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JUNE 3 ALLEN GINSBERG Great Beat poet, pot liberator, counter-cultural icon, OMnipresent radical, 3-foot high FBI file, gay. His old pal Jack Kerouac broke with Allen for being too "political."
IMPERSONATE AUTHORITY DAY.EGG DAY.
Japan: BROKEN DOLLS MEMORIAL: Girls attend Buddhist funeral ceremonies, bury old dolls.
Festival of GAPHI MAHSO.
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR CHILDREN AS VICTIMS OF WAR.
713 -- Byzantine Emperor Philippicus is overthrown & blinded.
[Source: Robert Braunwart]
[Hereafter attributed with symbol:]
1140 -- French scholar Peter Abelard condemned for heresy by a church court.
1391 -- England: Sir Simon de Burley charges a man with being a serf, in Gravesend; this touched off Wat Tyler's Rebellion the next day.
1461 -- Mystery play "L'etat du monde" is presented, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1651 -- Free Verse?: Ireton lays siege to Limerick
1657 -- Vote With Your Feat?: The Parliamentarian Army kidnaps Charles I.Note: This would have been a rather gruesome affair since they had beheaded him in 1649. The correct date is probably 1647. Incidentally, there are several good books on the English Revolution & related topics by Christopher Hill. See "The World Turned Upside Down" at
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/reviews.htm
1761 -- Henry Scrapnel, English inventor (shrapnel shell), lives. His annual birthday festivities will be held in Kosovo this year. Nato is supplying.
1780 -- England: Gordon's "No Popery" rioters open the prisons & make serious moves on the Bank of England.
1820 -- US: Quakers open an apprentices' library, Carpenters Hall, Philadelphia.
1840 -- France: Jean-Louis Pindy lives (1840-1917), Brest. Member of the Internationale, communard, anarchiste, carpenter.Arrested & sent to prison for a year in the third trial against the First International, April 1870, & released September 4, when the Republic is declared.It was Pindy, an elected member of the Paris Commune, who ordered the l'Hôtel de Ville burned down during the Bloody Week.
[Details / context]
1850 -- US: Five Cayuse Indians ordered hanged in Oregon Territory for their part in Cayuse War of 1848. On this same date, in 1849, they attacked a Washington mission school (Whitman). They are found guilty of the murders there.
1851 -- US: First baseball uniforms worn. NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, whiteshirt & blue long trousers; Knickerbockers beat Washington of NY, 22-20 in 10 innings.
1856 -- US: Cullen Whipple, of Providence, RI, patents the screw machine.
1867 -- Author Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont lives.
1873 -- US: Banker Dexter Horton is elected president of the Seattle Library Association. The library currently has 169 members & 278 books. Almost as many as written by Danielle Steel.
1881 -- Japanese giant salamander dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian.
1886 -- France: Anarchiste Louise MichelLouise, qui ne cesse de prendre la parole au cours de multiples réunions, participe au théâtre du Château-d'eau (Paris) à, un meeting en faveur des mineurs de Decazeville. Elle y prononce un discours, Jules Guesde, Paul Lafargue et Susini y interviennent à, ses côtés.
[Source: Michel Chronologie]
1888 -- "Casey at the Bat" first appears in print, in the San Francisco Examiner.The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day;
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,
And then when Cooney died at first, & Barrows did the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.A straggling few got up to go, in deep despair the rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, "If only Casey could but get a whack at that . . .
1888 -- Jim Tully lives, in a log cabin near St. Mary's, Ohio.Who Was Jim Tully? Once one of America’s best-read & most-admired authors. Today his name is forgotten by contemporary readers, & his books are out of print. With Dashiell Hammett, a founder of the hard-boiled school of writing. Charles Willeford, a kindred spirit, has an essay ("Jim Tully: Holistic Barbarian") which provides an excellent social & literary context for Tully's work.
1888 -- The Jewish Publication Society of America is organized.
1896 -- Spanish anarchist Isaac Puente lives (1836-1936).Three aspects made him famous in his day: his activities as a rural physician in support of the neediest, his educational work (preventive medicine, sexual education, nutrition, wholesome living etc) & his theoretical & militant contributions to anarchism.
1900 -- US: International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) founded.And we gave new courage to the men
Who carried on in nineteen-ten
And shoulder to shoulder we'll win through
Led by the ILGWU
hail the waistmakers of nineteen-nine
making their stand on the picket line,
Breaking the power of those who reign
Pointing the way, smashing the chain— The Uprising of the 20,000, dedicated to the Waistmakers of 1909
1901 -- Canada: Ottawa carpenters strike for higher wages & union recognition.
1906 -- Belgian King Leopold II calls Congo his private possession.
1906 -- Jazz dancer, actress, stripper Josephine Baker lives, St. Louis, Missouri.By age 15, Baker ran away from home, left her first husband, & joined Clara Smith in a travelling show. After a short stay in Harlem, Baker left for Paris to appear in La Revue Negre. Her nude dance with Joe Alex will tantalize audiences. Eclipsing every other performer in Paris, Josephine Baker represents Europe's new black music following WWI. During WWII, Baker spied in German-occupied France for the resistance.Returning to the US in 1951, Baker refused to perform at segregated venues. She housed the first black troupe in any Las Vegas hotel. But in the 1970s, Baker was forced to wander the streets begging for her adopted children. In 1975, her funeral dtrew 20,000 people. Josephine Baker became the first American woman to receive a 21-gun salute from the French government.
http://www.cmgww.com/stars/baker/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Baker
http://paris.usembassy.gov/resources/franceus/famericans1.htm#baker
1916 -- "It must have been a little after three o'clock in the afternoon that it happened — the afternoon of June 3rd, 1916. . .Rather might I have experienced a cosmic cycle, with all its changes & evolutions for that which I have seen with my own eyes in this brief interval of time — things that no other mortal eye had seen before, glimpses of a world past, a world dead, a world so long dead that even in the lowest Cambrian stratum no trace of it remains. . ."
http://www.literature.org/authors/burroughs-edgar-rice/the-land-that-time-forgot/ — Edgar Rice Burroughs, beginning date, the opening of The Land That Time Forgot
1917 -- First All-Russia Congress of Workers & Soldiers Soviets opens.
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/datesr.html
See The Bolsheviks & Workers Control 1917 - 1921: The State & Counter-revolution: http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html
1918 -- US: During this month, while Emma Goldman is in prison in Missouri for exercising free speech...Emma is granted permission to write two letters every week, in addition to letters to Harry Weinberger. Contemplates writing about the situation of women in prison. Receives news that William Marion Reedy & attorney Clarence Darrow are interested in the League for the Amnesty of Political Prisoners, but believe that nothing can be done until after the war. Anticipating orders for her deportation, Emma begins investigating her citizenship status. Following suspension of the Mother Earth Bulletin, her niece Stella Ballantine publishes a mimeographed newsletter, Instead of a Magazine.
Anarchist_Archives/goldman/living/Goldmanforeward.html
http://www.spunk.org/texts/pubs/sekhmet/8/sp001228.txt
1918 -- US: A Federal child labor law, enacted two years earlier, is declared unconstitutional. A new law was enacted 24 February 1919, but this one too was declared unconstitutional (on 2 June 1924).
[Sources]
1920 --Russia: During this month, Emma Goldman nurses John Reed, in poor health following his release from a two-month prison term in Finland for unauthorized travel.
1920 -- Italy: 3 Giugno. Il comitato di difesa albanese chiede lo sgombero delle truppe italiane che occupano Valona (Albania).
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]
http://www.usiait.it/img/anni20/storia.htm
1921 -- US: A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado.
1921 --The veteran anarchists are thoroughly disillusioned with the Bolshevik "counter" revolution...
1921 -- US: In the Sacco & Vanzetti case, after several days of voir dire, only seven jurors have been selected & the entire panel of 500 people exhausted. The Court directs the Sheriff to bring in 200 more potential jurors to try "those anarchist bastards."
See Heroes & Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, & the Revolutionary Struggle, an audio CD by Howard Zinn.
http://www.torremaggiore.com/saccoevanzetti/storia.html
1924 -- Dystopian allegorist & anarchist sympathizer Franz Kafka dies, Kierling, Austria, leaving a plea to his friend Max Brod to destroy all his unpublished manuscripts — including The Trial, The Castle, & Amerika.Illustration by Flavio Costantini
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm
1924 -- Bernard Safran lives (1924- 1995). See John Malyon's very nice site, which I came across when searching for Rockwell Kent & John Sloan material; a well-thought out & nice for "depth"/linked material/subjects. [& thanks to John for providing Safran dates of birth & death.
http://www.safran-arts.com/
1926 --
Allen Ginsberg lives (1926-1997), Newark, New Jersey.
Beat poet, auntie-authoritarian activist, pedophile &, according to the FBI, god forbid (!),
an "Internal Subversive-Cuba" risk.
Branded by de FBI,
in his 3-foot high file,
as a displayer of
anti-American sympathies.
Kicked out of Cuba & Czechoslovakia for chanting to Commie Cops.
http://members.tripod.com/~Sprayberry/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ginsberg.htm
1926 -- Date of the riot in author George Orwell's novel Burmese Days.
1926 -- Nicolas Obouhov's "Preface au Livre de Vie" premiers, Paris.
1929 -- Chile, Peru & Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area.
1930 -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, scifi author, lives. Written over 80 books, edited nearly one dozen anthologies.
http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/zimmer/zimmer-bio.htm
1932 -- US: Lou Gehrig connected for four consecutive home runs in a baseball game.
1935 -- Canada: 1,000 unemployed leave Vancouver at the start of "On to Ottawa Trek."
1936 -- American author & used book seller Larry McMurtry lives, Wichita Falls, Texass. In 1970, he bought a rare-book store in Washington D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood, named it Booked Up, & relocated to run the store. A second Booked Up was opened in Archer City, Texass, in 1988. Now lives in Texass.
http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/mcmurtry_larry_tx.htm
1938 -- Germany: German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery.
1940 -- US: Supreme Court rules citizens can be forced to salute the flag (later reversed).
1942 -- Battle of Midway Island begins.
1942 -- US: Dutch Rub? Japanese attack Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands off far southwest Alaska. Only known time any foreign power has come close to attacking the US mainland since 1812. Meanwhile, Japanese-Americans are removed from Military Area #1 (western Washington, Oregon, California & southern Arizona).
1944 -- Italy: Pact of Rome signed, bringing together socialist, communist & catholic trade unions & establishing the Confederazione General Italiana del Lavoro — the first trade union in liberated Italy.
1946 -- Canadian Seamen's strike.
1946 -- US: Supreme Court bans segregation on interstate buses.The court rules that Negro passengers can not be forced to sit at the back of buses; in 1947, April 9-23, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsors an interstate bus ride to test the ruling — Bayard Rustin, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Igal Roodenko, & Joseph Felmet get arrested & serve 30 days on a chain gang. This is a particularly dangerous period in the US: lynchings in the south approach 1918 levels as Negro G.I.s return, talk of getting the rights they fought for.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjor.htm
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG151-175/dg161irood.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin
1948 -- US: Korczak Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse, who was murdered by US soldiers, near Mt Rushmore.
"I will return to you in stone."
1952 -- China: In Guangzhou, officials mark campaign against opium with a rally of 4,000 ex-addicts.In 1800 its import was forbidden by the imperial government. Despite this restriction, the opium trade continued to flourish. Privately owned vessels of many countries, including the United States, made huge profits from the growing number of Chinese addicts. The government in Peking noted that the foreigners seemed intent on dragging down the Chinese through the encouragement of opium addiction.
1961 -- US: Try This For Yourself? Months before the Billy Sol Estes scandal broke, Henry H. Marshall, an Agricultural Department official allegedly aiding Estes in his illegal operations, is found dead with five bullets from his bolt-action rifle lodged in his body....The death is officially listed as suicide.
Poem to Billy Sol:
http://members.aol.com/wmpb/BillieSol/
1961 -- US: Tonite the Bay Harbor Poolroom is robbed. The story of this extraordinary case, from the robbery to the moment that Clarence Earl Gideon walked out of the Panama City, Florida, Courthouse a free man, on August 5, 1963 & the telling of the complex issues involving Gideon vs. Wainwright is the basis of Anthony Lewis's book Gideon's Trumpet.
1964 -- T. S. Eliot writes Groucho Marx:
"The picture of you in the newspaper saying that, amongst other reasons, you have come to London to see me has greatly enhanced my credit line in the neighborhood, & particularly with the greengrocer across the street."http://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/Marx/
1964 -- Frans Eemil Sillanpää dies in Helsinki. First Finn to win Nobel Prize for Literature (1939).
http://nobelprize.org/
1964 -- Belgium: Conscientious objection legally recognized.
1966 -- US: Graduation protest at Amherst College (where Beloved & Respected comrade Leader Defense Secretary Robert McNamara receives an honorary degree).
1967 -- René-Louis Lafforgue dies (1928-1967) in a car accident in southern France. Singer, typesetter, interpreter, anarchiste.With his anarchist parents in the Basque country during the fighting in Spain, the Lafforgue family was forced into exile in France, where his father was killed in the Resistance.
Lafforgue was an actor & singer, & in the 1950s his talent gained him a place in Georges Brassens' shows, where songs such as "Julie la Rousse" assured his popularity. He & his companion Claudie then opened their own Parisian caberet on rue Mouffetard, "L'Ecole Buissonnière," which soon became a gathering place for many pacifists & libertarians.
In French, see http://ytak.club.fr/juin03.html#lafforgue
About Brassens, in English, see
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/brassens.htm
1968 -- US: Valerie Solanas makes art, air conditions Andy Warhol, illustrator of the 1954 edition of the Joy of Cooking. Momentarily punctures his ego & pokes a hole in his shoulder. Author of the SCUM Manifesto.The image bank is wide open. Copy & tweak. Cut & paste. More & more people are going to play at art & image, text & subtext. It's happening because the technology is getting cheaper, smaller (more easily handled & transported by an individual) & better & because there's nothing else to fucking do!
excerpt from The Importance of Being Andy
"The death of art spells the death of artists ..."
[Source: WholeWorld is Watching]
http://www.spiralnature.com/reviews/book/solanasv.html
http://www.womynkind.org/valbio.htm
1968 -- Germany: Manuel Santana gana el torneo internacional de tenis en Berlín.
http://www.el-mundo.es/larevista/num132/textos/crono.html
1968 -- SciFi authors Robert Bloch & Harlan Ellison appear on Les Crane TV show.
1969 -- US: Black students stage a sit-in at Seattle's Franklin High School.
1970 -- Kinks' lead singer Ray Davies makes an 11,000-km round trip from NY to London to change a single word in the song "Lola" - "Coca-Cola" becomes "cherry cola" because the BBC bans commercial references in songs.
1970 -- US: Santa Barbara Grand Jury indicts 17 Isla Vistans on charges of burning the Bank of America. They face a total of 609 1/2 years on 72 counts. Bail is set at $120,000 for one of the 17 — He was in the County jail the night the bank burned!
http://www.islavista.org/ivriot3.html
1972 -- US: Army says the entire command of the Americal Division suppressed Mylai information.
1973 -- France: At Paris air show, Tupolev 144, a Soviet supersonic airliner, crashes.
1974 -- Tobacco maker tests marijuana-scented cigarettes.Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., seeking ways to cash in on the popularity of marijuana, developed a cigarette that mimicked the drug's smell. A company chemist noted that mixing Virginia & Turkish tobaccos, pekoe teas, alfalfa & oregano produced ``a foreign taste, liked by some, with a sidestream aroma easily mistaken for marijuana.'' "A marketable product of similar aroma should have great appeal to marijuana smokers,'' the chemist wrote. The memo was among confidential industry documents made public as a result of Minnesota's $6.6 billion legal settlement with the cigarette makers.
1979 -- Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya.
1979 -- Mexico's worst oil well blowout starts. Not capped until 24 March 1980, it spews 3.1 billion barrels, at the Bay of Campeche, near the Yucatan Peninsula, (twice as big as the 1978 Brittany [Amoco Cadiz] spill).
1979 -- Spain: Gladys Gogoan, Spanish anarchist, murdered by the Civil Guard during Earth Day protests, in Tudela. Ironically the Civil Guard wears green uniforms. Gladys was 23 years old.
http://www.alasbarricadas.org/info/article.php3?id_article=97
1980 -- Computer malfunction — specifically, failure of a 46 cent computer chip — signals a Soviet nuclear attack on US. US forces are called back in the nick of time. Just to prove how good it is, it happens again on the 6th.Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!
— President Merkin Muffley
http://www.engineers.auckland.ac.nz/~snor007/docs/Strangelove/strangelove.html
http://www.ericblumrich.com/strangelove.html
1982 -- US: Peek-a-Boo? House votes to make it illegal to identify US spies or informers, even if their identities are already publicly known. & damn good spies they must be to need such protection...
1985 -- England: Appeal court rules war tax resistance unlawful.
1987 -- US Rep. Jack Brooks tells Iran-Contra lackey Elliot Abrams he takes "more pride in not knowing anything than anybody I ever saw." Replies Abrams,
1989 -- Stevie Wonder, Bob Geldof, Sting, Elton John & Diana Ross participate in a global telecast to heighten awareness about the environment.
1990 -- China: Students & police clash at the University of Peking.
1991 -- Willie Nelson releases his "Who'll Buy My Memories — The IRS Tapes" LP. The album is compromised of tunes seized by the feds & will go towards paying off his $16 million tax bill.
1991 -- Daniel Quinn wins the $500,000 Turner Tomorrow prize for his novel Ismail.
1994 -- Panama: Weary Walkers? US begins withdrawing its troops (again!?!).
1997 -- US:
http://war.miniaturegigantic.com/ Statement of principles issued by Project for the New American Century, signed today by these men cited on the left, asserts that the key challenge for the US is "to shape a new century favorable to American principles & interests".
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This requires "a military that is strong & ready to meet both present & future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly & purposefully promotes American principles abroad; & national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities." A blunt attempt by the superpower to reshape the world to suit itself. On January 26, 1998, they wrote to President Clinton, urging him "to enunciate a new strategy", namely "the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power". If Clinton failed to act, "the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends & allies like Israel & the moderate Arab states, & a significant portion of the world's supply of oil will all be put at hazard". They acknowledged that this doctrine would be opposed, but "American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council." http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sf/1965.htm#Cowboy%20Diplomacy |
1997 -- David Foster wins the Miles Franklin Award for his novel "The Glade Within the Grove," Australia.
1998 -- US: Hold the Mustard? In New York City hundreds of sidewalk food vendors hold a 1-day strike & parade through lower Manhattan.
1999 -- US: Protest of NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia, at the White House, 26 arrested.
1999 -- US: Animal-rights protesters stage a sit-in at the University of Washington, Seattle.
1999 -- Jerome Rosen opera "Emperor Norton of the USA" premiers, Davis, Calif.
2000 -- England: Chawleigh Friendly Society has its annual Club Walk & feast at Chawleigh, near South Molton in Devon. Roll call is at the Royal Oak at 11.30. Founded in 1869, it is one of the last local & independent Friendly Societies in existence.
[Source: Calendar Riots]
2000 -- US: 23 out of service cop cars in Portland, Oregon, just waiting to be torched, get torched, causing $200,000 damage.
http://www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/copcars.html
2005 -- Mary Frohman dies, of a heart attack while waiting for a bus. Anarchist, member of the Industrial Workers of the World, druggie, singer & guitarist, part of the DeHorn Crew (the Chicago IWW's house band & a filk outfit -- "Run, Cthulhu, Run"), perhaps the fortune-telling character Mama Sutra in the comic cult novel Illuminatus! (by Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, two anarchist Playboy staffers). See Jesse Walker's "American Anarchist: The Life of Mary Frohman" from "Reason Online."
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