When in Rome do like a Roman,
Ave Maria,
Gee it's good to see ya,
Gettin' ecstatic an'
Sort of dramatic an'
Doin' the Vatican Rag!

1832 -- Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) lives, England. Mathematician, pedophile, author of Alice in Wonderland, creator of the famed Cheshire cat.

http://www.lewiscarroll.org/carroll.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lcarroll.htm

I have seen criminals & whores

& spoken with them. Now I inquire

If you believe them made as now they are

To drag their rags in blood & mire

Preordained, an evil race?

 

You to whom all men are prey

Have made them what they are today.

[Source: Michel Chronologie]

But then the automobile came to man’s rescue. It doesn’t wait for any notes, it doesn’t demand 14 points like Wilson. Meticulously & efficiently, it cleans the earth. All inoculations & all conferences are powerless against it. The body is quickly removed by truck, the car is carefully wiped, & the record is identified by a multi-digit number.

At first such things were known as "catastrophes." Now people speak of "accidents." Soon they’ll stop speaking altogether. Silently they’ll haul away the victim & silently write down the number.

      — Ilya Ehrenburg, 1929 (from The Life of the Automobile)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/eburg.htm
http://www.joshuarubenstein.com/rubenstein/
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1996/10/VIDAL/7280.html

1896 -- Russia: Lasker wins at St. Petersburg (chess); Steinitz is second.


1898 -- Henry James story "The Turn of the Screw" begins serial publication.


1900 -- US: Social Democrat Party of America (Debs's party) holds its first convention.



1903 -- US: Police arrest Emma Goldman & Max Baginski in New York City for being "suspicious persons"; released after questioning.

Why upstanding anarchists would be considered "suspicious" is beyond us.

What is to suspect!?



1904 -- England: Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland contained no reference to chocolate gramophone records, since they were unknown until this day 71 years later, when Gebruder Stollwerk obtained UK Patent No. 1,992.


1908 -- US: Supreme Court rules a law banning discrimination against union labor is unconstitutional, upholds railroad official who fired a worker for belonging to a union.

1912 --

Strange Stuff:

Sighting of "an intensely black object" on the moon, estimated to be 250 miles long & 50 miles wide, resembling "a crow poised, as near as anything" [Popular Astronomy, 20-398] http://www.passarola.com/strange/decfort.html http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/damned/damn03.htm

1913 -- US: Patterson silk workers' strike.
[Details, click here]


1915 -- Haiti: US marines occupy the country (-1934).


1916 -- Germany: Communist party "Spartacus" is formed in Berlin.


1920 -- First meeting of the International Labor Organization (ILO).


1920 -- US: Kansas mine workers strike against compulsory arbitration.

1921 -- Donna Reed, film star turned definitive Classic TV mom, lives, Denison, Iowa. In 1954, she played in MGM's version of the Scott Fitzgerald short story "Babylon Revisited," filmed as The Last Time I Saw Paris.



1922 -- American journalist, adventuress Nellie Bly dies, New York City.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mghslib/projects/stwh01.html


1927 -- Canada: Emma Goldman's first two lectures, January 27-30, in Winnipeg draw large audiences: a Yiddish lecture attracts 400 & 1,000 attend an English lecture on "The Labor Situation in Europe."


1927 -- Edmund Wilson tells Ernest Hemingway that his novel The Sun Also Rises is "a knockout, the best piece of fiction this crop has done."



1931 -- Canadian author Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) lives, Montreal.


1932 --

Jazzster Louis Armstrong & his orchestra records "All of Me".

Armstrong's romantically bittersweet "All Of Me" scarcely suggests the desperation of many Americans as he recorded this then-new standard during the Depression's bleakest winter. National income had declined by 50 percent since 1929, & 14 million Americans were unemployed at the outset of 1932. Americans were giving their all that winter just to survive. Legions of homeless scavenged for scraps & huddled in shanty towns dubbed 'Hoovervilles' after the President who said, "What the country needs is a good, big laugh." Secretly, Hoover urged Congress not to cut Army & Navy pay, as well-fed troops might soon be needed to quell a revolution. http://www.authentichistory.com/1930s/music/1930s_music_01.html http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,301462,00.html

1934 -- Russia: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Uncle Joe Stalin announces his fear that the Great Depression will lead capitalists to war.



1935 -- D.M. (Donald Michael) Thomas lives, Redruth, Cornwall, England. Best known for his novel The White Hotel, mixing fantasy & psychological insight, exploring the sexual hysteria & premonitions of an early patient of Sigmund Freud.


1939 -- US: Julius Lester, reteller of legends & folklore of the American South, lives.


1941 -- Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of an impending Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.


1944 -- USSR: Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed.

1945 -- Ukrainian division of Soviet Army frees surviving Auschwitz prisoners.
[Details, click here]

1947 -- US: Two pre-teen boys pile boards, pipes, & a large roll of wire fencing on a train track, causing a passenger train derailment that kills four & injures 45, Walton, Indiana.


1950 -- US: A 3-cent Samuel Gompers postage stamp is issued, Washington, DC. Labor gets its due.


1951 -- US: Crap Shoot? First nuclear weapons test conducted near Las Vegas, at what becomes the Nevada Test Site. A plane drops a 1-kiloton nuclear bomb, Frenchman Flats.

"The flame that first seared the Nevada desert 50 years ago has left a wound that may never heal." — Samuel H. Day Jr., Old Codger for Peace & Daily Bleed Saint for Jan 26th, "America's Nuclear Legacy" http://www.progressive.org/pmpdj23.html http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/ http://www.shundahai.org/US_Atmospheric_Nuclear_Tests_Database.htm http://www.naav.com/html/links.htm

1952 -- France: International Movement for Fraternal Union Among Races & Peoples is formed, Paris.


1957 -- US: For the second time in a year, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed.


1958 -- Little Richard enters Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama. It's a school for blacks run by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Little Richard explains while flying over the Philippines on tour, the wing on his plane caught fire & his prayers that the flames go out were answered. As a result, he says he's giving up rock & roll so he can serve God.


1959 -- In Portland, Oregon, Mel Lyman notes from a diner:

...a film of grease, paint spots & reflection

— Diary of a Young artist
http://www.trussel.com/lyman/mirror.htm

1967 -- US: Three astronauts die at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Flash fire engulfs their Apollo I space capsule during a simulated launch. An investigatory panel found that "many deficiencies in design & engineering" plagued the $21 billion Apollo program.


1967 -- Trust US? Outer Space Treaty signed by U.S., USSR & Britain. 72 nations in all sign this treaty, banning the use of nuclear weapons in space. Yep, by Little Green Men in UFOs, no doubt.



1967 -- Australia: Melbourne residents riot to protest the execution of Ronald Ryan, sentenced to death for killing a prison warder.
[Source: Calendar Riots]



1969 -- A group of Detroit African-American auto workers known as the Eldon Avenue Axle Plant Revolutionary Union Movement leads a wildcat strike against racism & bad working conditions.
[Details, click here]


1972 -- US: In the Hen House?: Gordon Liddy's first plan for disrupting the 1972 Democratic Convention, calling for "mugging squads, kidnapping teams, prostitutes to compromise the opposition, & electronic surveillance" is presented to Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Attorney General Mitchell, the highest law enforcement official in the American government.


1972 -- One killed, nine injured when a bomb detonates at the offices of an agent booking Soviet artists. A caller claiming to represent Soviet Jews claims responsibility.


1973 -- Vietnam Peace Treaty signed in Paris. All American troops are to leave Vietnam within 90 days. Ends American military's combat role in this imperialist war. US military draft ends. Most American liberal & conservative idealogues will seek global domination through other, more sophistcated political & economic methods (WTO, IMF, NAFTA, etc.)
[Details, click here]



1977 -- US: In one of his first acts as President, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Jim Carter pardons some 10,000 Vietnam draft resisters.


1977 -- Happy Hour?: Vatican bars women from priesthood. Millions around the globe break into song, bellowing,

First you get down on your knees Fiddle with your rosaries Bow your head with great respect & genuflect, genuflect ... — Tom Lehrer, The Vatican Rag http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#TomLehrer

1983 -- West Germany: Nationwide strike by some 10,000 conscientious objectors.



1984 -- Michael Jackson's hair bursts into flames while filming a Pepsi commercial.


1986 -- US: Hormel workers locked out for honoring Ottumwa, Iowa picket line.


1987 -- USSR: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Secretary Gorbachev signals new era of "Glasnost" (openness), proposing economic & social reforms.



1987 -- France: Clara Thalmann-Ensner dies, in Nice. Swiss revolutionary & anarchist, fought in the Spanish Revolution, founded Serena Commune in Nice in 1953 with her husband Pavel.

“I am going to make the revolution in the the sky." — Clara Thalmann, 1953. Expelled from the Kommunistische Partei der Schweiz in 1929 along with her husband, Pavel; active in the Kommunistische Partei Opposition & Trotskyist groups in Basel & Zurich; went to Spain in 1936; joined the anarchosyndicalist Durruti Column; imprisoned by the communists in Barcelona & Valencia in 1937; during WWII they lived in Paris helping German refugees; after 1945 involved in agitation against the Soviet Union & for the liberation of Algeria; started the Serena guesthouse in Nice in 1953; in touch with new generations of student activists during the 60s & 70s; published their memoirs in the 1970s; in the documentary ‘Die lange Hoffnung' of 1983 Clara Thalmann & Augustin Souchy revisit sites of the Spanish Civil War.

1988 -- Center for Constitutional Rights reveals the FBI had under surveillance a number of organizations critical of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Reagan administration policies in Central America.
[Details, click here]


1990 -- Serbia: Ethnic Albanians in Kosovo begin demonstrations, five die.


1991 -- Iraq: Gulf Peace Team evicted from peace camp by US troops, Judayyidat Ar'ar.

"Two Local Wars" (Situationist article on the Vietnam & Arab-Israel wars),
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/11.wars.htm
"The War & the Spectacle" (on the Gulf war & the media), http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/gulfwar.htm

1995 -- US & Vietnam sign agreements settling old property claims & establishing liaison offices in each other's capitals.
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/chronol.htm


3500 --

  

"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete & staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."

       — Anais Nin

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