‘God’s wounds! I will pull down my breeches & they shall see my arse!’ – King James I (on being told that his subjects wanted to see his face)
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 is 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]
Michael Massey Robinson is given two government cows as Poet Laureate of NSW, Australia. We trust he milked this unfettered government largess for what it was worth.
Some say of some sort of throat disease, others say malaria, others correctly say of a broken heart. Osceola masterminded successful battles against five baffled US generals intent on stealing their lands & sending the Seminoles to the paradise of Oklahoma. He was taken prisoner when US troops said they wanted a truce to talk peace — still today one of the blackest marks in American military history.
By 1858 most of the Seminole (meaning "wild people" or "runaway") tribe were either killed, surrendered, or were moved to the West, but 200 to 300 remained hidden in the Florida swamps. Today, more than 2,000 Seminoles live on six reservations in Florida. There was never a peace treaty signed & the Seminole have always been an independent nation.
In the mid-1930s Nathanael West wrote a 17-page treatment entitled Osceola, but failed to sell it to a studio.
http://www.indigenouspeople.net/osceola.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osceola
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 --
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:
1869 -- France:
1871 -- Stoyanov Parachkef (or Paraskev) (1871-1941) lives, Giurgiu. Significant figure of Romanian & Bulgarian anarchism.
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While studying medicine in Switzerland Parachkef aligned with Peter Kropotkinalt; Pytor, Pyotr, 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.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/misc/@fotos.htm
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 Admiral Benham.
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... 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 anarchico 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
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...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 his 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 the event of war.
1940 -- 
France: Denis Langlois lives, Etrechy. Lawyer, anarchiste & pacifiste writer who does prison time for his beliefs (Le cachot). ... show details
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/janvier30.html
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.
http://recollectionbooks.com/cs/index.htm#war
1944 -- Italy: Enrico Zambonini is executed.
«I have been in all the prisons of Europe. But not for stealing. Only for my idea.»
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An anarchist friend of Angelo Pellegrino Sbardellotto, & a fighter with the Ascaso Column on the Aragon front during the Spanish Revolution. An anti-fascist partisan during WWII, he was captured & arrested in a parish, along with the priest, Pasquino Borghi. Today in Reggio Emilia (where he was born, & now has a street named for him), he was mercilessly shot along with other anti-fascists (Don Pasquino Borghi, Romeo Benassi, Umberto Dodi, Dario Gaiti, Destiny Giovannetti, Enrico Menozzi, Contardo Trentini & Ferruccio Battini).
http://ita.anarchopedia.org/Enrico_Zambonini
http://www.anpi.it/media/uploads/patria/2010/2/32-34_BIGI.pdf
( Villa Minozzo , 28 April 1893 - Reggio Emilia , 30 January 1944 ). Io sono stato in tutte le prigioni
d’Europa. Ma mai per aver rubato.
Soltanto per la mia idea
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 Patron Saint 2004-05
Inspirational liberator
of the Indian subcontinent, world pacifist.
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1951 -- Belgium: Communists barred from making speeches on the radio.
1952 -- Lehmer discovers 13th & 14th Mersenne primes (2^521 - 1, 2^607 - 1)
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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. ... show details
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. Acerbic American wit, high-lifer. Married author Sinclair Lewis. Close friend of the 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 plans to save democracy from democracy.
1968 -- Vietnam: Viet Cong & North Vietnamese launch Tet offensive. ... show details
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 is 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 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 today & 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.
Combatants are no longer just terrorists & police...
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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 eight 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 anarquistas 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 this 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.reocities.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 Arlo's best known story-song, Alice's Restaurant. ... show details
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://guthriecenter.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi4F7hpR7z4
1992 -- US: Chicago gravediggers end a 43-day strike. See "The 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 famed WWII hero Marine Corps General ‘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
The Layabouts (Detroit): B-Movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPUPWkOO1Ok
2004 -- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:15:20 -0500 From: "James Fish" To: "SUBSCRIBE BLEED" dailybleed @ gmail.com
Love it Sign me up. our daily V - http://www.victhrill.com/ — James Jerome
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
3000 --
" To combat cultural genocide one needs a critique of civilization itself. "
— Gary Snyder
