'... Every Sunday until his death... he took his stand under a tree at the Yarra Bank (the "University of the Working-Class") & summoned a few cronies with a tattered cow-bell....'
Scotland: UPHELLYAA. Norse galley burned in Viking sacrifice to sun.
US: NATIONAL POPCORN DAY.
Australia: INVASION DAY.
TU BISHRAT: New Year of the trees in ancient Palestine. Families plant a tree for each child born in the year (cedar for boys, cypress for girls).
GONE TO CROATAN FESTIVAL
Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture
— Ron Sakolsky & Bleedster James Koehnline, editors
Lost history viewed through cracks in the cartographies of control, including "tri-racial isolate" communities, buccaneers, "white Indians", black Islamic movements, the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp, the Métis nation, scandalous eugenics theories, rural "hippie" communes, & many other aspects of North American autonomous cultures. A festschrift honoring historian Hugo Lemming Bey of the Moorish Science Temple.
ISBN: 0-936756-92-6 $12 pp. 382 6" x 9"
http://www.t0.or.at/hakimbey/taz/taz3d.htm
1482 -- First printed edition of the complete Pentateuch with vowel signs & accents is published, Bologna, Italy.
1531 -- Portugal: Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die.
1695 -- US: A Good Kidder? The first workman's compensation agreement in America, by pirate William Kidd — 600 pieces of 8 or 6 slaves to compensate for a lost arm or leg.
1697 -- Duh?: Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night, no problem.
1784 -- Fowl? Benjamin Franklin, noting the bald eagle was "a Bird of bad moral character" who lived "by Sharping & Robbing" expressed regret it had been selected to be our national symbol. Franklin's choice: the turkey, "a much more respectable Bird & withal a true original Native of America."
Regards certain events in the US in 2001 & 2002, or thereabouts, Ben had this to say:
'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.'
— Benjamin Franklin
1788 -- Australia: A fleet of 11 ships lands in Port Jackson after sailing with the continent's first 1,030 English settlers, including 736 convicts.
All told, England ships more than 160,000 men, women, & children in bondage to Australia in the largest forced exile of citizens by a European government in pre-modern history.
Exiles landing today become known as the First Fleet. They are so unfit for survival in the new land that they live near starvation amid what is natural abundance to Aborigines. Most of the First Fleet convicts have never traveled more than 10 miles from their birth places. They saw the sea for the first time when they were clapped in irons & thrust onto the ships.
All the convicts were transported for crimes against property. They include 70-year-old Elizabeth Beckford, who was exiled for stealing 12 pounds of Gloucester cheese. West-Indian Thomas Chaddick was sent to Australia after hunger drove him to steal cucumbers from a kitchen garden.
Obviously, not much has changed in 200-plus years.
1804 -- Eugène Sue, lives, Paris. French author of sensational novels of the seamy side of urban life & a leading exponent of the roman-feuilleton ("newspaper serial"). Having inherited a fortune from his father, Sue became a well-known dandy & depicts contemporary "high life" in such works as Arthur (1838) & Mathilde (1841).
1817 -- France: Jean-Baptiste Godin lives (1817-1888), Esquéhéries, Aisne. French socialist, founder of the Familistère stove manufactory which became a commune co-owned by its workers (over 2,000 by 1908) following his death. An ardent disciple of Fourier, he advanced a considerable sum of money towards the disastrous Fourierist experiment, in Texass, of V. P. Considrant.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/01ref.htm#26/1817
He was living in virtual exile in Basel, Switzerland. His physician-father Thomas Beddoes was the Bristol physician who started Coleridge on laudanum. The younger Beddoes wrote a verse-play The Brides Tragedy which got no attention in England.
In Germany he fell into revolutionary circles & kept writing on a long disjointed play called Death's Jestbook, or The Fool's Tragedy.
Disappointed in a gay love-affair, he tried to kill himself by cutting an artery in his leg. He was rescued, as it were, but gangrene developed & he lost the leg. When fitted with a wooden replacement, he went to the chemist's shop & bought some curari, a deadly poison.
He left a suicide note & a bequest to his physician for a stomach pump, which would have saved his life.
1850 -- England: American labor honcho Samuel Gompers lives, London, son of Solomon, a cigarmaker, & Sarah Rood Gompers. He immigrates to New York City with his family in 1863, & becomes a US citizen on October 4, 1872.
1876 -- Gérard Lacaze-Duthiers lives (d.1958). French Individualist anarchiste, friend of the arts, pacifist intellectual, Professor of Letters, member of l'Union Anarchiste & the Groupe "l'Action d'Art." Involved with the review L'action d'art with André Colomer & Manuel Devaldès. President of l'Union des Intellectuels pacifistes, responsible for the Parti Pacifiste Internationaliste, president of Syndicat des journalistes et écrivains. Collaborated on the Anarchist Encyclopedia of Sébastien Faure, & author of over 40 books & pamphlets, mostly involving literature & pacifism. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/misc/@fotos.htm [Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]
1877 -- Netherlands: Kees van Dongen lives (d.1968). Artist & a founder of Fauvism. In 1903 Félix Fénéon got him started working for the anarchist magazine La Revue Blanche for which he produced light-hearted drawings.
"Many modernists — including Pablo Picasso, Frantißek Kupka, Maurice Vlaminck, & Kees van Dongen — thought anarchist politics to be inherent in the idea of an artistic avant-garde & created new formal languages expressive of their desire to effect revolutionary changes in art & society. Yet while Fauvism, Cubism, & Orphism radically altered the art of this century, the social-esthetic theories that nurtured some of their most significant manifestations were discredited by the decline of the anarchist movement after 1914, the rightward swing of political discourse during & after the war, & the concurrent advent of a resolutely apolitical formalist art criticism. Thus a "revolutionary esthetics" — a "politics of form" — played a crucial role in the development of modern art in prewar France, but its significance was first suppressed & then forgotten."
1884 -- Linguistic relativist Edward Sapir lives, Lauenburg, Pomerania, Germany.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint 2004-2005
Linguistic anthropologist, theorist of language-realities.
1885 -- Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum.
1886 -- France: In Decazeville, the pitiless sub-manager of Watrin Mines, who had forced a drop in workers' wages (10% reduction), ignores their protests. Attacked by an angry crowd, he barricades himself in his office &, still under attack, dies when he jumps from his window. [Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]
1891 -- Oscar Wilde play "The Duchess of Padua" premiers, NYC.
1900 -- Henrik Ibsen's "Naar vi Dode Vaaguer" premiers in Stuttgart.
1903 -- US: Garment workers local 17 forms in Seattle, Washington.
1904 -- Sean Macbride, diplomat & peacemaker, lives, Ireland.
1905 -- World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan is discovered. Weighs in at over one & a quarter pounds.
1907 -- After the opening of John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World, police are called in to calm the audience at Dublin's Abbey Theatre. http://drew.chaosfugue.org/syngeweb/cover.html
1907 -- US: Congress passes an act forbidding corporations from contributing to election campaigns for national office. Yup.
1911 -- Honduras: US troops land to "protect" US lives & interests.
1913 -- Quitter?: Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro.
1914 -- Haiti: US marines begin fighting (-November 7).
1915 -- France: Marxist Arabic Islamicist, historian Maxime Rodinson lives, Paris. Source: Autonomedia Calendar
1923 -- Shanghai: Sun Yat-sen signs an agreement with Adolf Joffe, a representative of the Soviet government. Object: USSR aid to the Kuomintang & future cooperation between the latter & the Communists. [Source: K.S. Karol]
1924 -- Armand Gatti lives, in Monaco. Libertarian playwright, author of more than 40 plays.
Armand's father Gino Gatti, a Piedmontese anarchist, was a comrade of Carlo Cafiero, & involved in many struggles in Argentina.
A Resistance member during WWII with the "Maquis", Armand Gatti was captured in 1943, condemned to death & shipped to Germany, near Hamburg, from which he escaped to England.
After the war he became a prize-winning journalist (Prix Albert Londres in 1954), then devoted himself to the theatre.
For the anarchist that Gatti still is, the theatre is "a perpetual medium for freedom". Resistance & exile are themes in his works, which include The Time of the Physicists, La Deuxième Existence du camp de Tatenberg, & La Journée d’une infirmière. His La passion du général Franco (1968) was banned in France, under pressure from Franco's fascist government.
One day Gatti & his pupils were leaving the National Monument & came across some grim looking bikers. The old teacher ran forward to remonstrate with one who was wearing a swastika.
"He could have been decked," says Roy Dupuis, a Canadian filmmaker particularly inspired by a 69-year-old anarchist.
"Gatti taught me that there was no need to be afraid to stand up for one’s beliefs. That the theatre was sacred, that it was more important than the individual. He taught me to be a servant."
1925 -- US: In Seattle, the University Bookstore moves off the University of Washington campus to "the Ave", where it can be much closer to the Blue Moon Tavern (which probly doesn't exist for a few more years, but one must be forward looking); both august educational institutions continue into the 21st century, one a lackey spewing the swill corporate money & control provides, the other fine wines, hefty dark brews, loud music & much philosophical sport.
1926 -- Television demonstrated publicly for the first time by J.L. Baird in London.
1928 -- Nicaragua: US army invaders/occupiers take El Chipote, after a month of fighting Augusta Sandino.
General Feland, a lot of muscle, much eyebrow, crosses his feet on the desk. About Sandino, yawns & says:
1939 -- Spain: Barcelona falls to Franco's fascist forces. The anarquista youth paper Ruta goes to press for the last time in Spain as Franco enters Barcelona. (It later reappears in France in the mid-40s & eventually is forced to shut down again by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader DeGaulle, & is reconstituted in Venezuela in the 60s.)
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1939 --
"Dawn Of A New Day" (Official Song of the New York World's Fair) Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights, 1/26/39
The New York World's Fair opened on April 30, 1939. Boldly futuristic, its theme was "The World of Tomorrow." Like the Fair, the 'official song' offered by the Gershwins was an affirmation that the Depression was over, though songs had promised that since it began! Joan Peyser, author of The Memory Of All That: The Life Of George Gershwin, believes "Dawn of A New Day" was pieced together by Ira & Kay Swift from George's posthumous notebooks. Horace Heidt's band is remembered by one veteran of the era as "a very controlled Mickey Mouse band with good musicianship."
— Mark Humphrey, "The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s"
1942 -- US: West Coast Hearst newspapers engage in a vilifying attack on Japanese-Americans & begin the public outcry for mass exclusion. Hearst's papers are renowned for their fine reporting.
1944 -- US: Spurred by the announcement of the draft a few days before, 300 people attend a public meeting at Heart Mountain (Japanese-American concentration camp. Here, the Fair Play Committee is formally organized. Kiyoshi Okamoto is chosen chairman & Paul T. Nakadate vice-president. On May 10th, 63 Heart Mountain draft resistors are indicted, then found guilty & sentenced to jail terms on June 26. They are granted a pardon on December 24, 1947. [Sources]
1945 -- Poland: Liberation of extermination camp, Auschwitz/Oswiecim.
1945 -- Singer-comedienne Marti Caine lives. Oddly, she has changed her name from Lynda Crapper.
1948 -- John Lomax dies (1867-1948). Folk Singer, music producer, author, folklorist who collected folk songs & tales, documenter of musical heritage (year of birth uncertain; some say 1875). Amassed some ten thousand recordings for the Library of Congress. Father of Alan Lomax.
1950 -- India becomes a republic as constitution goes into effect.
1953 -- US: Taint a Fit Night Out, For Man Nor Beast? Radioactive rain falls on Troy, New York.
1956 -- US: Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested for the first time; his home will be bombed in a few days.
1956 -- Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet, dies in The Hague. From his early work De wandelaar & his best known volume, Vormen ("Forms," 1924), his work became more optimistic, such as Nieuwe gedichten ("New Poems," 1934) & Het uur U ("Zero Hour," 1942).
1957 -- Netherlands: Dutch form new Pacifist Socialist Party.
Source: Autonomedia Calendar
1960 -- US: What's The Point?: High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points.
1962 -- US: Bishop Burke of the Buffalo, New York Catholic Diocese bans the Twist. It can't be danced, sung about or listened to in any Catholic school, parish or youth event. Later in the year, the Twist will be banned from community center dances in Tampa, Florida as well.
1968 -- France: 40 members of the Nanterre University anarchiste group march into the faculty hall with comical posters ridiculing the police.
The porters attack the anarchists but are whupped. Authorities call in the flics (police); 1,000 students fight back & stage a protest meeting. The movement (May 1968) thus launched grows quickly. The students are determined to get rid of the uniformed & plainclothes police haunting the faculties. Also today there are violent exchanges during a demonstration by strikers at Caen. Antecedents of the May student-worker uprisings throughout Paris & France which nearly topple the government.
1968 -- Spain: La Biblioteca Nacional española inicia la reproducción de los manuscritos de Leonardo da Vinci.
1968 -- US: Seven right-wing Minutemen arrested for conspiring to bomb the Redmond police department & rob banks in Washington State.
1968 --
Billy-club Grappin
January 26, 1968
France: At the faculty of Nanterre, Dean Grappin appeals to the police to reprimand a demonstration by anarchists & Enragés opposing the presence of plain-clothes cops on campus.
The police are chased off & cars are set alight.
On the 29th En attendant la cybernétique, les flics (Waiting for Cybernetics, the Cops), a Situationist fly-poster denouncing "Billy-club Grappin" by the Nanterre Enragés appears.
1969 -- Edwin Pratt, director of Seattle Urban League, is assassinated; police involvement is widely suspected. An arrest is never made in the case.
1969 -- US: The Washington Post reports the fall of hundreds of ducks from the sky over St. Mary's City, Maryland.
1970 -- US: State capitol of Louisiana is damaged by a dynamite explosion.
1970 -- Philippines: 20,000 riot in Manila to protest the regime of US-backed Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Dictator & Shoe-Hoarder Ferdinand Marcos following his State of the Nation address. Over 2000 attempt to storm the presidential palace on the 30th & riots continue throughout the year.
1971 -- England: Noam Chomsky, famed linguist, scorching social critic & anarcho-syndicalist, delivers the Bertrand Russell Memorial Lecture, Cambridge.
1972 -- Coffee, Tea, or... Oh, Damn, Damn!?
Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without a parachute. http://www.uspa.org/
1973 -- US: Selective Service military draft put on standby, never (so far) to return.
1977 -- Checked Out?: Fleetwood Mac's first lead guitar player, Peter Green, is committed to a mental hospital in England after firing a pistol in the general direction of a delivery boy who was attempting to deliver to Green a royalties check from Fleetwood Mac record sales. Green left the band in May 1970 to live a life of religious seclusion.
1978 -- Seattle Sci-fi author Frank Herbert completes his novel Destination: Void. This was a few years after Auntie Dave dropped out of class he was teaching...but I don't think he meant anything personal...
"Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality & legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: who has the clout?"
— Frank Herbert in Dune series
1983 -- US: National Commission on Excellence in Education issues a report labeling US elementary & secondary education "mediocre." Recommends schools put more emphasis on English, math, social studies, & computer science; the school day be lengthened; that teachers be rewarded for merit rather than seniority; & college admissions standards be raised.
1983 -- Dennis Nilsen, the "British Jeffrey Dahmer", strangles a 20-year-old man, his 10th of 15 victims, London.
1988 -- Australia: Aborigines mark 200th anniversary as "invasion day."
1990 -- US: Technology critic Lewis Mumford dies, Amenia, New York.
"Where both aims, the aesthetic & the technical, were pursued together, it had the happy result of producing an harmonious relation between the subjective & the objective life, between spontaneity & necessity, between fantasy & fact."
Mumford wrote, among many books, The Story of Utopias 1922; Sticks & Stones: A Study of American Architecture & Civilization 1924; Herman Melville 1929; Technics & Civilization 1934; The Culture of Cities 1938; The Conduct of Life 1951; The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, & Its Prospects 196; The Highway & the City 1963; The Myth of the Machine: I. Technics & Human Development 1967; The Urban Prospect 1968; The Myth of the Machine: II. The Pentagon of Power 1970.
"Layer upon layer, past times preserve themselves in the city until life itself is finally threatened with suffocation; then, in sheer defense, modern man invents the museum."
1991 -- US: 200,000 march against Gulf War, New York City & 200,000 in San Francisco; also 200,000 in Bonn, Germany.
1993 -- Canada: Women in Black demonstrate in solidarity with their Serbian sisters, Toronto.
I take the rainy landscape from my window remove the shadow of the wutong tree wipe you off.
1993 -- Author Laura Esquivel (Como Agua para Chocolate) is named Mexican woman of the year.
1994 -- US: One-time lefttist, turned rightwing fascist, whacko Lyndon LaRouche is released after five years in jail for fraud & conspiracy. Perennial candidate for President, the running keeps the cult leader mean & lean.
1995 -- Where's The Rest of Me?: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern.
1997 -- Albania: Three thousand people attempt an assault on parliament following a demonstration in Tirana. In Valona (Vlore), a bomb is thrown at the police during a protest march. The town hall is set on fire. Tomorrow in Peshkopi about a hundred people attack the police station with stones. Six policemen are killed, then the rebels set fire to the town hall offices.
"The atmosphere in Gjrokaster is mad. The popular revolt has transformed itself into total anarchy, there is no police, no State, no rules. The city has become enthusiastic, has brightened up, got involved in the game of rebellion."
— Le Monde 11/31/97
With the economic collapse of two institutions, leaving 70 to 80% of Albanian families deprived of all their savings. During much of this year similar riots & demonstrations occur nationwide, as does police & army repression, & the bankruptcy of all the political parties is also revealed. Source: Chronology in Albania: Laboratory of Subversion: http://libcom.org/library/1997-albania-laboratory-subversion http://zinelibrary.info/albania-laboratory-subversion
1998 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Clinton ("the Dickster") says,
"I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky...."
1998 -- US: Seattle songster Jim Page plays The Wild Duck Brewery in Eugene, Oregon, home to thousands of black-masked anarchists...
Jim Page is acerbic, powerful, poignant, clever & very funny — & can improvise a song in a flash. He reveals the nuances, twists & turns of political & everyday life in songs that are crafted to be engaging, one interesting lyric at a time.
there's a shadow on the promised land
shiver in the winter
freezin' in the empty space
seems like nobody really cares about anybody anymore
if you ain't got a lot of money
or a pretty face
& it's slander for slander, it cuts like a knife
this ain't no game we're playin', this is real life
& all they want to talk about at city hall
is how to build a better building to play baseball
1998 -- "The Global Climate Coalition just doesn't want us to notice that the climate is ten times worse that it was ten years ago, that 230 million people in China were dislocated by floods this year, that Mitch was the worst hurricane in 200 years, that jungles were on fire all over the place in 1998.
We're not supposed to know about that; & if we do know, we're supposed to conclude that it's some kind of astonishing freak accident."
~ ~ Bruce Sterling, Wired News, 1/26/98
1998 -- US:
Project for the New American Century is the pressure group established by, among others, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, Elliott Abrams & Zalmay Khalilzad, all of whom (except the prez's brother) are at this time senior officials in the US government....
A Statement of Principles issued by the Project, signed by these men today, asserts that the key challenge for the US is "to shape a new century favorable to American principles & interests".
This requires "a military that is strong & ready to meet both present & future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly & purposefully promotes American principles abroad; & national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities."
A blunt assertion that an American superpower should reshape the world to suit itself, they also write President Clinton today, urging him "to enunciate a new strategy", namely "the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power". If Clinton fails to act, "the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends & allies like Israel & the moderate Arab states, & a significant portion of the world's supply of oil will all be put at hazard."
They acknowledge that this doctrine would be opposed, but "American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council."
"Bin Laden one crank from America's cup
just like that election down in Florida, this shit doesn't all add up
'cause it's all about the price of oil"
— Songster Billy Bragg, The Price of Oil
1999 -- Australian Heritage Commission accepts the Tent Embassy as a place of special significance to indigenous Australians.
Although Parliament House has moved to a sight a kilometre away & sits on a hill surrounded by a well manicured expanse of grass, the mean spirited petty, intellectually limited renegades Liberal/National Party government re-enacted a 64 year old law to remove what they see as an eyesore from in front of the old Parliament House.
The Tent Embassy was established in 1972 as a national focus for the indigenous land-rights struggle. Every time the government took down the Tent Embassy in 1972, hundreds, then thousands, rebuilt it.
2001 --
Samuel H. Day Jr. dies, age 74. A self-proclaimed "Old Codger for Peace" & author of Prisoners On Purpose: A peacemaker's guide to jails & prisons. Journalist, civil libertarian & militant opponent of nuclear weapons who led a magazine in a landmark First Amendment court battle over the publication of an article on the hydrogen bomb.
Sam Day was managing editor of The Progressive in 1979 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, where BleedMeisterAuntieDave & Bleedster Gus, as Midwest Field Secretaries & reporters for the US Student Press Association (USSPA)/College Press Service (CPS), met him & were marvelously hosted. We both wrote impressions of Boise for his paper, which was considered a crusading, muckraking newspaper.
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."
2009 -- US: Depression?: McDonald's to open 1,000 stores during 2009. Depressing.
3000 --
Pattiducking
Pattern generation by deductive & inductive reasoning. Persons adept at pattiducking often become professional synthesizers & are favorites of the Dilettante Dept.
By concentrating on the patterns inherent in all phenomenon, pattiduckers can come to sweeping conclusions concerning current & future events. Pattiduckers are not concerned with rote memorization of facts but rather discerning the pattern facts fall into when considered as a whole.
Most Pattiduckers make good use of reference works & computational aids to compensate for their disinterest with memorization.
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First printed edition of the complete Pentateuch with vowel signs & accents is published, Bologna, Italy.
Armand Gatti lives, in Monaco. Libertarian playwright, author of more than 40 plays.
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"Bin Laden one crank from America's cup
Samuel H. Day Jr. dies, age 74. A self-proclaimed "Old Codger for Peace" & author of Prisoners On Purpose: A peacemaker's guide to jails & prisons. Journalist, civil libertarian & militant opponent of nuclear weapons who led a magazine in a landmark First Amendment court battle over the publication of an article on the hydrogen bomb.
