Our Daily Bleed...
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Florence, Italy: EXPLOSION OF THE CAR. A large wooden car full of fireworks & explosives sits in the piazza. A wire runs to the cathedral. A dove-shaped rocket is ignited at the altar, runs along the wire & explodes the car.
BleedMeister has warned Nummer One Son (in school in Florence Spring 2004), not to be in the car when it goes up...but do kids (17 years old) listen to their parents!?!
787 -- Pepin, King of France, installs his Organ in the church of St. Cornielle at Compiegne.
1618 -- Agustํn Moreto, Spanish dramatist, once considered the equal of his near-contemporary Lope de Vega, is baptized. Turned out over 100 dramas, gaining him great popular success.
1703 -- Danish Baroque poet & clergyman Thomas Kingo, dies in Odense. Remembered mainly for the Kingo hymn book, a collection that first appeared in 1699 & had at least 85 of his own poems.
1729 -- New World: Advertisement in American Weekly Mercury offers Indian woman & child for sale.
1841 -- US: Horace Greeley's New York Tribune begins publication:http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Curricula/Immigration/article.html
Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory. (New York Tribune, 1841)
During the 1840s Greeley wrote numerous articles promoting a voluntary system of agricultural collectives he called "association," based on the writings of French socialist Charles Fourier. Although he employed Karl Marx as a European correspondent in the 1850s, Greeley exchanged most of his high-minded utopian schemes for down-&-dirty party politics in the contentious decade leading up to the Civil War.
1847 -- Joseph Pulitzer lives, Budapest (or Mak๓), Hungary. Bought the New York World in 1883. In 1885 he was elected to Congress from New York, but resigned.In the 1890s Pulitzer had a circulation war with William Randolp Hearst, & his newspapers were accused of "yellow journal" practices.
Through his will, he established the Columbia University School of Journalism & annual prizes for literature, drama, music, & journalism.
1848 -- France: Revolution in Paris aids plans for massive Chartist uprising in London stopped by the cops.
1848 -- England: Mass meeting of Chartists, campaigning for civil rights. Kennington Common, Surrey. A procession to the House of Commons to present a petition for civil rights is prevented by authorities.'The Tenth of April'
Today was long remembered thus, the fear of an English Revolution having been very real: revolutionaries in Paris promise aid for a planned Chartist uprising in London on this day, which is cancelled after massive occupation of London streets by troops.
1849 -- Safety pin patented. Punk movement begins.
1864 -- Mexico: Archduke Maximilian, supported by a French army, becomes Emperor.
1866 -- US: American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) founded.
1867 -- Irish man of letters AE (George William Russell) lives, Lurgan, County Armagh.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22George+William+Russell%22
1878 -- US: California Street Cable Car Railroad Company starts service.
1907 --Canada: Emma Goldman makes her first visit to Winnipeg; lectures in German & English on topics including "Crimes of Parents & Education" & "The Position of Jews in Russia."
1911 -- Scotland: Singer Strike defeated in Glasgow.
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/redclyde/redclyeve01.htm
1912 -- RMS Titanic sets sail for its maiden voyage. There is discontent among the 1st class passengers as rumors fly, "there may not be enough ice."
1912 -- England: Riots in Wigan require army intervention before they are put down.
'Calendar Riots'
1918 -- Russia: This evening of the 10th & 11th, in reaction to growing protests of Russian anarchists to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Cheka the Bolshevik secret police raids anarchist centers in Moscow. Approximately 40 anarchists are killed or wounded, more than 500 taken prisoners.
Emma Goldman Papers
1919 -- Mexico: Anarchist revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata ambushed & assassinated by Mexican troops, age 29, Chinameca, Mexico. One of the main & best known participants in the peasant uprisings against the central government's authority from 1910 until his death. A wax replica of his body is put on public display -- obviously not his body, for everyone knows he still rides in the hills intent on finishing the job he began on November 28, 1911 (the Plan of Ayala, the peasants' declaration of independence).Born into a poor peasant family in 1883, Zapata united Mexican peasants behind agrarian reform with the motto "land, liberty, & death to the hacendados."
From his base in the southern state of Morelos, Zapata organized guerrilla bands & led devastating attacks on haciendas & sugar refineries, joining forces with Francisco Madero in 1911 to oust Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz. But once Madero became president & ignored the landless peasants, Zapata united with Pancho Villa to advance the revolution. But a string of military defeats forced Zapata to confine his struggle to an area south of Mexico City.
In Spanish, http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19190410.htm
http://www.ingeb.org/songs/emiliano.html
1925 -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is published. Eventually his best-known work of the Jazz Age, sales are disappointing. A dispassionate examination of blandness & emptiness in the lives of tycoons & flappers was acclaimed by critics, but was not a popular success.
1931 -- Kahlil Gibran dies, New York. Lebanese born American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystic poet, & artist. Author of The Prophet.
"The man who hears & understands we call mad, & flee from him."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gibran.htm
1937 -- Bella Akhmadulina lives, Moscow. A distinctive poetic voice in post-Stalinist Soviet literature. Wrote Struna ("The Harp String").
1938 --During this month Emma suffers from shortness of breath, fainting spells, & general fatigue but remains extremely active. Herrera asks her to do all in her power to prevent the repatriation of the refugee Basque children (most of their parents are supporters of Loyalist Spain) from England to Nationalist Spain.
1941 -- Paul Theroux lives, Medford, Massachusetts. Novelist (The Mosquito Coast), & traveller (The Old Patagonian Express among others).
1945 -- US: Medical staff at an Oak Ridge, Tennessee hospital injects plutonium into the survivor of a car accident.Thus begins an enormous (& until the 1990's, top-secret) US government program to investigate the effects of radioactive materials when injected into live humans, which did not end until the mid-1970's.The program was expanded in the 1950's to include "Operation Sunshine", under which 1500 cadavers were stolen from locations around the world, in order to more comprehensively study the effects of radiation on the human body. As of this writing a total of 16,000 men, women & children are known to have been experimented on as a part of these studies.
Science equals progress, in the cause of humanity, hailed for its objectivity & value-free research, in practice. The future is even brighter as corporations & government & military take control of university researchers, & their results, across the nation.
1947 -- US: Jackie Robinson becomes first African American in major league baseball.
1953 -- US: House of Wax, the first 3-D movie, released in New York.
1955 -- Jesse Wallace Hughan dies. A War Resisters League founder & ran for public office on the Socialist ticket.
1959 -- US: Utopian architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies, Taliesin West, Arizona.
Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from generation to generation, from age to age, proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of man, & his circumstances as they change.That is architecture.
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1937
Daily Bleed Saint 2003 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Innovative organic architect, utopian idealist.
1959 -- US: Unknown assassin fails in an attempt to shoot Governor J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. of Virginia.
1962 -- Stuart Sutcliffe, 22, an original member of the Beatles, dies of cerebral paralysis, Hamburg, Germany.Sutcliffe met Lennon at art school. Sutcliffe introduced Lennon to modern art & literature & Lennon introduced Sutcliffe to rock & roll. He joined the Beatles & played bass (McCartney was on rhythm guitar then). He left the band in 1961 & resumed painting because his headaches were getting too bad. By then he had given the Beatles the look that would soon charm the world, shaggy, brushed-forward hairstyles.
1962 -- US: Baseball's Dodger Stadium opens, built by architect Captain Emil Praeger.
http://www.buttsacrossamerica.com/buttshot_pages/dodger_stadium.html
1963 -- US: $45 million nuclear submarine Thresher implodes during a test dive east of Boston. All 129 aboard were lost.
http://www.sonic.net/~books/new.html
1966 -- British novelist Evelyn Waugh dies. Photographer Cecil Beaton surmises that he "died of snobbery," & further notes,"His abiding complex & the source of much of his misery was that he was not a six-foot tall, extremely handsome & rich duke."
1967 -- US: Vietnam Week (April 10-15th): draft card burnings & turn-ins & anti-draft recruiter demonstrations, culminating in massive demonstrations in NY & Frisco opposing the Vietnam War.
1969 -- France: Simone Larcher dies. Anarchist & proofreader. With Louis Louvet, she published the newspaper "L'anarchie" until 1929. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/LarcherSimone.htm
1970 -- At a concert in Boston, Doors singer Jim Morrison asks the audience if
"anyone wants to see my genitals,"just after a brief power failure.
Everyone missed his opening line:
"& now I'd like to do my impression of the Governor of Arkansas."
http://www.doors.com/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/morrison.htm
1970 -- US: Dirty Deeds?: A deed is prepared for the gift of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Nixon's Vice-Presidential papers to the National Archives, & back-dated so the now-Beloved & Respected Comrade President Dick M. would qualify for an otherwise illegal tax deduction.
1971 -- US: Women march on Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War.
1972 -- France: Louis Laurent (1883-1972) dies. Trade unionist, member of the Revolutionary Anarchist Union & the Anarchist Federation of Languedoc in the 30s. Helped publish various libertarian journals, worked with the League of Conscientious Objectors & the CGT-SR (revolutionary trade union). Helped found Libertarian in 1968.
http://ytak.club.fr/octobre.html#2
1981 -- UN approves world treaty assuring no civilians shall be attacked with "napalm, mines or booby-traps." Defeated by US veto. Perhaps to "protect USToyinterests"?
"Saturation of unexploded submunitions has become a characteristic of the modern battlefield."
U.S. Military Procedures Report 5
"Toy-size bombs designed to kill tanks & soldiers appear as white lawn darts, green baseballs, orange-striped soda cans & have proved deadly to children. . .
'When you see a 5-year-old boy come to the hospital without any limbs,' asked Kuwait City surgeon Dr. Mohammad Khaled, 'how can you forget the sight?'"
1981 -- England: Brixton Riots: Beginning of a weekend of rioting in the racially mixed section of London, known as Brixton. Young people set fire to buildings & cars, pelted cops with bricks, & looted stores. Roving gangs directly fought cops with bricks, iron bars & Molotovs.
1981 -- Ireland: Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament during the 6th week of his hunger strike.
1984 -- US: Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors.
1984 -- Australia: Zoe, first frozen-embryo child lives, Melbourne.
http://www.palantir.net/2001/
1996 -- Germany: This month during the Squatter's Movement, which comes under heavy government attack for the next two years, the front house at Rigaer Strasse 80 is evicted, as is the Alt Stralau, which had been squatted in early 1995.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#03/1990
http://www.radiobronka.info/ftb/squat.html
http://www.notbored.org/squatworld.html
1997 --
"Hey, Hey!
LBJ!!"
Former POW Douglas "Pete" Peterson is confirmed by the Senate as the first ambassador to Vietnam since the end of the war & the first ever to be posted to Hanoi. Vietnam's Le Van Bang is confirmed as Vietnam's ambassador to the US. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2261
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/chronol.htm
http://www.historynet.com/magazines/vietnam
http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#Vietnam
2001 -- China: Communist government detains Wu Jianming, a US citizen, on charges of spying. Other ethnic Chinese intellectuals with American backgrounds recently arrested include Gao Zhan, Tan Guanguang & Li Shaomin. Speculation sees these as political rather than legal proceedings, the rationale for the arrests including efforts to find the anonymous compiler of the book The Tiananmen Papers.
2006 -- US: Nationwide job & school walkouts & pro-immigration demonstrations for America's 12-million illegal immigrants. Funny country, where hard work can earn you hard time.
http://www.indybay.org/immigrant/
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060331122132804
3000 --A STRONG PEOPLE NEEDS NO LEADER
Image by Covarrubias, famed book illustrator
