________________________________________________ A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ France: FESTIVAL OF ST. ELOI. Gunfire & horse races; among the Basques, mules & old automobiles are blessed. FEAST OF THE TRICKSTER OF LIBERTY. 1701 - Seville Servant?: Motown founded by Antoine Cadillac. 1781 - Gone with the Wind?: Georgia becomes a protectorate of tsarist Russia. 1783 - Simon Bolivar lives, Venezuela. 1799 - William Clark (of Lewis & Clark) is willed the slave York. According to the law, where there's a will, there's a nave. 1860 - Dallas Cowboys?: Dallas, Texass lynchings & beatings. 1893 - Birth of British anarchist/pacifist Ammon Hennacy. Best known for his work in operating the "Joe Hill Hospitality House" for transients in Salt Lick City, Utah. (. . . ) 1897 - US: 23 bicycle riders — the Army's 25th Infantry — rode into St. Louis having pedaled 1,900 miles from Missoula, Montana. The 25th Infantry was an all-black unit. (. . . ) 1925 - John T. Scopes convicted in Tennessee of monkeying around in high school, fined $100 & costs. "There's something I must tell you. It's worried me. I didn't violate the law ... I never taught that evolution lesson. I skipped it. . . (. . . ) 1936 - Spain: The Durruti Column, made up of 2,000 militiamen leaves Barcelona (. . . ) 1937 - Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks falsely accused of rape in Scottsboro. (. . . ) 1942 - Spain: Juan Peiro Belis (1887-1942) dies, executed by the fascists, in Valencia. Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (. . . ) 1946 - First underwater atomic explosion, Bikini Atoll, South Pacific. Attempt to destroy commie "Red Tide" before it reaches America? (see also Domino Theory; Uncle TailGunner Joe McCarthy) 1949 - Jean Roumilhac dies in car accident. Fought with the Spanish Republicans. President of S.I.A. (International solidarity Antifascist). (. . . ) 1950 - German V2 became the first rocket to be launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The US provided safe haven for thousands of Nazis (. . . ) 1967 - Boston Bruins?: Three days of rioting begin in Cambridge, Md. (. . . ) 1974 - House Judiciary Committee debates DickM Nixon's articles of impeachment. Vote favorably on three (. . . ) 1974 - Supreme Court unanimously rules Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Dick M Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes. However Nixon is allowed to keep Checkers (Trish), Jeanne Dixon (Pat) & Henry Kissinger (Dick). 1980 - Peter Sellers dies at 54. Critics cry "Sell-out". "LIFE IS A STATE OF MIND" ---Chance 1983 - Women tag U.S. warplane with graffiti at Greenham Common, England. 1983 - 10,000 form a human chain for a cleaner North Sea, West Germany. 1990 - "Looking Glass," US flying nuclear command post, ends its 24-hour-a-day flights. Tweedledum & Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoiled his nice new rattle. Just then flew down a monstrous crow, As black as a tar-barrel; Which frightened both the heroes so, They quite forgot their quarrel. 'I know what you're thinking about,' said Tweedledum: 'but it isn't so, nohow.' `Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; & if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.' THE TYGER Tyger! Tyger! burning bright With your terror, might, and fright What immortal hands or eyes Could expose your fearful lies? In what distant deeps or skies Burns the hot fire of your eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art Could twist the sinews of your heart? And what could stop your heartbeat? What dread hand? And what dread feet? What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was your brain? What the anvil? What dead grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? Could our dear Founding Fathers Arise from their restful graves, Would they smile their work to see? Or cackle with deadly glee? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright With your terror, might, and fright What immortal hands or eyes Dare expose your fearful lies? --- William Blake (edited & expanded) anti-copyRite 1999 -- Dave Brown Entries excerpted / abbreviated from today's Daily Bleed... ("History you can't remember anymore!"). Unexpurgated: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0724.htm Updated & emailed daily; archived / accessible for everyday of the year: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/calmast.htm Even anarchists have birthdays...what happened on yours? Contact us to subscribe to the full daily updated mailings directly. "Free thought, necessarily involving freedom of speech & press, I may tersely define thus: no opinion a law -- no opinion a crime." ---Alexander Berkman ******** The A-Infos News Service ******** COMMANDS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] REPLIES: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HELP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.ainfos.ca/ INFO: http://www.ainfos.ca/org
