1521 -- Nicolas Storch, medieval anarchist communist, lives.


1617 -- England: Pocahontas dies on ship George at Gravesend.



1750 -- Caroline Herschel "first lady of astronomy," lives.
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/herschel.htm




1811 -- England: Luddites attack machines designed to replace them. Outrages in many villages in the northwest. Over 100 frames broken, including Sutton-in-Ashfield, Kirby, Woodborough, Lambley, Bulwell, & Ilkeston in Derbyshire.
Source: [Luddite Chonology]


1827 -- US: First African American newspaper, Freedom's Journal, is published, in New York City by John B. Russwurm.


1830 -- US: Slowest day ever on the New York Stock Exchange: 31 shares were traded.


1839 -- Sully Prudhomme lives. French poet, won the first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901. Also published aesthetic & philosophical studies.



1849 -- God's Hand?: Rev James E Smith became father at 100 with a woman 64 years younger. Inspires Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator Strom Thurmond.



1850 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is published.


1875 -- Percy MacKaye lives, New York. American poet/playwright whose use of historical & contemporary folk literature furthered the development of the pageant in the US. Coauthor, St. Louis: A Civic Masque (performed 1914 with 7,500 participants).


1877 -- France: Antoine Bertrand lives (1877-1964). French anarcho-syndicalist, member of the "Free Youth" group.




1889 -- High Seas: A major conflict among US, British, & German warships anchored off the Samoan Islands is averted, when a hurricane destroys all but one vessel. A tripartite agreement proclaimed the islands neutral territory, & this lasts until 1899.


1891 -- US: Emma Goldman speaks at the "Great Commune Celebration" sponsored by the International Worker's Association (IWA) in New Haven.



1892 -- Peru: César Vallejo, Peruvian hermetic poet, communist, lives, Santiago de Chuco.
Daily Bleed Saint 2004
Influential Peruvian communist, hermetic poet.

A major voice of social change in Latin-American literature. Of mixed blood, his early work reflects firsthand experience of hunger, poverty, & injustices suffered by the Indians.

1898 -- British fin-de-siecle aesthete, illustrator Aubrey Beardsley dies.


1899 -- US: Lake City, Louisiana free speech fight.


1904 -- James Joyce, 22, awarded a bronze medal in a Dublin singing contest, promptly throws it into a river.



1907 -- US: August Roden, editor of the "Wisconsin State Journal" in Madison opens his crusade against Madison Gas & Electric. Roden's lead story charges that the New York-based McMillan Syndicate, which owns the utility, has overcharged for a product that falls below state standards.
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1911 -- US: Wobbly honcho William (Big Bill) Haywood delivers a speech on the General Strike at a meeting held for the benefit of the Buccafori Defense at the Progress Assembly Rooms, New York.
Source: Haywood, William D., The General Strike (Chicago: IWW Publishing Bureau, nd [ca. 1917]).



1918 -- US: "Regeneración" publishes a proclamation, "With the anarchists of the world & the workers in general." The authors, Librado Rivera & Ricardo Flores Magón, argue that the social revolution approaches & that all anarchists must infuse it with their energies & possibilities. This text gets the paper seized in the land of the free, & this is its last published appearance in the mythical land of milk & honey.

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1921 -- War Resisters International founded.
http://www.wri-irg.org/wri.htm

"Izvestia" n°14 of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of the Sailors, Soldier & Workers of Kronstadt, having tossed the yoke of party rule, notes its refusal to surrender:

"Fière et consciente de sa puissance, armée du ferme désir de restaurer la liberté bafouée, Kronstadt a secoué le joug communiste, refusant de payer son tribut de vies, de bonheur et de bien-être à une poignée d'aliénés mentaux."

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1926 -- Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket, which goes 184'. Almost as far as Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Saddam Hussein's drones (ie, called Weapons of Mass Destruction by the American government).



1929 -- Italy: In base a direttive impartite da Mussolini, i prefetti devono tenere discorsi di propaganda a favore del regime, in vista di un annunciato plebiscito.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]



1933 -- Germany: Last appearance of "Arbeitslose," FAUD's (Die Freie Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands) newspaper for the unemployed in Dresden, which also served as the unofficial organ of the German anarcho-syndicalist movement after the Nazi's banned their two previous papers.

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1938 -- Spain: Continuous bombing of Barcelona, March 16-18, by the fascist forces.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/scw/chronology.htm
Resources & sources on the [Spanish Revolution of 1936]


1940 -- Swedish author Selma Lagerlof (The Story of Göosta Berling), 82, dies, Väarmland. Won the 1909 Nobel Prize for Literature, then became a judge on the prize committee. Former Prime Minister Hjalmar Hammarskjöold observes: "She writes idiotically but she votes intelligently."
http://nobelprize.org/



1942 -- Songster Jerry Jeff Walker lives, Oneonta, New York.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Jeff_Walker
http://www.jerryjeff.com/



1948 -- Australia: "Red" Ted Englart, a communist, is arrested under draconian anti-strike & anti-picketing legislation introduced by the Hanlon Labor Government to stop the Queensland Railway Strike (February - April 1948).

14 union officials were charged under Hanlon's Industrial Law Amendment Act. On being released from the cell each morning, the prisoner had to salute the "screw." Ted always managed to have his "piss tin" in his right hand as he saluted. Father of Vince & Kevin Englart, militant unionists in their own right.

http://www.takver.com/history/englart/t_engl01.htm
http://www.takver.com/history/englart/kevin_englart.htm
http://www.takver.com/history/englart/vince_englart.htm

1950 -- US: Grigori Petrovitch Maximov (1893-1950), Russian anarcho-syndicalist, dies. Editor & writer during the Russian Revolution for "Golos Truda" (The Voice of Labor), & its short-lived successor "Volny Colos Truda" (The Free Voice of Labor) both suppresed by the Bolsheviks, & author of an important history of Leninism in Russia, The Guillotine at Work.



1955 -- Roy Hamilton's "Unchained Melody" climbs to #6 & is later recorded by the Righteous Brothers in 1965


1959 -- Plans released for the first US rock & roll package tour to hit Europe. Performers include Conway Twitty, Duane Eddy, Bobby Darin, Dale Hawkins, the Poni Tails, with guest star Cliff Richard.



1962 -- Germany: Zenzl Mühsam dies, in East Berlin.

Militant anarchist, companion of Erich Mühsam, wound up in Stalin's Gulag. Upon release she was shuttled from one Workers' Paradise to another.

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1964 -- Alan Freed charged with tax evasion based on the earlier payola investigation which ruined the career of the ex-DJ who helped put rock & roll in the forefront.


1965 -- US: Supreme Court extends rights of conscientious objection (CO).


1965 -- US: Montgomery, Alabama police attack civil rights marchers.


1965 -- US: Alice Herz, an 82 year old activist pacifist, chosing "the flaming death of the Buddhists," immolates herself on a Detroit street corner on the campus of Wayne State University to protest the Vietnam War. See Phoenix: Letters & Documents of Alice Herz; The Thought & Practice of a Modern-day Martyr edited by Shingo Shibata (Amsterdam, 1976).
http://www.angelfire.com/nb/protest/amer.html



1968 -- Vietnam: My Lai Massacre, American soldiers murder civilians.

Carrying on the tradition of 'teaching' American values to the godless & the communist (see October 29), Captain Medina leads a 'victorious' attack on the village of Xom Lang, near My Lai in South Vietnam. In a one hour killing spree Charlie Company lines up 430 old men, women & children in a ditch & proceed to massacre every single person.

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The Army first tries to cover it up & the US media refuses to report it (despite news stories circulating for over a year in Europe; Colin Powell is one of those the army assigns to cover this up). Later they will portray it as an "aberration," one bad guy (Calley), one good guy (who stops it). Calley is convicted, sent to his room for being a bad boy, then released after a year or so under house arrrest.

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1968 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator Robert Kennedy, former Attorney General & brother of former president John F. Kennedy (1961-63) ends months of debate by announcing that he will enter the 1968 Presidential race. No opportunist he, as he plays to the anti-war mood in the US & the voters Eugene McCarthy has won over in opposition to "Hey, Hey! LBJ" Johnson.
[Details / context]


1969 -- Antonio Pereira (1908-1969) (true name Tomaso Ranier) dies. Italian anarchist, member of the Ortiz column during the Spanish Revolution & in the underground movement after the fascist Franco became dictator. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PereiraAntonio.htm


1969 -- Venezuela: A new Venezuelan Air Lines DC-9 hits a high tension wire after taking off & crashes into a suburban neighborhood, destroying 20 houses; all 84 on the plane die, along with 71 on the ground, Maracaibo.



1969 -- SAN FRANCISCO - The MC5, On Sunday the 16th the Five turned up at Golden Gate Park to play for an estimated crowd of 20,000 grizzly loonatics. The only cop that turned up that day split when he saw the Hell's Angels congregated behind the bandstand. The MC5 are almost like an acid test.
Source: Fifth Estate, April 1969 http://makemyday.free.fr/mc5insf.htm
http://makemyday.free.fr/mc5timeline.htm

1970 -- Tammi Terrell, best known for duets with Marvin Gaye, dies in Philadelphia after undergoing six brain tumor operations in 18 months. Doctors first discovered her tumor after she collapsed in Gaye's arms onstage in 1967. She was 24.


1971 -- US: Patent # 3,570,156 is issued for the lava lamp.
http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/psychoactives.shtml


1978 -- France: Amoco Cadiz runs aground near Portsall, releasing 223,000 tons of crude oil.


1978 -- Italy: Red Brigades seize former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro.



1988 -- Iraq: Massacre of Kurds with mustard & nerve gases, Halabja. US & European weapons & chemical companies are supplying Iraq with the ok, sure, you betcha, of the US.




1995 -- High Seas: US nuclear-powered submarine collides with a freighter near Hong Kong.


1995 -- France: Joséphine Coueille (1912-1995), known as Andrée Prevotel, lives. Anarchist & anarcho-syndicalist, free thinker. Charged in the "Sterilizers of Bordeaux" case (affaire des stérilisés de Bordeaux) for promoting vasectomies, her charges were dropped, but her husband André Prévotel was sent to prison.


1998 -- Albania: In response to reported Serbian massacres in Drenica, in the ethnically Albanian province of Kosovo, 12,000 women, carrying loaves of bread, attempt to march 50 km to Drenica from the capital of Prishtina. They are turned back by police.


1999 -- US: Microradio movement news accounts on the struggle to free the airwaves: Free Radio [Gainesville] returns, lobbies for support.
[Source: Pirate Radio Kisok]



2000 -- US: In NYC police killed Patrick Dorismond, an unarmed Haitian immigrant (26). Some 3,000 protesters marched at Dorismonds funeral on mar 25 & clashed with police.


2001 -- World Premiere of Anton Coppola's opera, "Sacco & Vanzetti," Tampa Opera (-18, 2001). Based on music he wrote for a film his nephew Francis Ford Coppola had planned to make about the anarchists but never did.
http://raforum.info/article.php3?id_article=509&lang=en



2003 -- US: The state of New Mexico has passed a bill that affirms Constitutional liberties, no matter what the Feds say. The bill instructs state cops to refuse to cooperate in unconstitutional searches & wiretaps, to abstain from assisting the INS & to ignore TIPS snitches. Likewise, librarians are required to post signs warning patrons that the FBI could be snooping on their reading habits, & the state official in charge of homeland security is required to get twice-annual disclosure from the Feds about the names & dispositions of every victim of unconstitutional secret arrest, detainment & surveillance. New Mexico-43, US-0.


2003 -- Palestine: Rachel Corrie (1979 - 2003) is killed by an Israeli military bulldozer in Rafah, while a participant in a non-violent movement protesting Israel's illegal 36-year occupation of Palestinian territory. Eyewitnesses say Rachel was negotiating with the driver for over two hours, was using a bullhorn & wearing a fluorescent orange vest — the driver knew she was there. The Israeli government termed Rachel's death a "regrettable mistake," & no charges were filed. (See also 2006 below)
http://www.rachelcorrie.org
http://www.palsolidarity.org/

2003 -- US: Protests continue across the nation against Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Bush's God-given right to destroy any regime he & his close pal, God, dislikes. In Seattle, protesters join the folks who do weekly vigils at Green Lake, this time to encircle the lake (3 miles). Look out bikers, joggers, strollers, paddlers, mopers & agawkers!
http://www.notinourname-seattle.net/nion.html


2006 -- US: The Eleventh Annual San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair. Features: Paul Avrich Tribute, Katya Komisaruk, Josh Macphee, Joe Biel, Ron Sakolsky, Bo Brown, Chaz Bufe, Matt Callahan, Michele Tea, Diane di Prima, Ward Churchill. Exhibitors include Crimethinc, City Lights, Books, Bolerium Books, Fifth Estate, Bureau of Public Secrets, Left Bank Books, Bibliomania, Time Tested Books, AK Press, Research Publications and many others.
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060225084548688


2006 -- US: “My Name is Rachel Corrie," a one-act play due to open this month at the New York Theater Workshop, was cancelled six weeks ago.

The theater’s artistic director made his decision after talking to leaders in the Jewish community; he later told "The New York Times," “It seemed as though if we proceeded, we would be taking a stand we didn’t want to take.”

The London producers called the cancellation “censorship.”

In the fall of of this year it opens instead at the Minetta Lane Theatre, to an extened run, to an outpouring of critical acclaim — the best reviewed new play of the season.

http://www.rachelswords.org/
http://www.rachelcorrie.org

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"Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached."       — One of the more enlightened utterances by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader US Supreme Court Justice Antonin "Benito" Scalia

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