Calli is a good day for rest, tranquility & family life. Not a good day for participating in public life. Best spent cementing relationships of trust & mutual interests.

The Spaniards & Taíno Indians had a falling out in 1510, & the following year the Taíno Indians revolt against the Spaniards. Ponce de León orders 6,000 shot; survivors flee to mountains or leave the island.

Having finished their fine work, the troop, in the words of Benjamin Franklin,

"huzzahed in triumph as if it had gained a victory, & rode off unmolested."

[Details / context]

1850 -- Hawaiian Fire Department established.

This 1940 Ford is powered by two Rolls/Royce Viper engines with afterburners. Guaranteed to be the first at any fire (if it doesn't start one), perhaps arriving before its own sirens! Developing 12,000 pounds of thrust, how fast will it go? Depends on how well you hold on!

http://londonairshow.com/

"Nothing is more dangerous for man's private morality than the habit of command. The best man, the most intelligent, disinterested, generous, pure, will infallibly & always be spoiled at this trade. Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this demoralization; they are: contempt for the masses & the overestimation of one's own merits."

http://www.robertcutler.org/bakunin/ar88irx.htm
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/writings/index.htm
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bakunin/communist/communistbio.html

"Si donc on veut la liberté..., il faut rechercher les conditions du bien-être général et de l'aisance universelle, premières bases du développement des droits, des libertés, première conditions de la véritable émancipation de tous."

       — Destinée sociale.

"Dans aucune oeuvre, la Commune sociétaire n'a été aussi bien élaborée que dans les écrits de Considérant.

       — Max Nettlau, anarchist historian

http://projekte.free.de/dada/btip002.htm
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/communalism6.htm http://ytak.club.fr/decembre4.html#27

1896 -- American novelist/essayist, Louis Bromfield, lives, Mansfield, Ohio.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/bromfiel.htm


1896 -- In Nackenheim, Germany, Carl Zuckmayer lives. Much of his work was affected by the World Wars, such as his Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1931, The Captain of Köpenick), a satire on Prussian militarism, Der Schelm von Bergen (1934, The Village of Bergen), &, one of his best-known dramas written in America, Des Teufels General (1946, The Devil's General), dramatizing the plight of men torn between loyalty to country & the demands of conscience.



1900 -- US: Smashing Hit?: Terrorist Carrie Nation stages her first bottle-smashing raid on a saloon at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. Nation carries the day; usually did her damage with a hatchet, calling her vandalism hatchetation.

1901 -- Stanley William Hayter lives, London. English printmaker/painter who founded Atelier 17, the most influential print workshop of the 20th century.

"Dietrich would never do that..."

       — Marlene Dietrich

http://www.bombshells.org/gallery/
http://www.marlene.com/

http://www.postershop.com/feininger/fng1_e.htm

http://www.germangalleries.com/


1908 -- Snow Job?: Followers of Lee Spengler gather atop South Mountain in white to await the world's end.

"I was so excited I couldn't sleep for a week"

— Rev Hal Lindsey, author of The Late Great Planet Earth on his discovery that the world was coming to an end.

http://www.panix.com/~archii/uteotw/
http://www.stanford.edu/~meehan/donnellyr/contents.html

Son of a mail-carrier, postmodern avant-garde poet & literary theorist, notable for his influence on American poetry during the late 1950s & assault prose, a dynamic mix of bold assertion & documentary material lacking conventionally logical connectives. From 1951 until its closing in 1956, Olson served as rector of Black Mountain College, inviting poets such as Robert Creeley & Robert Duncan to teach.

Take a look at these words of Charles Olson

I take SPACE to be the central fact to man born in America from Folsom cave to now. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large, & without mercy. (Call Me Ishmael, 1947)

& their expansion three years later in his manifesto Projective Verse:

From the moment he ventures into FIELD COMPOSITION — put himself in the open — he can go by no track other than the one the poem under hand declares, for itself.

Olson had been defining a working poetry, rejecting the formal tradition as an alien inheritance from Europe. The new verse was one "in which a poet manages to register both the acquisitions of his ear & the pressures of his breath."

Olson called this COMPOSITION BY FIELD. This is poetry that fills the air as well as the page, that constitutes an extension of the living body of the poet, that celebrates the moment, the here & now in a non-hierarchical language in a special American space.

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/blmtn.html
http://www.cortical.org/spores/Corti4.html

"A few facts: by 1833, 70,000 persons & $70,000,000 were tied up in whaling & such associated crafts as shipbuilding, sail-lofts, smiths to make toggle irons, the thieving outfitters, their agents & the whores of ports like New Bedford; by 1844 (peak years roughly 1840-60) the figure is up to $120,000,000, whaling competes successfully in attracting capital to itself with such opening industries as textiles & shoes, & the export of whale products — one-fourth of the catch — is third to meat products & lumber."

       — Charles Olson
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/olson/

1913 -- Canada: Mass rebellion by IWW workers in Edmonton, Alberta forces city to house 400 unemployed during winter. Typical Canadians, too lazy to build their own igloos.

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime & the poor get it in the winter.

— Bat Masterson, Western philosopher

http://edmonton.iww.ca/

Arthur Lehning & Augustin Souchy are among the founders, along with Rocker. FAUD declares itself anarchist-syndicalist — opposed to both the State & to parliamentarism.

It eventually counts 125,000 members.

http://www.fau.org/

1943-44, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Chairman of Montgomery Ward refuses to comply with War Labor Board orders to extend contract signed in 1942.

Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Roosevelt orders seizure of Ward's property in Chicago, with Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Secretary of Commerce as manager.

After union elections, the seizure was terminated until December 27, 1944, when an executive order authorized the Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Secretary of War to seize all Ward's property to force compliance with War Labor Board orders which Ward's was flagrantly ignoring. The seizure was terminated in 1945 by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Truman.

"A corporation cannot be ethical; its only responsibility is to turn a profit!"

— Milton Friedman, American rightwing darling, free-market proponent of the magic "trickle-down" your leg theory

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/irx/chronology.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman

"Hey kids... What time is it?

It's Howdy Doody time!"

http://www.mrtraffic.com/howdy.htm
http://www.howdydoodytime.com/
If the above link isn't working, visit their old page at the Internet Archives,
http://web.archive.org/web/20061102140308/http://www.howdydoodytime.com/



1958 -- Argentina: A reunion of old friends at a meeting of the Argentinian Federación Libertaria today.

The Italian Luce Fabbri, the German Augustin Souchy & the Spaniard Diego Abad de Santillán share memories of clandestinity & repression due to their anarchist ideas & activities during the Spanish Revolution. Host Abad de Santillan (1897-1983) was a leading person in both the Spanish & Argentine anarchist movement. Fabbri (1908-2000) was forced to leave her country of birth in the fascist period & spent most of her life as a professor of Italian literature in Uruguay. Souchy (1892-1984) left Germany as a conscientious objector & went to Sweden in 1915, thereafter living in Spain & South America. http://www.iisg.nl/today/en/27-12.php photo courtesy International Institute of Social History

1960 --

Broken Nose Asger Jorn records his first musical experiments with Jean Dubuffet (Nez cassé [Broken Nose])... Also during this month, "Internationale Situationniste" #5 is published, edited by Guy Debord & Editorial Committee: Debord, Jorn, Kotànyi, Nash, Sturm, Wyckaert (resignation of Abdelhafid Khatib, Algerian section). Includes a report on the Fourth SI Conference in London, its Resolution Concerning the Imprisonment of Alexander Trocchi, & Jorn's "Open Creation & Its Enemies." Spur #3, journal of the German section of the SI, appears in Munich. Includes 29 original lithographs by Asger Jorn & the Spur group (Helmut Sturm, Heimrad Prem, Hans-Peter Zimmer & Lothar Fischer). http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]

1965 -- US: Old leadership of SDS unseated & women hold a closed door workshop at the SDS convention.


1968 -- Spain: Hunosa despide a 10 mineros asturianos. La huelga afecta a 5.677 obreros. 10 Asturian miners are fired. The resulting strike affects 5,677 workers.
http://www.el-mundo.es/larevista/num132/textos/crono.html



1972 -- North Korea: New constitution comes into effect. Sure, you betcha.

Now both Koreas rival US democracy, where American voters are free to choose between Pepsi Cola or Coca-Cola.

http://www.nukestrat.com/korea/koreaplanning.htm

1979 -- Ian Dury & the Clash headline the second of four concerts for the people of Kampuchea, in London.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1028/main_other_resources_1.html

1981 -- Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael, pianist, vocalist & songwriter dies of natural causes in Rancho Mirage, California. Raconteur of the early days of jazz & Ten Pan Alley.
http://www.redhotjazz.com/hoagy.html



1981 -- US: Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist — who has, for several months, been taking substantial doses of Placidyl (legal drug: not sold by blacks) to relieve intense back pain — checks into George Washington Hospital for treatment of side effects, including speech so severly slurred that he was frequently incoherent in court & according to a hospital spokesman, he is,

"hearing things & seeing things that other people did not hear & see."

http://web.archive.org/web/20070227092755/http://home.earthlink.net/~dare2b/ru.htm

1985 --

Uruguay: The Senate & the House of Representatives grant the anarchist & antimilitarist Eugenio Relgis (1895-1987) a «pensión graciable»; the decree (law 15,796) provides N$20,000 (twenty thousand new pesos) monthly. Apparently even aging anarchists like to eat. http://www.filosofia.org/aut/001/1932relg.htm

1989 -- Disco line dance craze.


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The mansion was on a promontory, high over the Pacific. Money could see farther in the 1920s, & one could look out & see whales & the Hawaiian Islands & the Kuomintang in China.

       — Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Literature/Moby-Dick/amlit-sightings.html

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