of guest star Joan Baez.

CBS TV cancels the show after they let Joan Baez dedicate a song to her husband David, convicted of draft resistance against the Vietnam War.

Freedom, American-style.

1972 -- US: Jokers Wild? Detroit police burst in on four men playing cards; in the ensuing shooting, one of the cardplayers is killed & the other three wounded — all of whom turned out to be off-duty Wayne County deputy sheriffs. In a pig-eat-pig world...is nothing kosher?

http://www.violetbooks.com/gal-weird-detectives.html

1972 -- Allen Klein, already accused of laundering money from UNICEF, which was to receive the royalties from "Bangladesh's" sales, turns over just one-tenth of the $1.2 million due the organization.


1975 -- US: First International Women's Art Festival, New York.



1976 -- Italy: The world's worst cable car disaster. 42 people die as the cable holding the descending gondola, at Cavalese, snaps & sends the cart crashing into the valley below.



1979 -- Outer Space: First extraterrestrial active volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io).

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.

       — John Keats

1979 -- US: Supreme Court issues temporary restraining order prohibiting publication by "The Progressive" of an article on H-bomb secrecy.

Sam Day was managing editor of The Progressive when it printed "The H-Bomb Secret: How We Got It, Why We're Telling It." The US government tried to halt its publication, which ultimately resulted in a victory for free speech advocates & journalists.

From 1956 to 1974, Day worked at several Idaho newspapers, including the weekly Intermountain Observer in Boise.

After the "Observer" folded in 1973, Day became managing editor of the "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists," then on to The Progressive.

Day, a Korean vet, went to prison innumerable times for his advocacy of international peace, & in 2000 wrote in an article published in newspapers across the country on Memorial Day weekend that,

"if it is right to honor those who served in the cause of war, then it is equally right to honor those who served in the cause of resistance to war."

A very nice tribute page at:
http://no-nukes.org/samday/
http://www.progressive.org/

1981 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Reagan endorses Casey's CIA plan for destabilization of Nicaragua; also Reagan makes an illegal arms deal with Iran, according to Bani-Sadr.


1982 -- US: "Washington Post" reveals $19 million in CIA covert aid illegally given to Contras.


1984 -- US: NBC News says Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Reagan is preparing to fight a two-month-long nuclear war. Sorry, we have no idea who he wants for a sparring partner.


1984 -- US: Senate Appropriations Committee rejects Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Reagan's request for $21 million for the contra terrorists. Back in de good ol' days when American rightwingers was in favor of terrorism.


1986 -- US: 100,000 march in Washington, D.C. for freedom of choice & reproductive rights.



1989 -- Edgy photographer Robert Mapplethorpe dies. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator Jesse Helm's favorite — & personal — photographer.

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/M/mapplethorpe/mapplethorpe_articles.html
http://homepages.iol.ie/~webfoto/gclips/selfcang.gif

1991 -- Yugoslavia: Anti-government demonstration is threatened by tanks, Belgrade. Police & 100,000 anticommunist demonstrators clash, two die.

1994 -- Novelist of the down & out, Charles Bukowski, is permanently out, dies, in San Pedro, California. American Bard of the Bar Room & the Brothel:
http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#CharlesBukowski



1994 -- Charles Bukowski dies.

"The more crap you believe,
the better off you are."

http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#CharlesBukowski
http://www.litkicks.com/CharlesBukowski
http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=WalkThroughFire

1996 -- In first mass demonstration under independence, women from around Lithuania gather at Ignalia to commemorate Chernobyl victims & demand an accelerated timetable (by 2005) for decommissioning the plant.


1998 -- Jesse Walker's (moocHead) article "Rebel Radio" published in "The New Republic":

"A harsh pounding woke Doug Brewer, the hairy owner of a Tampa electronics store. A SWAT team was outside his house, along with a column of local cops, customs agents, & federal marshals. Upon letting the police in, Brewer & his wife were ordered to the floor, guns pointed at their heads, as the screaming invaders handcuffed them. Some cops even trained their weapons on the family cat. Brewer's offense: broadcasting without a license."

1998 -- Canada: Innu protesters confront Quebec & Newfoundland ministers gathered to announce the largest hydroelectric project in North American history, on the lower Churchill River in Labrador.


2003 -- Indonesia: Up to 800,000 in Surabaya pray for peace in Iraq. Yup.

Meanwhile UK International Development Minister Clare Short says she will resign if Beloved & Respected Comrade Lapdog Tony Blair attacks Iraq without UN backing (she doesn't until May); & Canada's PM Jean Chrétien says the US has already won the conflict with Iraq, so no war is necessary, on an ABC-TV interview.

2003 -- Avant-guard film-maker Stan Brakhage dies after making over 400 films spanning seven decades: 1940's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's & this decade (yet to be aptly named in its sixth year). Associated with a number of contemporary artists, among them Maya Deren, Marie Menken, Joseph Cornell, & John Cage. Regarded as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century.
[Thanks to Bleedster Tom, Beat Book Shop]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Brakhage

3000 --

How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice?
Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth?
Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, & claim it all for yourselves? Nature gave all things in common for the use of all; usurpation created private rights. Property hath no rights. The earth is the Lord's, & we are his offspring. The pagans hold earth as property. They do blaspheme God.

       — St. Ambrose

3500 --

Message from Beloved & Respected Comrade Small Bush to Iraq: "Here We Come!"

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