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The real miracle is not to walk on water

or in thin air,

but to walk on earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh,
Zen master, scholar, poet & peace advocate

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AUGUST 29

CHARLIE PARKER
"Bird." Likely to remain the most brilliant jazz artist ever.

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Vevey, Switzerland: SWISS WINEGROWERS' FETE, a revival of the Roman Festival of Ceres, Goddess of the Earth, complete with Ceres, Pales, Bacchus, Old Silenus, satyrs & fauns — & Swiss yodelers. (See Footnote)

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30 -- Beheading of St. John, the Baptist.


284 -- Origin of Era of Diocletian.

1475 -- England again invades France. Probably to "protect French interests."



1533 -- Atahualpa, 13th & last emperor of the Inca empire in present-day Perú, is put to death by Spanish conquistador Pizarro.

"Yes."

"You were here?" the children will ask.

"No. None of our people who were here survived."

The poet will point to the moving clouds & the sway of the treetops.

"See the lances?" he will ask. "See the horses' hooves? The rain of arrows? The smoke? Listen," he will say, & put his ear against the ground, filled with explosions.

& he will teach them to smell history in the wind, to touch it in stones polished by the river, & to recognize its taste by chewing certain herbs, without hurry, as one chews on sadness.

— Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire

1625 -- John Fletcher dies in London. Worked collectively on more than 50 plays; among his own, The Wild-Goose Chase, noted for its irony & easy wit, is perhaps the best.


1758 -- US: First Indian reservation established. The American reservation system provided Adolf Hitler with a blueprint for Germany's concentration camps during the Nazi reign.

"Maybe we should not have humored them when they asked to live on reservations. Maybe we should have said, No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us."

— Bad acting President Ronald Reagan during a trip to Moscow,
when a student asked about US treatment of Native Americans
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/reagan.htm

1769 -- Aces In The Hole?: Edmond Hoyle ("According to Hoyle") dies in London at 97, 27 years after publishing A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist.


1786 -- US: As part of Shays' Rebellion, 1,500 farmers close the court at Northampton — by the end of the year the uprising embraces 9,000 insurgents & the whole of New England. The uprising opposes the authority of the central government, newly installed, based on the US Constitution — a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South & moneyed interests of the North which reflected their fear of the common people.

• http://recollectionbooks.com/cs/ShaysRebellion.htm
  
• See"Shay's Rebellion" by Howard Zinn
  
• See also William Brinton's An Abridged History of the United States
  Background on the Constitution & the owners of America, see Ferdinand Lundberg, Gore Vidal, Lewis Lapham, etc.
  Source: 'Calendar Riots'
  

1809 -- Oliver Wendell Holmes lives, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.


1810 -- Canada: Over 600 prostitutes are counted in Lower Canada (Quebec).
[Hereafter noted with symbol: ]


1811 -- Poet/anarchist Percy Bysshe Shelley marries Harriet Westbrook, Edinburgh.


1820 -- Portugal: Revolution spreads to Lisboa & expels the regency.


1842 -- At the conclusion of the first Anglo-Chinese War, also known as the First Opium War, the Treaty of Nanking is signed, ceding the island of Hong Kong to the British & winning European merchants more loot profits in China.


1844 -- Canada: First white-Indian lacrosse game in Montreal. Indians win.


1844 -- Edward Carpenter lives (1844-1929. Homosexual & early proponent of gay rights, utopian & libertarian socialist, poet, songwriter, pacifist. Amongst his writings was Non-Governmental Society (1911). Influenced by William Morris, Carpenter in turn influenced many himself. E.M. Forster described him as "a poet, a prose writer, a mystic, a manual labourer, an anti-vivisectionist, an art critic, etcetera."
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUcarpenter.htm
http://www.ephemanar.net/aout29.html


1854 -- Australian-born English folklore scholar & one of the most popular 19th-century adapters of children's fairy tales, Joseph Jacobs, lives, in Sydney. During his immigrations to England & the US, he wrote such scholarly & popular works on folklore as English Fairy Tales (1890), Indian Fairy Tales (1892), The Fables of Aesop (1894), The Book of Wonder Voyages (1896), & Europa's Fairy Book (1916).

1862 --

Maurice Maeterlinck lives. Belgian Symbolist playwright & poet awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for Literature. His work represents an outstanding example of Symbolist poetry & theater. The play Pelléas & Mélisande, with musical setting by Claude Debussy & also by Jean Sibelius, & the allegorical fantasy for children, The Blue Bird are among his better known works. Emma Goldman on Maeterlinck: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/... The anarchist critic Octave Mirbeau is credited with his discovery. http://infoshop.org/page/Octave-Mirbeau

1865 -- US: "Battle" of Tongue River; Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Connor leads troops in dawn attack on a sleeping Arapaho village in Dakota Territory, killing at least 60. Connor was relieved of command for killing women & children, but practice continues.



1876 -- Italy: Carlo Cafiero writes to Michael Bakunin:

"The effect of the trial of Malatesta & Co. in the three Apulias is incredible. The jury — the richest men of the province even — immediately after the verdict shook hands with the accused who were received in triumph."

The jury was composed of the richest landowners & there was military display. The public prosecutor told the jury verbatim:

If you do not find these men guilty, they will come some day to abduct your wives, violate your daughters, steal your property, destroy the fruits of the sweat of your brows, & you will be left ruined, miserable & branded with dishonor.

The jury after the verdict mixes with the cheering crowd & publicly & privately in Trani the acquitted meet with the most cordial expressions of sympathy. If only the government would multiply the trials, Cafiero concludes, they may cost years of prison to some of us, but they will do the anarchist cause immense good.

See Daily Bleed, June 17.

1877 -- US: Mormon strongman Brigham Young is young no longer.

1879 -- Canada: Miners' in Springhill, Nova Scotia decide to form a Provincial Miners' Association to protect their interests during a strike.


1883 -- High Seas: Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hours after the explosion.


1888 -- H. Rider Haggard begins writing the novel Eric Brighteyes.


1900 -- Italy: Exactly one month after assassinating King Umberto, the anarchist Gaetano Bresci, appears in court, defended by Francesco Saverio Merlino. He is convicted & sentenced to seven years in a one day trial. In May 1901 he is found dead in his prison cell, likely killed by his guards.

The attentat was in retribution for the Milan massacres of 1898.

[Details / context]

1901 -- US: Carrie Nation axes John L. Sullivan's saloon in the name of temperance.


1905 -- Finland: Antimilitarist Arndt Pekurinen lives.


1905 -- France: Jean-Marie Deguignet dies. Breton peasant & anarchiste.
http://www.ephemanar.net/aout29.html


1911 -- US: Ishi, last Stone Age man in America, surrenders. Of 2,000 alive in 1864, only 50 were alive in 1865. The rest were killed by whites.


1917 -- Canada: 5,000 Montrealers start a 2-day riot against the draft as the Canadian Military Service Act (conscription) becomes law.



1920 -- Charlie "Bird" Parker hatched, Kansas City, Missouri. One of the leaders of the bebop movement & noted for his works "Ko Ko" & "In the Still of the Night," among others. The famous jazz club, Birdland, in New York City named in his honor.

http://www.john-coltrane.com/charlie-bird-parker.htm
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_parker_charlie.htm

1921 -- US: Newspapers report that Ku Klux Klan members have tarred & feathered 43 Texans in the past seven days.

During the fear & government repression following WWI, the Klan makes an astonishing comeback. The group's platform attacks African Americans, Catholics & Jews. By 1924, the Klan has 4.5 million members & enormous political clout in some states. At Indiana's Republican convention in 1923, the state Klan head struts down the aisle with a pistol strapped to his waist. Georgia's Klan chief, Hiram Wesley Evans, runs for president. In Texass, the Klan controls two-thirds of the state's county conventions.

1924 -- Dinah Washington lives, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Performs with Lionel Hampton from 1943 to 1946 & becomes one of the most popular R & B singers of the 1950's & early 1960's.



1932 -- Netherlands: The International Anti-War Committee is formed in Amsterdam (??This entry is murky; there was an International Antiwar Congress, Amsterdam (August 27-29); another on August 30, 1907, parallel to the famous 1907 Amsterdam Anarchist Congress; also founding congress of "l'Association Internationale Antimilitariste" (A.I.A.) in Amsterdam in 1904.



1939 -- US: Land of the Free? San Antonio Municipal Auditorium Riot. Emma Tenayuca is prevented from speaking to a Communist meeting by anti-Communist rioters.

Emma Tenayuca, a labor activist, is scheduled to speak at a small meeting of the Communist Party at the Municipal Auditorium. Her husband, Homer Brooks, & Elizabeth Benson are also to speak. Mayor Maury Maverick had granted the auditorium meeting permit. As Emma tried to hold the meeting, an estimated 5,000 Brave Texicans stormed the auditorium, "huntin' Communists." Men, bricks, & rocks were trucked in for the attack. (Remember the Alamo!!) Police managed to get Emma to safety, but she was hounded by death threats long after the riot. Members of the Ku Klux Klan drove by Mayor Maverick's house & tried to kill him & his family the night of the riot. Afterwards Emma was blacklisted in San Antonio. Unable to obtain work, she moved to Houston, & later to San Francisco to work & study. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Tennayuca

1939 -- Beginning date of Gabriel Fielding novel The Birthday King.


1941 -- Russia: The German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children.



1949 -- Hot Potato?: Soviet Union detonates its first atomic bomb.

"Don't you hear the H-bomb's thunder / Echo like the crack of doom?" — John Brunner, author

1952 -- John Cage composition "4 Minutes 33 Seconds" premiers, Woodstock, NY. It is scored for piano or "any group of instruments" (It is 4 minutes 33 seconds of silence; damn anarchists...).


1956 -- US: Republican National Committee announces the GOP will henceforth refer to the opposition as the "Democrat" party instead of "Democratic" party, because "'Democratic' is not descriptive of the party as it exists today."


1957 -- US: Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, the first since 1875. The bill establishes a Civil Rights Commission & a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond sets the all-time filibuster record — 24 hours, 19 minutes — as he attempts to prevent his colleagues from adopting the bill.


1957 -- US: 2,300 people watch Nevada Nuclear test on-site, so US Army can test the effects. Some observers later develop cancer.
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Photos/index.shtml
http://zvis.com/nuclear/ndb/usnuks.shtml
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/nts.htm


1958 -- Michael Jackson lives. Performs with the family group the Jackson 5 & later, as a solo artist, becomes one of pop & R & B's foremost stars. His solo album Off the Wall (1979) sells 7 million copies — surpassed only by Thriller, his largest-selling album.


1961 -- US: SNCC voter registration drive begins in the South. Bob Moses beaten while trying to register two voters in Liberty (sic), Mississippi.



1961 -- US: An 867-kg leatherback turtle is caught off Monterey, Calif. (the largest known turtle).




1962 -- Permafrost?: At age 88, Robert Frost departs for a goodwill tour of the USSR sponsored by the US State Department.



1965 -- Beatles go bowling, Hollywood Bowl.



1966 -- The Beatles perform their last public concert. It's in front of 25,000 faithful at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The boys played 11 songs in just over a half an hour, opening with "Rock & Roll Music" & closing with "Long Tall Sally."

Beatlemania swept Frisco as the "Fab Four" performed in concert at Candlestick Park. It was the Beatles' last public appearance together. Also appearing were The Cyrkle, The Ronettes, & the Remains. Ticket purchases by mail were available from KYA, No. 1 Nob Hill Circle, San Francisco.



1967 -- US: Final TV episode of "The Fugitive." The one-armed-man done did it!



1967 -- England: Chinese Communist "diplomats" battle with London police.



1968 -- US: Chicago police brutally attack demonstrators, reporters & bystanders at the Democratic national convention: Antiwar protesters clash with police & national guardsmen in the streets outside, & hundreds of people, including innocent bystanders & members of the press, are brutally beaten by Chicago's finest.

"The whole world is watching." The official investigation later terms this a "police riot."

Meanwhile, Senator Eugene McCarthy & Dick Gregory are among others who address a crowd in Grant Park.

Anarchist Yipster Abbie Hoffman allegedly proposes kidnapping Superintendent Rochford.

Today 27,508 Americans have died in Vietnam since Jan. 1, 1961.

1968 -- Cream & Electric Flag open at Fillmore West in Frisco.
http://www.sftoday.com/enn2/summerlove2.htm


1968 -- Guatemala: State of Emergency declared.
http://www.elmundo.es/larevista/num132/textos/crono.html



1970 -- US: Police attack 10,000 Chicano antiwar demonstrators after a march against the Vietnam draft; three are killed, & Chicanos set Los Angeles on fire, occupying many parts of the city for seven days.

Three die in East Los Angeles when an anti-war march turns into a riot during Chicano National Moratorium. Thousands of Chicanos gathered at Laguna Park in East L.A. to protest disproportionate number of deaths of Chicano soldiers in Vietnam.

LAPD attack & one shot, fired into Silver Dollar Bar, kills Ruben Salazar, LA Times columnist & commentator on KMEX TV (accused by LAPD of inciting the Chicano community.)

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/vietnam/reading-list/

1970 -- US: Selective Service Systems reports prosecutions for draft evasion have increased 10 times over 1965 level.


1970 -- US: Huey Newton offers Black Panther troops to the Vietnamese National Liberation Front.
Source: 'Calendar Riots


1971 -- England: Military wing of Edinburgh Castle bombed.
Source: [Calendar Riots]


1976 -- Jimmy Reed, the "Big Boss Man" of the blues, a major influence on Pete Townshend, the Rolling Stones & others, dies in Frisco. He was 50.


1976 -- Anissa Jones dies at 18.


1977 -- Three people are arrested in Memphis after trying to steal Elvis' body. As a result of that incident, the King's body is moved to Graceland.


1982 -- Ingrid Bergman, academy award winning actress, dies on her 67th birthday.


1983 -- Italy: "Radio Libertaria" is torched during the night of the 28 & 29 in Trieste (au moment où "Radio Libertaire" Paris est saisie par le pouvoir socialiste), a case of arson perpetrated by fascists.
http://www.ephemanar.net/aout29.html


1987 -- An American liquor company reports a 200% sales increase of its Brass Monkey cocktail mix, thanks to the Beastie Boys hit, "Brass Monkey."


1987 -- South Korea: After she is charged with swindling $8.7 million from followers, police find the bodies of cult leader Park Soon Ja & 31 followers in a factory, evidently the result of a suicide pact.


1990 -- Seattle Mariners becomes the first baseball team to have father-son teammates, signing Ken Griffey to play with son Ken Griffey, Jr.


1990 -- UN Security Council agrees to settlement to end 20-year civil war in Cambodia.


1991 -- Bosnia: Women call on women worldwide for peace. European Peace Caravan, Sarajevo.



1992 -- Radical analyst & schizo-theorist Felix Guattari dies, Paris. From his gravestone:

"There is no mark in the absence / the absence is a presence in me / — the Club of Borders."

"One cannot escape the feeling, despite his supposedly radical intention, of an embrace of alienation, even a wallowing in estrangement & decadence."

— John Zerzan, "The Catastrophe of Postmodernism"
[Details / context]

1992 -- English children's writer & creator of the Borrowers series, Mary Norton, dies in Hartland, Dovonshire. The Borrowers (1952), her most renowned work, features the tiny Clock family & is considered a children's classic. There are four sequels.

1992 -- A news report says that 500 Latin American journalists have been assassinated in the last 10 years. All assigned to the Obit Page — on it rather than writing it — to "protect US corporate interests" no doubt, if history teaches us anything about who owns the Americas.


1992 -- Iraq: Saddam Hussein declares the US can't beat Iraq.
http://www.markfiore.com/user/1/animation/232


1993 -- Brazil: Police murder 21 people at random in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown.


1996 -- Isaac Hayes, who co-wrote the Stax classic "Soul Man," sends protest letter to presidential candidate Bob Dole requesting he stop using his song, which his supporters had changed to "I'm A Dole Man."

"I believe the second half of the 20th century will be known as the Age of Nixon."

— Bob Dole

2000 -- Panama: Panama University students & teachers burn likenesses of President Mireya Moscoso, Education Minister Doris Rosa de Mata & Supreme Court Justice Eligio Salas. The university protest opposes the government decision to abolish a law protecting the school budget.


2000 -- Australia: Government says it will restrict visits by UN human-rights inspectors because of criticism of its treatment of Aborigines.


2005 -- US: Hurricane Katrina hits the south, destroying much of New Orleans (thanks to the Army Corpse of Engineers), where upwards of 50,000, mostly poor African Americans, are unable to escape. At least 28 government agencies, from local Louisiana parishes to the Bush White House reported New Orleans levees were breached, the Bush administration in the know as early as 8:30 a.m. EST.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/05/the-big-uneasy-documentar_n_671147.html

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"If it's not forbidden, it's mandatory..."

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http://www.hermes-press.com/brainwash1.htm