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1324 -- Marco Polo dies in Venice at 70.



1728 -- Thomas Warton, poet laureate from 1785, writes the first history of English poetry, lives, Basingstoke, Hampshire.


1789 -- US: Treaty with the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottowa, Potawatomi, & Sauk is the first in the new US to recognize Native Americans as independent "nations."


1805 -- US: "Black Laws" of Ohio passed which, among other things, prevents blacks from offering testimony in court.


1806 -- England: Rum Dum? Brought back to England – pickled in rum – four months ago, Britain’s greatest naval hero Lord Nelson (having died on the deck of his flagship H.M.S. Victory in the Battle of Trafalgar) is in a second-hand tomb. It had originally been made in 1524-9 for Cardinal Wolsey, but Henry VIII confiscated it.

My 1881 anonymous biography of the Herschels says her date of death was 1848 [we had 1843 at the time —ed.] & I have her date of birth (from somewhere else?) as 1750 Mar 16 (a year which is confirmed by her being 83 in 1833 according to that book), which would have made her only 97 at death.

— Bleedster Philip, 1999

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/herschel.htm

1869 -- England:

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

       — Herzen, remarking on tradition

http://www.anarchy-movement.org/topic.php?ID=41
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/index.html#Anarchism
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSherzen.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Herzen

“Norton the First, by the grace of God Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico, departed this life.”

It is reported by some observers that his burial was marked by a total eclipse of the sun. Some, even today, claim he is not dead, just sleeping.

Some countires, such as the Republic of Molossia recognize no other American ruler & celebrate Emperor Norton I Day as an official holiday.

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-40977/coolpeople/norton.html

"We claim bread for all, knowledge for all, work for all, independence & justice for all."

For such perfidy they will get their bread — in prison, some of them for four years.

http://struggle.ws/ws98/ws55_louise.html


1890 -- Karel Capek, internationally renowned Czech novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, lives, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now in Czech Republic). Much of his early work is written with his brother Josef, a painter/illustrator. Karel wrote R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), War with the Newts.

KAREL CAPEK
Daily Bleed Saint, 1997. Czech playwright, master of the "robot"/worker allegory.

The satiric novel War with the Newts (1936) which ridicules Nazi-Germany & fascism in general also conveys Capek's ideas that technology can become a threat to mankind & that unabashed capitalism also poses a serious danger.

http://capek.misto.cz/english/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/capek.html
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/karel_capek/
http://archiv.radio.cz/hrbitov/capeng.html
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~gmcmilla/capek.html

[Details / context]

"America can't stand pat!"

1914 -- American Burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee lives.


1915 -- Author & petty thief Herbert Huncke lives, Greenfield, Massachusetts.

In his autobiographical Junky, William S. Burroughs describes Herman:

Waves of hostility & suspicion flowed out from his large brown eyes like some sort of television broadcast. The effect was almost like a physical impact. The man was small & very thin, his neck loose in the collar of his shirt. His complexion faded from brown to a mottled yellow, & pancake make-up had been heavily applied in an attempt to conceal a skin eruption. His mouth was drawn down at the corners in a grimace of petulant annoyance.

This was Herbert Huncke, drifter & small-time thief. Kerouac wrote adoringly of him in On The Road, & Allen Ginsberg shared his apartment with him, even though he realized Huncke & his junkie friends were storing stolen goods there.

http://www.litkicks.com/HerbertHuncke


1919 -- Italy: Durante colloqui in Italia il presidente americano Woodrow Wilson approva l'estensione dei confini italiani al Tirolo (per quanto abitato da popolazioni di lingua tedesca) ma respinge l'assurda richiesta del governo italiano di estendere l'occupazione ai territori dalmati, abitati in prevalenza da jugoslavi.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]


1922 -- American novelist Ernest Hemingway & his wife Hadley move into the apartment at 74 rue Cardinal Lemoine.


1923 -- New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield dies.

"I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all."

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kmansfi.htm

1924 -- English novelist & critic Virginia Woolf moves with her husband Leonard Woolf to 52 Tavistock Place in Bloomsbury Square, near the British Museum. They & their associates become known in cultural circles as the Bloomsbury Group.


1924 -- France: Jean-Baptiste Thuriault dies. French labor militant, considered by authorities to be the "Grand Master" of anarchism in the Nièvre department.



1927 -- Canada: A small, quickly controlled fire in Montreal's Laurier Palace movie theater balcony starts a stampede during a children's matinee; all but one of the 78 dead are under 16.


1928 -- Eugene O'Neil's Marco Millions opens at the Guild Theater in NYC.


1935 -- Canada: Emma Goldman's 10-week lecture series (January 9-March 13) on drama & literature at the Central YMCA in Montreal includes lectures on Russian & Soviet drama, German literary works destroyed by the Nazis, & American drama, especially Eugene O'Neill.

Only 50 people subscribe for the series, & few others attend. After a disappointing turnout for her Jan. 17 lecture on moral censorship of current films Goldman cancels further lectures; by contrast, talks to Jewish audiences — the Temple Emanu-El adult school on Jan. 7, & the women's branch of the Arbeiter Ring on Jan. 12 — were well received & promising.

1939 -- US: Southern Tenant Farmers' Union lead Missouri Highway sit-down of 1,700 tenant families.

"Homeless, homeless are we, just as homeless as homeless can be, We don't get nothin for our labor, So homeless, homeless are we."

       — John Handcox, "Hungry, Hungry Are We"

Motorists traveling along US Highway 60 between Sikeston & Hayti were startled to see the roadsides cluttered with the meager & pitiful furniture, household goods, & livestock of hundreds of families of tenant farmers & sharecroppers camped along the highways. Their arrival began tonight &, by noon of the 10th, over 1,000 homeless people are camped along the road; most there because they had no place else to go.

http://www.umsl.edu/services/library/blackstudies/homeless.htm



1941 -- US: Happy Birthday Joan Baez. Songster, pacifist, involved in Free Speech Movement (FSM), Civil Rights, Vietnam anti-war movement. Recorded with Bob Dylan, Eric Von Schmidt, Bob Gibson, Jeffrey Shurtleff, Mickey Hart, Jerry Garcia, Donovan, Odetta, Mimi Farina & Judy Collins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_joan_baez.htm>

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_joan_baez.htm


1942 -- Thin Red Line?: A US government press release says 40 percent more Native Americans have enlisted to fight in WWII than have been drafted.

Altogether, 25,000 Indians served in the U.S. armed forces, including 800 women. In the Philippines, a Choctaw scout escaped from the Japanese at the battle of Corregidor, & lead underground guerrilla forces until the war ended.

The Oneidas, Chippewas & Comanches blocked Japanese decoding of military information by dispatching messages in their tribal languages. Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in the landing at Guadalcanal, where they sent & received reports from field commanders.

1943 -- Giovanni Rossi (aka Cardias) dies, aged 87. Italian veterinarian, teacher, collectivist anarchist, a founder of Cittadella Colony &, in Brazil, the Cecilia Colony. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RossiGiovanni.htm



1946 -- One of the finest of the Harlem Renaissance poets, Countee Cullen, dies in New York. Wrote Color (1925), Copper Sun (1927), The Ballad of the Brown Girl (1928), & The Medea & Some Poems (1935).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countee_Cullen
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/55
http://members.aol.com/hynews/cullen.htm
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ccullen.htm

1950 -- Italy: La polizia di stato uccide a Modena 6 operai nel corso di una manifestazione sindacale.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]


1952 -- US: Home of Phenix City, Alabama anti-vice crusader Hugh Bently destroyed by a bomb.


1959 -- In Tacoma, Washington, Mel Lyman says goodbye to his hotel room, heading for Portland, Oregon:

On Departing

Goodbye radiator with your hiss...

— Diary of a Young Artist

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

Constant's constructions & maquettes 9 January to 9 February A text on Constant by Guy Debord appears in heavily altered form on the occasion of an exhibition of Constant's constructions & maquettes at Van de Loo Gallery, Essen, Germany; Debord makes it known that he withdraws his signature. Also during this month: Retrospective exhibition of the Experimental Laboratory in Alba, Notizie Gallery, Turin, Italy. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]

Twenty-three boys are pumped full of lead trying to hoist the flag of Panama on Panamanian soil. Another flag flies over the slit across Panama. The Canal Zone, a North American Colony, is both a business & military base. The School of the Americas' (aka, 'School of Assassins') courses are financed with the tolls ships pay. Pentagon officers teach anticommunist surgery to Latin American military men who will soon occupy presidencies, ministries, commands, & embassies. "They are the leaders of the future," says Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Robert McNamara, US secretary of defense. These military men will cut off the hands of anyone who dares commit agrarian reform or nationalization, & tear out the tongues of the impudent or the inquisitive. http://www.soaw.org/ http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19640109.htm

1967 -- South Vietnam announces 116,858 of its soldiers deserted in 1966 (up from 113,000 in 1965). Vietcong defectors number 20,242 during the same period.


1971 -- US: Jaycees present tubby druggie Elvis Presley an award honoring him as one of the "10 outstanding young men of America." (How young can you get?... Same guy they reviled in the 50s.)


1973 -- Mick Jagger is refused Japanese visa because of 1969 drug bust. Jagger told a reporter, "I don't take drugs. I don't approve of drugs & I don't approve of people taking drugs — unless they're very careful."


1979 -- Benefit concert, A Gift of Song, in New York City. Includes Olivia Newton-John, Rita Coolidge, the Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, John Denver, Kris Kristofferson, Abba, & Earth, Wind & Fire. Raise about a $500,000 for the World Hunger Organization.

In November of 1979, armed fundamentalist rebels occupied the holy place, calling for the overthrow of the Saudi government. The government responded by sending troops to suppress the uprising, & after two weeks of fighting the siege ended, leaving 27Saudi soldiers & over 100 rebels dead. In January of 1980, 63 more fundamentalist rebels were publicly beheaded.

The Great Mosque, or Haram, is located at the center of Mecca, the holiest city of Islam & the birthplace of Muhammad, the founder of then religion. Inside the religious structure is the Kaaba, an enormous cubic stone covered with black cloth that is said to have been built by Adam, & rebuilt by Abraham & the descendants of Noah.

http://kudos.goldenware.com/news/data/Saudi_Arabian_Airlines_2.html

“For almost a quarter of a century he ruled his vast domain with exemplary benevolence & kindly common sense.”

It is reported by some observers that his burial was marked by a total eclipse of the sun. Some, even today, claim he is not dead, just sleeping.

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html
http://www.molossia.org/norton.html
http://www.emperornorton.com/info.html
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-40977/coolpeople/norton.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_A._Norton

6004 --

The First & Last Emperor of the United States, who better to set an example for self-improving Anarchists everywhere ~ Emperor Norton (1819-1880) proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States & Protector of México in 1859.

Although a pauper, he was fed free in San Francisco's best restaurants.

Although a madman, he had all his state proclamations published in San Francisco's newspapers.

While rational reformers elsewhere failed to crack the national bank monopoly with alternate currency plans, Norton the First had his own private currency accepted throughout San Francisco.

Norton was so beloved that 30,000 people turned out for his funeral in 1880.

http://www.monacaron.com/images/html/emperor.html

9003 -- http://nopasaran.samizdat.net/

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