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-- JANUARY 16

DIAN FOSSEY
Friend to all primates, animal rights martyr.

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US: NATIONAL NOTHING DAY.

Japan: HARU-NO-YABUIRI. A festival of Zerowork for overworked students & servants.

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1697 -- Richard Savage, poet, dies savagely.



1749 -- England: An unknown person advertises that he will "get into a tavern quart bottle... & while there sing several songs", (the London Bottle Hoax).
Ho hum...zounds like any quiet nite at the fabulous Blue Moon Tavern in Seattle.


1769 -- England: Rock 'n' Roll? One of the worst riots in theatre history kicks off at the London Haymarket after a conjurer fails to appear.
Source: [Calendar Riots]


1776 -- US: Continental Congress approves General George Washington's order to enlist free Negroes.


1786 -- México: The first coffeehouse in the country opens. & you thought Starbucks started the first coffeehouses...



1794 -- Edward Gibbon (History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire) fat, feeble, & gout-ridden, dies at 56. Religious reformer Hannah More writes: "How many souls have his writings polluted! Lord preserve others from their contagion!"

Add to Gibbon's miseries that he died from the results of a botched surgery for testicular hydroceles. A most uncomfortable condition.

— Bleedster Gus, 2004

http://www.his.com/~z/gibbon.html

1822 -- Albert Greene poem "Old Grimes" is first published, "Providence Gazette."


1859 -- México: The papal nuncio to México says "The clergy have created the empire."


1872 -- French actress Sarah Bernhardt debuts with the Comedie Française in Victor Hugo's Ruyt Blas. Her performance makes her the leading actress in Europe.


1874 -- Canadian poet/novelist Robert W. Service lives to shoot Dan McGrew, Preston, Lancashire.


1877 -- A "color organ" (for light shows) is patented, by Bainbridge Bishop. Whoopeee! Acid Rock is Born!


1877 -- US: Don't Hold Yer Breath? William T. Steiger patents a foot-warmer that conducts exhaled breath to the feet.

[I have 13 of these...cuts way down on the heating bill, & they powers the Daily Bleed computer & Recollection (ab)Used Books.

Why they call me the 'Wheezer Geezer' ?— ed.]

1880 -- Paulette Brupbacher lives (1880-1967), Pinsk (Pelta), Russia (today in Bielorussia). A physician, militant feminist, anarchist, author of numerous books & articles. An opponent of all conformisms & partisan disciplines. Partner & collaborator of Fritz Brupacher (also a doctor) (1874-1945), friend of James Guillaume, Pytor Kropotkin, et al. Translated The Confession of the Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin.
http://www.ephemanar.net/janvier01.html#brupbacherf


1887 -- George Kelly lives, Philadelphia. Playwright/actor/director whose 1920s dramas depict the foibles of the American middle class (The Show-Off; Graig's Wife).

1888 -- Osip Brik lives. (January 16, 1888–February 22, 1945), avant-garde Russian writer & literary criticist, important participant with the Russian formalist school, Russian Futurists, & also the Constructivists.

Daily Bleed Patron Saint October 26, 2003-04
Intellectual spark of Russian Futurist cultural innovation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osip_Brik

1893 -- Hawaii: Queen Lilluokalani's regime is overthrown by US pineapple tycoon Sanford Dole & pro-annexation sugar interests. With an amazing sense of timing, US troops just happen to land, "to protect US interests." With support from Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader US Minister John Stevens, Beloved & Respected Comrade Dole declares himself Hawaii's president & lobbies for US annexation. It's manifestly in the can.

The Senate Foreign-Relations Committee recommends annexation, declaring it (quote),

"a duty that has its origin in the noblest sentiments that inspire the love of a father for his children ."

In 1898, President William McKinley signs a joint resolution of Congress authorizing the annexation.

1897 -- Thomas Mann story "Der Tod" is printed, in Simplicissimus.


1898 --

Strange Stuff:

Sighting of something like a cloud that dimmed & blotted out stars in the constellation of Perseus (sighted again on Jan 24) [Monthly Notices, 58-334] http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1901 -- Laura Riding lives, New York. Influential poet, critic, & prose writer among the literary avant garde of the 1920s & 30s. Her work with Robert Graves, A Survey of Modernist Poetry (1927) developed ideas of close textual analysis, influencing the New Criticism school.



1908 -- France: Jean Bourguer lives. Textile worker, militant anarchiste, antimilitarist, anticlérical & revolutionary syndicalist.

Sources: Ephéméride Anarchiste & http://militants-anarchistes.info/spip.php?article497

born in , à Reims.; Ouvrier du textile, il milite, en 1891, dans le groupe anarchiste de Reims. Condamné à un an de prison pour "excitation de militaire à la désobéissance," il s'insoumet ensuite au service militaire, ce qui lui vaudra de passer, au total, deux ans en prison. En 1898, à Roubaix, il devient le responsable du journal "Le Cravacheur" et collabore au journal "Le Droit de Vivre" (édité à Paris). Militant syndicaliste, il est à plusieurs reprises délégué dans les congrès pour représenter la Fédération du Textile et la Bourse du Travail de Reims. En 1905, à Tourcoing, il est gérant-imprimeur du journal anarchiste "Le Combat," et donne des conférences dans le Nord et à Reims (où il milite à l'Union des travailleurs de cette ville). En 1907, il est un des principaux collaborateurs avec Charles Dhooghe et Victor Grimbert du journal anarchiste "La Cravache." Poursuivi par la justice pour recel, il est condamné à vingt ans de travaux forcés, mais il parvient à s'enfuir aux Etats-Unis grâce aux papiers d'un compagnon. Il ne retourne en France qu'après-guerre (sa peine étant alors prescrite).

"Anarchiste, je suis parti, anarchiste je reviens."

--- Déclaration faite à son retour, lors d'une conférence à Reims.

1912 -- Una nave da guerra della marina italiana compie un atto di pirateria internazionale bloccando due mercantili francesi e arrestando 29 passeggeri turchi. Il presidente del consiglio francese Raymond Poincaré esige e ottiene l'immediata liberazione degli ostaggi. La Corte internazionale di giustizia dell'Aja condannerà lo stato italiano a pagare un risarcimento di 160.000 lire.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]


1914 -- Russia: Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia.


1916 -- US: Emma Goldman gives a lecture at the Masonic Temple at 26th Street & Lenox Avenue, in NY City, on "The Child's Right Not to Be Born."

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According to the New York Times (Jan. 17) Emma said that "if everyone followed the injunction of the Bible & Theodore Roosevelt to 'Be fruitful & multiply' every tenement house would be turned into a lunatic asylum..."

See Emma Goldman, The Traffic in Women (Times Change Press, 1970).

1918 -- Alan Harrington lives. He was with Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs & others at ground zero of what became the Beat Generation. (Harrington aka Hal Hingham in the later pages of On the Road.) Author of The Immortalist; most of his books are now out of print.

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IT WAS THE novelist Vance Bourjaily, as I recall, who introduced me to Alan Harrington back in the winter of 1983, saying, "You'll like him. He's a good man & a good writer." We assembled at Jack's — the long-gone downtown watering hole whose well-heeled clientele Ed Abbey once startled by bellowing, in Alan's pained presence, "Smells like lawyers in here!" — on a cold Friday afternoon.

— Gregory McNamee

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He was always officially afraid. Once we were crossing a busy street & he darted like a rabbit. I told him he acted as if every car on the road were trying to kill him.

He said, "They are."

Alan traveled through other jungles & despoblados, the shadowy landscapes of the human mind peopled with psychopaths & drug users & sexual criminals. He was convinced decades ago that psychopaths were the coming thing & soon would pass for normal. Anyone who has noticed recent elections knows that Alan won that bet.

— Charles Bowden

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Hal lurked at the window, aware suddenly of the scent of Merko's roses & the chill feel of the vase in his hands. Waiting to see what would happen to his brother, & therefore to him, he heard clocks. They were chiming up & down the street.

Altogether, it was fifty-six o'clock.

http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/07-08-97/tw_feat.html

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1919 -- Argentina: End of « Semaine Sanglante ». ("Bloody Week") in Buenos Aires. The General Strike begun a week ago, on the 7th, is crushed in blood, with as many as 700 dead & 2000 wounded. The militant Argentinean anarchist movement is decimated by the repression which follows & trade union reformists gain control of the workers' movement.


1919 -- US: Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of the states; Nebraska is 36th. (starts 1920).

"Prohibition is an awful flop.
We like it.
It can't stop what its' meant to stop.
We like it.
It's left a trail of graft & slime,
It's filled our land with vice & crime,
It can't prohibit worth a dime,
Nevertheless we're for it."

      — Franklin Pierce Adams, New York World




1919 -- Spain: Constitutional guarantees suspended in Barcelona. Repression falls mainly on the cenetistas (CNT). Confederal premises are raided & unionists arrested. Workers found at or frequenting the homes of prominent militants are jailed. Imprisoned in the Cárcel Modelo, they are transferred to the boats "Pelayo" & "Giralda" which serve as floating prisons in the harbor, & all newspapers are censored, so that there is no voice in defense of the prisoners. The CNT is forced to operate underground.
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1920 -- US: 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; Drink Anniversary; it doesn't rain again in Seattle until 1933, when the dry act is repealed.


1920 -- France: First meeting of League of Nations Council, Paris.


1920 -- Russia: The Allied powers recognize the independence of Russian Georgia; The blockade of the USSR is raised. Few Americans know that the US was part of an invading & occupation force in Russia during this period. This they do not teach in the schools.


1920 -- Italy: During this month, Un Congresso di deputati albanesi costituisce un governo provvisorio a Tirana, rifiuta il protettorato italiano e chiede il ritiro di circa 70.000 soldati italiani che avevano occupato l'Albania verso la fine della guerra.
[Exact day not given — ed.]
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]


1925 -- Russia: Leon Trotsky, pretender to the throne, is dismissed from the chairmanship of the Russian Revolutionary Military Council.



1932 -- Rwanda: Dian Fossey lives (1932-1985). Primatologist, who could have been killed by one swipe by a gorilla, is murdered instead by poachers, Karisoke Center. She had launched an international campaign against poachers who killed one of her favorite gorillas.

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

1933 -- Susan Sontag lives (1933-2004). American 'new intellectual' essayist & novelist, whose innovative essays to various aspects of modern culture have gained wide attention.

"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art."

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sontag.htm
http://www.susansontag.com/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Sontag

1936 -- US: Albert "The Cannibal" Fish, murderer of children, executed at Sing Sing.



1936 -- Spain: Socialists / communists / anarchists form "Unidad Popular."

http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/spain/
http://www.inicijativa.org/tiki/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=44

1938 -- US: Benny Goodman plays Carnegie Hall. The two hour concert was the event of its day — a precursor to Sinatra at the Paramount, Dylan at Newport, & Elvis in Memphis all rolled in one.

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It was the first live performance of integrated bands & an unqualified success. The audience rightfully went apeshit & began shouting with abandon — in defiance of Hall decorum — after the Orchestra’s coda rave up. Goodman brought jazz to the rarefied concert setting of Carnegie Hall for the very first time — & played what many consider the most famous live show in jazz history. Featuring performances by some of the great jazzmen of the century including Count Basie, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, Lester Young, Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Harry Carney, Gene Krupa & many others. [Timelines all over the internet repeat that Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall today, when black members of his band are barred from performing...but obviously he & they all did play, & I have been unable to corroborate this assertion of his refusal. —ed.] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman

1938 -- Spain: Fascists begin daily bombing of Barcelona (Spanish Revolution/Civil War).


1941 -- US: Vice Admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor.


1942 -- Carole Lombard, her mother, & 20 others killed in plane crash. Lombard, married to actor Clark Cable, died in a plane crash while on a war-bond drive.


1944 -- China: Chiang Kai-shek threatens to cut off supplies & support for US forces in China if he does not receive $1 billion in credit. American rightwing loves this guy.



1952 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator James Eastland introduces a resolution to declare a "state of emergency" in the US. It allows Congress to invoke a McCarran Internal Security Act provision under which American Communists could be rounded up & jailed in concentration camps.

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1956 -- ¶ Beatster Jack Kerouac completes Visions of Gerard. Also during the month "The Mexican Girl" (from On the Road) is published in the Paris Review; he writes "Brooklyn Bridge Blues" poems & takes a trip to New York City.



1958 -- Eusebio C. Carbó (b. 1883), militant Spanish anarquista, dies.


1963 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb in his back pocket.


1963 -- Venezuela: Revolutionary students in Caracas make an armed attack on an exposition of French art & carry off five paintings, which they declare they will return in exchange for the release of political prisoners.
Source: [Calendar Riots]


1965 -- US: An USAF tanker plane crashes into a residential area of Wichita, Kansas, killing the seven member crew & 23 on the ground.




1966 -- US: Joan Baez is jailed for 10 days for Vietnam antiwar protest during a demonstration, Oakland, California.

1968 -- US: Youth International Party (Y.I.P.) founded — Country Joe & Fish, Fugs (includes Tuli Kupferberg, "one of the leading Anarchist theorists of our time" & Ed Sanders, poet, editor (Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts), owner of the fabled Peace Eye Book Store), Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, Phil Ochs, Jerry Rubin (25 artists, writers & revolutionaries). No anarchist Yuppies allowed; BleedMeister has been beheaded for certain licentious transgressions.

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1970 -- US: Soledad Brothers (including George Jackson) are accused of killing a guard in Soledad (California) state prison.
http://www.prop1.org/legal/prisons/aptheker.htm


1972 -- Ross Bagdasarian, who had a bunch of hits "sung" by TV cartoon characters, the Chipmunks, dies at age 52. He did the voices for Alvin, Simon & Theodore. Under the name David Seville, he also recorded the Number One hit "Witch Doctor" in 1958. Upon hearing of Ross' demise, his father, now in a Monastary, laments: "He was a chip off the old monk."


1973 -- Famed gospel singer Carla Ward, 48, dies after suffering her second stroke within several weeks. Aretha Franklin called Ward, "my inspiration."


1977 -- In Asserbo, Denmark, novelist/dramatist, Leif Panduro dies. With such works as Farvel, Thomas (1968, "Good-bye, Thomas") & I Adams verden (1973, "In Adam's World") he is considered one of the most successful Scandinavian dramatists of the 1970s.



1980 -- Japan: Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for possession of a half pound of marijuana. Locked up for 10 days behind bars before being kicked-out of the country. The remainder of his tour is canceled.

A pencil recall is underway in upstate New York because a would-be anti-drug message ran smack into real world physics.

The pencils bear the message "Too Cool to Do Drugs," but as they are sharpened the message becomes "Cool to Do Drugs," then "Do Drugs."

http://www.hempfest.org/
http://www.pulpcards.com/

1981 -- Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in the Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg.



1981 -- Irish radical Bernadette Devlin shot.
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/pdmarch/arthur74a.htm


1981 -- Bite Me?: Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even take his gold teeth.



1984 -- Paul & Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados — possession of marijuana.

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1986 -- US: Energy Department announces 12 potential nuclear waste sites in the eastern US, including Penobscot site in Maine only re-granted to them six years before, along with four other tribal sites.
http://www.downtheyellowcakeroad.org/


1987 -- E.P. Thompson starts receiving the Sykaos Papers (in his novel, Sykaos Papers).


1991 -- US invades Kuwait & Iraq. Several dozen US troops (many victims of "friendly fire") & up to 400,000 Iraqi citizens die in the following weeks. An estimated 1,000,000 Iraqis die — a vast number being children — due to the effects of the following five years of US-led global economic embargo. Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark has termed this US policy genocide.

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1991 -- US: BiblioKleptoManiac Stephen Blumberg goes on trial for stealing $20 million worth of rare books & manuscripts, Iowa. Bookmarked for life!

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"Borrowed" 20,000 rare books & 10,000 manuscripts from 140 or more universities & museums (possibly as many as 327) in 45 states & Canada.

"It was his habit to read constantly through the night, cat-napping, waking, reading, dozing, waking, reading again, never fully sleeping."

He did not sell any of the books, but stored them neatly in his 17-room home in Ottumwa, Iowa, & in stashes elsewhere. His ambition was to become the greatest rare book thief of the century, even greater than the infamous David Shim, whose career was interrupted by arrest in 1980.

Got Blumberg 5 years reading time & $200,000 in "overdue" fines.

After his release, he ended up back in court on April 8,1998, on multiple counts of third degree burglary, to wit: stealing antique door knobs & assorted lighting fixtures (better to read by).

http://cool.conservation-us.org/byorg/abbey/an/an15/an15-7/an15-702.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Blumberg