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TERRY SOUTHERN
Inspired American black-humorist, beat-era social rebel.
Iroquois FEAST OF THE DEAD.
Held every 12 years, the dead are reinterred & honored, with huge a grave dug & lined with beaver skins.FESTIVAL OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE.
Dancing on our own graves.
539 -- [BC] Babylon falls to Cyrus the Great of Persia.
1618 -- England: Got Canned? Due to a failed expedition to exploit Guiana, the grand scalawag, Sir Walter Raleigh (History of the World) is executed.At his execution in 1618 in the Tower of London, Sir Walter Raleigh asked to see the axe that was to behead him & said, "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all Diseases." As was common at the time, his head was embalmed & presented to his wife. She apparently carried it with her at all times until she died 29 years later at the age of 82.
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/raleghfarewell.htm
http://www.sportingcollectibles.com/tobacco.html
France: The Marquis de Sade is imprisoned for excesses committed in a brothel. Broughton had taken two small boats up the Columbia from Astoria to a point near the side of Washougal, naming it Point Vancouver for his commander Captain George Vancouver. Mount Hood was named for a famed Alexander Arthur Hood, a famed British naval officer. The British were working feverishly to establish claims in the unexplored Northwest, as the Spanish had earlier been exploring some areas.See Mount Hood: A Complete History, by Jack Bauer (self-published, 1975) 296 pages. A meticulously written book with tons of very specific dates. (Probably 2,000[!] or more.)
"Many men lost their minds on the Dead Horse Trail. Others lost their lives as a diet of rotten horse flesh led to raging fever. Screams of pain echoed through the canyons like deranged spirits throughout the winter of 1897."
http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol07/bentley.htm
Rubén Darío writes "Epistola a Ricardo Contreras".
From the start it was intended not as the mouthpiece of a particular group but as an independent voice in a wider movement. At first described as a journal of "Anarchist Socialism," in June 1889 it became a "Journal of Anarchist Communism"; it attempts to represent the mainstream tradition of anarchism, through giving a voice to differing views. Continues to publish today.
1887 -- Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Red-Headed League" (BG).
1889 -- Canada: Stanley Park dedicated in Vancouver, BC.
1889 -- US: Katsu Goto is lynched. A prominent Hawaiian merchant, labor sympathizer & interpreter, Goto was an immigrant killed by some fine upstanding American businessmen who didn't like the advocacy work he performed on behalf of Japanese plantation workers.
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1896 -- US: Every twelve years on this day, the Amerindian Iroquois tribe celebrates its Feast of the Dead, to honour the souls of departed loved ones.
"No one owns their own property. The property owns them."
— Robert G Ingersoll (1896)
"The equal right of all men to the use of land is a clear as their equal right to breathe the air — it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence."
— Henry George, Progress & Poverty
Emma Goldman expresses her sympathy for Czolgosz in an article, "The Tragedy at Buffalo," published in Free Society (Chicago), prompting many of her close anarchist associates to distance themselves from her.
For the next two months, with ill-feeling running high, she avoids public appearances. Finding much difficulty in securing an apartment & job, Emma adopts the pseudonym "E. G. Smith."
See "The Wilhelmshaven Revolt," by 'Ikarus,' (Jan Appel, who co-wrote Memoirs of Revolutionarieswith Otto Ruhle.) See also "Jan Appel's Story", where he provides an important link, in this at times humourous account, between the
proletarian revolutions of 1917-1919 & the modern day. On Council Communism, see, The German Revolution of 1918, see, On Left Communism & Council Communism, see also the links at the bottom of Robert Barsky's Reading Room, |
| US: October 29 to November 29 in Washington DC, the International Labour Organization (ILO) convenes: | Huge International International Labour Convention, organitzada to per the Societat de Nacions, convenes. They propose the "Unemployment Convention" & "Reciprocity of Treatment Recommendation".
See also the ILO page,
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A bankruptcy lawyer in Manhattan who also studied lithography under master printmaker George Miller, Rosenberg recalls:
"In the afternoon of October 28, 1929, the terrible day when nine million shares were slaughtered on the New York Stock Exchange, I rushed to Miller's place & made my lithograph Dies Irae."
Dies Irae ("Days of Wrath"), 1929. James N. Rosenberg, 1874-1970. Lithograph. Printed by George Miller
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/goldstein/goldrad.html
"Happy Days Are Here Again" Casa Loma Orchestra, conducted by Glen Gray, 10/29/29 |
The date on which the Casa Loma Orchestra waxed this cheery tune is better remembered as Black Tuesday, the day of the stock market crash. Variety's October 30, 1929 headline read "WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG."
How big an egg? An average 40 percent loss in stock values by mid-November, representing nearly 30 billion dollars! This song (sans vocals here) expressed pre-crash exuberance in the film Chasing Rainbows (a young Jack Benny appeared in it), & it became a 'wishful thinking' anthem as the Depression darkened. — Mark Humphrey, "The Great Depression: American Music in the '30s" See also
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See also See 24 November 1968.
http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=DALevy
http://www.thing.net/~grist/lnd/dalevyc.htm
1942 -- 16,000 Jews killed in Pinsk, Russia.
1945 -- Re-writing History?: First ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years after it was patented.
1947 -- US: Flying in a specially outfitted aircraft, Vincent Schaefer of the General Electric Company drops small dry-ice pellets into cumulus clouds over a forest fire near Concord, Massachusetts, in an attempt to produce artificial rain & douse the flames.
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I'll sit down on a burnin' ring of fire — "Thank God I'm a ChileHead,"
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France: No More Flat Feet, tract denouncing Charlie Chaplin signed by the Lettrist International (Serge Berna, Jean-Louis Brau, Guy-Ernest Debord & Gil J. Wolman), is thrown into the crowd at a press conference for Chaplin's film Limelight at the Ritz Hotel, Paris.
Also, before the month is out, Debord meets Marcel Mariën, Paul Nougé & Louis Scutenaire in Brussels.
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Lettrism, like all movements worthy of the name, engendered schisms & apostasies. One sect, the Lettrist International, led by Guy Debord, split off after the "left" lettrists, passing out abusive pamphlets, disrupted a Charlie Chaplin press conference.
On Lettrism, see Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces: A secret history of the twentieth century (Harvard, 1989; Margaret Moser, “Greil Marcus and the Mad Parade”, Austin Chronicle 10 Sep 1999) for a brief account of Lettrism, the Lettrist International (the “left wing” of Lettrism, & its offspring, the Situationist International). [Situationist Resources] |
Poet Dylan Thomas's last public engagement, City College of NY. "Am I a gangster or murderer?http://nobelprize.org/Of what crime do I stand condemned?
I made the whole world weep at the beauty of my land."
http://www.rjgeib.com/heroes/pasternak/paster.html
1958 -- Good Ol' US: Atomic bomb named 'Santa Fe' exploded above ground; winds blow fallout over LA where thermal inversion holds it over the city for several days. Not that the residents can tell the difference — it's a glow in the dark kinda place.
1961 -- Russia: Not to be outdone, the first 50-megaton bomb explodes, USSR.
US: Dress Rehersal? Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader J.Edgar Hoover tells Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Robert F. Kennedy an agent has offered to assassinate Castro. US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Robert F. Kennedy's representative Desmond FitzGerald tells the CIA a coup against Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Castro would receive US support. 
Paul McCartney is dead. ["Rat Subterranean News" magazine starts the "Paul is dead" hoax]. As William Serrin succinctly put it:
"A strike, by putting the workers on the street, rolls the steam out of them it reduces their demands & thus brings agreement & ratification; it also solidifies the authority of the union hierarchy."
US: An FBI memo recommends 15,000 new domestic intelligence operations. Ahhh, Freedom is a Grand Thing! Russia: Soviet newspaper "Trud" calls the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Andrey Sakharov "political pornography" & "30 pieces of silver". 
— "Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète"
"It's better than gold. Gold weighs more than that, for God's sake."
1984 -- US: "Doonesbury" has George Bush place his manhood in a blind trust.  1985 -- US: Beloved & Repected Comrade Leader Acting Pres. Ronnie Reagan claims Russian contains no word for "freedom" (wrong).  1986 -- US: Three days after Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Ron Reagan's veto, & days before an election, U.S. House of Representatives votes to override veto on a bill to impose trade sanctions against South Africa. Empty, symbolic gesture, as the Senate does not follow suit. |
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/ecp/10/214/html/00010016.html""It's what I've been fighting for for 44 years," said Mr. Hiss, now 87 years old, during an interview this week in his Upper West Side apartment."
Whittaker Chambers accused Hiss of being a spy. Hiss denied the charges & sued for slander. Failing any proof, & under pressure from right-wing whackos seeking to blame someone for all America's ills, Hiss was indicted & convicted for perjury (claimed he did not know Chambers, a former communist fanatic who became, fittingly, reverse-mirror, a right-wing Cold Warrior & edited the Republican mouthpiece, "Time" magazine).Got five-years. Paroled in 1954, still maintaining his innocence. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Dick M Nixon used Red-baiting publicity to catapult his odious career to the White House. (See Halberstam's The Fifties).
He sang
How the swan blanched forever
How the wolf threw away its telltale heart
& the stars dropped their pretense
The air gave up appearances
Water went deliberately numb
The rock surrendered its last hope
& cold died beyond knowledgeHe sang
How everything had nothing more to loseThen sat still with fear
Seeing the clawtrack of star
Hearing the wingbeat of rock& his own singing
— Ted Hughes, "Owl's Song"
2000 --
2000 --
2001 -- Soviet filmmaker Grigory Chukhrai dies. Earned fame but angered Kremlin leaders for portraying human side of war & among the first directors to convey the horrors of Stalin's rule in such films as Ballad of a Soldier (1959), & Clear Skies (1961).
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue09/features/russia2/text.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Chukhrai
2003 -- Daily Bleed Saint, 2003-04 ALAN TURING
British computer theorist, fatal victim of gay oppression.
3000 --I have always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library.
— Jorge Luis Borges
http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/borges/borges.htm
4000 --
anti-CopyRite 1997-3000, more or less
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