random selection from the daily bleed. 1873 - Charles Achille Simon (aka Biscuit, Ravachol II) lives, Loiret. French anarchist. 1878 - Emil Heinich Maximilian Hoedel, a 21-year-old worker- anarchist shot Guillaume 1st (emperor d'Allemagne) to protest & publicize the misery of the workers. Sentenced to death & executed July 16, 1878. 1891 - National US building-trades strike. 1894 - US: Beginning of Pullman Railroad Strike, Chicago, Illinois. The largest industrial strike to date in US history, eventually broken by federal government troops. At least 24 strikers killed, & Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Cleveland suspends the constitutional right to assembly (the ability of any two or more people to meet in public) in seven states. Debs will soon join the strike. The nation's newspapers, objective as always. Chicago Tribune headlines from June 31,1894 described the events of the Pullman Strike thusly: Debs Strikers Begin Work Of Destruction, Guns Awe Them Not, Drunken Stockyard Rioters Defy Uncle Sam's Troops, Mobs Invite Death" The New York Times, never one to side with business rather than labor, in an editorial in 1894 called Debs, "A lawbreaker & an enemy to the human race." 1898 - The Discontent: Mother of Progress, anarchist paper of Home Colony, Washington, first issued. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia, http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/HomeColony.htm 1918 - Nobel physicist, teacher, bongo player, Richard Feynman lives, Far Rockaway, New York City. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, `But how can it be like that?' because you will get `down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. 1929 - French anarchist propagandist Albin Cantone, dies of cancer, age 41. Born in Italy 1888, metal worker in Lyon. Cantone published the review, "Les Glaneurs", in 1917-18, wrote for "Les vagabonds" (1921-1922), "La brochure mensuelle", "Semeur", etc. 1967 - Jackson State Riot Number One. One student killed & two wounded as cops fire into a crowd after rioters stormed a police barricade. The National Guard was called in to quell the violence. 1968 - Paris: The "Night of the Barricades", May 10-11. The students are now calling everything into question, generating enormous enthusiasm for the re-examination & criticism of all aspects of public & private life. The three biggest French labor federations call a General Strike to support students. 1970 - US: Augusta, Georgia police kill six blacks protesting prison brutality, provoked by the beating death of Charles Oatman in the Richmond County jail. 1975 - 80,000 turn out in New York's Central Park to celebrate the end of the Vietnam War. 1981 - In Miami's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, reggae star Bob Marley, 36, dies. Succumbs to a brain tumor that ended his career in October 1980. Regarded a hero both in Jamaica & abroad. Will be given a state funeral & buried near his birthplace in St. Ann's Parish, Jamaica. Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. ---Oscar Wilde
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