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Now,
only a spider of black wires
where once the Oracle spoke
in a whirlwind.
— Dieter Weslowski, "The Angelus Hour"

JANUARY 30
OSCEOLA
Great defender of the Seminole Indian nation.

Ontario, Canada: BON SOO Winter Carnival.

435 -- Roma makes peace with the Vandals, & recognizes their territories in northwest Africa as "federati."

1628 -- English courtier, politician, & dramatist George Villiers lives. Wrote the Restoration comedy The Rehearsal.

1649 -- Heads Up?: Charles I of England beheaded by Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads, Whitehall, as bourgeoisie take power in its own name & for its own interests — overthrow of the monarchy & establishment of The (not-so) Commonwealth.
Charles repeated on the scaffold Pamela's prayer from the Elizabethan work The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Philip Sidney. When Charles II was restored to the throne, Cromwell's two-year-dead body was disinterred, beheaded, & the head put on a pike on London Bridge.
The 'Calves Head Club' first undertakes riotous activity outside a tavern in Charing Cross, stoning rich folks' houses & fighting local militiamen. The loose association of revelers has been formed to ridicule Charles I on every anniversary of his execution & a drunken debauch celebrates sporadically on this day in London from the late 17th century until 1735.
[Source: Calendar Riots]

1686 -- New World: Pirate Charles Swan anchors at Mazatlan (Mexico).

1774 -- Captain Cook reaches 71º 10' S, 1820 km from South Pole (record).

1775 -- English writer Walter Savage Landor lives. His life was one filled with ill-tempered quarrels with those around him. He left England after losing a libel suit & lived in Florence, where the Brownings cared for him. Wrote precise classical verse.

1790 -- Lifeboat first tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor, who, flush with success, gets bigheaded.

1798 -- No Decision?: First brawl in the US House of Representatives. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Rep. Matthew Lyon of Vermont spits in the face of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Rep. Roger Griswold of Connecticut during a violent argument on the floor of the House. Lyon is convicted under the Sedition Act & serves four phlegmatic months in jail.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/EH/EH41/Neff41.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwpugilr.html

1815 -- US: Library of Congress re-established after its destruction during the War of 1812 with the acquisition of Thomas Jefferson's 6,457-volume personal library.

1816 -- Pope Pius VII condemns Latin American independence movements.

1818 -- Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears."

1818 -- How Now
brown cow?
Michael Massey Robinson is given two government cows as Poet Laureate of NSW, Australia. We trust he milked this unfettered government largesse for what it was worth.

1826 -- Gustave Lefrancais lives (1826-1901). French revolutionary, member of the First International, of the Paris Commune, & a founder of the anarchist Jura Federation.
Lefrancais helped Elisée Reclus in producing Géographie Universelle. Wrote Souvenirs d'un Révolutionnaire (Préface de Lucien Descaves) & Le mouvement Communaliste a Paris en 1871.

Eugene Pottier, who wrote the text of "The Internationale" while hiding out in Paris in June 1871, dedicated the song to Lefrancais.

Lefrancais adamantly declared that he was "a Communalist, not an anarchist," & probably (according to Murray Bookchin) coined the term.

See "The Communalist Project" by Murray Bookchin, in the "Harbinger" (Vol. 3, No. 1).
http://www.social-ecology.org/harbinger/vol3no1/communalist_4.html

http://www.ephemanar.net/mai3.html#16
http://machtdose.de/working-class-heroes.html
http://www.sterneck.net/musik/arbeiterlieder/index.php

1835 -- Attempt on the life of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Andrew Jackson fails when both of would-be assassin Richard Lawrence's pistols misfired. The first attempt on an American president's life. In the trial that followed, the prosecuting attorney was Francis Scott Key.

1838 -- US: Osceola, Seminole war chief, dies under questionable circumstances while imprisoned at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina. Some say of some sort of throat disease, others say malaria, others say of a broken heart.

1847 -- Virginia Clemm, the first wife & cousin of Edgar Allan Poe, whom he married when she was 13, dies.
http://houseofusher.net/vg.html

1847 --
Strange Stuff:
Fall of larvae & snow, the Eifel [Trans. Ent. Soc. Of London, 1871-183

http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1852 -- Ion Luca Caragiale lives, Haimanale, Ottoman Empire (now Romania). Wrote comedies, plays, & short-stories, mocking at the moral values of his time.

1858 -- William Wells Brown publishes the first Black drama in America, "Leap to Freedom."

1859 -- Edward Martyn lives. Irish dramatist who, with William Butler Yeats & Lady Gregory, formed the Irish Literary Theatre (1899), a major part in the nationalist revival of interest in Ireland's Gaelic literary history known as the Irish Literary Renaissance.

1866 -- Gelett Burgess lives, Boston, Massachusetts, the author of the whimsical quatrain:

I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
In 1897, he began to publish self-illustrated whimsical writings, the best known being, Goops & How to Be Them.

1868 -- Poland:
Far Out Strange Stuff:
Fall of fist-sized mass of burning sulphur, in Pultusk [Rept. Brit. Assoc., 1874-272]

http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1869 -- France:
Yukkie Strange Stuff:
Fall of larvae in a snowstorm, Upper Savoy. [Flammarion. The Atmosphere, p414; La Science Pour Tous, 14-183]

http://www.resologist.net/damn07.htm

1871 -- Stoyanov Parachkef (or Paraskev) (1871-1941) lives, Giurgiu. Significant figure of Romanian & Bulgarian anarchism.
While studying medicine in Switzerland Parachkef aligned with Peter Kropotkin, Élisée Reclus, etc., & founded the first libertarian group in Romania. In 1890, in Paris, along with Saverio Merlino, he signed an antimilitarist manifesto & was forced out of France but continued a large, active correspondence with Louise Michel. Named professor of surgery at the University of Sofia in 1918, he continued collaborating with the Bulgarians — Stoinoff, Varban Kilifarski, etc. — & with libertarian publications & the clandestine activities of the movement. Died in November 1941.
alt; Pytor, Pyotr
http://www.ephemanar.net/janvier30.html

1878 -- Anton Tammsaare (1878-1940) lives. Estonian writer, whose novel Todeja Õigus I-V (1926-33) is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tammsaar.htm

1882 -- Nicaragua: Congress votes to educate poet Ruben Dario at government expense.

1894 -- Brazilian revolutionaries fire on the US flag in the harbor of Rio de Janeiro; prompt satisfaction is exacted by Adm. Benham
... Murtinho also makes interesting experiments in the field of physiology. In his laboratory he extracts the encephalic mass of rats & rabbits & decapitates frogs to study the convulsions of the body, which continues moving as if it had a head.
Now why they do that?
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/Faces&Masks.htm#1899Rio

1894 -- Italy: The anarchist Francesco Saverio Merlino is arrested in Naples & imprisoned until May 1896.
http://www.ephemanar.net/juin30.html#merlino

1900 -- US: William Goebel shot, one day before being sworn in as Governor of Kentucky. After serving three days of his term, he died on 3 February.

1909 -- US: Radical organizer Saul Alinsky lives, Chicago, Illinois.

1912 -- Historian Barbara Tuchman lives, New York City. Wrote The Guns of August. Her book on Stillwell & the American Experience in China won the Pulitzer general nonfiction prize in 1972. She died in 1989.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tuchman.htm

1912 -- John Galsworthy play "The Pigeon" opens in London.

1916 -- English folklore scholar Joseph Jacobs dies, Yonkers, New York. Prolific writer on folklore, editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia.

1916 -- Italy: Giuseppe Scarlatti dies, in Florence. Author, in 1909, of a book on the anarchist Cafiero, L'internationale des Travailleurs et l'agitateur Carlo Cafiero.
http://www.ephemanar.net/juin30.html#merlino

1917 -- First jazz record cut ("Darktown Strutter's Ball," Dixieland Jazz Band).

1921 -- US: Schooner "Carol A. Deering" goes aground, NC, & the crew disappears. The US government comes to suspect Bolsheviks or pirates. Not too daffy.

1926 -- France: The chief of police in Paris forbids the playing of jazzed-up versions of the French national anthem, La Marseillaise.

1928 -- "The New York Times" reports "Packed Theatre Hears [Andrés] Segovia," the old fascist Guitar God (a most complicated man, he).
http://web.archive.org/web/20061205061030/http://classicalguitar.net/artists/segovia/

1928 -- Eugene O'Neill 9-act play "Strange Interlude" opens in NY (426 performances).

1930 -- Conversationalist Gene Hackman lives.

1930 -- Canada: Police arrest nine members of the Standard Exchange for fraud, Toronto.

1930 -- US: 25 Mexican workers are arrested for anti-Filipino disturbances, El Centro, California.

1930 -- Vladimir Mayakovski play "The Bathhouse" premiers, Leningrad, Russia.

1931 -- Australian-born American novelist, Shirley Hazzard lives, Sydney. Wrote The Transit of Venus (1980).

1931 -- Charlie Chaplin's film "City Lights" premiers at Los Angeles Theater.

1933 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler assumes office, named Chancellor of Germany. Also today, in the United States, the radio Western The Lone Ranger (or as many people called it, The Long Ranger) premiers on WXYZ radio, Detroit (later Mutual, ABC), lasting till 1955 — longer than either Hitler or the much vaunted Third Reich (-1945).
Hi Yo, Silver! Indeed, the Lone Ranger was even resurrected — by Lenny Bruce (Thank You, Masked Man!)
http://www.notbored.org/mask-man.html

1935 -- Italy: Poet & fascist-sympathizer Ezra Pound meets Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Mussolini, reads aloud several lines from a draft of the Cantos, which he gives to him as a present.
http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/%7Ehishika/pound.htm
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture9.html

1937 -- Germany: Hitler repudiates the war-guilt provision of the Treaty of Versailles & also forbids Germans to accept any Nobel Prize.

1937 -- Russia: Second of Beloved & Respected Comrade Uncle Joe Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov & 16 others sentenced to death.

1939 -- Germany: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Hitler announces he will exterminate the Jewish race in event of war.

1940 -- France: Denis Langlois lives, Etrechy. Lawyer, anarchist & pacifist writer who does prison time for his beliefs ("Le cachot").
From 1967 to 1971, Langlois was legal adviser to the "League of Humans Rights." Party to many political lawsuits in Africa & Greece (expelled in 1969; see Panagoulis, le sang de la Grèce). He wrote Les dossiers noirs de la police française (1971), Le guide du militant, L'injustice racontée aux enfants (1978), Les partageux ne meurent jamais (1992), Un assassin très ordinaire (1978), La révoltution (1985), L'affaire Seznec (1988).
During the Gulf War Langlois organized, with other intellectuals, antiwar demonstrations. He was also a supporter of ethnic minority militants in France, particularly Basques & Bretons.
http://www.ephemanar.net/janvier4.html#30

1943 -- Germany: RAF makes its first daylight raids on Berlin in WWII & a saturation attack on Hamburg. It is only the bad guys, not the good guys (Allies) who kill & terrorize civilians en masse.

1945 -- England: William Busch, pacifist musician, dies.

1948 -- India: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political & spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic.
Daily Bleed Saint 2004-05
Inspirational liberator
of the Indian subcontinent, world pacifist.

Known as Mahatma, or "the great soul," during his lifetime, Gandhi gave up Western ways to lead a life of abstinence & spirituality & began an effective campaign of civil disobedience against Britain’s oppressive rule. Always nonviolent, he asserted the unity of all people under one God & preached Christian & Muslim ethics along with his Hindu teachings. The British authorities jailed him several times, but his following was so great that his threats to fast until death usually forced his release.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050406194413/http://www.goacom.com/news/news96/oct/gandhi.html
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/gandhi/Gandhi.html

1951 -- Belgium: Communists barred from making speeches on the radio.

1952 -- Lehmer discovers 13th & 14th Mersenne primes (2^521 - 1, 2^607 - 1) 14th Mersenne prime = 531137992816767098689588206552468627329593117727031923199444138200403559860852242739162502265229285668889329486246501015346579337652707239409519978766587351943831270835393219031728127.
We suspect these primes may be hiding, off the right edge of your 150-inch computer screen; we further suspect them totally useless for count or measure (unless you are counting Auntie Dave's toes & fingers).

1956 -- In a "Newsweek" interview poet Robert Frost, asked about writing free verse, snaps:
"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/frost/home.html

1956 -- US: As Martin Luther King, Jr. stands at the pulpit, leading a mass meeting during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, his home is bombed. By chance, King's wife & 10-week-old baby escape unharmed.
Later tonight, a thousand angry African Americans assemble on King's lawn. When King appears on his devastated front porch, he tells them:
"If you have weapons, take them home. . . . We cannot solve this problem through retaliatory violence . . . We must love our white brothers, no matter what they do to us."
King's speech lifts the nonviolent protest movement to new levels of effectiveness.

1958 -- US: No Loitering?: First two-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas, Texass.

1961 -- Dorothy Thompson, one of the most famous journalists of the 20th century, dies in Lisbon, Portugal. Married author Sinclair Lewis. Close friend of the right-wing individualist anarchist & author, Rose Wilder Lane.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAthompsonD.htm
http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/lane.shtml

1962 -- US: Two members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit.

1962 -- Futurist R. Buckminster Fuller's one-man show opens at the US embassy in London.

1963 -- South Vietnam: 30 soldiers die when five US helicopters are shot down over the Mekong Delta.

1964 -- South Vietnam: New military junta takes over. Part of US plan to save democracy.

1968 -- Vietnam: Viet Cong & North Vietnamese launch Tet offensive.
The Tet offensive begins in South Vietnam; Vietcong & North Vietnamese troops strike at targets across South Vietnam, reaching even the grounds of the US Embassy in Saigon. Often cited as a turning point in American public support for the war. American troops peak at 542,000 during this year.

1969 -- The Beatles famous impromptu concert on the roof of Apple Records in London captured on film in Let It Be. Unbeknownst to anyone this was The Beatles final concert.

1969 -- US: Howard University Medical School frosh boycott anatomy courses until the February ouster of the department chairman.

1970 -- US: For the second time in six months, rioting erupts during an anti-war protest in East Los Angeles.

1970 -- Philippines: 20,000 riot in Manila to protest the regime of U.S.-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.
[Source: Calendar Riots]

1972 -- Northern Ireland: "Bloody Sunday." British soldiers gun down 14 Roman Catholic civil-rights marchers in Londonderry.

We are deluding ourselves when we reason that we are at peace simply because we can still collect our bread from the bakers without being blown away by sniper fire. The reality is that civil war has long since moved into the metropolis. Its mutations are part of everyday life in our cities, not just in Lima & in Johannesburg, in Bombay & in Rio, but in Paris & Berlin, in Detroit & Birmingham, in Milan & Hamburg. The combatants are no longer just terrorists & secret police, Mafiosi & skinheads, drug dealers & death squads, neo-Nazis & cowboy security guards. Even ordinary members of the public are transformed overnight into hooligans, arsonists, rioters & serial killers. & as in the African wars, the combatants are becoming younger by the day.

H a n s M a g n u s
E n z e n s b e r g e r
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/pdmarch/arthur74a.htm

1973 -- US: James McCord & G. Gordon Liddy of Nixon's re-election committee, found guilty of Watergate burglary & wiretap attempt.

1974 -- Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden, starts first tour in 8 years.

1976 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA.
Seen one bush, seen 'em all.

"Intelligence" is our middle name?

1978 -- Spain: In Barcelona 50 anarchists are arrested, accused of the dastardly crime of attempting to "reconstitute" the F.A.I" (Iberian Anarchist Federation). Franco is dead, but the old fears of a powerful revolutionary organization re-emerging persists.

1979 -- Tom Bosley TV movie "The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal" premiers. It was, of course, tragedy, & a crime, rather than a "scandal", in which working women died in a horrendous factory fire because the owner & bosses had purposely locked the exits.

1981 -- US: Endangered Species List de-emphasized "to concentrate on recovery rather than reporting new species."

1982 -- Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins dies in Texass of cancer. Influential Houston-based blues guitarist.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/9280/legends.html
http://www.creativemix.com/brace/jbp-012.html

1990 -- Commander-In-Chief?: Bob Dylan is named a Commander in France's Order of Arts & Letters by the country's Culture Ministry.

1991 -- Iraq: Gulf War; Iraq again pours thousands of barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf; Iraq takes the Saudi Arabian town of Khafji (-Jan. 31); Germany agrees to send 580 soldiers & weapons to Turkey; First 11 US ground troops die in battle; Jordan protests allied bombing of civilians leaving Iraq.

1992 -- The Guthrie Center is dedicated. The Guthrie center is a non-profit organization, put together by folksinger Arlo Guthrie. It is housed in the church building that provided the setting of his best known story-song Alice's Restaurant.
I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world & that if it has hit you pretty hard & knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself & in your work. & the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you. I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, & get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs ... But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that.

— Songster Woody Guthrie

http://www.guthriecenter.org

1992 -- US: Chicago gravediggers end a 43-day strike. See "Layabouts", 1999, below.

1994 -- French novelist Pierre Boulle (1912-1994), The Bridge Over the River Kwai & Planet of the Apes, dies in Paris, age 81.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/boulle.htm

1997 -- Indonesia: Muslims riot & destroy cars & buildings over a rumor that a Christian has claimed Muslims are too loud.

1998 -- US: Lewis B. Puller, Jr. kills himself, 6:13:42. Author of the Pulitzer Prize winning biography in 1992, & son of WWII Marine Corps general & hero ‘Chesty' Puller. His book was the story of dealing with this heritage & his own loss of both legs & most of his left hand in the Vietnam War.

1999 -- US: The Layabouts
check for beer
in the fridge.
World beat sound;
Rock, reggae, ska.
Dance your feet off
while listening to lyrics of ferment,
exalting you to
smash the state
& eat the rich!
Damn anarchists!

http://goodfelloweb.com/layabouts/Pictures/alvins_january_1999.html

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2006 -- US: Gone Postal? Jennifer Sanmarco, 44-year-old postal worker, kills five workers & herself, Goleta, California.

2006 -- México: Civil rights activist Coretta Scott King dies, Playas de Rosarito.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King

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— Gary Snyder

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