"We gotta find a way off this goddamn cop-ridden planet."

1621 -- John Donne is elected Dean of St. Paul's.



1718 -- Pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach) killed with 25 bullets.



1819 -- Novelist George Elliot (Mary Ann Evans) lives, Arbury Farm, Warwickshire.
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Eliot.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gelliot.htm

1828 -- Almanac Day — day held for the issuing of the next year's almanac by the Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge [first observed in 1828].
Source: 'Calendar Riots'


1831 -- France: Continuation of the Revolt of the silk workers in Lyon. Workers seize arms & are engaged the military. The battle is hard-fought. Approximately 100 die & 263 on the military side wounded, 69 dead & 140 wounded on the civilian side.



1842 -- US: Speaking of "Bad Hair" days, Mount St. Helens in Washington, blows her top.



1869 -- George Gissing, English novelist noted for his realism, lives, Wakefield, Yorkshire.



1869 -- André Gide lives, Paris. French writer, humanist, & moralist. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.
http://www.kalin.lm.com/gide.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/agide.htm


1876 -- France: René Darsouze lives (1876-1962), in Limoges. French typographer, anarchist. Co-founder, in 1908, of a community, "Le Phalanstère du Clos-des-Brunes," near Limoges. Member of the l'Association des Fédérations Anarchistes founded by Sebastien Faure & from 1929 to 1932 a writer for that organizations newspaper, "La Voix Libertaire".
http://ytak.club.fr/mai4.html#26


1880 -- Uruguay: Edmundo Bianchi lives to ¡Tango! (1880-1965), Montevideo.

Anarchist, poet, song writer for the theater. A worthy exponent of Uruguayan letters, he wrote history & critical texts as well.
Translated Maurice Maeterlinck. Wrote Perdidos en la luz: drama en 4 actos (1913); his song "Ya no Cantas Chingolo" was put to music by Antonio Scatasso, sung & taken to Europe by Carlos Gardel; "Pampero" (tango). Wrote the film script for Dos destinos (1936). Edited the magazine “Futuro”, with Leopoldo Durán, which began in Buenos Aires in 1904.

http://amediavoz.com/maeterlinck.htm http://www.todotango.com/spanish/gardel/autores/autor.asp?idc=382 http://www.manelaisa.com/texto/Articulos/PagArticulos4.htm

1891 -- Dr. Edward L. Bernays, lives, Wien, the "father of public relations" credited with getting women to smoke & helping United Fruit overthrow Guatemalan Pres. Arbenz; "with Bernays there is no consistency, no character, no integrity, no conscience, no bravery, no truth." He was also a nephew of Sigmund Freud (his sister Anna's son).
Source: Robert Braunwart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company


1891 -- In una nota riservata del Ministero degli Interni a tutti i Prefetti del Regno, Pietro Gori viene sottoposto a “speciale sorveglianza” per il suo carattere “audace” e per il suo “ingegno svegliato”. /1891 (22 November) In famous classified of the Ministry of the Insides to all Prefetti of the Reign, Gori comes subordinate to?speciale surveillance? for its character?audace? & for waked up its?ingegno.

During this period [I don't have more specific dates —ed.] 1891-1892 Trasferitosi a Milano, lavora nello studio d Filippo Turati, e fonda un giornale l’“Amico del popolo” di cui i 27 numeri usciti saranno tutti sequestrati dalle autorità. / 1891-1892 Moved to Milan, work in the study d Filippo Turati, & found a l??Amico newspaper of the people? of which the 27 numbers escapes they will be all seize to you from the authorities.

[Source: Chronology by Franco Bertolucci]

1900 -- Sir Arthur Sullivan dies.



1904 -- Spain: Cenetista David Antona Domínguez (1904-1945) lives. Secretariado del Comité Nacional CNT. Militant anarcho-syndicalist, freed from prison in July 1936.

«No es hora de palabras. La mejor propaganda, la única, es la de los fusiles y ametralladoras, es la del plomo justiciero que hace inexpugnable la capital de nuestra revolución. En esta lucha titánica, en estas jornadas de sangre, se está ventilando el porvenir no sólo de España, sino del mundo entero. Compañeros: en nuestras balas está la decisión! ¡O el fascismo que es la muerte o nosotros que somos la vida!».

See España 1936: La revolución perdida (Chapter 5, El Frente Popular) by Pierre Broué. http://www.alasbarricadas.org/ateneovirtual/index.php/22_de_noviembre
http://www.veuobrera.org/00fine-x/secr-cnt.htm

1909 --

And we gave new courage to the men
Who carried on in nineteen-ten
And shoulder to shoulder we'll win through
Led by the ILGWU
hail the waistmakers of nineteen-nine
making their stand on the picket line,
Breaking the power of those who reign
Pointing the way, smashing the chain

—The Uprising of the 20,000, dedicated to the Waistmakers of 1909

US: Up(pity) in Arms? New York female garment workers call for a general strike, leading to the "Uprising of the 20,000."

The International Ladies Garment Workers Union strike against sweatshop conditions, also called the "Girl's Revolt," wins support of other workers & the women's suffrage movement in their persistence & unity in the face of police brutality & rigged courtrooms.

November 22,1909-February 15, 1910 Organized by the ILGWU, 20,000 shirtwaist makers, mostly women & children, stage the first garment workers strike.

Many picketers are beaten or fired.

In the end, the garment workers win a pay raise & a work reduction to 52 hours of work per week.

A Judge tells arrested pickets,

"You are on strike against God."

The first mass strike by U.S. women is commemorated in "The Uprising of the 20,000":

In the black of the winter of nineteen-nine
When we froze & bled on the picket line,
We showed the world that women could fight
& we rose & won with women's might.

Hail the waistmakers of nineteen-nine
Making their stand on the picket line,
Breaking the power of those who reign,
Pointing the way, smashing the chain.

http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ashp/heaven/strike1.html
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1979/2/79.02.02.x.html
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
http://msnbc.com/Onair/nbc/dateline/time.asp?cp1=1

"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head."

— Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

http://www.artic.edu/reynolds/related/links.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau

1916 --

Ford Madox Ford remarks: "Like Peter Pan, he never grew up, & he lived his own stories with such intensity that he ended by believing them himself."

His passion for accuracy & his loathing of waffle led him to fire off vast numbers of letters to the press; a few years ago, he estimated that he had had over 2,000 published.

Walter was a founding member of the Committee of 100, & of the Spies for Peace. A founder of the Vietnam Action Group, he was imprisoned for two months for interrupting the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, who was reading the lesson at a Brighton church in 1966.

Nicolas Walter was active despite contracting cancer at age 30; he managed a demanding paraplegic life in central London, daring motorists to ignore his manual wheelchair as he shot across busy roads.

"Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else."

http://www.ethicalsoc.org.uk/record/nicolaspage.htm
http://www.geocities.com/~johngray/joelane.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Walter

1936 -- Spain: Over 500,000 attend the funeral of the anarchist Buenaventura Durruti in Barcelona.

It is an immense popular & emotional outpouring for a figure who incarnated the Spanish libertarian revolution so well, the hope of a new world become possible. It was one of the most significant demonstrations in worker history.

Peter Newell & Emma Goldman on Durruti:
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Durruti.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/spain/

1936 -- Bonaventura Durruti Dumange

Enterrament del líder anarquista Bonaventura Durruti Dumange a Barcelona el 22 de novembre de 1936
Arxiu ECSA


1939 -- ¶ Lowell Sun newspaper prints an article about Jack Kerouac's football achievements at Horace Mann. During this time Kerouac's short story "The Brothers" is published in the Horace Mann Quarterly. He is exposed to & influenced by jazz he hears at Harlem clubs & he smokes marijuana for the first time.




1950 -- Premiere of Jean Cocteau's film ORPHEUS in New York.

The distributor for the film was Discina International. Producer: Andre Paulve & Films du Palais-Royal. Cinematographer: Nicolas Hayer.

Scenario: Jean Cocteau. Director: Jean Cocteau Sound: J.Calvet Music: Georges Auric. Cast: Jean Marais (Orpheus), Maria Casares (Princess), Marie Dea (Eurydice), Francois Peirer (Heurtebise), Juliette Greco (Aglaonice),Edouard Dermit (Cegeste). Filmed in the fall of 1949 & the French premiere took place in Cannes, March 1, 1950.

Large sheet (21 3/4 x 16 3/4) folded twice, announcement/poster was made for the U.S. release on November 22, 1950.
http://www.avantgardes.com/



1963 -- British novelist (Brave New World, Island), psychedelic pioneer Aldous Huxley dies on LSD, Hollywood. His last request is for an injection of LSD. Pacifist author of Brave New World.

ALDOUS HUXLEY SAINT 1997
Pioneer mescaline head, dystopian prophet.

http://somaweb.org/
http://www.island.org/


1963 -- The creator of the The Chronicles of Narnia, British Christian mystic, novelist C.S. Lewis dies, Oxford, England.


1963 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader US Prez Johnny Kennedy, out motoring with Jackie O, assassinated in right-wing coup, Dallas, Texass, by an associate of Fox Mulder's father.

"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it."

— Kennedy, when asked what is his favorite song

1965 -- Dylan marries Sara Lowndes & moves to Woodstock.


1966 -- Germany: Distribution at the official opening of Strasbourg University of the brochure On the Poverty of Student Life, Considered in its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual & Especially Intellectual Aspects, with a Modest Proposal for Doing Away With It.

In October Le retour de la colonne Durruti (Return of the Durruti Column), a détourned comic by André Bertrand (AFGES), announcing the forthcoming publication of 'the most scandalous brochure of the century,' was posted on the walls of Strasbourg. On the Poverty of Student Life fulfills that promise; published by the AFGES & the French National Students Union (UNEF) as a special supplement to 21-27 Étudiants de France, edited by members of the Situationist International (principally by Mustapha Khayati) & the students of Strasbourg. The scandal leads to AFGES offices & management being sequestered on the 24th. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html [Situationist Resources]

1967 -- U.N. adopts Resolution 242, calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories.


1967 -- US: Blacks riot on north side of Chicago.




1967 -- Arlo Guthrie's classic. "Alice's Restaurant" is released.


1972 -- Circumpolar peoples from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, & Sweden meet in Copenhagen to demand self-government & control over Arctic land & resources.

1980 -- Sexpert & film comedian Mae West dies.

"I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time."

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

1982 -- Canada: Wimmin's Fire Brigade launch Molotov Cocktails at Red Hot Video porn shops in Vancouver.



1982 -- US: "The MX is the right missile at the right time."

— Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader (bad)Acting President Reagan in a nationally televised speech in which he renames the deadly weapon "the Peacekeeper," prompting Dallas columnist Molly Ivins to wonder if it will be armed with "Peaceheads".

In 1985 Reagan announces plans to change the name to "Ditchdigger" & use the missile to dig a canal across Nicaragua.

1985 -- Kick Me?: 143 surviving Kickapoo Indians on the Texas/Coahuila (Mexico) border are given U.S. citizenship, ending a 140-year U.S. refusal to allow the Kickapoo to live legally on their land.

1993 -- Anthony Burgess dies, London. His novel, A Clockwork Orange, had the last chapter censored excised by the publisher when it appeared in the US.      

"It is not, in my view, a very good novel...but it sincerely presented my abhorrence of the view that some people were criminal & others not. A denial of the universal inheritance of sin is characteristic of Pelagian societies," writes Burgess of his famous futurist novel A Clockwork Orange.

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/burgess.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange

http://www.isomedia.com/homes/harpo/

1995 -- Italy: Nazi SS Capt. Erich Priebke is extradited from Argentina. The Catholic Church & the US government were actively responsible for helping many Nazi war criminals to escape to South America & the US & elsewhere following WWII.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/14/national/main617522.shtml



2000 -- US: Florida...



2002 -- US: Bush administration announces EPA rules changes to allow more industrial air pollution, as a reward to big campaign contributors.


2002 -- Philip Noyce movie "The Quiet American" opens in NY & Los Angeles; based on the novel by Graham Greene.

3500 --

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