Only anarchist geographer I know of who has a wine dedicated in his honor,
Cuvee Elisée

London, England July 29-31

International Anarchist Congress convenes after the Marxists take over the 2nd International Congress (convened here on the 27th) & exclude anarchists & anti-parliamentary socialists. [Details / context]

Brings new themes & points of view to Swedish literature while experimenting with new forms & techniques. Shares the 1974 Nobel Prize with fellow Swede Harry Edmund Martinson.

To the Eyvind Johnson particulars it could be noted that EJ from early years on considered himself an anarchist. In his teens he was very active as an agitator for the youth anarchist movement & the anarchosyndicalist organisation, contributed vividly to their press in the twenties & in his own works consequently threw light on the corruption of power.

Although disillusioned by the defeat of anarchism in Spain 1937 he maintained a lifelong contact with the Swedish anarchist movement. Since his Berlin days in the 20's he was a close friend of Nettlau, Rocker & Souchy.

— Bleedster Ingemar Johansson

Influenced by Marcel Proust, André Gide & James Joyce. Wrote Return to Ithaca: The Odyssey Retold as a Modern Novel; Rain at Daybreak; The Days of His Grace.

Further reading: Eyvind Johnson by G.K. Orton (1972); The Ulysses Theme by W.B. Stanford (1963)

As he left a gymnastic display organised by the society of "Fort e Liberi" Umberto was hit by two revolver shots fired by Gaetano Bresci, who had come from Patterson, New Jersey, in the US, with the express purpose of avenging the Milan massacres of 1898.

Wounded in the neck & shoulder blades, the king died shortly after.

Bresci was found strangled in circumstances which remain obscure, in cell no. 515 of Santo Stefano Prison, on May 22nd, 1901.

Umberto I viene ucciso a Monza dall'anarchico Gaetano Bresci che vuole vendicare le violente repressioni operate dallo stato in Sicilia e a Milano e la responsabilità del re nella svolta autoritaria di fine secolo.

Illustrations by Flavio Costantini

[Details / context]

1901 -- US: Socialist Party established.


1903 -- US: Preliminary delegation from the March of the Mill Children, accompanied by "Mother" Jones, arrives at Pres. Theodore Roosevelt's summer home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, to publicize the harsh conditions of child labor. They are not allowed through the gates. The March of the Mill Children began from Philadelphia on July 7th to publicize the harsh conditions of child labor.
http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/newtime3.html


1905 -- Author Stanley Kunitz lives.


1909 -- Chester Himes lives, Jefferson City, Mo. Noted African-American mystery novelist whose books If He Hollers, Let Him Go; Come Back Charleston Blue; Cotton Comes to Harlem, & others, explore the underbelly of the American dream & introduce "Gravedigger Jones" & "Coffin Ed Johnson" to the reading public. (see 12 November).


1914 -- US: First transcontinental phone link made. Between NYC & Frisco.
http://www.deuceofclubs.com/moj/mojave.htm


1917 -- US: With support from George Creel's Committee on Public Information, the American Alliance for Labor & Democracy organizes; Samuel Gompers serves as chair.
http://www.history.umd.edu/Gompers/newtime3.html


1918 -- Novelist Edwin O'Connor lives, Providence, Rhode Island. Wrote The Last Hurrah.



1920 -- Germany: "No more war" demonstrations by disabled veterans.




1921 -- Germany: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Adolf Hitler becomes President of the German Nazi Party.



1921 -- Italy: Maria Occhipinti lives (1921-1996), Sicily. Pacifist & anarchist, active in Sicily, Milan, San Remo, Rome, Los Angeles & Raguse.

In 1945, in Raguse, Sicily, Maria Occhipinti, lies down in front of army trucks which came to find new young conscripts to incorporate into the new Italian army. Within minutes, a crowd surrounds the soldiers, forcing them to release their recruits, but they kill a demonstrator & set off a major revolt.

The city falls to the insurgents & resists government troops for three days. The revolt is subdued only at the cost of many deaths. The ringleaders, including Maria & Erasmo Santangelo, were imprisoned until the end of 1946, (except the young anarchist Santangelo, who was sentenced to 23 years & later found hanged in his cell).

The Communist Party, seeking to help restore the capitalist state & the national army in a bid for a piece of the power pie, condemned this revolt as a "soulèvement fasciste".

Maria Occhipinti tells her own story of the uprising in A Woman of Sicily (Italy, 1957; translated into French, 1980) & published It carrubo E altri racconti (1993).

http://ytak.club.fr/juillet4.html#29



1923 -- International "No more war" demonstrations occur in 23 countries.
http://www.earthstation1.com/Warposters/jingram/


1931 --

Vienna July 29-August 18, 1931

Celebra el 4art. Congrés de la IOS. Representant el PSOE hi van assistir Francisco Largo Caballero i Manuel Albar. [Source: Congressos Obrers]

1947 -- US: Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg Virginia. They went up, getting done-up.


1951 -- South Africa: Conference of Africans, Indians & Coloureds agrees on mass campaign for end of oppressive new "apartheid" laws.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history.html



1963 -- Bleedster Peter Huston, MoocHead, lives. Author, net head, apprehensive, big on Quaker Oats.

Nationally recognized athlete in the sport of Skeleton (head-first-on-stomach luging). Former firefighter & EMT credited with saving 1,000 lives. Appeared on WRPI radio, www.wrpi.org & in the WHY FILEs.

Quoted in "Bizarre." NY state assemblyman Bobby Prentiss calls him a "curmudgeon with a word processor."

World-reknowned advocate of rational skeptical mysticism. Huston often demonstrates how to 'fake' martial arts effects, such as putting your hand in boiling oil without getting french-fried, how to break a pointed spear with your neck, the secret to crushing coal into diamonds, & other Marvel(TM)-ous effects. Peter's been working hard at mastering these mysteries of the east, & is now learning to apply his many prosthetic devices.

phuston@capital.net"You can dance.... for inspiration." — Madonna

"The Saga of Peter Huston" A western novel...

This moving fictionalized history tells the story of Peter Huston. Searching for the American dream, the Huston family head west. While Peter & the Cherokee Indian scout are away from the wagon train, the settlers are massacred. Revenge fills Pete's heart. The Indian prompts his commanding officer to enlist the boy in the army. He works his way up the commanding chain & graduates from West Point a topographical engineer. A Sioux war party sends Pete to the hospital where a brassy, young journalist Liz Turner demands the story. Amused & inflated, he wants her for his bride. She shuns his advances. Traveling with a historical party to Yellowstone Basin, Elizabeth is abducted by the Blackfeet tribe. Peter's skin crawls. Is he skilled enough to save her from a fate worse than death? What readers are saying

/gauntletmag13.htm

1963 -- Spain: Bombs go off, destroying a pump in the Main directorate of Seguridad (DGS) of Madrid — "symbol of Franco torture" — & another in the National Delegation of Unions.

Franco's fascist regime wrongly arrest, & within two weeks, execute the anarchists Francisco Granados & Joaquín Delgado.
Granados & Delgado



1966 -- Songster Bob Dylan crashes his Triumph 55 motorcycle near Woodstock, New York.

 
 
 
 
 

Hospitalized with several broken neck vertebrae, concussion & cuts on his face & scalp. Suffered mild amnesia, paralysis & internal injuries.

Rumor mill has him in a coma, a vegetable, never performing again, dodging the draft, passing on or losing his mind due to drug use.

1967 -- US: Aircraft carrier Forrestal catches fire off North Vietnam, killing 134. Twenty-one planes are completely destroyed, & 42 damaged.


1968 -- US: Riots rock Seattle's Central Area after a police raid on the local Black Panther Party headquarters. Seattle BPP leader Aaron Dixon is arrested for possession of a stolen typewriter. (Later acquitted.) 69 are arrested in riots over the following three days.

BleedMeister, a cab driver, gets trapped in late-night mob stoning cars. Another cab gets turned over & set afire.


1968 -- US: American Indian Movement (AIM) founded in Minneapolis to deal with problems of relocated urban Indians.


1968 -- Polémica por la encíclica Humanae Vitae, que condena los anticonceptivos.
http://www.el-mundo.es/larevista/num132/textos/crono.html


1968 -- US: Chicago MOBE applies for permits to march to & rally at the International Amphitheatre (site of the Democratic Convention, about five miles southwest of the Loop) & to march to & rally in Grant Park (just east of the Loop). All permits are denied, except one allowing the use of the Grant Park bandshell for a rally.
[Source: Chicago '68: A Chronology]


1970 -- US: After a five-year strike, United Farm Workers (UFW) sign contract with grape growers, California.

BleedMeister has his picture taken by Safeway grocery store goons at various rallies & picket lines, later discovered in his secret Washington State police files.
http://www.ufw.org



1971 -- US: Benefit for the "John Sinclair Freedom Fund": MC-5 , Frijid Pink , The Up, Carnal Kitchen , Trunion Brothers, *Grande Ballroom*, Detroit, Michigan.
http://makemyday.free.fr/mc5insf.htm
http://makemyday.free.fr/mc5timeline.htm

1972 -- US: Supreme Court declares death penalty unconstututional.


1972 -- US: New Math? Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton reported that Democratic Presidential candidate George McGovern was "for me 1,000 percent" (see 31 July).



1974 -- Anti-Gyro?: Mama Cass Elliot, a one-time member of the Mama's & Papa's, dies in London. She died as a result of choking on a sandwich & inhaling her own vomit. Later revealed her bum ticker also seized up like a rusty chain saw.


1974 -- US: Second article of impeachment, abuse of power, voted 28-10 against Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee.


1974 -- US: Former Treasury Secretary John Connally indicted on charges involving the acceptance of a bribe, perjury, & conspiracy to obstruct justice.


1974 -- German writer of popular children's books, Erich Kastner, dies in Munich. His children's books are noted for their humor & respect of the child's moral seriousness. Emil und die Detektive (Emil & the Detectives) has been dramatized & filmed several times.


1976 -- Eric Clapton begins first tour of Britain in five years. Stays three weeks, starting off at Hempfest's Pavillion Theatre.


1979 -- US: New Left theorist / radical Herbert Marcuse dies. Makes The Communist Manifesto sexier & gives Freud more class.



1979 -- France: Emilie Carles (1900-1979) dies, Val-des-Prés (Hautes-Alpes). Teacher, militant anarchist & pacifist. Companion of Jean Carles, together they converted a mansion into a hôtel (les Arcades), housing many anarchists. Emilie recounts her life & activities in Une soupe aux herbes sauvages (1977; A Soup with Wild Herbs).
http://ytak.club.fr/juillet4.html#29



1981 -- US: Both houses of Congress pass Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Ronnie Reagan's tax-cut legislation. The largest tax cut in the nation's history, is expected to reduce taxes by $37.6 billion in 1982, & save taxpayers $750 billion over the next 5 years. Guess who, rich or poor, gets the biggest slice?
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/reagan.htm


1982 -- US: Asked why he was invited to the White House dinner for Indian prime minister Indria Gandhi, Wayne Newton says, "I'm an American Indian. I guess that's a connection."



1983 -- Surrealist filmmaker/director Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) dies, Mexico City. Noted especially for his early Surrealist films & his work in the Mexican commercial cinema. Buñuel is distinguished for his highly personal style & controversial obsession with social injustice, religious excess, gratuitous cruelty, & eroticism.

Buñuel was cremated in a simple ceremony & his wife, Jeanne, has always refused to say where his ashes are scattered. Luis Buñuel said that "When I am dead I hope they burn everything I ever made. I share the feelings of the Marquis de Sade. I want them to burn me & throw me to the four winds. I want to disappear completely, without trace."

http://www.omroep.nl/human/tv/bunuel/main.htm

1987 -- Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new ice cream flavor: Cherry Garcia.


1987 -- US: Senator George Mitchell tells Ed Meese he finds it "hard to accept" his explanation that he took no notes during his early questioning of key officials — & didn't even ask the most obvious questions — because he didn't realize the fund diversion was a criminal case. "I take offense at the idea that it's hard to accept," says Meese. Insists Mitchell, "It's hard to accept." During two days of testimony, Meese utters the phrase "I don't recall," or some variation thereof, about 340 times.


1990 -- Iraq: American Ambassador April Glaspie infers to Saddam Hussein that the US government would have no objections to an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The rest, as they say, is history.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'


1993 -- Walter Koenig (Checkov-Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack, saying there is no evidence he is "Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible."


1994 -- 200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin.



1997 -- Germany: The Scharnweberstrasse 28, the Rigaer Strasse 80, the side of Schreinerstrasse 14, & the Pfarrstrasse 88/Eisenbahner are evicted.

There are now only 3 "squats" left in Berlin, according to city officials: The Rigaer Strasse 83 (which should soon be legalized), the Kinzigstrasse 25/27 (the local government wants to make a youth center here with the aid of the squatters), & a court ruled the Rigaer Strasse 80 eviction illegal.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#03/1990
http://www.sindominio.net/rbronka/ftb/squat.html
http://www.notbored.org/squatworld.html

2000 -- Italy: Goliardo Fiaschi (1930-2000), Italian anti-fascist & anarchist guerilla, bookstore owner, dies.

His coffin was borne around the town on the shoulders of friends, followed by a band, & anarchists from all over Italy carrying red & black flags...

[Details / context]

Fiaschi and Luis Vicente were brought before a Court Martial on 12 August 1958, with the former receiving a prison term of 20 years and one day and the latter 24 years and four months.


2002 -- US: Betty Kapetanakis tragically dies in an accident.

Betty's commitment to social justice brought her to the North Star Fund 15 years ago, & she became the Executive Director in 1995. Among her proudest accomplishments was nurturing the ongoing partnership between donors & community activists committed to social justice.

— The Ya-Ya Network, "Youth Activists / Youth Allies NYC"

2004 -- US: 400 clash with Boston police. The Boston-area Bl(A)ck Tea Society, an ad hoc group of self-described anarchists & anti-authority activists burn a two-faced effigy depicting President Bush on one side & Sen. John Kerry on the other & get into a shoving match with Boston's finest...one of whom complains, "We have trained two years for this, & they showed us nothing....

"I'm disappointed in the quality of anarchists we've got here."

http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2004/07/30/news/nation/frinat09.txt
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/07/23/8684245

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