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DECEMBER 5
GEORGE BRECHT
American Fluxus artist, chemist, vanguard composer.
American Fluxus artist, chemist, vanguard composer.
Ancient Rome: FESTIVAL OF FAUNUS. Feasting & merrymaking.
Belgium: ST. NICHOLAS' EVE. Black Peter, Nick's Moorish servant, drops down the chimney with gifts for the children.
A commodity has value ... A gift has worth.
— Lewis Hyde
1349 -- Jews are massacred at Nuremberg in Black death riots.
1484 --The pope establishes severe penalties against German witches & magicians; over the next 300 years perhaps 200,000 accused witches are executed. It's a mean nasty ugly job, but somebody has to do it...& who better but the Catholic Church?
1770 -- Six of the British troops involved in the Boston Massacre found innocent, largely due to defense attorney John Adams' intimation that Crispus Attucks, America's first black hero, may have caused "the dreadful carnage of that night" with his "mad behavior...at the head of...[a] rabble of Negroes..."
1784 -- Phillis Wheatley dies, aged about 31 years, Boston. First black woman poet &, after Anne Bradstreet, only the second woman poet of note in the US. The 39 poems inPoems on Various Subjects, Religious & Moral, published in 1773 in England under the sponsorship of the Countess of Huntingdon, help spread her reputation in Europe as well as in America.
1791 -- Masonic conspirator Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies, Vienna, Austria.
Real Conversation at a Video Store:
Tara: I've come to pick up "The Draughtsman's Contract."
Clerk: Would you like another movie?
Tara: Sure, do you have anything else like this?
Clerk: You mean like, with MEN WITH BIG HAIR??
Tara: Yeah!
Clerk: Um, have you tried "Amadeus"?
http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/costhistpage.htm
1804 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Thomas Jefferson re-elected US president, George Clinton is his vice-president.
1830 -- Poet Christina Rossetti lives, London. Sister of fellow poet Dante Gabriel & historian William Michael Rossetti.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rossetti.htm
1854 -- Folding theatre chair patented.
1860 --
1876 -- Monkey Is As Monkey Do?: Anarchist Daniel Stillson patents first practical pipe wrench; forms a gang, then throws it in the works.
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:02:41 -0500 (EST)
[.....] Published by Congressional Quarterly & the CQ Daily Monitor:
TODAY'S TRIVIA: The first monkey wrench was produced in 1854 at Bernis & Call in Springfield, Mass., part of the state's 2nd District.
[Of course I have Dec 5, they have the 6th.... Just another monkey in the works(!?) —ed.].
1880 -- Italy: Anarchist Congress convenes at Chiasso (Tessin), presided over by Carlo Cafiero. Among participants is Kropotkin & G. Herzig, Malatesta & Merlino, Johann Neve, Joseph Lane, Louise Michel, Émile Gautier, Victorine Rouchy, Chauviere, Miss Lecomte, Tchaikowski, etc.
[Details / context]
1885 -- US: American sex/pol radical Louise Bryant lives, Reno, Nevada.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint 2005-2008
Greenwich Village sexual & political rebel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bryant
1885 --Italy: Maria Rygier lives.
1890 -- Filmmaker Fritz Lang lives, Vienna, Austria.
1896 -- France: Henry Poulaille lives, Paris. Novelist, anarchiste, publisher of proletarian authors, director of éditions Grasset, the journal Le nouvel âge littéraire, founder of "Le musée du soir."
1896 --
1897 -- Jewish mystic Gershom Sholem lives, Berlin, Germany.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint 2003-4
Modern Jewish mystic, Kabbalist, renegade radical.
1897 -- Nunnally Johnson lives. American screenwriter, producer, director, who made scripts for such film as The Grapes of Wrath (1940, directed by John Ford), The Woman in the Window (1944, directed by Fritz Lang), & How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), starring Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, & Betty Grable.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nunnally.htm
1899 -- England: The anarchist historian & collector Max Nettlau reads "Responsibility & Solidarity in the Labour Struggle" to the Freedom Discussion Group. This became one of his favorite works.
1901 -- Animator, amusement park builder Walt Disney lives. Fascist symp & FBI informer on Hollywood "subversives."
1901 -- Bavaria: Theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg probably lives, Wurzburg.
WERNER HEISENBERG 1997 PATRON SAINT
German quantum theorist who may have helped slow Nazi progress in development of atomic weaponry.
1908 -- First football uniform numerals used, University of Rome.
1908 -- Bulgaria: The newspaper Acratie first appears, in Razgrad. Founded by Varban Kilifarski, it represents the largest diffusion of anarchist & anarcho-syndicalist thought in the country before the First World War. The last number appears on January 27, 1911.
Three issues of the paper were published clandestinely in Tirnovo in 1924-1925, by Gueorgui Cheitanov.
Cheitanov was eventually captured & executed, along with his companion Mariola Sirakova & others, by the fascist government during a crackdown on leftists.Masthead: premier number, Acratie, 5 décembre 1908
Images courtesy Ephéméride anarchiste
1910 -- Abraham Polonsky lives. American director, screenwriter, novelist, who wrote essays, radio scripts & several novels before starting his career in Hollywood.
1912 -- General Strikes in both Germany & US in response to declarations of war yesterday — no one will go to war — forcing cancellation of the war within the week. (Jack London, The Iron Heel.)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jlondon.htm
Jack London Collection at:
http://london.sonoma.edu/ Includes The Iron Heel; chapter 13 is about the General Strike,
http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/IronHeel/chapter13.html
1916 -- US: Keeping Up With the Joneses?: Having conquered Puerto Rico in 1898, the Jones Act is today approved, with this law:
1. Puerto Rico becomes US territory.
2. US nationalizes all Puerto Ricans as a citizens & allows Puerto Ricans to elect their legislature. (300 reject citizenship & many others refuse to join the army.) Amended in 1921, 1927, 1928, 1931, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1947.
1918 -- Theodore Schroeder, letter, to: Editor, League for The Amnesty of Political Prisoners, sending copies of letters to Wilson appealing for release & letter by Hutchins Hapgood. TL, 1 p.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/joseph-ishill-authors-artists-oriole-press/schroedr.html
1919 -- US: Representative Isaac Siegel, after a trip to Ellis Island yesterday, declares he has discovered
"I found a boy on the Island — Thomas Buhokanob, 17 years old, a native of Russia, who came here seven years ago. He was educated in Public School 38. He read anarchist books out of the Harlem Public Library. Then he helped circulate Emma Goldman's 'Mother Earth.' After that he went to Greenpoint, where he organized Russians who could not speak English & taught them what he had learned about anarchy.
"He told me he did not believe in the Constitution, in any form of government or in God."
Mr. Siegel is a member of the House Congressional Committee appointed to investigate conditions at the Island.
Mr. Siegel said the committee would meet in Washington on Monday, when it will question Secretary of Labor Wilson, Louis F. Post, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor, & other officials.
1919 -- US: "Made Anarchists" — Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman — detained at Ellis Island.
1919 -- M.L. Polonsky, Bolshevik, commander of a regiment of the Makhnovist army, arrested by the Makhnovist counter-intelligence under suspicion of planning to kill Nestor Makhno, is shot today.
1919 --
Source: http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#BarcelonaCronica
1923 -- One of the founders of the Irish Literary Theatre, Edward Martyn, dies in Tulira, County Galway, Ireland. Broke with the mainstream of Irish revivalism, but later helped found the Irish Theatre in Dublin. Some of his noted plays are The Heather Field & Maeve.
1925 -- The Man Who Cried I Am: American author John A. Williams lives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Williams
1929 -- US: Folks just hanging out(!), form first US nudist organization, American League for Physical Culture, New York City.I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
— Unnamed 13-year-old
1931 -- Clean Old Man?: Vachel Lindsay, 52, commits suicide by drinking Lysol.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lindsay/lindsay.htm
1932 -- German physicist Albert Einstein fleeing Nazi Germany, granted a Visa, after rejection by Amex, Discover, Mastercard.
"With his own private horrors further unfolded into an ideology of the mortal & uncontinued self, Brock came to visit, & strangely to comfort, in the half-lit hallways of the night, leaning in darkly in above her like any of the sleek raptors that decorate fascist architecture."— Thomas Pynchon, Vineland.
1933 -- US: Drinkers toast the end of Prohibition & the end of an era.
It had been 14 years between (legal) drinks. The long dry spell ended at 5:32 p.m., when Utah became the last of 36 states to ratify the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution (repealing the 18th Amendment, that had prohibited all booze).
1934 -- Joan Didion lives, Sacramento, California. Novelist (Play It As It Lays) & observer of contemporary mores (The White Album; Salvador). She notes of the writing profession,
"Writers are always selling somebody out."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion
1936 --
http://recollectionbooks.com/links.html#WilliamFaulkner
1936 --Mystery novelist James Lee Burke lives.
http://www.jamesleeburke.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lee_Burke
1937 --
"Lucy Parsons", a poem by Aaron Kramer, appears in the Sunday Worker today.
Click image for larger version
1942 -- US: Fred Tayama is attacked & seriously injured by a group of inmates at Manzanar. The arrest of the popular Harry Ueno for the crime triggers a mass uprising.
[Sources]
1943 --
1944 -- US: Wildcat strike at Dodge truck plant, Detroit, Michigan. One of many "illegal" wartime strikes.
Source: [Calendar Riots]
1946 -- US: Alexander Schapiro dies in New York. Russian-born anarcho-syndicalist & an important figure in the international movement. Secretary of the anti-authoritarian A.I.T. ("Association internationale des travailleurs").
http://www.ephemanar.net/decembre1.html#shapiro
http://www.ephemanar.net/decembre25.html#rocker
1947 --
1950 -- The Danish Baker Street Irregulars (Sherlock Holmes Klubben i Danmark) is founded. The first meeting was held at Buriis on January 5th...
http://www.sherlockiana.dk/shklub/selskaber.shtml
http://www.sherlockian.net/
1951 -- US: "Dragnet" premiers.
1951 -- US: "Shoeless Joe" Jackson (1888-1952), of baseball's "Black Sox" scandal, dies.
Baseball player banned from the sport, one of its most fabled characters whose haunting quality of his life infuses W.P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe as well as the Kevin Kostner film based on the book, Field of Dreams. Illiterate & terrified of the big cities, he reluctantly went to the major league, & in 13 years hit .356 before his banishment. His favorite bat, "Black Betsy," was given to him in 1908 by a cab driver, & still exists today (recently put up for auction on Ebay with a minimum $500,000 bid).
1954 -- Author Hanif Kureishi lives.
1955 -- US: Two largest American labor organizations merge to form the AFL-CIO, with membership about 15 million. George Meany president. Asa P. Randolph & Willard S. Townsend, African Americans, are elected vice-presidents.
1955 -- US: Montgomery, Alabama civil-rights bus boycott begins. Lasts for 54 weeks, to end segregation practices.
Rosa Park's refusal to give up her bus seat on 1 December starts year-long Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott by 30-40,000 Negro riders (out of a Negro population of 50,000). The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) is formed to coordinate the boycott, & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is elected president. Boycott ends in victory 21 December 1956).
1955 --Spain: Nuevo flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla lives, San Fernando. Died in 1992, some 100,000 people attending his funeral & in 2000 was awarded the Golden Key of Flamenco — only the fourth key awarded since 1862.
CAMARÓN DE LA ISLA, Patron Saint 2006-2010
Spanish nuevo flamenco cantao, countercultural rebel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I1Yf8RHsZc
http://vimeo.com/2242123
1956 --
1957 --
1963 -- Ghana: French soldiers stop protest march from Accra against French nuclear weapons tests. Western Sahara, Africa.
1965 -- High Seas: Sleeps With Fishes?: Aircraft loaded with a nuclear bomb rolls off a US aircraft carrier somewhere in the mid-Pacific. The plane, with the pilot & the bomb, sank in 16,000 feet of water. It has not been recovered.
1965 --
1967 --US: Dr. Benjamin Spock & poet Allen Ginsberg among those arrested at New York City army induction center, opposing the Vietnam War.
December 5-8, "Stop the Draft Week" at Whitehall, NY Army Induction Center.
Over 500 arrested. Demonstrations also occurred in Madison, Manchester, N.H., Cincinnati, New Haven.
1967 -- England: Opening of Apple Shop, Baker St, London, with murals by The Fool.
1967 --
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]
1968 -- Dámaso Alonso es elegido presidente de la Real Academia.
http://www.elmundo.es/larevista/num132/textos/crono.html
1972 -- Australia: End of conscription announced.
1974 -- Monty Python's final episode airs on BBC.
1978 --
1981 --
1982 -- Interviewer asks Fran Lebowitz "Do you ever use a thesaurus?"
"No. I've never been able to figure out how to use one. I must have been absent that day.""Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly & unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet & the feeling will pass."
1984 -- Taiwan: 93 workers killed in mine disaster.
1984 -- England: Author & anarchist Ethel Mannin dies, Teignmouth.
1990 --
1991 --
1996 --A rightwing paramilitary squad of the United Self Defense Forces (AUC) appears at the gate into the Coke bottling plant. Isidro Segundo Gil, a member of the union's executive board, went to see what they wanted. The paras open fire on him, & he hit the ground, mortally wounded.
1997 -- Rudolf Bahro stirbt an einem Krebsleiden in Berlin. Dies age 62. (What some call a Watermelon Man...Green on the outside, Red on the inside.)
"The Greens are almost worse than useless," he said. "They have become so much a part of the system that capitalism would have had to invent them if they weren't here already."
http://www.hdg.de/lemo/html/biografien/BahroRudolf/
http://www.umweltdebatte.de/bahro-beitraege.htm
http://www.democracynature.org/dn/vol4/hart_melle_bahro.htm
1999 -- US: Seattle, post WTO.
Making the world safe for capitalism
2002 --
http://anarcoefemerides.balearweb.net/post/61879
http://www.ephemanar.net/mai17.html#borras
2003 -- Italy: Convegno Malatesta: Entre el 5 i el 7 de desembre de 2003 es realitza al Palazzo dello Spagnuolo de Nàpols / Memorial meeting (Naples, December 5-7 ) in memory of Errico Malatesta, 150 years after his birth.
In spite of his comprehensive & open-minded temper, for his perseverance in his ideas & in his political praxis Malatesta became — & still is — one of the most remarkable personalities of the Italian & international anarchist movement.
He was one of the most famous revolutionaries in his times & he became an icon of freedom for the Italian working class movement. After the Second World War, authorities & "official" history tried to delete all of his life & theories from historical memory.
This meeting intends to counter this situation...unofficial history.
http://isole.ecn.org/contropotere/convegno/inglese.htm
2008 -- US: Wall Street aristocracy gets $1.2 Trillion in secret loans today alone, dwarfing the $700 billion publicized TARP loans. These banks (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, & many others) were proclaiming their health while secretly being saved & growing bigger by the hidden bailout — raking in an estimated $13 billion in profits from those loans while they were at it — while they continued fighting against government regulation & oversight.
http://www.infowars.com/secret-fed-loans-gave-banks-undisclosed-13b/
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/8623-secret-fed-loans-gave-banks-undisclosed-13-billion
2008 -- American Fluxus sound artist George Brecht dies, Cologne, Germany.
3000 --
"Never judge a cover by its book."
— Fran Lebowitz
3500 --
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