Until lions have their historians,
tales of the hunt
shall always glorify the hunter.
— African proverb
SEPTEMBER 28
MILES DAVIS
Saint Cool.
Alternate Saint,
TULI KUPFERBERG
American radical cartoonist, poet, Fugs singer & composer.
Old China: CONFUCIUS DAY.
Huichol, Mexico: FESTIVAL OF WAWTSARI, God of Deer Peyote; Peyote mushroom festival.
AMERICAN INDIAN DAY.
US: DRINK AS MUCH BEER AS POSSIBLE DAY.
Egypt: FEAST OF KHEPERA, The Beetle God.
Rootworm Beetle Dip
2 cup low-fat cottage cheese
1 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons skim milk
1/2 cup reduced calorie mayonnaise
1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
1 tablespoon onion, chopped
1 1/2 tsp. dill weed
1 1/2 tsp. Beau Monde
1 cup dry-roasted rootworm beetlesBlend first 3 ingredients. Add remaining ingredients & chill (out?).
--Sociology is the outhouse in the grove of academe — H.L. Mencken
551 -- [B.C.] — Chinese sage Confucius lives.
1573 -- Painter of Italian street life Caravaggio lives.
http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/~malek/Caravaggio.html
1618 -- Gilles van Ledenberg, Secretary of Utrecht States (1588-1618), suicide at 68.
1704 -- US: Maryland allows divorce if wife mispleases clergyman/preacher.
1785 -- US: David Walker lives, abolitionist who wrote the famous "Walker's Appeal," lives, Wilmington, N.C. See below, 1829.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2930.html
1803 -- Prosper Mérimée, whose translations of Russian classics introduce the works in France, lives, Paris. French dramatist & short story master, archaeological & historical dissertations, & travel books. Wrote his first play, Cromwell, at 19.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/merimee.htm
1810 -- Mme de Staël, writes to Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Napoleon protesting the suppression of her book De l'Allemagne.
1810 -- México: Las tropas de Miguel Hidalgo toman la ciudad de Guanajuato / the troops of Miguel Hidalgo take the city of Guanajuato.
http://web.archive.org...eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/18100928.htm
1812 -- US: On the southern front in the War of 1812, Creek & Seminole warriors battle a contingent of 250 Georgia volunteers.
An English agent, Colonel Edward Nicholls, negotiated an alliance with the Seminoles & built a fort on the Apalachicola River, & stocked it with hundreds of gunpowder barrels.
After the war, escaped slaves establish themselves in the compound, & it becomes known as the Negro Fort. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Andy Jackson sends troops to destroy it. During the battle the gunpowder exploded, killing 270 men, women & children.
Jackson's troops summarily execute the black leader & Choctaw chief who survive the blaze.
1820 -- Friedrich Engels lives.
1829 -- David Walker issues, on his birthday (see above) his publication, An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular & Very Expressly to those of the United States of America.
The south will put a price on his head for such endearments as urging slaves to rise up &,
"Slit their oppressors' throats from ear to ear."
1838 --
Charles Darwin reads Thomas Malthus's essay on population; this suggests the idea of natural selection to Darwin.1840 -- Author Rudolf Baumbach lives.
1840 --
Australia: A mass meeting of workers is held in Sydney to protest legislation making conspiring to increase wages or improve working conditions illegal (it passes anyway, on Oct. 20).1841 -- Roman Catholic priest Blanchet states that Fr. Demers won over entire village of souls from the Methodists, near Willamette Falls, Oregon.
1850 -- US: Navy abolishes flogging on Navy & merchant marine vessels.
1856 -- Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, author, lives. Wrote Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Timothy's Quest, The Bird's Christmas Carol; organized first free kindergarten in San Francisco, established California Kindergarten Training School.
1864 -- England: Founding of the International Workingman's Association (IWA), the first Communist International, in London.
1868 -- France: A popular uprising is suppressed in Lyons. The anarchist Michael Bakunin, freshly arrived on the 15th of September, is now forced to flee in the face of an arrest warrant. He hid in Marseilles until October 24, 1870, then sailed from Marseilles back to Locarno (from whence he came on September 9).
[Sources]
1887 -- China: Huang Ho River floods, kills about 1.5 million.
1891 -- American novelist Herman Melville, 72, dies, New York, in obscurity to scanty obituary notices.
http://www.melville.org/
1892 -- Elmer Rice, playwright, lives, New York. Street Scene wins him a Pulitzer Prize in 1929.
http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1929
1893 -- US: Emma Goldman goes on trial in NY City. Found guilty of incitement to riot, sent back to the Tombs until the 18th of October, the day set for sentence, when the judge gave her a new rent-free home for a year at Blackwell's Island Penitentiary.
1895 -- Louis Pasteur, French bacteriologist, dies at 72.
1901 --
Philippines: Guerrillas ambush US troops at Balangiga, killing 48 US soldiers.DESTROY ALL GOO-GOOS
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Jake Smith orders his troops to kill everyone on the island.
This butchery earned the goodly "Hell Roaring" Jake promotion to brigadier general & put him in charge of the Samar campaign to pacify our "little brown brothers." In Samar, Smith earned fame with his orders to "kill everyone over the age of ten" & make the island "a howling wilderness." In May of 1902, Smith was court-martialed & was retired with no punishment.
http://www.reocities.com/Athens/Crete/9782/people.htm#smith
http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/DestroyAllGooGoos.htm
1904 -- NYC: Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in an open car on 5th Avenue.
1905 --
US: The directorate of the Mexican Liberal Party is formed, St. Louis, Mo. It is this party in which the Flores Magón brothers (Jesus, Enrique & Ricardo & other anarchists play such a prominent part, staging numerous military battles in an effort to overthrow the Mexican government.1906 --
Cuba: US troops reoccupy the country, & stay until 1909.1909 -- Poet/critic Stephen Spender lives, London.
1912 -- "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000.
1913 -- Author Ellis Peters lives.
1917 -- US: 166 Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World/IWW union activists) indicted for interfering with the war effort (the war to end all war). The first move in an illegal but successful US government campaign to cripple the radical union movement.
http://www.iww.org/
1918 --
Canada: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union is outlawed.
1919 -- US: Fastest major league baseball game (51 minutes), Giants beat Phillies 6-1.
1919 -- US: A mob forms outside the Omaha, NE, courthouse. The courthouse is set on fire & Mayor Ed. P. Smith is hanged. (He survives.)
They seize William Brown, a black man, accused of raping a white woman; he has been tossed in jail though crippled with rheumatism. The mob gets him, hang him, shoot him & then drag his body through town. Some reports say the mutilation of his body also includes extensive burns.
After committing these acts of savagery, the good citizens go on a rampage through downtown Omaha, breaking windows & stealing goods from storefronts. Troops are called in on the 30th to put an end to the chaos.
"It's considered one of the most notorious lynchings in the United States; tens of thousands of people were involved." — Laura Partridge, playwright, "Minstrel Show"
1920 -- US: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox indicted by a grand jury on charges of conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in what became known as the Black Sox Scandal. The players were acquitted at trial, but blackballed from organized baseball for the rest of their lives. (See 9 October.)
"The injustice is clear. It was the city, the system, & the society that was crooked, not the players. . . So, in the end, the owners won & the workers lost..."
— Ricky Durst, "Shoeless Joe & Juris Rudkus"
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/blacksox.html
1920 -- Italy: DURING September a widespread occupation of Italian factories by their work forces is taking place, which originated in the auto factories, steel mills & machine tool plants of the metal sector but spread out into many other industries — cotton mills & hosiery firms, lignite mines, tire factories, breweries & distilleries, & steamships & warehouses in the port towns.
The factory occupations again Northern Italy,as they had in March & April earlier this year. With the mass factory occupations in September 1920 a defining moment is reached...
[Details / context]
1923 -- Fug You!! Anarchist songster, author Tuli Kupferberg lives! (Coca Cola Douche, CIA Man, Paint It Red [&Black], Wide, Wide River.) "One of the leading Anarchist theorists of our time," according to "Reader's Digest" (4/87). Author of 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft & 1001 Ways to Live Without Working.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2aKE9VL-f0
http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/tuli-kupferberg-of-fugs-rocks-inner.html
1930 -- US: Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive baseball games. The winning pitcher is Babe Ruth, beating the Red Sox 9-3.
1936 -- Spain: National plenum of CNT regionals. (Here Horacio Martínez Prieto launches his political collaborationist ("pajaros carpinteros"), efforts which eventually put him outside the anarchist movement.)
1937 -- Spain: With Augustin Souchy, Emma Goldman leaves Valencia for Barcelona, which comes under bombardment by Franco's fascist forces a few days later.Souchy asked Emma to work for the foreign-language press office of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo-Federación Anarquista Ibérica (CNT-FAI).
Souchy, with Arthur Lehning & Rudolf Rocker, was a founder of the German FAUD in 1919.
Augustin Souchy, German anarchist pacifist, see August 28, 1892
http://blackeyepress.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/self-management/
http://...translate.google.com...2iOhlTFRUgVxPDDQ
1938 -- Victor Jara,
singer of freedom, lives, Chile.
Chilean song-writer, activist, martyr of the Pinochet coup.
Long-running alternate Saint on this dateHe grew up to be a fighter
Against the people's wrongs
He listened to their grief & joy
& turned them into songs
His hands were gentle, his hands were strong
— "Victor Jara," words by Adrian Mitchell, music by Arlo Guthrie
Murdered by the US-installed puppet government, along with thousands of others, in an American-sponsored overthrow of the democratically elected government.
http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/victor-jara.shtml
http://web.archive.org/...patriagrande.net/chile/victor.jara/
http://un-inviernocongelado.blogspot.com/2008/08/victor-jara.html?zx=96b43c1ed7000bbc
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~peer/arundhatiRoy.html
1941 -- Ted Williams assures his +.400 baseball average on this last day with six hits.
1943 -- Denmark: Underground anti-Nazi activists begin systematic smuggling of Jews to Sweden.
1950 -- US: John Sayles lives. Edgar Award-winning novelist (The Anarchist's Convention, Union Dues, etc.), independent film director (Lone Star, Passion Fish, Eight Men Out, The Secret of Roan Inish, & Matewan), screenwriter who frequently plays small roles in his own & other indie films. Sayles got his start in film working with Roger Corman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sayles
1953 -- Rubble? Edwin P. Hubble astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at 63.
1953 -- US: Six-year-old Robert Greenlease kidnapped from a Catholic School in Kansas City by Carl Austin Hall & Bonnie Brown Heady. The two collected a $600,000 ransom, but murdered the boy anyway. When captured, nearly half the ransom money mysteriously disappeared. Arresting officers failed to account for the missing funds, & in an ensuing trial, they were convicted of perjury.
1960 -- US: Ted Williams' last baseball at-bat is his 521st homer, off hapless "Fat" Jack Fisher. Almost an exact year from today (the 26th), "Fat Jack" serves up Roger Maris' famed dinger (#60, tying Babe Ruth's record).
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fisheja01.shtml
1964 -- Harpo [Arthur] Marx, comedian, dies at 75.
1964 --The Situationist International commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA) by releasing a postcard bearing a portrait of Marx saying:
"On 28 September 1964, it will be exactly one hundred years since we founded the Situationist International. It's starting to take shape!"
The caption is a line from de Sade, "How can lawful pleasures be compared to those which embody not only much more piquant delights but also the priceless joy of breaking all social taboos & overturning all laws?"
1965 -- Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Philippines).
1966 -- French surrealist André Breton dies, Paris, France. One of the founders of the Surrealist movement. Called the Pope of Surrealism (as well as "A Corpse") by his detractors.
Shockwave movie source: http://www.surrealisme.nl/tekst/linksn.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
1966 -- US: Dozens of anti-war demonstrators disrupt address of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Vice President ("Dump the Humph!") Humphrey at Olympic Hotel in Seattle.
1966 -- US: National Guard quells riots in Hunter's Point & Fillmore neighborhoods of Frisco, California.
1968 -- Brazil: Edgard Leuenroth (1881-1968) dies.Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth at Brazil’s Universidade Estadual de Campinas is the largest archive of anarchist material in South America, followed by Biblioteca Popular ‘Jose Ingenieros’ in Buenos Aires (founded in 1935).
1969 -- West Germany: First (postwar) Socialists take power (Willy Brandt & Social Democrats in coalition with Free Democrats).
1970 -- John Dos Passos dies. American novelist, developed a fictional style incorporating documentary devices to lend realism to his work. His most notable achievement, the trilogy U.S.A., chronicled the disintegration of American social values as a consequence of 20th-century capitalism. Independent leftist radical in the 20s & 30s, later became a Cold War warrior.all right we are two nations
America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws & fenced off the meadows & cut down the woods & turned our pleasant cities into slums & sweated the wealth out of our people & when they want to hire the executioner to throw the switch
but do they know that the old words of the immigrants are being renewed in blood & agony tonight do they know that the old american speech of the haters of oppression is new tonight in the mouth of an old woman from Pittsburgh of a husky boilermaker from Frisco who hopped freights clear from the Coast to come here...
1970 --
1971 -- The NY Times reports on the growing interest among white youths in black gospel music.
1971 -- Chile: Following years of corporate plunder, the government expropriates Anaconda & Kennecott copper mines....The man in the river
wears a white shirt, dark pants & sprawls
as if sleeping while water riffles his hair.
This is a photograph from the coup or golpe,
meaning also hit or shock — just one death
from thirty thousand...
— Stephen Dobyns, "Paco"http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/dobyns.htm
http://www.docspopuli.org/
http://recollectionbooks.com/cs/index.htm#chile
1972 -- US: The Secretary of the Army repeals the dishonorable discharges of 167 Brownsville (Texass) Raid soldiers. The soldiers, members of the 25th Infantry who were involved in a riot with the city's police & merchants, were dishonorably discharged by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Theodore Roosevelt without a trial.
1973 -- US: A bomb devastates part of the Latin American section of the ITT building in New York City, in retaliation for ITT's involvement (along with CIA) in the bloody overthrow of Chile's Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Allende one week ago.
http://web.archive.org/...patriagrande.net/estados.unidos/cia.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
http://recollectionbooks.com/cs/index.htm#chile
http://web.archive.org/...stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/german/exhibit/GDRposters/chile.html
1974 -- John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM, New York City.
1978 -- John Paul I, [Albino Luciano], Pope, dies after 33 days as pope — under suspicious circumstances. (Dies quietly in his sleep of exhaustion; too pooped to pope?)
1981 -- US: Director & assistant of research lab in Maryland convicted on 15 counts of cruelty to animals.
1990 --
1990 --
1991 -- American jazz great Miles Davis, 65, dies from pneumonia, Santa Monica, California.http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/miles-davis.html
1992 --
1992 --
"Gimme a pigfoot & a bottle of beer..."
"Gimme a reefer & a gang of gin..."
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/bluemoon.htm
1994 -- México: Top PRI political leader Ruiz Massieu assassinated.
1994 -- Bolivia: Indigenous people from around the globe meet to discuss bio-piracy, the theft of local botanical resources (such as medicines) by international corporations.
http://www.nativeforest.org/
1996 -- England: The anarchist "Reclaim the Future" alliance throws its weight alongside sacked dockers & their trade union & socialist supporters. A massive anniversary demo triggered a 24 hour strike by tugme.
http://www.labournet.net/docks2/9610/demo.htm
1997 --
2000 -- Czech Republic: 'Battle of Prague' continues . . .
http://www.sherwood.it/
http://www.infoshop.org/s26.html
2001 -- US: Frisco Critical Mass bike ride.
2001 --
2001 --
2002 --
3000 --BURROUGHS: I'm always asking rock 'n' roll people if they know who Petrillo is, & none of them do. Well, they wouldn't have a dime if it weren't for Petrillo because he organized the Musicians' Union way back at the end of the 30s. & that is why they make money on their records. There wouldn't be any white Rolls Royces or anything like that...
MORGAN: Did Jimmy Page know who Petrillo was when you talked to him?
BURROUGHS: (laughs) No. I'll tell you one who would know is Mick Jagger. He's a businessman, he went to the London School of Economics.
— William S. Burroughs
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