"We could subjugate them all..." Columbus wrote, at the start of European destruction of the American continent...much raping, looting, debauchery, division of spoils ... which continues to this day.

No holiday for the Lucayan tribe of Arawaks who lived there at the time, in the next 25 years all 50,000 of them had died or been shipped out as slaves.

Lost in the West Indies, the Spaniards are discovered by New World natives on Turtle Island, near San Salvador. Christopher Columbus, lost & confused, runs aground & tragedy ensues.

"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, & the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people."

— J. Danforth Quayle, US Presidential material

http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/14921012.htm

"Would imperial Chinese or Turks have been less lethal had they "discovered America''? All three empires regarded aliens as less than human & therefore as legitimate prey. The Chinese considered others barbarians; the Muslims & Catholics considered others unbelievers. The term unbeliever is not as brutal as the term barbarian, since an unbeliever ceases to be legitimate prey until she or he is made over by the civilizer.

— Fredy Perlman, The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism

http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/PerlmanNationalism.htm

1609 -- "Three Blind Mice" becomes the first secular song printed in English.


1694 -- Matsuo Basho, great Japanese haiku poet, dies.

http://www.poetrystore.com/basho.html
http://www.haikupoetshut.com/basho1.html

1792 -- US: First Memorial to Columbus dedicated in Baltimore.


1808 -- France: Victor Considerant lives (1808-1893). French socialist who sought to develop & implement the theses of Fourier, in particular on the idea of the phalanstery.

Published numerous papers: "Phalanstère," "La réforme industrielle," "La phalange" (1836), "La démocratie pacifique" (1843). Elected to the legislature in 1848, but forced into exile in 1849 in Belgium, then in Texass (1852), where he tried to found a colony. Amnestied, he returned to Paris &, in March 1871, sided with Paris Commune. Wrote Destinée Sociale (1838), Manifeste de l'école sociétaire (1845), Théorie du droit à la propriété et du droit au travail (1848), etc.

"Si donc on veut la liberté..., il faut rechercher les conditions du bien-être général et de l'aisance universelle, premières bases du développement des droits, des libertés, première conditions de la véritable émancipation de tous."

      — Destinée sociale.

"Dans aucune oeuvre, la Commune sociétaire n'a été aussi bien élaborée que dans les écrits de Considérant.

      — Max Nettlau, anarchist historian

http://projekte.free.de/dada/btip002.htm
http://ytak.club.fr/decembre4.html#27

1830 -- US: Moses Harman lives (1830-1910), Pendleton County, Virginia. Publisher/editor of the Kansas anarchist paper, "Lucifer, the Light-Bearer" (1886-1907).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#Harmon


1837 -- Canada: Patriots declare solidarity with the Chartists of Britain.


1844 -- Novelist George Washington Cable lives, New Orleans. Notable for his depiction of Creole life.


1845 -- US: First Industrial Congress of US (first US national labor congress) meets, NYC.



1859 -- US: HE abolishes Congress.

His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Joshua Norton I, has issued the following edict, which he desires the Bulletin to spread before the world. Let her rip!

It is represented to us that the universal suffrage, as now existing through the Union, is abused; that fraud & corruption prevent a fair & proper expression of the public voice; that open violation of the laws are constantly occurring, caused by mobs, parties, factions & undue influence of political sects; that the citizen has not that protection of person & property which he is entitled to by paying his pro rata of the expense of Government — in consequence of which, WE do hereby abolish Congress, & it is therefore abolished; & WE order & desire the representatives of all parties interested to appear at the Musical Hall of this city on the first of February next, & then & there take the most effective steps to remedy the evil complained of.

— October 1859

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

1860 -- France: Emile Pouget lives.

Pouget gets an eight-year prison sentence for his participation with Louise Michel in unemployed activities when bakeries were plundered. He also founded, February 24, 1889, "Le Père Peinard" (Lazy Father), one of the four most important French anarchist papers in the period up to WWI. Author & signatory to the "Charte d’Amiens" (1906), endorsed by the CGT. Pouget wrote numerous books & pamphlets, including Direct Action (1910), Sabotage, & "Le Congrès syndicaliste d'Amiens", (1906 & since unpublished until 2006).

"Since the day a man had the criminal ability to profit by another man's labor, since that very same day the exploited toiler has instinctively tried to give to his master less than was demanded from him. In this wise the worker was unconsciously doing SABOTAGE, demonstrating in an indirect way the irrepressible antagonism that arrays Capital & Labor one against the other."

— Sabotage

http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/theory/sab.htm "Cactus Ed is dead, but Hayduke Lives!" http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/AbbeyEdward.htm

http://libcom.org/history/pouget-emile-1860-1931


1860 -- China: 17,000 British & French troops capture Peking.



1863 -- US: Death of Lazarus, dog & faithful companion to Norton I, Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico, in October, exact day unknown.

Twain wrote to his editor, William Howells, suggesting that the Emperor would make a fine subject for a book. & a fit of writer's block removed itself & Twain was able to complete two novels: Huckleberry Finn which featured a lost Dauphin & The Prince & the Pauper, a story of confused identities.
Through these, he paid homage to the man he'd known.

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/lazarus.html

10/12/99
Subject: Grrrr >1863 — Death of Lazarus...

Norton did not like being associated with these dogs — Bummer & Lazarus. They were hardly his "faithful companions." At most they were casual associates, &, more likely, they were inventions of his enemies.

"Defender of the Mad"

— Bleedster Ruhama V.
http://www.libertad.org.mx/directorio.htm

1870 -- Joshua Norton I, "Dei Gratia" Emperor of the US, He Forecloses on a Bank.

WHEREAS, the First National Bank refused to honor a small check of $100, to pay the value of a model for a Railway Switch invented by us, thereby endangering our private personal interest to a large estate: AND, WHEREAS, it is publicly notorious that one or two of the Directors have large amounts in trust belonging to our personal estate; NOW, THEREFORE, we, Norton I, Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico, do hereby decree the confiscation to the State of all interest of said Bank as security for any losses we may sustain by reason of their acts.

— October 1869 (exact date unknown)

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/EmperorNorton/nortonAnitarCache.htm
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html

1873 -- US: Makah Reservation established, 18 years after signing treaty.



1873 -- Switzerland: The famed Russian revolutionary, Mikhail Bakunin retires from the struggle & resigns from the anarchist Jura Federation.



1875 -- British occultist Aleister Crowley lives. Writer & occult figure, popularly known as "the Great Beast" or by the media "The Wickedest Man in the World," because of his fascination with sex, magic & degradation, drug-taking & hedonism.


1879 -- Jura Federation Congress is held. Kropotkin's anarchist communist ideas are being formulated & presented to the various Jurassic sections today. By the congress of 1880 these displace Bakunin's in the federation & eventually within the growing international movement.
[Details & context]


1881 -- Gerard Manley Hopkins writes to a friend: "Indeed I hold with the old fashioned criticism that Robert Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful & the pearls without the string."
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet165.html
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet37.html


1886 -- Norway: The anarchist author Hans Jæger, writing from prison during this month, describes his Munch picture "Hulda" in the first number of his periodical Impressionisten.

[Exact day unknown. — ed.] See: Johan H. Langaard, Edward Munch. Fra Ar Til Ar. A Year By Year Record of Munch's Life, (Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1961) 91pp.

alt: Hans Jaeger

Jaeger was an important friend & influence on Edvard Munch. Munch's association with Jæger & his circle of anarchists was a crucial turning point in his life & a source of new inner unrest & conflict.

1896 -- Eugenio Montale lives, Genoa. Italian poet, prose writer, editor & translator who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1975.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/montale.htm


1896 -- US: Johann Most, German-American anarchist, & Emma Goldman's former mentor, denounces her at an event in New York when she solicits funds for the commemoration of the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs.




1898 -- US: Fourteen killed, 25 wounded in violence resulting when Virden, Illinois mine owners attempt to break a labor strike by importing 200 nonunion black workers.

Repudiation of an agreement for the 8-hour day, a wage increase, abolishment of the company store & recognition of the United Mine Workers led to the "Virden Riot," when striking miners opposed the introduction of strikebreakers & armed guards. Ten miners & six guards were killed & about 30 persons wounded.

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/irx/chronology.htm
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/gildedage/

1902 -- US: Fourteen miners killed, 22 wounded by scabherders at Pana, Illinois.


1902 -- US: Ida Craddock is in court today on an obscenity charge. Found guilty of obscenity, the judge said her sex education pamphlet "The Wedding Night" was too obscene to show to the jury. On October 17th she slashed her wrists & turned on the gas, killing herself rather than returning to court for sentencing.


1903 -- Anton Chekhov completes work on The Cherry Orchard.



1905 -- ( Octubre 12 ) Represión a Regeneración; destrucción de la imprenta. Se interrumpe su publicación.
[Further details]


1908 -- Ann Petry lives, Old Saybrook, Conn. Author of The Street & the juvenile work Harriet Tubman, Conductor of the Underground Railroad.


1911 -- US: Society of American Indians formed in Columbus, Ohio, beginning of Pan-Indianism.


1912 -- Alice Childress, lives, Charleston, South Carolina. African American playwright, novelist, & actress, known for her realistic stories about the enduring optimism of black Americans. Performs on & off Broadway with the Negro Theatre from 1941 to 1952, where her work was met with hostility, resistance, & critical acclaim. She also wrote the adolescent novel, A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich.



1913 -- Francisco Ferrer Memorial meeting held in New York City. Emma Goldman is one of the speakers. The memorial meetings have been held every year in Spain since his murder by the government.

Ferrer is the Daily Bleed Saint, August 31.

http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/reidRadicalEducatorsNYC/reidRadicalEducatorsInNewYorkCity.htm
http://struggle.ws/spain/ferrer.html
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ihpl/ferrer.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5422/

1915 -- Edith Cavell, British nurse, executed by German firing squad, Brussels, Belgium.




1920 -- Italy: Armando Borghi, general secretary of the Unione Sindicale Italiana (USI) & militant anarchist, arrested in Milan by some order dating from July 20, but which had not been executed before.

Armando Borghi's arrest is meant to cripple the union, which represents some 300,000 workers.

Despite nationwide protests over 80 arrests occurred in Milan by the 17th, & even the veteran jailbird Errico Malatesta is nabbed.

[Details / context]

1924 -- Anatole France dies at 80 in La Béchellerie, near Tours, three years after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature. His funeral is the first national one accorded a writer since that of Victor Hugo in 1885.
http://www.chez.com/robysavia/france.html


1925 -- Panama: 600 US marines land & take over police duties in Panama City during a strike & rent riots to — okay, altogether now, say it with me — "to protect U.S. interests."


1932 -- Dick Gregory lives. Comedian, activist, civil rights supporter, & nutrition advocate.
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/dick-gregory.html


1936 -- Spain: A Generalidad decree dissolves the (revolutionary) Local Committees. These are shortly to be replaced by new, Popular Front-style town councils.
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/spain/sp001780/chap1.html


1937 -- Lebanon: James Marriner, US consul at Beirut, assassinated by an allegedly "crazed" Armenian.


1944 -- BleedMeister lives. More or less.


1950 -- US: American Legion convention calls for concentration camps for US Communists & the atom-bombing of the Soviet Union.


1958 -- US: Reform Jewish Temple in Atlanta is firebombed in retaliation for Jewish support of local black civil rights activists.


1960 -- Sole Brothers?: Khruschev bangs shoe on desk at the U.N.
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/29ike/29ike.htm


1961 -- US: To Protect & To Serve?: FBI launches Socialist Worker Disruption Program.


1961 -- Japan: Inejiro Asanuma, socialist pioneer of the Japanese labor movement, assassinated, sparking mass demonstrations in Tokyo.


1962 -- Charlie Mingus punches trombonist Jimmy Knepper in the mouth, knocking out a tooth & permanently ruining his embouchure.


1964 -- 00-666: Ian Fleming dies.



1964 -- Resignation of novelist Alexander Trocchi from the Situationist International (no section).
[Internationale Situationiste Resources]



1967 -- US: "A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority," appears in NY Review of Books. In response to the Vietnam War, 2,000 sign it, including academics, clergymen, writers.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/101ts.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/mylai.html

1968 -- US: 1,000 GI's & Vets march for peace, leading 7,000 antiwar protesters, from Golden Gate Park to San Francisco Civic Center.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/timeline/


1968 -- "Hey Jude" is the #1 single in the US for the third week in a row.
http://boomersint.org/octhist.html


1968 -- Mexico: Se inauguran los XIX Juegos Olímpicos en México. Se hace patente el dominio negro en las pruebas de velocidad y se reivindican los derechos de los negros.

The Summer Olympic Games open in Mexico City. The games have been boycotted by 32 African nations in protest of South Africa's participation. On the 18th Tommie Smith & John Carlos, US athletes & medalists in the 200-meter dash will further disrupt the games by performing the black power salute during the "Star-Spangled Banner" at thier medal ceremony.

[Source: WholeWorld is Watching]

1969 -- US: Navy nurse Susan Schnell drops anti-war leaflets from plane onto military base in California.



1970 -- US: Lt. William Calley court-martialled for the massacre of 102 civilians in My Lai during Vietnam War. He gets his wrists slapped with a year of house arrest.

He too fought under television for our place in the sun.

— Poet Robert Lowell on Lieutenant Calley, 1971

It passed without notice when it occurred in mid-March [March 16] 1968, at a time when the war news was still dominated by the siege of Khe Sanh. Yet the brief action at My Lai, a hamlet in Viet Cong-infested territory 335 miles northeast of Saigon, may yet have an impact on the war. According to accounts that suddenly appeared on TV & in the world press last week, a cam-company of 60 or 70 U.S. infantrymen had entered My Lai early one morning & destroyed its houses, its livestock & all the inhabitants that they could find in a brutal operation that took less than 20 minutes. When it was over, the Vietnamese dead totaled at least 100 men, women & children, & perhaps many more.

Only 25 or so escaped, because they lay hidden under the fallen bodies of relatives & neighbors.

— "Time" magazine, November 28, 1969.

("Time" fails to note that they, like all major US media, had refused to carry this story for over a year. The story appeared in the European press a year ago, & one US journalist spent a year trying to find an outlet for his story, well before Hersh's story was finally published by the "NY Times.")

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/vietnam/reading-list/
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/mylai1.html
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/vietnamlist.html

1970 -- US: Stephen Gaskin's caravan leaves Frisco, California.


1970 -- Eugene O'Neill National Historical Site, Danville, Calif. is established.


1971 -- Jesus Christ Superstar debuts, Cherry Lane theatre in New York.


1971 -- US: Air Force grounds its C-5A cargo planes after cracks are found in one of the craft's engine mountings.


1971 -- Cuba: A CIA-sponsored terrorist attack on Boca de Sama, machine-gunning the village, kills two & injures four; one of the four, a 15-year-old girl, lost her leg as a result of gunshot wounds.



1973 -- James Baldwin finishes his novel If Beale Street Could Talk.


1976 -- US: Mesquakie tribe awarded $6.6 million for lands taken in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri & Illinois between 1804 & 1867.



1976 -- US: Three elderly deaths halt swine flu vaccination program.
http://www.dallasnw.quik.com/cyberella/index.htm


1977 -- US: "University of California vs Bakke" trial starts; filed September 19.


1978 -- Punk rocker Sid Vicious arrested for killing his girlfriend Nancy. What's in a name?


1980 -- US: Maine Street? Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Jim Carter signs legislation settling claim of Pascamaquoddy, Penobscot, & Maliseet to two-thirds of Maine.


1982 -- "You don't tell us how to stage the news, & we don't tell you how to report it."

— Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Reagan's mouthpiece, to the press
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/reagan.htm



1984 -- England: Near Ms.? Margaret Thatcher untouched as Brighton's Grand Hotel is redecorated by the IRA.
[Source: Calendar Riots]



1985 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Disgraced Leader Dick M Nixon is chosen to arbitrate a dispute between baseball owners & umpires. "The game will not survive," he says "unless the American people continue to have confidence in qualified, competent ex-Presidents."



1987 -- US: On the day that Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader George Big Bush announces his candidacy, Newsweek runs a cover on him with the headline "Fighting the Wimp Factor." He is reportedly so upset that he counts the number of times the word "wimp" appears in the article (9).

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

— Gore Vidal

1988 --

Humiliated by Bush aides describing their job as having to "potty train" him, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Dan Quayle declares independence from his handlers.
"Lookit," he says, "I've done it their way this far & now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more handler stories because I'm the handler ... I am Doctor Spin."

Speculation begins instantly that his handlers told him to say this.
http://www.bumperdumper.com/


1990 -- UN Security Council condemns Israel's killing of 21 Palestinians, 15-0.


1992 -- Nicaragua: Continental Congress of Indigenous Peoples meets in Managua.


1992 -- Rallies, protests & arrests throughout the Western Hemisphere mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the European invasion of the Americas & genocide of its native peoples.


1992 -- Russia: Greenpeace ship investigating arctic nuclear-waste dump is seized by the government.


1994 -- Canadian writer Michael Ignatieff wins the Gelber Prize, for his book Blood & Belonging.


1995 -- East Timor: Indonesian troops are ordered to "restore order" after major protest riots & demonstrations in the capital of Dili.
http://www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/asiaocean.html
http://www.anarchy.no/easttimo.html

1997 -- US: Songster John Denver's plane crashes in to the Pacific Ocean off Monterey Bay. Denver was 53.
http://www.airsafe.com/events/celebs/denver.htm



1997 -- Post-Summer of Love in Frisco.
http://www.summeroflove.org/poster.html



1998 -- US: Matthew Shepard dies, result of injuries sustained when beaten & tortured in a gay hate crime in Laramie, Wyoming. Three previous attempts to pass an anti-hate crime bill have been defeated, as "not necessary — those kind of crimes don't occur in Wyoming." Those accused of killing him deny it was a hate crime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard
http://www.mattshepard.org/

1998 -- Iran: An Iranian organization raises its bounty for the murder of author Salman Rushdie from $2.5 million to $2.8 million.



2000 -- Peru: Teachers fight with Peruvian police in front the building of Congress, in Lima. Protesters demand Fujimori's resignation.




2000 -- Chinese exile novelist & playwright Gao Xingjian wins the Nobel Prize.


2002 -- Bangladesh: Feminist author Taslima Nasrin is sentenced to one year in jail in absentia for criticizing Islam.



2007 -- "¿Dave¿ Dave's Not Here, Man!" — Out back having his birthday cake & eating it too. Big 63. Re-tired

Time's A-wastin!!

Auntie Dave has his cake & eats it too......plunges head-long into the ice cream...

2007 -- Birthday boy Bleedmeister asleep at the wheel.



3000 --

Aged Pueblo Indian to Carl Jung:

"Their eyes have a staring expression; they are always seeking something; they are always uneasy & restless. We do not know what they want. We do not understand them. We think that they are mad."

4000 --

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