1712 - US: New York City slave revolt begins: slaves set
fire to their masters' outhouse. They then ambush the whites
who arrive to put out the blaze, killing nine.
1781 - Peru: T�pac Amaru captured after being denounced by
a traitor.
Of dust & pain -- these are the ways of Peru. T�pac Amaru
is brought into Cuzco on the back of mule, covered with chains
that drag on the pavement. The traitor does not look for a
rope to hang himself, but instead receives his reward of
2,000 pesos & a title of "nobility".
1812 - Anarchist Alexander Herzen lives, Moscow, Russia.
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of
feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion
& information, such feebleness of thought.
1825 - Phantasist painter Gustave Moreau lives.
1866 - American muckraker Lincoln Steffens lives, Frisco,
California. 1998 SAINT.
1868 - US: Brigham Young marries #27 -- his final wife.
1878 -- Andre Mournier (known as "The Agronomist") lives.
French anarchist, member of the Colony of Aiglemont founded
by Fortun� Henry. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MournierAndre.htm
1878 -- Erich Muhsam [Muehsam; M�hsam], German poet &
anarchist, lives, Berlin. Assassinated by the Nazis during the
night of July 9/ 10, 1934 ( Orianenburg Concentration Camp).
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MuhsamErich.htm
1888 - Dan Andersson lives (1888-1920). Musician/writer,
of
working class background, who became one of the most
popular Swedish poets.
1893 - Longest bout in boxing history ends after Andy Bowen
& Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds),
St Louis.
1894 - Italy: In Chieti, a trial begins against the
anarchist Camillo Di Sciullo, responsible for the newspaper "Il
pensiero." Defended by the anarchist lawyer Pietro Gori, Di
Sciullo is acquitted.
1895 - After acquittal of the Marquis of Queensberry for
libel, Oscar Wilde is arrested. During the trial Wilde
denies writing �The Priest & the Acolyte.�
"Was that story immoral?" asked the court.
"It was much worse than immoral," Wilde replied.
"It was badly written."
1917 - US enters WWI, declares war on Germany.
Beloved & Respected Comrade Liberal Woodrow Wilson,
elected on an anti- war platform, does an about face.
Thousands of Americans are suddenly declared
"anti-American."
Thousands of Americans are now considered "traitors" for
opposing
a war that will leave 10 million dead.
Thousands are now jailed, harassed, tarred & feathered,
lynched, forced to get on their knees & kiss the American
flag, castrated or killed, etc, by such outstanding icons of
"patriotic" virtue as the American Legion � basically for
maintaining the original anti-war position which got Wilson
elected President.
In the name of "freedom" the government, police, &
vigilantes
across the nation destroy printing presses, labor halls & offices,
burn books & papers...
This, of course, is the war that will End All Wars.
1917 -- Leonora Carrington lives, in Clayton Green,
Lancashire, England.
"Reading The Hearing Trumpet liberates
us from the miserable reality of our days."
--- Luis Bu�uel
"I am an old
woman, 'seated'
in Mexico"
See Daily Bleed Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/CarringtonLeonora.htm
1918 - The French captain Jacques Sadoul, on a mission in
Russia, wrote in a report dated today: "The anarchist party
is the most active, the most militant of the opposition groups
& probably the most popular.... The Bolsheviks are anxious."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/04ref.htm#06/1918
1928 - Bigoted Jason Compson begins his day (in Faulkner's
�The Sound & the Fury.� )
"Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say. I says you're
lucky if her playing out of school is all that worries you. I
says she ought to be down there in that kitchen right now,
instead of up there in her room, gobbing paint on her face &
waiting for six niggers that can't even stand up out of a chair
unless they've got a panful of bread & meat to balance them, to
fix breakfast for her."
1931 - Richard Alpert/ Ram Dass lives in a Purple Haze
near an Orange Barrel.
1931 - First of the "Scottsboro Boys" trials begins in
Alabama.
The great crowd assembled before the courthouse,
surrounded by state troopers, staged a demonstration
of approval with the band playing,
"There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight".
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/04ref.htm#06/1931
1952 - South Africa: Mass meetings of non-whites to
protest
against apartheid.
1963 - Birmingham civil rights demonstrations began on a
small scale.... At first there were a few sit-ins at lunch
counters & a few arrests....
Well, I said, "There must be some man around,
There can't be only you dogs in town."
They said, "Sure, we have Old Bull Connor,
There he goes, walkin' yonder,
Throwin' some raw meat to the Mayor,
Feedin' bones to the City Council!"
� Phil Ochs, �Talking Birmingham Jam�(1963)
1968 - In the wake of a riot following the assassination of
Martin Luther King, Jr., Oakland cops raid Black Panther
Party headquarters, killing unarmed Bobby Hutton who had his
arms up in surrender, & wounding three others, including
Eldridge Cleaver.
1980 - France: Raiders destroy one computer center & two
others two days later. The actions were claimed by Action
Directe. The Committee for the Liquidation &
Misappropriation of Computers stated:
"We are computer workers, well-placed to know the
present & future danger of computer systems.
Computers are the favored instruments of the powerful.
They are used to clarify, control & repress. We do not
want to be shut up in the ghettos of programs &
organizational patterns."
