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"On the eighth of June, during the night,
after a 63 days' voyage, 63 days of feverish
expectancy, we perceived strange fires,
moving in zig zags on the sea."— Opening sentence, Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa.
-- JUNE 8MOHAMMED
Islamic prophet & founder, mystic visionary.
China: DRAGON-BOAT RACES commemorates search for Ch'i Yuan (3rd century BC) who threw himself in river. No finish line, no judges. Arguments & fist fights always break out, but ends with merry feast.
NAME YOUR POISON DAY.
65 -- Jewish rebels capture fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem. Beginning of the Jewish rebellion against Rome.
452 -- Italy invaded by Attila the Hun.
http://art1.candor.com/barbarian/attila.htm
632 -- Islamic prophet Mohammed dies, Medina, Arabia.
http://www.float-like-a-butterfly.de/indexe.htm
1247 -- Revolt of Rhys ap Meredudd.
1374 -- Geoffrey Chaucer appointed Comptroller of the Customs & Subsidy of Wools at 10 pounds a year.
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.htm
1625 -- Giovanni Cassini, discoverer of four moons of Saturn, lives, Perinaldo, France.Cassini was born in Italy, died in France.
I love your pages, by the way, I often go rooting around for inspiration as I'm struggling to come up with mine for the day. (Like I still haven't found a holiday for today, the Dragon Boat Race Festival is set by the Chinese lunar calendar and was on the 6th of June this year, will be the 25th next year — I also found it on the 8th & then blew most of an hour trying to confirm the date for this year!)
— Van Van Horn, 2000 Twisted History
1783 -- Eruption of Mt. Skaptar, responsible for the death of one fifth of the population of Iceland.
1808 -- William & Dorothy Wordsworth leave Dove Cottage, Grasmere.
1809 -- Thomas Paine dies in obscurity in New York. Six people follow his casket to the grave. 10 years later William Cobbett, essayist/pamphleteer who attacked Paine during his lifetime, retrieved & sent the coffin to England, to honor Paine with a memorial there, but the plan collapsed, & his remains were lost. http://history.hanover.edu/18th/paine.htm
1814 -- Charles Reade, dramatist/novelist, lives, England.
1852 -- US: First known labor strike in San Francisco occurs as Chinese laborers working on the Parrott granite building demand a wage increase.
1867 -- Mark Twain embarks on the journey through Europe to the Holy Land which inspires The Innocents Abroad.
1867 -- Frank Lloyd Wright master builder, lives Richland Center, Wisconsin.
http://www.jldr.com/ohamish.html
1869 -- Reeeaaalllly Sucks?: Ives McGaffy gets patent for world's first suction vacuum cleaner.
1876 -- French feminist, novelist George Sand dies.
1880 -- Fyodor Dostoevsky interrupts work on The Brothers Karamazov to address the Moscow Society of Lovers of Russian Literature at a centenary celebration of Aleksandr Pushkin's birthday, averring: "He is a phenomenon never seen & never heard of before."
1884 -- Italy: the "Questione Sociale" fails to appear (June 8 & 22) as P. Cecchi, the editor, is sent to prison for 21 months & gets fine of 2,000 lire. This anarchist publication which began at the end of December, was also interrupted after the seventh issue, when the printer, a republican, refused to continue printing it.
1892 -- Joel Pettersson (1892-1937) lives. "Van Gogh of the Åland Islands" — artist & Finnish author writing in Swedish, first published 35 years after his death.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/petters.htm
1903 -- Marguerite Yourcenar lives (1903-1987). French novelist, essayist, short story writer. On the outbreak of World War II she settled in the US. Wrote Memoirs of Hadrian. Translated Negro spirituals & various English & American novels into French. First woman admitted to the Académie Française in its 345-year history.
http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/label_france/ESPANOL/LETTRES/YOUR/your.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/margyour.htm
1904 -- US: Battle between the Colorado Militia & striking mine workers at Dunnville ends with six union members dead & 15 taken prisoner. 79 of the strikers were deported to Kansas two days later. Courtesy of Rockefeller who owns the state government & militia.
[Sources, click here]
1909 --US: Emma Goldman is scheduled to speak in East Orange, N.J., at a meeting organized by Alden Freeman to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Thomas Paine's death.
Police — who, surprisingly haven't read The Rights of Man — prevent Emma from entering the lecture hall. The crowd relocates to Freeman's barn, where she finally delivers this lecture (which she was also unable to deliver on May 23 due to police zealously guarding free speech rights with another healthy dose of suppression).
1913 -- Italy: "Volonta" begins publishing in Ancona, continuing under Malatesta's immediate editorship until the "Settimana Rossa" [Red Week] in June, 1914.As Max Nettlau put it, anarchism during this period in Italy "can symbolically be expressed by the advance from South to North of Malatesta's centers of activity." During the upcoming general election (autumn of 1913) the anarchists made a vigorous anti-electioneering campaign by meetings, papers, manifestos & Malatesta traveled to many parts to address meetings & to explain why anarchists do not vote, do not believe in the State & what their ideas are.
1917 -- US: Granite Mountain Mine Disaster, also known as the Speculator Mine fire, Butte, Montana.
Granite Mountain was well ventilated mine, allowing flames & smoke to spread quickly. It fanned through the stopes & shafts to connecting mines including the Speculator, killing 168 men. This evening the fire broke out as workers, ironically, were trying to install a fire prevention system at the Speculator Mine. Over 400 men were underground ...
A Butte Miner: "An appalling site that caused the strongest hearts to quail was the cremation of two men who were trapped like rats in a double-decked cage about 20 feet above the collar of the shaft, with flames flying from the shaft like a gigantic torch around them."
1917 -- Spain: Conferència of the FIS (Federació Sindical Internacional), Estocolm.
[Source: Congressos Obrers]
1919 -- US: Scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore finds locusts an eating delicacy.
1920 -- Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center during long infield argument during baseball game.
1925 -- Eddie Gaedel lives. 3'7" St Louis Browns pinch-hitter (he walked).
1930 -- Antoine Antignac dies. French anarchist, speaker, bookstore manager, writer for anarchist publications. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/AntignacAntoine.htm
1937 -- Eight-&-one-half-foot giant Calla Lily blooms, New York Botanical Gardens.
1938 --England: Emma Goldman attends Writers Against Fascism meeting organized by the Association of Writers for Intellectual Liberty; she describes it as "almost entirely C.P." (Communist Party).
1939 --
1942 -- José Pellicer-Gandia (1912-1942) executed. Spanish anarchist, member of the famed the "Iron Column" during the Spanish Revoluton of 1936.After the defeat of the Republicans Pellicer was arrested & condemned to death by a fascist military tribunal.
Ximo QUEIROL: The Iron Column was organised on the basis of groups, groups of 10 & ten such groups made up one centuria. The group leader was appointed by you so he was your group leader. & then a centuria delegate was appointed by the 10 groups that made up your centuria.
alt: Jose PELLICER GANDIA
1947 -- Sara Paretsky lives, Ames, Iowa. American mystery writer, helped break the gender barrier in detective fiction with her novels featuring woman PI V.I. Warshawski."We started Sisters [in Crime in] 1986 in response to some troubling inequities in the mystery world. Women writers had a hard time getting books reviewed, we didn't stay in print as long as men, & we were often shunted aside at professional meetings. I worked hard, as did Nancy Pickard, Sue Dunlap, Linda Grant, Carolyn Hart, Sharon McCrumb, & a lot of others, to change some of that..."
1955 -- "A poem from 1955 that I sent to Kenneth Rexroth & I thought it was good because it was a dream & it had this illumination of a dream & it was about William Burroughs’s late wife..."anarchist
A drunken night in my house with a
boy, San Francisco: I lay asleep:
darkness:
I went back to Mexico City
& saw Joan Burroughs leaning
forward in a garden chair, arms
on her knees. She studied me with
clear eyes & downcast smile, her
face restored to a fine beauty
tequila & salt had made strange
before the bullet in her brow.—Allen Ginsberg, “Dream Record, June 8, 1955”:
& this is about the last poem I wrote before “Howl.”
1956 -- U.S. Air Force Cpl. Fannie Mae Clackum sues to overturn her discharge on psychiatric evaluation of "latent homosexuality."
1957 -- China: Editorial in Jenmin Jih Pao attacking the “right-wingers & bourgeois who, under pretext of criticizing, have preached counter- revolution.”End of the “hundred flowers” period. The commissions of forty deputies of the National Congress are canceled. Many in- tellectuals, including Ting Ling, the most famous woman writer in the country, are severely censured and make their self-criticisms.
1959 -- US: First official "missile mail" lands Jacksonville, Florida. Launched from a submarine 100 miles at sea.
1960 -- ArgentinA: Government demands release of Adolf Eichmann. Israel says "hang tight."
1966 -- US: Graduation Vietnam War protest at New York University where Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara is given an honorable degree; 270 walk out.
1967 -- High Seas: Israeli aircraft & boats attack the USS Liberty during Israel's "Six Day War."Included rocket fire, machine-gunning, napalm bombing & torpedoing for over two hours, & included fleeing liferafts.
34 Americans killed & 171 wounded. A ship was forbidden to go to Liberty's assistance. Downplayed by the government & the press reported it lasted only five minutes & consisted of a single torpedo attack.
Some claim it was no accident — including Israeli officers & US administration members involved, including Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Tom Moorer, NSA Chief General Marshall Carter, his deputy Tordella, White House Press Secretary George Christian, et al.
http://www.flinet.com/~politics/liberty/lib-ind.htm
1968 -- US: Baseball's Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning.
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/newdeal/people1.html
1968 -- Italy: A Higher Calling? As students & workers continue to rebel in Paris, Mexico City & Prague — police in Milan, Italy, storm the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, arresting 250 students & put 30 in the hospital.God's work is interrupted.More than 200 students have occupied the school & held the rector captive in his office. Before today's police raid, the students petitioned the archbishop of Milan for free speech. Reinforced by students from other parts of Italy, they also attacked the right-wing city paper, "Corriera della Sera," forming barricades & overturning cars on Milan's main streets.
Responding to the protest, the Catholic church demands all students swear their loyalty to the university's rules & hierarchy.
1968 -- England: James Earl Ray (accused of Martin Luther King, Jr. murder), arrested in London.
1969 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Dick M Nixon announces withdrawal of 25,000 troops from Vietnam (of 540,000) by August 3. This miniscule withdrawal is announced in hopes of undercutting dissent in the war at home.
1969 -- US: University commencement protests against the war in Vietnam occur across the country. Among them are Brandeis, Yale, Wesleyan & Brown University (where two-thirds of graduating class turn their backs on Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Henry Kissinger's address).
1971 -- US: Bridge, Anyone? New York bridge workers hopelessly snarled the city's traffic by leaving drawbridges open, the result of a rejection by New York State of their pension demands.
1972 -- US: In response to a court order, the Government states there has been no electronic surveillance of Daniel Ellsberg's conversations. Yup.
1976 -- Trial begins for Bob Robideau & Dino Butler for murdering two FBI agents at Oglala, South Dakota.They will be acquitted on grounds of self-defense; later, Native American activist, Leonard Peltier, is convicted of the same charges after most evidence & witnesses used by Robideau & Butler were disallowed in Peltier's trial.
1986, 1993, 1995, & 1997 U.S. prosecutors admit they "......do not know who killed the agents ......." & admit in 1986 that falsified affidavits were submitted to Canadian Officials, in order to secure the extradition of Leonard Peltier. http://www.netactivist.dk/peltier_E1.htm
1988 -- Here's Lookin at You?: Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on jetliners cuts bird collisions by 20%.
1990 -- U.S. citizen Michael Devine kidnapped & murdered by CIA-paid Guatemalan military officials, led by ex-School of the Americas two-time graduate Col. Julio Alpirez.
1991 -- Mary Bacon jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43. Left a note: "In this life, I've come up short."
1995 -- South Korea: President Kin Young Sam warns that a planned strike at the state-owned telephone company would be akin to "an attempt to overthrow the state."anarchist http://www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/asiaocean.html
1997 -- England: Not So Cricket?: Anti-genetic food activists play cricket using bioengineered potatoes previously scheduled for harvesting. What with a muddy field & hard swings, the entire crop is destroyed. Cambridge. http://www.potatoland.org/
2004 -- Transit of Venus (between Earth & Sun) occurs. Tickets on sale at Recollection Used Books. Transfers available.
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| So don't think you can fool me with your political tricks Political right, political left, you can keep your politics Government is government, & all government is force Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course Oppression & restriction, regulation, rule and law The seizure of that power is all your revolution's for
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