1871 - Gettin' Civilized, Ayn Rand Style?: Mob massacres more than 100 Apaches who had placed themselves under U.S. protection at Camp Grant, Arizona. 1883 - Jaroslav Haek lives (1883-1923), Prague. Czech novelist, anarchist, humorist, Bolshevik, story writer, journalist. Early in his career an active anarchist. A drunk, a dog-stealer, & a cook who calculatedly pretended to commit suicide & invented animals which did not exist while editing the serious magazine "The Animal World". Wrote a four-volume novel, The Good Soldier Schweik, acclaimed as one of the greatest satires in world literature. 1899 - US: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho miner's strike, 1,200 workers arrested, put into specially erected bullpens until the strikes are broken. In 1892, area mine workers launched a generation of deadly warfare against armed & deputized strikebreakers. This year, with mine owners refusing to recognize unions & wildcat strikers dynamiting mines, Governor Frank Steunenberg declared parts of Idaho were "in a state of insurrection & rebellion." Under martial law, President McKinley sent federal troops. Steunenberg was a man of modest means before election, but he left office rich, thanks to -- surprisingly -- the mining companies. 1903 - Simone Larcher lives (true name Rachel Willissek) (1903-1969), in Oise. French anarchist, proofreader, antimilitarist.. With her companion, Louis Louvet, she publishes the newspaper "L'anarchie", which continues until 1929. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/LarcherSimone.htm 1930 - Radical anti-psychiatrist, anti-capitalist Felix Guattari lives, Paris. 1969 - 543,000 US soldiers are in South Vietnam making war. 1970 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Dick M Nixon announces U.S. troops, supposedly seeking out a supreme Communist command post known as "COSVN," had invaded Cambodia. It was a total fabrication, & even Mel Laird & Hank Kissinger went ballistic over this one. 30,000 US troops & 40,000+ South Vietnamese troops involved. This US action set the scene for Pol Pot to take over Cambodia. 1975 - Miss Saigon?: Independence Day. Vietnam defeats the US while Republicans are at the helm. North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon. Vietnam is reunited after 30 years of resistance to U.S. domination & 100 years of French colonial misrule. 1977 - Argentina: The organization of the mothers of Plaza de Mayo founded. 1983 - Bl;uesman Muddy Waters dies of a heart attack. 1986 - West Germany: First use of CS gas against anti-nuclear demonstrators, Wackersdorf. From the daily bleed
