At the Gulf of San Miguel, in 1513, with water up to his waist, he raises his sword & yells to the four winds. He splashes about & lets himself be dragged by the waves, dizzy with a joy he won't feel again. The sea opens for him, embraces him, rocks him. Balboa would like to drink it dry.

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1876	Jack London, sailor tramp, gold miner, author (The Call of the Wild) hits the road, lives, Frisco, California. Daily Bleed Saint 2003-2007 Sailor, oyster pirate, hobo, drunk, socialist, writer, suicide.

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A suicide at 40, in Santa Rosa, California. Ford Madox Ford remarked:
"Like Peter Pan, he never grew up, & he lived his own stories with such intensity that he ended by believing them himself."

http://london.sonoma.edu/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jlondon.htm

1879 -- The British-Zulu War begins as British troops under Lieutenant General Frederic Augustus invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal.
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1880 -- Anglo-American sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein lives. Created the sculpture for the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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

1883 -- France: In Lyon at the trial of the workers' International, begun on January 8 against the anarchists known as "The 66", the 'Anarchist Declaration' is read out to the court. Likely written by Peter Kropotkin, one of those tried & convicted, it is a summary of the ideals of the accused.
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1893 -- Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi race theorist, lives, Reval, Estonia. Joins the Nazi Party before Hitler, administers occupied Russia during World War II, & is executed at Nuremberg for war crimes.


1893 -- Nazi leader Hermann Goring lives.



1893 -- Jack London, on his 17th birthday, sails on the seal-hunting ship "Sophie Sutherland", gaining experience he used in his novel The Sea Wolf.



1896 -- H.L. Smith takes the first x-ray photograph. It is a hand with a bullet in it. The hand is attached to a corpse.
http://www.gagworks.com/


1899 -- Oscar Wilde writes to Robert Ross that "Henry James is developing, but he will never arrive at passion, I fear."
http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/


1900 -- US: Freeland utopian colony founded at Holmes Harbor, Whidby Island, Island County, north of Seattle, Washington.


1905 -- Cowboy actor & singer Tex Ritter lives. He was a law student at the University of Texass before starting his entertainment career.




1906 -- Woodward Maurice, country singer, lives, Texass.


1906 -- Henny Youngman, the violin-playing comic from vaudeville, lives to give his wife away. Please.


1906 -- England: The Liberals win a landslide in UK; the 1st Labour MPs are returned.

Source: Robert Braunwart
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Plabour.htm

Emma lectures on the plays of Scandinavian, German, Austrian, French, English, & Russian dramatists including August Strindberg, Gerhart Hauptmann, Arthur Schnitzler, Frank Wedekind, Maurice Maeterlinck, Edmond Rostand, Octave Mirbeau, Eugène Brieux, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Pinero, John Galsworthy, Charles Rann Kennedy, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Maxim Gorki, & Leonid Andreyev.

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/socsig/socsigtoc.html

Blacklisted after hearings by the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he refused to testify. Howard Hughes fired Jarrico immediately when he heard that Jarrico had received the subpoena for the hearings.

Jarrico's passport was confiscated after his journey to London in 1951. His most important project in the following years was Salt of the Earth (1953), a union-sponsored drama about the appalling conditions of striking coal miners in New Mexico. The film was written by Michael Wilson & directed by Herbert J. Biberman — the only independent production made by blacklisted people in the US film industry. Salt of the Earth was subsequently blacklisted & its distribution was prohibited, but later it has gained the status of a cult film. In 1958 Jarrico went into exile & worked in Europe for 20 years.

It was individuals like Jarrico whom so-called defenders of the individual against the collective state, such as Ayn Rand & HUAC witchhunters, did their best to destroy in their "patriotic" crusade against communism.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec97/blacklist_10-24.html

In 1924 he was arrested, with hundreds of other militant laborers, anarchists & Communists, & sent to a concentration camp in Oiapoque (NE Brazil). In 1926 he managed to escape to French Guyana, but died today from deteriorating health due to his maltreatment in the forced-labor camp.

The labor camp of Oiapoque meant the death of some of the most well-known labor militants: José Alves do Nascimento, Nicolau Parada, Biófilo Panclasta, Pedro Augusto Mota e Nino Martins, among others.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MotaPedroAugusto/mota.html
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/world/la/brazil/index.html

"Headin' For Better Times" Ted Lewis & His Band, 1/12/31       Lewis is so relentlessly upbeat that one might have easily overlooked the desperation behind many smiles seen when "Headin' for Better Times" was recorded in January 1931. It was the winter of street corner apple sellers, of whom Hoover observed: "Many persons left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples." America's plight so moved citizens of the Cameroons in Africa that a collection of $3.77 was raised & mailed to New York City with instructions that it be used for "the relief of the starving." For his part, Ted Lewis provided square meals & steady work to first-rate jazzmen on their way up, notably cornetist Mugsy Spanier & clarinetist Benny Goodman, on this performance... — Mark Humphrey, "The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s" http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/mirror/Depressionmusic2.htm http://f99.middlebury.edu/AC200A/depression-era_music.htm http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,301462,00.html http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_folksongomni_2005.html

1932 -- US: Ophelia Wyatt Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, becomes the first woman to be elected to the US Senate.

Caraway, born near Bakerville, Tennessee, was appointed to the Senate two months before to fill the vacancy left by her late husband, Thaddeus Horatio Caraway. With the support of Huey Long, a powerful senator from Louisiana, Caraway was popularly elected to the seat.

1932 -- US: 12,000 marchers from Father Cox's Shantytown (another "Hooverville") in Pittsburg arrive in Washington, D.C.

Located near St. Patrick's Catholic Church in the Strip District of Pittsburgh, the shantytown existed from 1929 to 1932, & was the staging base for the Reverend James Cox's unemployed army.

On December 1931, 60,000 unemployed workers had rallied at Pitt Stadium in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/strip/strip_n10.html

1933 -- Spain: The anarchist uprisings which began on 8 January are brutally suppressed.

Their greatest successes were in Andalusia. Police & army buildings were attacked, & the anarcho-trade unionists seized public buildings & proclaimed Libertarian Communism there.

In the small village of Casas Viejas, the government "Gardes d'assaut" demonstrate their cruelty by assassinating many of the the villagers, burning alive others gathered in a thatched cottage. See also 1984 below.

http://struggle.ws/spain/pam_intro.html



1936 -- A. D. Winans lives, Frisco, California. Part of the Beat movement.

"A. D. Winans is one of the few writers who doesn't act like a writer & maybe that's why he writes better than they do ... I always prefer a poet I can tolerate for more than 10 minutes; that's rare, & so is A. D." — Charles Bukowski

http://www.thundersandwich.com/thundersandwich17/winans.html
http://2poetswunderleewinans.homestead.com/

1940 -- Canada: During this month Emma Goldman's mail is intercepted by pinch-faced censors, their suspicion raised by the many letters containing money pouring into her address for the defense of Arthur Bortolotti, whose case attracts further attention in the US through articles in the Nation & the New Republic by Goldman.

Bortolotti is released on bail, charged now with immigration violations rather than a breach of the War Measures Act. By mid-January, Goldman returns to raising funds for the Spanish anarchists & continues to raise funds & awareness about Bortolotti's case. [Also during this month her niece & one-time secretary, Stella Ballantine, recovers from a nervous breakdown after nearly two years.]

1943 -- Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal).



1948 -- Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi quickly begins his final fast. Ghandi has hopes of staving off war between Indians & Pakistanis. He is assassinated later in the month (See January 30).


1948 -- England: London's Manor Park Co-operative Society leads the way in consumerist recuperation by opening the first supermarket in Britain.
[Source: Calendar Riots]



1951 -- International Convention on Genocide comes into force. Yup.



1953 -- In "Time" magazine Thornton Wilder says, "Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder

Zanzibar became a British colony in the 19th century. The British established a protectorate in 1890, treating Zanzibar as an Arab state though Arabs constituted only 1/6th the population. In today's fighting, the black majority is led by John Okello, whose small army attacks the Zanzibar armory & seizes the radio station. The Sultan flees on his yacht. Independence does not dramatically change the country's social relations. Arabs own the large plantations & run the government. Eventually Zanzibar forms a union with Tanganyika. The new nation becomes Tanzania.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BrunnerJohn/StandOnZanzibar.htm

Its members have continued to gray: the median age for American nuns is now 67 years old. Lenny Bruce sends his regrets.

http://www.links.net/dox/flix/apocalypsenow/
http://www.dithpran.org/killingfields.htm
http://www.cybercambodia.com/dachs/killing.html
http://www.filmsite.org/apoc.html

At the time, Berrigan was serving six years at a federal prison in Connecticut with his brother Daniel for their destruction of military draft records in Maryland during 1967/68.

In 1969, the two brothers, both Catholic priests, launched a hunger strike in Danbury Prison as part of their antiwar protest. In 1970, Berrigan conspired with others outside of the prison to stage the more dramatic publicity stunt of kidnapping Kissinger & depriving federal buildings of heat in the dead of winter. Philip was indicted on antiwar conspiracy charges along with Maryknoll Sister Elizabeth McAllister, & three other priests (Joseph Wenderoth, Neil McLaughlin, Anthony Scoblick, a former priest) & Eqbal Ahmad, a fellow of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of Public Affairs. In the subsequent trial, the six avoided conviction on the more serious charges of conspiracy to kidnap & bomb federal buildings; Berrigan & McAllister were convicted of smuggling mail out of a federal penitentiary.

1971 -- US: "All in the Family" premiers on CBS, featured first toilet flush on TV. Norman Lear's ground-breaking show, originally called "Those Were the Days," was based on the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. It lasted until 1983.
http://www.toiletology.com/


1971 -- England: The home of Robert Carr MP is bombed after he introduces the Industrial Relations Bill in a drive to crush trade unionism.

The bombing is attributed to the "Angry Brigade." A 'mysterious young Scot' story is featured, fingering anarchist Stuart Christie as the major suspect for every armed action in resistance to the Government's plans for industrial slavery. Jake Prescott is arrested this month, Ian Purdie in March, as suspects.

The January l2 issue of "Business Week" contains his call for a symbolic dedication on July 4, 1976, "with the actual signing of a document-a Declaration of Interdependence" between labor & business, "inseparably linked in the productivity quest."

Productivity-output per hour of work has of course fallen due to worker dissatisfaction & unrest. A basic indication of the continuing revolt against work are the joint campaigns for higher productivity, such as the widely publicized US Steel-United Steelworkers efforts.

A special issue on productivity in "Business Week" for September 9, 1972, highlighted the problem, pointing out also the opposition workers had for union-backed drives of this kind. Closely related to low productivity, it seems, is the employee resistance to working overtime, even during economic recession. The refusal of thousands of Ford workers to overtime prompted a Ford executive in April, 1974 to say, "We're mystified by the experience in light of the general economic situation." Also during April, the Labor Department reported that "the productivity of American workers took its biggest drop on record as output slumped in all sectors of the economy during the first quarter."

— John Zerzan, Organized Labor versus "The Revolt Against Work"

http://geocities.com/cordobakaf/zerzan.html

1976 -- The butler did it?: Agatha Christie, master of the "cozy" detective novel, playwright, & Dame of the British Empire (1971), dies in Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Obviously, the Butler did it. Her books sold over 100,000,000 copies, were translated into more than 100 languages, & one play, The Mouse Trap, set a world record for continuous performances at one theater (8,862 over a 21 year period).





1983 -- Spain: 6th CNT-AIT anarchist Congress, Barcelona (January 12-16th).



1984 -- US: Cholesterol is linked to heart disease after 10-year study by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute.


1984 -- Spanish film by José Luis Lopez del Rio, Casas Viejas documents the tragic events of 1933, including interviews with survivors from the village.

Quiet Time?: In Frisco, California, Beat poet Bob Kaufman dies, still & quiet eternally after many years of a vowed silence.

Camus, I want to know, does the sour taste of
promise flee the dying mouth & eyes & lip...

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hreh0001/kaufman.html

1987 -- Judgement Day?: Twenty West German judges arrested for blockading the US Air Force base at Mutlangen, West Germany.


1989 -- Flintstones?: Six claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax).


1990 -- Laurence J. Peter, author of Peter Principle, in a stroke of bad luck, peters out at 70.



1997 -- Anti-Dave?: HAL becomes operational (2001: A Space Odyssey).
http://www.indelibleinc.com/kubrick/films/2001/images.html




1999 -- India: A national conference of peasants & agricultural workers held at village Parmandal in Multai. This was to mark the anniversary of police firing on a peaceful peasant demonstration last year.

The Conference was jointly organised by National Alliance of People’s Movements, Bharat Jan Andolan & Kisan Sangharsh Samiti (Multai). The Multai Manifesto was adopted.
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2002 -- England: Anarchist flag appears atop the Argentine Embassy! Scaling the heights of one of the slag heaps of authority to signal the need of a large dustbin for this debt-ridden sodbag.

[Details, clickety clik here]

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Pure poetry — & the mystical echoes were no accident. Marx’s allusion was to the Spiritualists, who in his time clasped hands around tables in Boston, Paris, Prague, & St. Petersburg, waiting for the spirits of departed loved ones to set their hands knocking on wood, to make the tables dance. The Spiritualists had nothing to do with commodities, but the commodity had everything to do with magic.

      — GREIL MARCUS, 1984

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