1942 -- US: Acting under Executive Order 9066, Lt. General
John DeWitt proclaims all Japanese-Americans will be
required to move away from the West Coast, & recommends,
for "their own good", they should do so voluntarily.
Called off on March 27 after fewer than 5,000 people
(out of over 110,000) had left the area. Other, more
devastating measures, are taken against American
Japanese this month.
http://www.janm.org/clasc/resources.htm
1950 -- Aspiring novelist Jack Kerouac's The Town &
the City
is published.
In May Kerouac takes a book publicity trip to Denver
where he stays with Ed White & romances Beverly
Burford. In June Neal Cassady shows up & they
both drive off to Mexico where they visit Bill &
Joan Burroughs.
Kerouac is now a frequent user of marijuana &
Benzedrine. While in Mexico, Kerouac gets dysentery
& in July hitchhikes back to his mother's
apartment in Richmond Hill (New York).
1962 -- Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain scores an incredible
100 points in an basketball game.
1964 -- US: Actor Marlon Brando & Bob Satiacum are arrested
at a "fish-in" at Frank's Landing, Washington, in support of
Native
American fishing rights.
1972 -- Germany: Attacks on the Anarchist Black Cross continues,
where Tommy Weisbecker is killed in Augsburg; Georg Von Rauch
was earlier shot dead by armed political police
in West Berlin (4 December 1971).
1974 -- Spain: Salvador Puig Antich, 24, dies, executed at Model
de Barcelone despite international protests. A young anarchist
militant in the guerilla MIL (Mouvement Ib�rique de Lib�ration)
fighting the yoke of Francoism.
Campanades a morts
per les tres boques closes,
ai d'aquell trobador
que oblid�s les tres notes!
� excerpt, "Campanades a morts,"
by songster/poet Lluis Llach
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PuigAntich.htm
1982 -- Philip K. Dick dies, Santa Ana, California,
American
science fiction writer par excellence. Author of Flow My Tears
the Policeman Said, Crack in Space, Man in the High Castle, Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Time Out of Joint, etc.
http://www.users.interport.net/~regulus/pkd/pkd-int.html
Daily Bleed.
