1841 -- Victor Hugo is elected to the Académie Française on his fifth try.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo

1896 -- Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.

A teacher & friend of Henry Poulaille, to whom he sent his first writings. In 1940, his pacifist & anarchist ideas forced him to quit teaching & he devoted himself to writing fiction: Le Refus (apology for pacifism) (1946), Le vin pur (the vigneronnes revolts) (1945), & many others such as Le mas des Oubells (1932), Les trabucayres (1955), La terre du liège (1953).

http://ytak.club.fr/janvier07.html

Daily Bleed Saint 2003, ZORA NEALE HURSTON
Great American novelist, folklorist, cultural heroine.

"I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."

The first black graduate of Barnard College in NY, she published two collections of folklore as well as three novels during the Harlem Renaissance. Her exploration of black female character influence a generation of writers. But after Their Eyes were Watching God, Hurston began to offend her condescending white patrons by refusing to grovel. By 1959, as publishers rejected her work, she was reduced to working as a maid. Evicted from her home, a stroke landed her in a welfare home, where she died in 1960.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

1911 -- US: Light Show? First airplane bombing experiments with explosives, Frisco, California.
http://www.robotbooks.com/Mars-plane.htm


1917 -- US: January-April 2, Emma Goldman lectures before Yiddish & English-speaking audiences in New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Passaic, N.J., Boston, Springfield, & Brockton, Mass.

Topics include "Obedience, A Social Vice," "Celibacy or Sex Expression," "Vice & Censorship, Twin Sisters—How Vice is Not Suppressed," "Michael Bakunin, His Life & Work," "Walt Whitman, the Liberator of Sex," "The Speculators in War & Starvation," "American Democracy in Relation to the Russian Revolution," & a course on Russian literature...

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1919 -- Argentina: Beginning of "Bloody Week" ("Semaine Sanglante") in Buenos Aires.

The Argentine police invent the electric prod to convince those in doubt & straighten out those who buckle... Discepolin's last tango sings that the world was & will continue to be a dirty joke... — Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind, p99-100

Workers, demonstrating for the 8-hour work day, are fired on, leaving four dead & about 30 wounded. Clashes with authorities the day of the funerals leave another 50 dead. Workers seeking refuge in the Vasena factory were driven out as 30,000 infantrymen were called out. A General Strike shuts down the trade unions, printing works, libraries, etc. The anarchists involved are attacked by trade union reformists & paramilitary groups ("Les défenseurs de l'Ordre") acting in concert with the police.

By January 16 the strike is crushed in blood, with as many as 700 dead & 2000 wounded. Argentinean anarchism is decimated by repression, & the reformist trade unions are in control.

1920 -- US: Five socialists expelled from New York Assembly. NY hasn't heard, yet, of Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" or the aging "Bill of Rights."


1920 -- England: Albert Meltzer lives (1920-1996), Tottenham, London. Militant anarchist, historian, publisher.
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/meltzer.htm
http://ytak.club.fr/mai07.html


1925 -- Gerald Durrell, zoologist, author & younger brother of Lawrence, lives, in India to Irish parents.


1927 -- US: Harlem Globetrotters, basketball team, make their debut.


1927 -- Canada: Emma Goldman lectures in London, Ontario, on Communist & Fascist dictatorships, having finished her lecture series in Toronto on Russian dramatists with talks on Turgenev, Tolstoy, Chekhov, & Andreyev.



1928 -- William Peter Blatty lives. American screenwriter & novelist, who gained international fame with The Exorcist (1971), a story of a small girl who is unaccountably possessed by the devil & turned into a repellent right-wing monster.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/blatty.htm



1929 -- US: "Buck Rogers," first sci-fi comic strip, premiers. http://www.kenpiercebooks.com/



1935 -- Emma Goldman talks to Jewish audiences — the Temple Emanu-El adult school today, the second meeting arranged by Rabbi Harry Stern, & the women's branch of the Arbeiter Ring on Jan. 12 — which are are well received.



1935 -- Italy: Il governo italiano e quello francese firmano un accordo riguardante le questioni coloniali. Il ministro degli esteri francese Pierre Laval (ex aderente del partito comunista) in una dichiarazione rimasta segreta garantisce la non interferenza del suo governo riguardo alle azioni del governo italiano contro l'Etiopia. E' un formale avvallo della futura aggressione.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]


1939 -- US: Tom Mooney, a labor activist wrongly convicted of murder in the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing in July 1916, is freed after 22 1/2 years in jail on false charges, granted an unconditional pardon by Governor Culbert Olson.

See: Frame-up by Curt Gentry, © 1967, WW Norton, New York; Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader, ed. Gene Fellner, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York: 1992.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1989/LB-N89-VClose2.html

1943 -- US: Romanian-born scientific genius Nicola Tesla dies, New York City.

Nicola Tesla worked with time travel technology. Much of his information came from extraterrestrials. Part of it was used by Albert Einstein in the Philadelphia Experiment (trying, unsuccessfully, to turn city officials & cops into human beings):

http://www.crystalinks.com/phila.html
http://www.hamjudo.com/notes/cdrom.html


1952 -- US: Actor Phillip Loeb, blacklisted in 1950 as a possible Communist sympathizer, is fired from highly successful TV comedy "The Goldbergs" because no one would sponsor it otherwise. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Ronald Reagan, FBI informant during the 40s & 50s who even had his own code name because of the prolific nature of his snitching, & others, deny to this day there was a "blacklist."
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/blacklist_10-24.html


1958 -- Donna Rice (party girl with a Hart) lives.

1959 -- In a hotel room in Tacoma, Washington, Mel Lyman notes:

It sure is fun sitting here looking out the window...

— Diary of a Young artist

http://www.trussel.com/lyman/mirror.htm


1961 -- Cuba: Education nationalized in famous literacy campaign. When the US & American free-market business owned Cuba, the mob & CIA forgot to educate the populace except in craps & whorehouses.



1964 -- Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game. In the air, in a Boeing 707.



1968 -- US: Frisco's KMPX-FM, a pioneering "underground" radio stations, holds a "grass ballot" vote among its listeners. Among those elected are:

Bob Dylan (president)
Paul Butterfield (vice-president)
George Harrison (U.N. ambassador)
Jefferson Airplane (Secretary of Transportation)
& the Grateful Dead (attorney general)

1968 -- Stop the Draft Week defense fund concert dance at the Fillmore with Phil Ochs, Loading Zone & The Committee.
http://www.geocities.com:80/Athens/Forum/9061/USA/Vietnam/vietnam.html

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1969 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Governor & FBI snitch Ronald Reagan asks California legislature to "drive criminal anarchists & latter-day Fascists off the campuses".

1969 -- Look magazine issue, devoted to relations between blacks & whites, has an article called "Jimi Hendrix Socks It to the White House" with a photo of the black musician lounging beside a swimming pool surrounded by bikini-clad white women.

The story reads, "...Jimi is not so much the Experience as a menace to public health. Plugged in & zonked, he only has to step across the stage to turn on their high-pitched passion."


1970 -- US: Owners of area farms sue neighbor Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages from the Woodstock Festival on his farm that summer.


1971 -- US: Federal courts enjoin most uses of the pesticide DDT, nine years after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.


1972 -- After "Filling her compact & delicious body" with paprika, poet John Berryman jumps off a bridge into the Big Muddy — suicide at 58.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berryman


1973 -- US: Six killed, 15 wounded in New Orleans sniper attack from atop Johnson's Motor Lodge.

A week after killing two cops, Mark Essex goes on a rampage. All day & all night, 500 police exchanged shots with the gunman; finally, police hovering in a helicopter succeeded in bringing him down.

1979 -- Cambodia: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Pol Pot, plowman of the Killing Fields, is overthrown.

1980 -- US: Frisco marks the 100th anniversary of the death of America's only monarch, Dei Gratia Emperor Norton of the United States & Protector of Mexico, with lunch-hour ceremonies at Market & Montgomery streets. Best ruler America or México ever had.

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html
http://members.aol.com/VirtualOle/norton.html
http://www.discordia.org/~keeper/norton.html
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/principia.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html
http://www.notfrisco.com/nortoniana/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_A._Norton

1982 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Ronald Reagan continues draft registration.



1985 -- England: First issue of "Medicine & War" appears.



1986 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Ronald Reagan imposes economic sanctions on Libya for its role in international terrorism, a "Free-Market" effort to corner the market.

"Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up & I think we're going to succeed"

— Ronald Reagan, precursor to the half-wit George Bush (Sr., Jr., etc.)

1989 -- Japan: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Hirohito, Japan's emperor, dies at 87 after 62-year reign.



1993 -- England: Leah Feldman (1899-1993) is cremated in London. One of the ordinary men & women who rarely get into history books but provide the backbone of the anarchist movement.

Polish anarchist, Leah joined the Makhno's anarchist army. Active in the once-flourishing Yiddish-speaking anarchist movement in England, Leah also organised a federation of anarchists in Palestine, where she found her old anarchist friend Paula Green (whose husband changed his name to Ben Gurion & became the first prime minister of Israel).

In the 1960s she smuggled arms into Spain for the resistance fighters. The Catalans, prone to giving nicknames, christened her "la yaya Makhnowista" (the Makhnovist Granny).

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1995 -- México: Coalition of Workers, Peasants, & Students of Soconusco (COCES) marches on the municipal building of Tapachula. 500 demonstrators demand answers to long-ignored questions about working conditions, environmental health, educational reform & political corruption. Led by Francisco Aranda, the activists start across town from the State of Chiapas administrative building, a building that COCES had been occupying for three months because it stands as a symbol of the state government COCES detests.



1996 -- Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996) dies. "One of the giants of Filipino American literature."

Santos also wrote The Volcano. In 1980, the University of Washington Press published Scent of Apples, his first & only book of short stories to appear in the US. The next year it won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

Scent of Apples, is a masterful account of Filipino refugees living in America during WWII. Examines the racism these Filipinos faced, the class issues that they negotiated, & the attempts to survive in a country away from home.

http://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm/ellsa/t3/ellsa_iblues2b.html

1999 -- Quote of the week:

"Nearly three-quarters of all the murders of children in the industrialized world occur in the United States."

      — Centers for Disease Control

3519 --

Even in China....

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