Daily Bleed for Oct. 19th

Daily Bleed, in full,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1019.htm

Excerpts,

OCTOBER 19 -- LU XUN
Famed Chinese writer of rebellion & revolution.

FEAST OF THE WICKED SCAM.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/warsham.gif


1745 -- Irish satirist & scatological critic Jonathan Swift,
77, dies, Dublin. Declared of unsound mind, lonely, paralyzed.
He  would have a made a fine American.

1878 -- Henry James spends an awkward afternoon with
George Eliot & George Henry Lewes. As James leaves,
Lewes, not realizing he is talking to the author of the volumes,
thrusts a pair of blue bound volumes — the first edition of
The Europeans — into his hands, saying,
"Take them away, please, away!"

1895 -- Architect & culture critic Lewis Mumford lives.
Universal humanist, a philosophical fountainhead for
the organicist & environmentalist movements of today.
http://www.albany.edu/mumford/About_us/who_is_lm.html
http://library.monmouth.edu/spcol/mumford/mumford.html

1899 -- Guatemala: Miguel Angel Asturias lives,
Guatemala City. Poet, novelist, diplomat,
winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/asturias.htm
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1967/asturias-bio.html

1910 -- France: Death of Luigi Lucheni found hung in his cell.
Anarchist advocate of "propaganda by the deed"
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/LucheniLuigi.htm

1923 -- War Resister's League founded by Jessie Wallace Hughan.
http://www.awomanaweek.com/hughan.htm
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG026-050/DG040WRL.html

1936 -- Chinese revolutionist, writer Lu Xun
dies, Shanghai.

                   LU XUN
                   Famed Chinese writer of rebellion &
                   revolution. Daily Bleed Saint, 19998.

1938 --  Kurt Weill/Maxwell Anderson musical "Knickerbocker
Holiday" opens, NY.

1946 -- First exhibition of the work of Josef Nassy, an
American citizen of Dutch-African-Jewish descent, is held in
Brussels. Consists of 90 paintings & drawings rendered while
in a Nazi-controlled internment camp during World War II.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005677

1966 -- US: Ken Kesey, back from Mexico, arrested.

1969 -- Japan: Thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters
                    paralyze the streets of Tokyo.

1977 -- South Africa: 18 organizations working for black
liberation closed down by government.
http://www.anc.org.za/show.php?include=docs/misc/2010/umzabalazo.html

1981 -- US: California state senator John Schmitz tells a TV
interviewer that if Reagan's policies fail, "the best we could
probably hope for is a military coup or something like that."
He explains that he is talking about "a good military coup,
not a bad military coup."

1996 -- US (More or Less): I was a little worried when I
got to the Blue Moon Tavern in Seattle [today].

                             Sorry, We're open!

    Not only was my luggage lost & I was trusting United Airlines
    to get it to the bar (& me) that evening, but the crowd didn't look
    like your usual Stale Urine fan club: mostly older, single men in
    their late 30s or early 40s. I was guessing that hard-rockin' '70s
    bands would be more their style, not experimental performance
    art industrial nerds.

     http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/bluemoon.htm

2001 -- Mexico: Digna Ochoa (1964-2001) assassinated.
Abogada, incansable defensora de los Derechos Humanos,
asesinada el 19 de  octubre de 2001 en la Ciudad de México.

2005 -- Iraq: Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for
crimes against humanity. Next up, George W. Bush?
http://www.peterwerbe.com/bushpages.html
   

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                             "Free thought, necessarily
                            involving freedom of speech &
                         press, I may tersely define thus:
                           no opinion a law  — no opinion a
                                       crime."

                             — Alexander Berkman

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