1545 -- Rabelais is granted a royal privilege for the printing of his works.


1776 -- US: George Washington's farewell address. He strongly warns against permanent alliances with foreign powers, large public debts, large military establishment & devices of any "small, artful, enterprising minority" to control or change the government.


1819 -- It is such a beautiful fall day, that poet John Keats is inspired to take out pen & pad & ink one of the best-loved English poems, "Ode to Autumn".
http://www.bartleby.com/106/255.html




1833 -- US: Mary Jemison, "race traitor," adopted Senecan "white Indian," dies — one of many escapees from dominant culture, she had been adopted by Seneca Amerindians & reviled by 'whites'.

Daily Bleed Saint 2004
"The White Woman of the Genessee."
Captured by Indians at age 15,
adopted into Seneca tribe,
she refused to return to white "civilization".

Lewis Carrol's Alice & Wonderland & Wagner's Ring Cycle have both been published with the illustrations of Arthur Rackham. & Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, Kenneth Grahame, Jacob Grimm, Henrik Ibsen, Washington Irving, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Mallory, Clement Moore, Edgar Allan Poe, & Izaak Walton.

Rackham looked into the human imagination & took advantage of a dramatic change in printing technology to give life to fairies, imps, trolls, & dragons. His pen left sinuous detailed lines, he loved gnarled trees & lined faces, & though bright colors weren't possible his fancies have a warm glow from the watercolor wash on top of those lines.

Many illustrators since, particularly in fantasy works, have been obviously influenced by his work, & books including his illustrations are highly sought after, volumes including his art are actively sold into the low thousands of dollars in good condition.

http://www.twistedhistory.com/

Berkman's book, Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, is now considered one of the great classics of prison literature.
http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?usca_p=t&product_id=36


1901 -- Film producer Joseph Pasternak lives.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Glasnost7.html


1901 -- US:

"REJECTS FLAG; MOB TRIES TO LYNCH HIM."

Because George Bradshaw, a carpenter, declared he would not march under an American flag, an Oklahoma City mob of 500 formed this morning & started to lynch him...
[Details / context]

Two thousand persons, mostly Blacks, jammed into the Shiloh Baptist Church to hear an address by Booker T. Washington. A steep flight of stairs, enclosed in brick, led from the entrance doors to the church proper. After Washington's speech, there was an altercation over an unoccupied seat, & the word "fight" was misunderstood as "fire." The congregation rose as if on cue & stampeded for the stairs. Those reaching them first were pushed from behind & fell. Others fell on top of them until the entrance was completely blocked. Efforts to induce calm were fruitless, & 115 persons were trampled or suffocated to death.

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class — it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity."

— Anna Julia Cooper, Writer, 1892

"I was raped by orderlies, gnawed on by rats & poisoned by tainted food. I was chained in padded cells, strapped to straitjackets & half drowned in ice baths.”

Frances Farmer, Raped, Shocked & Brutalized
Lobotomy's Hall of Fame

Among those attending was the teacher Eugènie Trébuquet who, with her husband François Segond Casteu, wrote for "Germinal" & "Libertaire". Eugènie Casteu was killed in a bombardment while visiting her wounded brother at the anarchist front during the Spanish Revolution.

The US bars film pioneer Charles Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England, where he presented his film Limelight. A product of London slums, Chaplin was America's greatest success story. But his movies, especially Modern Times, which satirized the dehumanization of people in the mass production of objects, aroused government suspicion, & agents were assigned to watch him. The media, meanwhile, hounded him for his political activities & private life, making his life in the US intolerable. Chaplin & his family retired to a Swiss chateau. There he comments: "America is so terribly grim in spite of all that material prosperity. They no longer know how to weep. Compassion & the old neighborliness have gone, people stand by & do nothing when friends & neighbors are attacked, libeled & ruined." http://wso.williams.edu/~dgerstei/chaplin/intro.html

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«Cada uno / somos / una historia inédita / en los ilimitados horizontes / del tiempo, Erika. Pequeños mundos / sin firmamento, / juguetes de la inercia / siempre flotando / y fluctuando / entre dos esferas».

"Each one/we are/an unpublished history/in the limitless horizons/of the time, Erika. Small worlds/without firmament,/toys of inertia/always floating/and fluctuating/between two spheres ".

Many Roma, inspired often by our own revolutionary Helios Gomez, participated in in the first open combat with fascism in the Spanish Civil War.

Gomes saw the struggle in terms of a wider issue which would determine the fate of Roma everywhere - in Europe, in Russia & Central Asia & in South & North America.

He helped to create the beginnings of a Romani movement & in an interview with Cronica said:

'...from this war, which will produce so many great things, there must come even in Spain the vindication of the Roma.'

Muchos Roma, inspirados a menudo por nuestro propio revolucionario Helios Gómez, participaron desde los primeros combates abiertos contra el fascismo en la guerra civil española.

Gómez vio la lucha en términos de una cuestión más amplia, que habría de determinar el destino de los Roma por todas partes - en Europa, en Rusia y Asia central y en Sur y Norteamérica. Él ayudó a crear los principios de un movimiento Romani y en una entrevista con Cronica dijo: '... de esta guerra, que producirá muchas cosas tan grandes, de allí debe venir incluso en España la reivindicación de la Roma.'

http://www.pce.es/foroporlamemoria/noticias/conmemoracion_roma.htm
http://www.tebeosfera.com/Documento/Articulo/Recuperados/Helios/Gomez.htm

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"Helios Gómez. Artista de corbata roja" Autor: Ursula Tjaden El gran artista andaluz y catalán Helios Gómez, que con su trabajo visitó toda Europa y con su compromiso social todos los juzgados, sigue siendo un rebelde que molesta. Solo así puede entenderse que su figura siga sin recuperarse en el grupo de artistas e intelectuales que dió la II República.

Gomez, Helios. Viva Octubre. Dessins sur la Revolution Espagnole.

Carmon, Walt; Gomez, Helios. HELIOS GOMEZ WORKING CLASS ARTIST OF SPAIN; SIX SPANISH REVOLUTIONARY DRAWINGS Moscow 1933. In International Literature No. 4, 1933 at pp. 100-107, seven (six in text & frontis) striking full page woodblocks by Gomez. Whole issue has several articles. Lg. 8vo., wraps.

Beschreibung des Artikels: Gomez, Helios. Viva Octubre. Dessins sur la Revolution Espagnole. Maison Bolyn, Brüssel ca. 1934.

http://www.heliosgomez.org/

Originally circulated in Czechoslovakia in an underground edition of nineteen typewritten copies (which landed the author in jail for "initiating disorder").

His death at first is attributed to heart failure but later is officially announced as due to a drug overdose. His coffin is stolen by two of his associates, manager Phil Kaufman & Michael Martin, a former Byrds roadie, & taken to Joshua Tree where it's set afire. The two are picked up by police.

1973 -- High Seas: Pirate Radio Free America (off Cape May, New Jersey) goes on the air.

http://www.hobbybroadcasting.com/

One source quotes Paul McCartney as saying that "if the Beatles ever did reform, we'd have to rehearse for six months."

"He's nothing but a stupid fucking middle-class pig. I won't let animals like that near me," said John.

http://www.putrid.com/news.htm

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