Here's to you, Nicola & Bart Rest forever here in our hearts The last & final moment is yours That agony is your triumph "Here's To You" (Lyrics by Joan Baez, Music by Ennio Morricone)

See also: Woody Guthrie, Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/vanzettipoem.htm
http://web.archive.org/web...msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Sacco-Vanzetti/
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/SaccoVan/saccovanlinks.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcgYwTnBIIQ

1926 -- Japan: Founding conference Zenkoku Jiren.

400 delegates, representing 25 unions with a combined membership of 8,400, particpate in the founding of The All-Japan Libertarian Federation of Labor Unions (Zenkoku Rôdô Kumiai Jiyû Rengôkai), generally abbreviated in Japanese to Zenkoku Jiren. ... show details These figures compared with the 35 unions (with around 20,000 members) which remained in the reformist Japanese Confederation of Labor when 32 of its constituent unions (with 12,500 members) split away in 1925 to form the Bolshevik-led Japanese Labor Union Council. While Zenkoku Jiren was thus smaller than its reformist & Bolshevik rivals, the unions which comprised it were implanted in virtually all areas of Japan, from the island of Hokkaidô in the far North, through major urban centers such as Tôkyô & Ôsaka in Japan's industrial heartland, to cities in the South-West of the country, such as Hiroshima. In addition to the wide geographical spread of Zenkoku Jiren, it also had roots in most major industries. Its unions were organised along industrial lines & encompassed sectors of the workforce as varied as printworkers, textile workers, engineering workers, food workers, rubber workers, general laborers & so on. http://libcom.org/library/anarchist-movement-japan-2

1930 -- US: Playland opens at Bitter Lake in north Seattl. Auntie Dave played there as kid in the 1950s. Alas, it is no more, else you know here you could find him now...



1933 -- Jimmie Rodgers, knowing he only has a few days left to live, records 12 of the 24 songs for his last album.

"Tea for Texass, Tea for Thelma, Tea for Ice-Tea, gonna be the death of me..."

— Jimmie Rodgers (1897 - 1933)

http://www.jimmierodgers.com/
http://www.southernmusic.net/jimmierodgers.htm


1934 -- Italy: Mussolini si vanta che "i tre quarti dell'economia italiana, industriale ed agricola, sono nelle mani dello stato." La libera iniziativa è scomparsa già da un pezzo; lo statismo la fa da padrone.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]


1935 -- US: First Major League baseball game played at night, in Cincinnati, where the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.


1940 -- Poet Joseph Brodsky lives (1940-1996), Leningrad. Early poems earned him a reputation as a free thinking writer & he was convicted as a 'social parasite' & sentenced to five years hard labor — commuted in 1965 after protests. Expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 & settled in the US. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1987, where he named Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetajeva, Robert Frost, Anna Ahmatova, & W.H. Auden, as more deserving poets.
http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#JosephBrodsky



1941 -- Singer/songwriter, antiwar folkie, Robert Zimmerman lives.


1943 -- Bulgaria: March against anti-Semitism leads to stop in Jewish deportations.




1944 -- US: Shoichi James Okamoto is shot to death at Tule Lake concentration camp by a guard after stopping a construction truck at the main gate for permission to pass. Private Bernard Goe, the guard, will be acquitted after being fined a dollar for "unauthorized use of government property" — a bullet.
[Sources]


1945 -- Japan: The US makes a massive bombing raid on Tokyo (WW II). This criminal act of terrorism, using weapons of mass destruction against a civilian population, is not called a war crime in the US nor in American school books.



1949 -- US: Victor Reuther is shot & nearly killed at his Detroit home by a cop. His brother Walter was previously victim of an attempted abduction in April 1938, a shotgun blast in 1948 & in 1949 the UAW’s headquarters in Detroit was bombed . Walter later died in a plane crash in 1970 (only one paper addressed the possibility that he may have been murdered; In October 1968, both Walter & his brother Victor were almost killed in a small private plane near Dulles Airport).
http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/media/reuther.htm


1950 -- 'Sweetwater' (Nat) Clifton's basketball contract purchased by the NY Knicks. Played for the Harlem Globetrotters & the first black player in the NBA.

Sweetwater Clifton was the first black player to be under contract to an NBA team. Chuck Cooper was the first black to be drafted by an NBA team (before Clifton's contract was purchased), & Earl Lloyd was the first black to play in a regular-season NBA game later that year. All three should probably be mentioned, as all three played from the start of 1950-51 season.

— Bleedster Michael Ceraolo, 2009

1954 -- US: Supreme Court says aliens may be deported for being Communists. Take that! You dirty little Red Martians!


1956 -- Brendan Behan play "The Quare Fellow" opens, London.
http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#BrendanBehan


1959 -- US: First house with built-in bomb shelter, Pleasant Hills (sic), Pennsylvania.

DUCK'N'COVER!

1961 -- US: Freedom Riders are arrested minutes after arriving in Jackson, Miss; meanwhile Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Pres. JFK appeals for contributions to a committee to buy tractors to exchange for Bay of Pigs prisoners held in Cuba.


1963 -- Elmore James suffers a fatal heart attack in Chicago at age 45. Born in Chicago & probably the most influential electric blues guitarist of all time.

DUST MY BROOM!

1964 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Barry Goldwater, running for President, proposes using nuclear weapons in Vietnam. He sees a brighter light at the end of the tunnel.


1964 -- Peru: 318 die in a stampede to kill a soccer referee, Argentina vs Peru, Lima.


1967 -- ¶ March-May: Beatster Jack Kerouac completes his novel, Vanity of Duluoz.


1968 -- May Days: Belgium, Germany, Italy, Chile, France, US, & elsewhere: University occupations & confrontations with authorities.
The University of Frankfurt & the University of Santiago are occupied.
[Details / context]

In France during the "May Days" such occupations have led to a General Strike of 10 million workers. As one person noted,

"On Wednesday the undertakers went on strike . . .

"Now is not a good time to die."

http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/cuhistory/archives/columbia68/McCaughey.htm

1968 -- France: Paris '68: By today — barely two weeks after the great demonstration of May 13 — approximately 10 million workers are on strike. Immense demonstrations continue to occur, while the government plans to call out the army.

In the evening battles break out in the streets & on the barricades near the Lyon Station in the Latin Quarter. In the provincial towns brawls break out.

1968 -- France: In Nantes the whole movement & events of 1968 reach a pinnacle. For a week the city & surrounding area is controlled by workers themselves.

The old guardians of power & authority look on helplessly as workers control their own lives. Also today, road blocks are set up around the city as farmers make a protest in solidarity with the workers & students. Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Danny the Red) is exiled from France.

De Gaulle, now fearing for the survival of his government & slowly seeing his power disappear, addresses the country on television today. He speaks of "a more extensive participation of everyone in the conduct & the result of the activities which directly concern them."

24 mai 68  Dans une allocution télévisée, le général de Gaulle annonce un référendum.
Nouvelle nuit des barricades au quartier Latin.
La France compte 9 millions de grévistes.

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Beloved & Respected Comrade President de Gaulle announces a referendum on radio & television. Overnight rioting in Paris sees 795 arrests, & 456 injured. An attempt to torch the Bourse is made. Other incidents throughout France; a Commissaire de Police is killed in Lyon by a truck. Committees for the Defense of the Republic - CDR - are launched.

[Sources]

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1968 -- US: Four protesters, including Reverend Philip Berrigan & Tom Lewis, are jailed six years each for pouring blood on draft cards, Baltimore, Maryland. Meanwhile the blood senselessly pours in SE Asia.


1968 -- US: Charlie Musselwhite & Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks appear at the Straight Theatre in Frisco.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rock.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Musselwhite

1968 -- Canada: FLQ terrorists bomb the US consulate in Quebec City.


1969 -- US: Haight-Ashbury Festival in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle, Frisco.


1970 -- US: San Francisco Chronicle reports that Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem, "Flowers & Bullets," dedicated to 19-year-old Allison Krause, one of four students killed by the National Guard at Kent State University on May 4, has been printed in Pravda, the Russian Communist party newspaper. Its theme is based on her having put a flower on a National Guardsman's rifle the day before her death, foolishly claiming that

"Flowers are better than bullets."

See Flowers & Bullets & Freedom to Kill (City Lights Books, 1970)

1971 -- US: 29 US military officers publish an antiwar newspaper ad, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.


1972 -- US: Explosions in a Kiln, Mississippi ammunitions plant kill five women workers.


1973 -- US: Beginning of 11-day strike at state prison in Lucasville, Ohio.



1973 -- US: "NY Times" reveals a Nixon White House plan for massive domestic espionage that was abandoned because of opposition from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (A secret White House intelligence unit was set up instead).


1974 -- Duke Ellington dies.

DUKE ELLINGTON
Big band composer, bon vivant, jazz genius.

1976 -- 28-ton mobile "White Cascade" by Alexander Calder is installed, Philadelphia. No lightweight he...


1978 -- England: Iris Mills & Ronan Bennett are arrested in Bayswater. They, together with Vince Stevenson, Trevor Dawton, Dafydd Ladd & Stewart Carr are charged & become known as "Persons Unknown."
[Details / context]


1980 -- US: Hundreds arrested in occupation of Seabrook, New Hampshire, nuclear power plant construction site.


1981 -- First International Women's Day for Disarmament.


1982 -- Heaviest known viable baby, South Africa. (10.2 kg . . . that's 22lbs 6ozs of joy, for the metric impaired.)


1982 -- Japan: Over 200,000 people participate in massive anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo.


1983 -- US: Robert Toye, a blind man, is arrested for 17 bank robberies, New York.


1984 -- New Zealand: Largest national gathering of women in anti-nuclear demonstration, Aukland.


1984 -- El Salvador: A Salvadoran court convicts five enlisted men of 1980 murder of four US nuns.


1985 -- México: Strip Mining?? Miners in Hidalgo strip naked & strike for 75 minutes; the company agrees to their naked demands.


1988 -- John Moschitta sets a Guinness world record for fast talking, 586 words per minute. A born politician.


1990 -- US: Bomb injures Earth First! members, Oakland, California — police arrest the victims.


1990 -- US: The largest paper airplane (5-m wingspan) flies 26 m, Indiana.


1991 -- US: Kahlil Gibran Garden is dedicated, Washington, DC. We believe the caretaker is Percy Gardener.

"Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, & farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again."

— The Garden of the Prophet, 1934

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalil_Gibran

1991 -- Daddy Freddy raps 528 syllables in one minute, New York City.


1992 -- Thailand: Democracy protesters force out Suchinda Kraprayoon as PM.


1993 -- Tibet: China uses tear gas on 2,000 antigovernment protesters, Lhasa.


1993 -- A bookstore confirms it has found the diary of Grigory Rasputin.


1993 -- Cuba: Dissident poet María Elena Cruz Varela is released after 1« years.


1995 -- Brazil: The army takes over four oil refineries during a strike.


1997 -- Burma: Oppositionists say the government has just arrested 193 of its members.


2000 -- Canada: 10,000 Alberta health-care workers begin an illegal strike.


3000 -- The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same Department:

"Corrupted by wealth & power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side & a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen."

— Huey Long

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