B SEPTEMBER 27

BHAGAT SINGH
Legendary Indian Romantic, volcanic anti-imperialist.

STAY HOME BECAUSE YOU'RE WELL DAY: Instead of faking illness, call your boss & tell'em you're well; there must be a thousand things you'd rather do than work — do them!

ANCESTOR APPRECIATION DAY.

(Let's hear it for Auntie Dave's Clan Lockhart on one side & Monty's on the other. Jean Monty arrives in North America as a French soldier to protect French-Canadians near Quebec from Indian & English attacks. His son, Frances, fights for the colonies against the British. Frances enlists all his sons, including a 6-year-old, with the Revolutionary army.)
http://www.clanlockhart-us.org/

Nummer One Son also pays tribute to Great Grandfather Stith Thompson, author/folklorist considered the father of US folklore study [see his Motif-Index of Folk Literature, published in 1955 in six volumes]
http://www.nlx.com/collections/87 & Granddaddy Bob Letsinger, biochemist known as the "father of the gene machine" for his pioneering work on the fabrication of artificial DNA & credited with developing breakthrough technique in treating AIDS.

India: FESTIVAL OF VARUNI, Goddess of Wine.

Ila, Zambia: FESTIVAL OF NAMAKUGWE, The Originator.

1290 -- China: An earthquake is responsible for the death of approximately 100,000 in Chihli.

1477 -- Japan: A fluffy, stringy substance referred to as "angel hair" falls on the country.
Source: [Robert Braunwart] [Hereafter attributed with symbol: ]

1540 -- Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola. Kinda like the Monty Python of their times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian

1631 -- England: A Mr. Wilson, who played Bottom in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on a Sunday, is put in the stocks wearing his donkey's head by the Puritan authorities.

1700 -- Author William Congreve writes a married lady-friend:
"For my part I keep the Commandments, I love my neighbour as my selfe, & to avoid Coveting my neighbour's wife I desire to be coveted by her; which you know is quite another thing."

http://www.poemhunter.com/p/t/poet.asp?poet=7167&show=resources

1722 -- New Old World: Samuel Adams, patriot beer brewer, lives, Boston, Massachusetts. Signs Declaration of Independence.

1792 -- English caricaturist/illustrator George Cruikshank lives, London. His colored etchings enliven Dickens' Sketches by Boz & later works.
Illustrated contemporary novels by many of the major Victorian novelists, classic novels & political tracts by himself & others. He began as a caricaturist in the tradition of Gillray & Rowlandson, taking the radical side on issues of the day. Beginning about 1850, he devoted the remainder of his life to the causes of temperance & antismoking.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRcruikshank.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cruikshank

1821 -- México: Revolutionary forces occupy México City as Spanish withdraw. Rebels under Iturbide & Guerrero enter México City in triumph (Ejército Trigarante).

Thomas Nast illustration: Haymarket: Liberty is Not Anarchy

1840 -- Cartoonist Thomas Nast lives, Germany. Pal of Mark Twain. (Auntie Dave washes dishes & tosses crust with his great great grand nephew Tom Nast at Morningtown Pizza Collective in mid-70s. Nummer One Son goes pawn-to-pawn with Tom's kiddio at chess tournament late-90s.)

Daily Bleed Saint 2003-4
Superb 19th-century political caricaturist, iconoclast.

http://www.graphicwitness.org/group/nastrike.htm

1846 --

England: An apparition of Edinburgh appears in the sky over Liverpool. More like a nightmare if you think about it.

1849 --

Mason Reynolds surfaces in MirrorEarth (Rudy Rucker's The Hollow Earth).
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/

1852 -- France: Louise Michel, who later becomes an anarchist, receives her teaching diploma & announces her intention to open a private school in Audeloncourt (Haute-Marne). This school appears to have opened in January 1853. She later wrote she opened her own school so as to avoid pledging allegiance to the Emperor.

I have seen criminals & whores
& spoken with them. Now I inquire
If you believe them made as now they are
To drag their rags in blood & mire
Preordained, an evil race?

You to whom all men are prey
Have made them what they are today.

[Source: Michel Chronologie]

1860 --

Colombia: The US invades Colombia (Bay of Panama ) to "protect US interests" during a revolution (-Oct. 8).

1870 -- France: Louise Michel is relased from jail. She will be arrested again in December.

On 14 July 1870, war broke out between France & Germany. It was during this time that Louise Michel was arrested for the first time. She had organised a group of volunteers to go to aid Strasbourg in one last stand against the Prussian armies. She was released today, but Strasbourg had just fallen to the Prussians...

[details]

1875 -- US: Striking textile workers demand bread for starving children in Fall River, Massachusetts.

1876 -- US: Edward Mitchell Bannister wins a bronze medal for his painting "Under the Oaks" at the American Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Causes big stink among whites who think African-Americans incapable of artistic excellence.
http://www.ric.edu/bannister/about_emb.php

Burning book

1892 -- US: Match books are patented by Joshua Pusey, Lima, Pennsylvania.

1897 --

US: Labor congress organized by Eugene Debs in Chicago, addressed by Emma Goldman.

1902 -- US: September-October: J.P. Morgan became involved for the first time (I don't have exact dates) in settling a strike against one of his companies. He met with Secretary of State Elihu Root aboard his yacht during the 1902 coal strike.

1906 --

Jim Thompson lives.

James Meyer Thompson became one of the finest pulp novelists of The Cold War era. His life during the Depression & his up & down family history of working the wildcat oil fields of Texass seeped into Jim's dirt-under-the-nails writing as he created characters at once both brutal & sympathetic.

His first book was published in 1942, but it was his fifth book, The Killer Inside Me which established his reputation. Thompson was blacklisted during the anti-communist witch hunts, but director Stanley Kubrick got him to co-write screenplays for the films The Killing (1956) & Paths of Glory (1957)....

[Details / context]

"If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett & Cornell Woolrich could have joined together in some ungodly union & produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson would be it."

— Washington Post

1907 -- Spain: Fermín Salvochea y Álvarez (1842-1907) dies; teacher, writer, insurrectionist, early & important Andalusian anarquista; figura fundamental en el anarquismo andaluz, maestro de varias generaciones, nace en Cádiz el 1 de marzo de 1842. When he died in September 1907 50,000 people attend his burial & his tomb has never lacked a daily renewal of fresh flowers.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/utopia.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferm%C3%ADn_Salvochea
http://www.andalucia.cc/almenara/105-11.htm
http://cadizcentro.net/index.php/archives/2005/01/13/fermin-salvochea/
http://www.cgtandalucia.org/spip.php?article540

1907 -- India: Freedom fighter Shaheed Bhagat Singh lives, Banga, Layalpur, Punjab. Attracted to anarchist & Marxist ideas.Hanged in 1931.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagat_Singh

1911 -- México: Emiliano Zapata issues an anti-government manifesto; this follows Huerta's declaration yesterday that Morelos is pacified (following widespread executions), & his move into Puebla in pursuit of Zapata.
http://cnparm.home.texas.net/Nat/Mx/Mx02.htm

1912 -- W.C. Handy’s “Memphis Blues”, first blues song ever published (under different name, for a political boss’ campaign).

1919 -- US: Emma Goldman's term of imprisonment at Jefferson City penitentiary expires; released on bail with orders for deportation pending. Greeted in Jefferson City by mobs of reporters, friends, & niece Stella Ballantine, who accompanies her to Rochester. Stops in Chicago to visit Ben Reitman; meets his wife & child. Alexander Berkman's release from the Atlanta penitentiary follows in a few days, on Oct. 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klC8jOVrHq8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST_Xj4wvt8g

1919 -- Edgar Rice Burroughs novel The Warlord of Mars is published.

1924 -- BleedMeister,
i offer an addendum (as opposed to a dum-dum, a conundrum, or redrum): bud powell. september 27, 1924. insane genius of the piano, victim of police brutality & "modern" institutional psychotherapy, friend of monk, one of the inventors of bebop. the only really important person i share a birthday with (no offense to mr. nast, & no, william "i meant to be ambiguous" empson doesn't count).

cheers.

— bleedster j valis <— i was doing okay until i remembered what today was . . .>

Bud Powell be added to the Bleed, where the Bleeding always stops...or so we are told....

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

In 1945, then 21, he received a beating by police after he tried to help his pal & mentor Monk from being harassed.

Taken to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation, he wrote on the admittance form under occupation: “Pianist & composer of over 1,000 songs.”

To which the attending doctor wrote, “delusions of grandeur” & put him in a straitjacket.

Died: August 1, 1966

http://ilovejazz.tripod.com/jazz/budpowell.html

1925 -- Brazil: Third Labor Congress of Rio Grande do Sul, September 27 to October 2.

12 sessions are held involving delegates from 23 labor organizations, the Comitê Pró-Presos Sociais & two periodicals. A Declaration of Principles of the AIT is approved & a Pact of International Anarchist Solidarity formulated.

Source: [Arquivo de História Social]

1927 -- In St. Abbondio, Switzerland,
Hugo Ball, a founder of the Dada movement, dies (or 14 September?). Also wrote an early critical biography of German novelist Hermann Hesse. Daily Bleed Saint, February 22.
See our Saint's Gallery page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/saints/sthugoball.htm

"Everybody their own Football."

http://www.mital-u.ch/Dada/

1928 -- Brazil: Fourth Labor Congress of Rio Grande do Sul, held clandestinely, the date secret as well.

Three sessions are held over two days with delegates from 16 labor organizations, two periodicals, six anarchist groups, various São Paulo militant refugees & anarchist groups from southern Brazil (Florentino de Carvalho, Domingos Passos & others) & delegates from Uruguay, Paraguay & Argentina.

Source: [Arquivo de História Social]

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingos_Passos
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentino_de_Carvalho

1929 -- Italy: Cesare Rossi, ex capo dell'ufficio stampa della presidenza del consiglio, che aveva denunciato le complicità di Mussolini nel delitto Matteotti, viene condannato dal tribunale speciale a trent'anni di carcere.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]

1930 -- US: No Balls? White Sox first baseman Bud Clancy never handles the ball at all in a 9 inning baseball game against St Louis Browns.

1932 -- US: Judge Thayer’s house is bombed (presumably for his prejudiced role in the Sacco & Vanzetti case).

See Heroes & Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, & the Revolutionary Struggle, an audio CD by Howard Zinn.
Sacco & Vanzetti Timeline
http://infoshop.org/page/Sacco-Vanzetti
http://www.torremaggiore.com/saccoevanzetti/storia.html

1934 -- First International Congress of Women Against War & Fascism.

1937 -- US: School for Santa Clauses opens, Albion, NY.
Students attend a two-day convention, receiving 36 hours of training in Santa Claus techniques. The school's coursework includes memorization of "Twas the Night Before Christmas," the history of Santa Claus, learning the 100 impossible situations (real life?) & questions asked by children, "Sant-Ercise" classes for Santa & children, perfecting Santa's "Ho! Ho! Ho!" & North Pole carnival games. After videotaping their first encounter with children & passing a written & oral exam, the Santas take an oath, receive their Santa smile ring, white gloves & a diploma in Professional Santa Clausing.

1938 -- Clarinet virtuoso, Artie Shaw, records the song that will become his theme song. "Nightmare" is waxed on the Bluebird Jazz label.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W59FzOwYIs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw

1939 -- Maxwell Anderson play "Key Largo" opens in NY.

1940 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President FDR meets with A. Philip Randolph, president of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Walter White, executive secretary NAACP; & T. Arnold Hill, acting secretary of the National Urban League to discuss employment discrimination, particularly desegregation of the armed forces. Army: 5,000 Negroes out of 269,023; Navy: 4,000 out of 160,997 — employed as messboys & laborers.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/apr/
http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=1,7,1,1,41
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Porters

1940 --

1892-1940

At the border between France & Spain: Cultural theorist Walter Benjamin dies.

Walter Benjamin

Unable to obtain visas to leave France, Benjamin fled to the unoccupied south when France surrendered to Germany in June of 1940.

A visa was finally secured for him by friends in New York. He merely had to get to Lisbon, Portugal. However, French authorities, anxious to cooperate with the Nazis, refused to let German exiles cross the border. Benjamin attempted to walk across the Pyrenees into Spain & was captured by Spanish authorities. He was carrying the Arcades manuscript with him.

Rather than face being turned over to the Gestapo, Benjamin chose to take an overdose of morphine. He died on 27 September 1940.

The next morning the rest of the group of refugees that Benjamin was traveling with were allowed to pass through into Spain.

[details]

1942 -- France: Several hundred Americans in Occupied France are rounded up for internment in the monkey house of the Paris zoo.

1942 -- Heinrich Mann completes his novel Lidice, while exiled from Germany, in California.

1944 -- US: First large-scale plutonium producing reactor begins operation on land seized from the Yakama Indian Nation, Hanford, Washington. In the decades to follow & into the new millenium the water table & surrounding rivers are polluted from leaky storage.

1948 -- American author William Faulkner's novel Intruder in the Dust is published.

1950 -- Answering machine is invented. The inventor could not be reached for comment by telephone because he was busy at the moment.

1950 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Truman orders the US Army to seize all the nation's railroads to prevent a General Strike. The railroads are not returned to their owners until two years later.

1950 -- Italy: Provedimenti del governo per il rafforzamento delle forze repressive della polizia di stato e per l'aggravamento delle disposizioni del codice penale relativamente a un cosiddetto sabotaggio militare ed economico.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]

1950 -- US: Movie producer Adrian Scott is sentenced to one year in jail for refusing to tell HUAC whether he had been a Communist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scott

1951 -- Author William Faulkner publishes Requiem for a Nun.

1953 -- US: Bertrand Russell publishes "What Would Help Mankind Most?" in New York Times Magazine.

1954 -- US: Dirty Laundry? The US Senate calls for censure of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator "TailGunner" Joe McCarthy. A committee reports Joseph acted improperly in making government employees hand over documents (probably their laundry lists). McCarthy is one of the senatorial greats.
"I have here in my hand," he states, "the names of 205 men that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist party & who nevertheless are still working & shaping the policy of the state department."

Some years later, he confided he was lying — the paper was actually an old laundry list.

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/home.html

1957 -- Australia: Despite international protests, U.K. begins nuclear bomb test series on aboriginal land, Maralinga, South Australia.

1960 -- Sylvia Pankhurst, leader of East London Federation which sought to unite British labor & woman's suffrage movement, dies.
http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/p/ARCH01029full.php#bioghist
http://libcom.org/library/anarchist-communism-in-britain-1870-1991

1960 -- England:

Resolution of the Fourth Conference of the Situationist International Concerning the Imprisonment of Alexander Trocchi, a tract denouncing the arrest & detention of the situationist / novelist Alexander Trocchi in the United States, for drug use & trafficking.

[Details / context]

1962 -- US: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is published.

1963 -- Nigeria: A General Strike begins against the government.

1964 -- US: Rush to Judgment? Warren Commission Report on JFK assassination sticks it all on "mastermind" Lee Harvey.

Concludes that no one "assisted Oswald in planning or carrying out the assassination;" that Oswald was not "employed, persuaded or encouraged by any foreign government to assassinate President Kennedy;" & that Oswald was "an agent, employee or informant" of neither the FBI nor the CIA.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKoswald.htm

1966 -- The Four Tops, with Johnny Talbot & De Thanks open at Fillmore Auditorium, Frisco, California.

1966 -- US: Negro off-duty policeman shooting of Negro armed robbery suspect followed by Hunters Point demonstrations, San Francisco. Hunters Point Riot of 1966 ... On September 27, 1966 a riot broke out ... Like its counterparts in Watts, it consisted with ... ass down here again, I'll shoot it ... outbreaks of the riots, in spite of ... Frisco.
http://archive.org/details/TFHPRfin

1972 -- Brazil: First section of Trans-Amazon Hiway, running through traditional native homelands, is opened for traffic. Loggers, miners, tourists, disease, death, & other consequences of automobiles follow.

1972 -- Rory Storme, the leader of one of Liverpool's earlier beat groups, takes his life in what is presumed to be a suicide pact with his mother. Rory Storme & the Hurricanes are best remembered as the group Ringo Starr departed in 1962 to play drums for the Beatles.

1973 -- Rolling Stone reports that Carlos Santana, now a disciple of Sri Chinmoy, has a new name: Devadip, which means "The Lamp of the Light Supreme." The band's name will remain Santana.

1983 -- US: Five members of Puget Sound Women's Peace Camp enter Boeing's Cruise missile production plant in Seattle, Washington, leaflet the workers & are arrested.

1985 -- Andre Kertesz, 91, dies. Photographer, journalist, 35mm camera use pioneer.
http://masters-of-photography.com/K/kertesz/kertesz.html

1988 -- Under a Dark Shroud?: Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin is not Christ's burial cloth.
http://www.shroud.com/meacham2.htm

1989 -- US: High on Real Life? The first two people to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel & live to tell about it are Jeffrey Petkovich & Peter DeBernardi, who go over the 167-foot high Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side.
Why dey do dis? To show kids there are better things to do than drugs.

1990 -- Germany: Last US Pershing II missiles removed, less than 10 years after their installation provoked a massive anti-nuclear movement across Europe.

1990 -- Author Salman Rushdie's Haroun & the Sea of Stories is published in Britain.

1991 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Bush decides to end full-time B-52 bombers alert.

(Whatever floats your holiday boat...)
http://web.archive.org/web/20031216135006/home.earthlink.net/~mrhaney76450/strangelove.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove

1993 -- US: 3 Corrupts & You're Out? In New York City, the Mollen Commission begins hearings on the latest generation of corrupt police officers.
The current corruption involves uniformed patrol officers in poor neighborhoods extorting shop owners, taking bribes to protect drug dealers & dealing drugs themselves. Among today's first witnesses is Michael Dowd, a former Brooklyn officer who admits leading a ring of drug-dealing police. Like the Knapp Commission of the early 1970s, the Mollen Commission finds corruption remains ingrained in police culture.

1994 -- US: Fourteen New York City cops are arrested for extortion, perjury & stealing drugs. "To Protect & Self-Serve."

1996 -- Songster Bob Gibson (1931-1996) dies...only he knows where he is bound...
Now he's part of the heavenly choir,
   Where all of the poor restless souls can be found,
   Ain't that a heavenly choir,
   Ain't that a helluva sound.

— Heavenly Choir, by Bob Gibson & Shel Silverstein
http://www.richieunterberger.com/gibsoncamp.html
http://www.shelsilverstein.com/

1997 -- Pope John Paul Ringo?: Dylan asks Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Pope John Paul II which way the wind blows after playing at a Roman Catholic Youth Rally in Bologna, Italy. A Vatican spokesman says Dylan was picked for the concert because of his sincere religious beliefs.

1999 -- US: "America is now under martial law," one broadcast warns.
"Shut up. Be happy. Obey all orders. Relax. Everything is done for you."
http://www.notbored.org/ap.html

2000 -- Czech Republic: Prague protests renew 'Battle of Seattle'.
http://seattle.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Seattle
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/wto.htm

2000 -- Yugoslavia: 200,000 anti-Milosovic demonstrators rally in Belgrade.

2000 -- Israel: Attorney General declines to prosecute Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader ex-PM Netanyahu for corruption.

2000 -- China: A gas explosion in a coal mine in southern China kills 118 workers.

2002 -- US: Philippe Petit walks a tightrope over Broadway this afternoon, New York City.
In 1974 he walked a wire seven times, for 45 minutes, between the famed Twin Towers before they were brought down by terrorists:

"I had been out there on a wire, dancing in the sky."

http://www.sorabji.com/whois/readthestories/2002/09/27/index.html

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Indeed, the Alps are high,
but not nearly as high as the dung heap
in my grandfather's yard, when I was 5.

— Chaim Nachman Bialik

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