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

— Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933)

1901 -- US: Kansas anarchists, proving they are not quite easy in their minds, hold a jubilation meeting in Chicopee coal mine.

Anarchist are reported celebrating the assassanation of McKinley, at both Chicopee & Frontenac, small towns 100 miles east of Witchita.

Another celebration is also reportly held at Guffey's Hollow near McKeesport, Pa.: "While all the world is waiting with bowed head & heaving breast for the latest news from the bedside of the beloved President...

"Guffey's Hollow is the home of one of the largest, if not the largest, regularly organized groups, of anarchists in the United States. More than 200 Italian coal miners are drinking in the doctrines of anarchy here..."

[More Gruesome Details]

1901 -- Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist educator & bane of the ruling powers (who had him murdered in 1909), opens the libertarian Escuela Moderna in Barcelona, Spain.

Other Modern Schools are founded in the US, whose alumni include Man Ray & Alfred Levitt.

Modern Schools were also founded in Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan &, on the greatest scale, in the USA.

Image: Flavio Costantini, "Murder of Ferrer" [Details / context]

1902 -- Italy: Repressione a Candela (Foggia) di una manifestazione contro il fiscalismo e gli abusi amministrativi : in totale cinque morti e dieci feriti dalle due parti.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]



1909 -- US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) strikers at the Pressed Steel Car Plant in McKees Rock, Pennsylvania, force management to improve shop conditions, hike wages by 15%, & drop a "pool system."

This follows a hard won battle; police attacked pickets & a July battle prompted the Wobblies to take charge, & on August 23rd 11 people were killed when a deputy opened fire on strikers on a streetcar.

[Details / context]

1909 -- US: Unable to secure a lecture hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, Emma Goldman is invited to speak on the private property of Reverend Eliot White.



1911 -- Euell Gibbons, stalker of the Vicious Wild Asparagus, lives, Clarksville, Texass.


1911 -- Spain: Opening of the founding congress of the Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (C.N.T.) in Barcelona. Nearly 100 delegates take two days to draw up the framework for this anarcho-syndicalist organization.

See Robert Kern, Red Years, Black Years: A Political History of Spanish Anarchism, 1911-1937, p25.


1912 -- México: Supposed inauguration of the Escuela Racionalista (Rationalist School).
[Source: Casa Obrero Mundial]


1913 -- Brazil: Second National Labor Congress, Río de Janeiro, September 8-13th.

Anarchist workers & anarcho-syndicalists held 12 sessions at Centro Cosmopolita, debating 24 items with the presence of 117 delegates from eight states, including two state federacies, five local federacies, 52 unions & four libertarian periodicals.

8 a 13 de setembro

Segundo Congresso, Confederação Operário Brasileiro (COB; Brazilian Labor Confederation) . Ao todo os trabalhadores anarquistas e anarco-sindicalistas realizaram 12 sessões, debateram 24 temas com a presença de 117 delegados de 8 estados, sendo dois federações estaduais, cinco federações locais, 52 sindicatos e quatro jornais libertários. Edgard Leuenroth, secretary. [Source: Movimento Anarquista no Brasil]

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1915 -- D. H. Lawrence watches zeppelin raid on London:

"So it is the end — our world is gone, & we are like dust in the air."



1916 -- England: Death of Walter Roberts, first of 73 British WWI conscientious objectors (COs) to die as a result of their prison treatment.


1921 -- US: Margaret Gorman became the first Miss America.


1923 -- Spain: "Los Solidarios" members are discovered hiding out in an attic, setting off a two day daring escapade, out a window, fleeing by train & a long shoot-out. Some members make it to Basque country but Eusebio Brau & Torres Escartín, involved in the shootout, do not.
http://www.manelaisa.com/texto/Articulos/PagArticulos9.htm
http://web.archive.org/...manelaisa.com/texto/Articulos/PagArticulos9.htm


1925 -- Film comic Peter Sellers (Dr. Strangelove) lives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrWz9XVvls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove


1926 -- Germany: Admitted to the League of Nations.

"Although the regionalism of Germany is difficult for Americans to fully appreciate, try to imagine NY's Ed Koch somehow getting elected Governor of Texass. Texicans turn up their noses at first but are elated when Koch rolls over Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico & Kansas....

[Details / context]

1930 -- Transparent cellophane tape on sale for first time.


1935 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long is shot to death in the corridor of the state capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr., who is gunned down, in turn, by Long's bodyguards.


1940 -- Jack Prelutsky, poet, lives.
Source: 1992 peace calendar


1941 -- Norway: Workers strike against diversion of milk to military use by the Nazis.


1941 -- Russia: Hitler's 900 daze siege of Leningrad begins.


1943 -- Italy: Il capo del governo Pietro Badoglio non vuole annunciare l'avvenuta stipulazione dell'armistizio per paura di ritorsioni da parte dell'esercito tedesco. Ambiguità e doppio gioco continuano a imperare sovrani all'interno dello stato italiano. Nel pomeriggio (ore 16,30) Radio New York diffonde la notizia. Alle 19,45 Badoglio trova il coraggio di annunciare alla radio l'avvenuta firma dell'armistizio, dando solo vaghe indicazioni.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]


1944 -- Netherlands: The first German V-2 rockets are launched, landing at Chiswick in London, killing three people.



1945 -- Ron Pigpen McKernan, keyboardist, lives.


1947 -- Novelist/short story writer Ann Beattie lives, Washington, D.C.



1949 -- México: Muralist José Clemente Orozco dies, México City.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/mural/index.html
http://www.wfu.edu/history/StudentWork/fysprojects/kmason/Orozco.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/jose-clemente-orozco/orozco-man-of-fire/82/



1954 -- Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) established by the US & seven other nations — three of which are actually in Southeast Asia! (Pakistan, Thailand & the Philippines.)


1954 -- US: With a 3-2 count, baseball's Phillies Richie Ashburn fouls the next 14 pitches, then walks.


1961 -- David Evans, guitar player, lives.


1962 -- The novelty song "Monster Mash" by Bobby "Boris" Pickett enters the Hot 100 at #85. He recorded it with sound effects: the creaky door opening is a nail being pulled from a piece of wood, the boiling cauldron is Pickett blowing bubbles into a cup of water with a straw & the chains are him moving chains up & down. He also did all the voices. The song makes it to Number One on October 20.

1964 -- http://sha.federation-anarchiste.org/

1965 -- US: Strike of Filipino & Mexican farmworkers against grape growers in Delano, California marks the beginning of a successful five-year strike by United Farm Workers throughout California.

United Farm Workers  http://www.ufw.org pbs.org/itvs/fightfields/

1966 -- Outer Space: Star Trek appears on TV for the first time, as the first episode, Man Trap, airs on NBC.




1968 -- US: Huey Newton (head of the Black Panther Party) convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the killing an Oakland policeman.

http://www.blackpanther.org/


1969 -- Alexandra David-Neel dies, just short of her 101st birthday. David-Neel was a prolific author, inveterate explorer & traveler, pioneer feminist, & an authority on Tibet.

Daily Bleed Saint, December 12. First woman explorer of Tibet & its mysteries. Successively & simultaneously anarchist, singer, feminist, explorer, writer, lecturer, photographer, buddhist, architect, mail artist, sanskrit grammarian & Centenarian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_David-N%C3%A9el
http://web.archive.org/...fireplug.net/~rshand/reflections/buddha.html

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"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys & whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed & your young breasts fondled."

       — Ezekiel 23:20-21

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1970 -- England: The London home of Attorney General, Sir Peter Rawlinson, in Chelsea, is bombed. Again this goes unreported.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#AngryBrigade



1971 -- US: Beginning of the Attica Prison revolt. Interracial uprising in NY lasting four days, with cooperation between prisoners of different racial & ethnic backgrounds, which is finally brutally suppressed by the state, with 41 left dead. The prisoners were unreasonably demanding improvements in their living & working conditions.

"A guy who rigs aluminum prices can get himself introduced by Georgie Jessel at $100 dollars a plate but stealing a can of beer can get you iced."

— Ishmael Reed, YELLOW BACK RADIO BROKE-DOWN http://www.talkinghistory.org/attica/
http://struggle.ws/wsm_crime.html

1974 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader US President Gerald Ford pardons "The Trickster" — Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Dick M "I am Not a Crook" — for any crimes he "committed or may have committed" while President.

"My conscience tells me it is my duty, not merely to proclaim domestic tranquillity but to use every means that I have to insure it. I do believe that the buck stops here, that I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right. I do believe that right makes might & that if I am wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference."

1974 -- US: Evel Knieval attempts to jumps Snake River Canyon on a rocket motorcycle.



1976 -- China: Card-carrying Communist Mao Tse Tung dies. Or again tomorrow depending on international timeline. Painted the country red.




1976 -- England: Hull Prison Revolt. For four days in September 1976 [I can't find exact dates — ed.] prisoners take over three of the four wings of Hull prison.

Included Jake Prescott (in prison for his activities with the anarchist Angry Brigade). Their protests include conditions in prison workshops, where furniture is made for prisons in Iran. Thusly, rioting prisoners on the roof shout,

"Fuck the Shah of Iran!
Fuck the Shah of Iran!"

[Details / context]

"I say Stanford treats students criminally. If I express remorse, I cut the ground out from under that argument. I would not only be a murderer but a dirty lying dog. I am a murderer. I am not a dirty lying dog."

"When the Layabouts play, people dance!!"

Dem anarchist lousy goodfernuthin Layabouts fail to Dally in the Ally, Motor City Michigan.

The event that never was...

"Scheduled to play...It rained on our parade.
We practiced so hard, only to be rained out ..."

http://goodfelloweb.com/layabouts/Pictures/studio_july_2000.html




2003 -- Canada: Exhibition: 8 September to 17 October 2003, based on "Terminations of View: A Series of Proposals" by Bernie Miller & Alan Tregebov.
TOP: Veer, monument to Emma Goldman
plastic, glass, film, 20 x 40 x 65 cm, 1:15 scale model, 1997.

BOTTOM: Veer, monument to Emma Goldman, Ink & chalk on mylar, 76 x 101 cm competition board (mounted), 1997.