Ya, ya live
than ya die
the end, ya

1620 -- All In The Family?: Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft.


1647 -- England: The Parliamentarian Army takes control of London.


1754 -- Author Henry Fielding leaves England for the gentler climate of Lisbon to alleviate the ill health plaguing him for over a decade.



1764 -- James Boswell, 24, arrives in Holland, having promised himself to "go abroad with manly resolution to improve, & correspond with Johnson," whom he recently met.



1783 -- John Heathcoat, inventor of lace-making machinery, lives.



1804 -- William Blake writes to biographer / poet William Hayley:

"Money flies from me. Profit never ventures upon my threshold."

1820 -- Potatoes first planted in Hawaii, after which the yammering never stops.


1826 -- August (Engelbrekt) Ahlqvist (1826-1889) lives. Also wrote also as A. Oksanen. Poet & critic, linguist, the first professor of Finnish at the University of Helsinki, best remembered in Finland perhaps as the strongest critic of Finnish national writer Aleksis Kivi — a classical example of Mozart-Salieri syndrome.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/aahlqvi.htm


1854 -- US: Rumor that all Catholic churches were arsenals brings a mob of ax-wielding Protestants to a St. Louis house of worship. Eight Irishmen are "butchered like cattle" & 30 more seriously wounded.


1859 -- France: Emile Hugonnard (aka Michel) lives, Lyon.

Militant anarchist implicated in the famed "Procès des 66" (Lawsuit of the 66) & member of the "groupe de la Guillottière" in Lyon.
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1886 -- Louis Alan Hazeltine, inventor of the neutrodyne, lives.




1890 -- US: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn lives, Concord, New Hampshire. Author of Sabotage: the Conscious Withdrawal of Workers Efficiency.

http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Flynn_Elizabeth_Gurley.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/reference.html
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45b/009.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/rebelgirl.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/rebgirl.html
http://members.tripod.com/~RedRobin2/index-41.html

1894 -- US: Eugene Debs & three other trade union leaders arrested following the Pullman Strike.

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1897 -- Argentina: Albert Perrier (or Perier), aka Germinal, lives (1897-1977), in Buenos Aires. Militant French revolutionary syndicalist.

Member "l'Union Anarchiste" in France. Published the newspaper "Le Combat," & in the 1930s joined "La Ruche."

In 1936, he went to Spain with a first French convoy of food & weapons for the C.N.T.- F.A.I., & for the next two years helped supply the Spanish anarchists in spite of a French blockade. During the last months of the revolution Perrier facilitated the passage of those escaping from Spain. An anti-Nazi Resistance member, Perrier was captured & sent to a prison camp (from which he escaped).
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1900 -- México: The anarchist periodical "Regeneración", makes its debut. Published by the Flores Magón brothers (Jesus & Ricardo), along with Licenciado Antonio Horcasitas; edited by Jesus Flores Magón & Eugene L. Arnoux.
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1903 -- Kenya: It's In The Pudding? Evidence found proving anthropologist Louis S. B. Leakey lives, Kabete. Wrote By the Evidence: Memoirs, 1932-1951.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/leakey.htm


1904 -- US: Ralph Johnson Bunche lives, Detroit, Michigan. Political & social scientist, first African-American Nobel Prize winner (1950), for his role as UN mediator of the armistice agreements between Israel & Arab neighbors in the Middle East wars of 1948.


1919 -- US: A month-long actors' strike closes all theatres.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'


1919 -- Hungary: The Republic of the Councils of Hungary in Budapest is crushed by foreign reactionaries & their allies.

On August 5, 30,000 Rumanian troops entered the capital & began its reign of terror. On August 10, in Csepel, a thousand workers are massacred by machine-gun. The troops withdraw only after after installing the fascist Horthy as head of state.

Thousands of Communists & socialists, or suspect innocents, were rounded up by fascist gangs, beaten, tortured, killed. Trade unions were violently suppressed. Frightful reports of atrocities moved the British (responsible for atrocities in India) sent a Commission which found "the worst stories of mutilation, rape, torture & murder" proved true.

http://ytak.club.fr/aout7.html
http://www.google.com/url?libcom.org libraryHungary563
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_as_an_international_phenomenon

1921 -- US: One thousand miners present Governor Morgan with a resolution calling for an end to martial law in Mingo County.

During this year West Virginia miners have been fighting with mine guards, police, hired thugs, & federal troops...

I loaded sixteen tons, I tried to get ahead,
Got deeper & deeper in debt instead.
Well they got what I made, & they wanted some more,
& now I owe my soul at the company store.

CHORUS:
I loaded sixteen tons & what do I get
Another day older & deeper in debt.
Saint Peter don't call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.

— George Davis, excerpt, Sixteen Tons (1930s),
a song popularized by Merle Travis (who ripped it off, claiming to have written in 1946) & Tennessee Ernie Ford

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1924 -- Emma Goldman enters France from Germany under the name E. G. Kersner; visits a number of friends in Paris, including Harry Weinberger & Frank & Nellie Harris. Meets Arthur Leonard Ross who she later hires as her attorney. Meets Ernest Hemingway at a party given by English novelist Ford Madox Ford.



1925 -- Ricardo Mella (1861-1925), Spanish anarchist, dies. Headed publishing teams of "Solidaridad", "El Libertario," "Acción Libertaria".

... "El socialismo anarquista" de Ricardo Mella. es tracta d alguns capítols del seu llibre "IDEARIO" que ens semblen molt interessants i actuals per el seu ... pages

Segarra, Agusti Cuadernos, Federico Urales y Ricardo Mella (Anagrama, 1977) 128p.
http://www.galeon.com/ateneosant/Ateneo/Biografias/Mella.html
http://www.cesga.es/ciug/grupostraballo/03/pxs_03.html
http://www.hetera.org/mella.html
http://www.blues.uab.es/fac.com/periodisme/periodis/trebrecer/puialto.htm

1928 -- US: Shrink Wrap? The American dollar shrinks.


1931 -- US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) heads labor strike at the Boulder Canyon Project.

"Do not jump into your automobile next June & rush out to the canyon country ... In the first place, you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the god-damned contraption & walk, better yet crawl, on hands & knees, over the sandstone & through the thornbush & cactus.

When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe. Probably not. In the second place, most of what I write about in this book is already gone or going fast.

This is not a travel guide but an elegy. A memorial. You're holding a tombstone in your hands. A bloody rock. Don't drop it on your foot — throw it at something big & glassy. What have you got to lose?"

— Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire http://www.iww.org/
http://www.usbr.gov/history/hoover.htm
http://weeklywire.com/ww/03-29-99/tw_feat.html

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/dolgoff/cubanrevolution/toc.html
History of Cuban Anarchism

The famed anti-fascist guerrilla is shot down & purposely left to die following a shootout with the Guardia Civil.

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Gives Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President LBJ extraordinary powers, authorizing him to use "all necessary steps" to "win" the war in Vietnam.

Only two legislators (Morse & Gruening) vote against it, with no opposition in the House — & the FBI begins collecting the names of supporters of Morse, & his office phone lines are tapped.

American media "described the air strikes that Johnson launched in response as merely `tit for tat' — when in reality they reflected plans the administration had already drawn up for gradually increasing its overt military pressure against the North." Daniel Hallin's classic book The "Uncensored War" observes that journalists had "a great deal of information available which contradicted the official account [of Tonkin Gulf events]; it simply wasn't used. The resolution allows the president to take any necessary measures to repel "further" attacks & to provide military assistance to any South Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) member. Johnson orders the bombing of North Vietnam. For additional information, see New Light on Gulf of Tonkin, McNamara Asks Giap, "What Happened at Tonkin Gulf?", & 30-Year Anniversary: Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched the Vietnam War.

A modest list of related sites, including our own Vietnam War checklist of over 4,500 books:

http://www.recollectionbooks.com/vietnamlist.html (be patient when loading, as it is nearly 1 MB in size)
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/note.html
http://www.wsrcc.com/alison/books/vietnam.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/PubEd/research/vietnam.html
http://www.lopezbooks.com/articles/vnfirsts.html
http://members.aol.com/VonRanke/vietnam.html
http://www.illyria.com/vnbooks.html
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/chronol.htm
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2261
http://www.historynet.com/searchresults/?terms=Tonkin+Gulf&Action.x=8&Action.y=9
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/vietnam.html
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/940727.html

1966 -- Third-Annual South-of-Market & North Beach Children's Adventure Day Camp benefit with Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother & the Holding Company, & The Grateful Dead held at Fillmore Auditorium. Gary Goodrow of The Committee is master of ceremonies.


1968 -- US: Dead County, Fla.? Republican Convention is held in Miami, Dade County, Fla. Two days of rioting in the black sections of the city ensue, leaving three dead.



1970 -- US: Four, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, California. Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11707



1970 -- On this day Janis Joplin & Juanita Green give Bessie Smith a pigfoot & a bottle of beer... a reefer & a gang of gin...

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Free Press?: Officials have vowed to silence Mumia at all costs, & take extraordinary actions to do so. NPR buckles under pressure from right wing. Temple University, in Philadelphia, owner of seven Pennsylvania radio stations, also buckles under pressure, refuses to air tapes, cancels contract with Pacifica network.

http://www.mumia.org/

Baby Gramps is an awesome National Steel Guitar player.

"Baby Gramps is talk of the town here & there's been a lot of team pickin'going on. Wild Stuff should be happening from now to Sunday."

With a repertoire that blends challenging Dylan covers such as "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" with cartoon like anthems like "A Heart Warming Medley of Worm Songs," Gramps tends to coerce an audiences mind to wander toward unexpected territory. Notorious for word play such songs as "Palindromes," "Anagrams," & "Aptonyms" ...

"He’s entertained everywhere from the streets & medicine shows to Bob Dylan's dressing room. In this day & age, seeing the Seattle based singer-songwriter-guitarist who calls himself Baby Gramps is the closest you’ll ever get to experiencing Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music in person.

He sings in a voice that is somewhere between Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards’s & Blind Willie Johnson’s, & his style evokes long dead pickers such as Charlie Patton & Riley Puckett. He plays with metal finger-picks on a battered National Steel that at last count had four useable frets left on it & an old clamp wrench holding one of the tuning pegs on.

With a long, flowing beard & manerisms that recall early Popeye, Baby Gramps is something of a national treasure, the final repository of an entire era of pop culture. Gramps draws from thousands of Paleozoic jazz, blues, hillbilly, & pop tunes. He is a genuine eccentric talent, an old-time songster & an incredible entertainer."

— Time Out

http://www.hypnoticclambake.com/Gramps.html

Finally, in 2004, Baby Gramps has his own web page!
http://www.babygramps.com/


1998 -- US: FREE RADIO BERKELEY: Hearing regarding Federal injunction against Stephen Dunifer.

Federal Judge hears a motion regards her ruling of June 16 enjoining Stephen Dunifer, &, by extension, Free Radio Berkeley, from broadcasting without a license & from encouraging others to do so.

Free Radio Berkeley founder, Stephen Dunifer, contends the injunction is a direct attack on his free speech rights. The injunction was issued on the basis Dunifer hadn't applied for a license from the FCC.

However, there is no license available for a station under 100 watts that originates local programming. (Free RadioBerkeley was broadcasting at 60 watts.)

1999 -- Italy: Three anarchists arrested & accused of fire attacks on multinational firms. They are members of the "Silvestre" group in Pisa (publishers of an anarchist animal & earth liberation journal).


2001 -- Robert Kraus, "New Yorker" cartoonist turned author who wrote, illustrated & edited more than 100 children's books, dies. His books include Leo the Late Bloomer & Whose Mouse are You.

3500 -- "...I say, give Nature a little time. In five years, at most in ten, the sun & wind & storms will cleanse & sterilize the repellent mess.

The inevitable floods will soon remove all that does not belong within the canyons.

Fresh green willows & tamarisk, box elder & redbud will reappear; & the ancient drowned cottonwoods (noble monuments to themselves) will be replaced by young of their kind. With the renewal of plant life will come the insects, the birds, the lizards & snakes, the mammals.

Within a generation — thirty years — I predict the river & canyons will bear a decent resemblance to their former selves. Within the lifetime of our children Glen Canyon & the living river, heart of the canyonlands, will be restored to us.

The wilderness will again belong to the people."

— Edward Abbey & Phillip Hyde, Slickrock, p.69

http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/archives/aroundthebend-april-may98.html
http://williamcalvin.com/bk3/bk3day6.htm

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