Thich Nhat Hanh,
Zen master, scholar, poet & peace advocate
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AUGUST 29
CHARLIE PARKER
"Bird." Likely to remain most brilliant jazz artist ever.
Vevey, Switzerland: SWISS WINEGROWERS' FETE, a revival of the Roman Festival of Ceres, Goddess of the Earth, complete with Ceres, Pales, Bacchus, Old Silenus, satyrs & fauns & Swiss yodelers. (See Footnote)
30 -- Beheading of St. John, the Baptist.
284 -- Origin of Era of Diocletian.
1475 -- England again invades France. Probably to "protect French interests."
1533 -- Atahualpa, 13th & last emperor of the Inca empire in present-day Peru, is put to death by Spanish conquistador Pizarro.
"Yes."
"You were here?" the children will ask.
"No. None of our people who were here survived."
The poet will point to the moving clouds & the sway of the treetops.
"See the lances?" he will ask. "See the horses' hooves? The rain of arrows? The smoke? Listen," he will say, & put his ear against the ground, filled with explosions.
& he will teach them to smell history in the wind, to touch it in stones polished by the river, & to recognize its taste by chewing certain herbs, without hurry, as one chews on sadness.
Eduardo Galeano, Memory of Fire
1625 -- John Fletcher dies in London. Worked collectively on more than 50 plays; among his own, The Wild-Goose Chase, noted for its irony & easy wit, is perhaps the best.
1758 -- US: First Indian reservation established. The American reservation system provided Adolf Hitler with a blueprint for Germany's concentration camps during the Nazi reign.
"Maybe we should not have humored them when they asked to live on reservations. Maybe we should have said, No, come join us. Be citizens along with the rest of us."
1769 -- Aces In The Hole?: Edmond Hoyle ("According to Hoyle") dies in London at 97, 27 years after publishing A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist.
1786 -- US: As part of Shays' Rebellion, 1,500 farmers close the court at Northampton by the end of the year the uprising embraces 9,000 insurgents & the whole of New England. The uprising opposes the authority of the central government, newly installed, based on the US Constitution a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South & moneyed interests of the North which reflected their fear of the common people.
See also William Brinton's An Abridged History of the United States
Background on the Constitution & the owners of America, see Ferdinand Lundberg, Gore Vidal, Lewis Lapham, etc. Source: 'Calendar Riots'
1809 -- Oliver Wendell Holmes lives, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
1810 -- Canada: Over 600 prostitutes are counted in Lower Canada (Quebec).
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1820 -- Portugal: Revolution spreads to Lisboa & expels the regency.
1842 -- At the conclusion of the first Anglo-Chinese War, also known as the First Opium War, the Treaty of Nanking is signed, ceding the island of Hong Kong to the British & winning European merchants more loot profits in China.
1844 -- Canada: First white-Indian lacrosse game in Montreal. Indians win.
1844 -- Edward Carpenter lives (1844-1929. Homosexual & early proponent of gay rights, utopian & libertarian socialist, poet, songwriter, pacifist. Amongst his writings was Non-Governmental Society (1911). Influenced by William Morris, Carpenter in turn influenced many himself. E.M. Forster described him as "a poet, a prose writer, a mystic, a manual labourer, an anti-vivisectionist, an art critic, etcetera." http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUcarpenter.htm http://www.ephemanar.net/aout29.html
1854 -- Australian-born English folklore scholar & one of the most popular 19th-century adapters of children's fairy tales, Joseph Jacobs, lives, in Sydney. During his immigrations to England & the US, he wrote such scholarly & popular works on folklore as English Fairy Tales (1890), Indian Fairy Tales (1892), The Fables of Aesop (1894), The Book of Wonder Voyages (1896), & Europa's Fairy Book (1916).
1862 --
Maurice Maeterlinck lives.
Belgian Symbolist playwright & poet
awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize for Literature.
His work represents an outstanding example
of Symbolist poetry & theater. The play
Pell้as & M้lisande, with
musical setting by Claude Debussy & also by
Jean Sibelius, & the allegorical fantasy for
children, The Blue Bird are among
his better known works.
1865 -- US: "Battle" of Tongue River; Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader General Connor leads troops in dawn attack on a sleeping Arapaho village in Dakota Territory, killing at least 60. Connor was relieved of command for killing women & children, but practice continues.
"The effect of the trial of Malatesta & Co. in the three Apulias is incredible. The jury the richest men of the province even immediately after the verdict shook hands with the accused who were received in triumph."
The jury was composed of the richest landowners & there was military display. The public prosecutor told the jury verbatim:
If you do not find these men guilty, they will come some day to abduct your wives, violate your daughters, steal your property, destroy the fruits of the sweat of your brows, & you will be left ruined, miserable & branded with dishonor.
The jury after the verdict mixes with the cheering crowd & publicly & privately in Trani the acquitted meet with the most cordial expressions of sympathy. If only the government would multiply the trials, Cafiero concludes, they may cost years of prison to some of us, but they will do the anarchist cause immense good.
1877 -- US: Mormon strongman Brigham Young is young no longer.
1879 -- Canada: Miners' in Springhill, Nova Scotia decide to form a Provincial Miners' Association to protect their interests during a strike.
1883 -- High Seas: Seismic sea waves created by the Krakatoa eruption create a rise in the English Channel 32 hours after the explosion.
1888 -- H. Rider Haggard begins writing the novel Eric Brighteyes.
1900 -- Italy: Exactly one month after assassinating King Umberto, the anarchist Gaetano Bresci, appears in court, defended by Francesco Saverio Merlino. He is convicted & sentenced to seven years in a one day trial. In May 1901 he is found dead in his prison cell, likely killed by his guards.
The attentat was in retribution for the Milan massacres of 1898.
1911 -- US: Ishi, last Stone Age man in America, surrenders. Of 2,000 alive in 1864, only 50 were alive in 1865. The rest were killed by whites.
1917 -- Canada: 5,000 Montrealers start a 2-day riot against the draft as the Canadian Military Service Act (conscription) becomes law.
1920 -- Charlie "Bird" Parker hatched, Kansa City, Missouri. One of the leaders of the bebop movement & noted for his works "Ko Ko" & "In the Still of the Night," among others. The famous jazz club, Birdland, in New York City named in his honor.
1921 -- US: Newspapers report that Ku Klux Klan members have tarred & feathered 43 Texans in the past seven days.
During the fear & government repression following WWI, the Klan makes an astonishing comeback. The group's platform attacks African Americans, Catholics & Jews. By 1924, the Klan has 4.5 million members & enormous political clout in some states. At Indiana's Republican convention in 1923, the state Klan head will walk down the aisle with a pistol strapped to his waist. Georgia's Klan chief, Hiram Wesley Evans, runs for president. In Texass, the Klan controls two-thirds of the state's county conventions.
1924 -- Dinah Washington lives, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Performs with Lionel Hampton from 1943 to 1946 & becomes one of the most popular R & B singers of the 1950's & early 1960's.
1932 -- Netherlands: The International Anti-War Committee is formed in Amsterdam (??This entry is murky; there was an International Antiwar Congress, Amsterdam (August 27-29); another on August 30, 1907, parallel to the famous 1907 Amsterdam Anarchist Congress; also founding congress of "l'Association Internationale Antimilitariste" (A.I.A.) in Amsterdam in 1904.
1939 -- US: Land of the Free? San Antonio Municipal Auditorium Riot. Emma Tenayuca is prevented from speaking to a Communist meeting by anti-Communist rioters.
Emma Tenayuca, a labor activist, is scheduled to speak at a small meeting of the Communist Party at the Municipal Auditorium. Her husband, Homer Brooks, & Elizabeth Benson are also to speak. Mayor Maury Maverick had granted the auditorium meeting permit.
As Emma tried to hold the meeting, an estimated 5,000 Brave Texicans stormed the auditorium, "huntin' Communists." Men, bricks, & rocks were trucked in for the attack. (Remember the Alamo!!)
Police managed to get Emma to safety, but she was hounded by death threats long after the riot. Members of the Ku Klux Klan drove by Mayor Maverick's house & tried to kill him & his family the night of the riot.
Afterwards Emma was blacklisted in San Antonio. Unable to obtain work, she moved to Houston, & later to San Franciso to work & study.
1952 -- John Cage composition "4 Minutes 33 Seconds" premiers, Woodstock, NY. It is scored for piano or "any group of instruments" (It is 4 minutes 33 seconds of silence; damn anarchists...).
1956 -- US: Republican National Committee announces the GOP will henceforth refer to the opposition as the "Democrat" party instead of "Democratic" party, because "'Democratic' is not descriptive of the party as it exists today."
1957 -- US: Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, the first since 1875. The bill establishes a Civil Rights Commission & a Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond sets the all-time filibuster record 24 hours, 19 minutes as he attempts to prevent his colleagues from adopting the bill.
1958 -- Michael Jackson lives. Performs with the family group the Jackson 5 & later, as a solo artist, becomes one of pop & R & B's foremost stars. His solo album Off the Wall (1979) sells 7 million copies surpassed only by Thriller, his largest-selling album.
1961 -- US: SNCC voter registration drive begins in the South. Bob Moses beaten while trying to register two voters in Liberty (sic), Mississippi.
1961 -- US: An 867-kg leatherback turtle is caught off Monterey, Calif. (the largest known turtle).
1962 -- Permafrost?: At age 88, Robert Frost departs for a goodwill tour of the U.S.S.R. sponsored by the US State Department.
1965 -- Beatles go bowling, Hollywood Bowl.
1966 -- The Beatles perform their last public concert. It's in front of 25,000 faithful at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The boys played 11 songs in just over a half an hour, opening with "Rock & Roll Music" & closing with "Long Tall Sally."
Beatlemania swept San Francisco as the "Fab Four" performed in concert at Candlestick Park. It was the Beatles' last public appearance together. Also appearing were The Cyrkle, The Ronettes, & the Remains. Ticket purchases by mail were available from KYA, No. 1 Nob Hill Circle, San Francisco.
1967 -- US: Final TV episode of "The Fugitive." The one-armed-man done did it!
1967 -- England: Chinese Communist "diplomats" battle with London police.
1968 -- US: Chicago police brutally attack demonstrators, reporters & bystanders at the Democratic national convention: Antiwar protesters clash with police & national guardsmen in the streets outside, & hundreds of people, including innocent bystanders & members of the press, are brutally beaten by Chicago's finest.
"The whole world is watching." The official investigation later terms this a "police riot."
Meanwhile, Senator Eugene McCarthy & Dick Gregory are among others who address a crowd in Grant Park.
1970 -- US: Police attack 10,000 Chicano antiwar demonstrators after a march against the Vietnam draft; three are killed, & Chicanos set Los Angeles on fire, occupying many parts of the city for seven days.
Three die in East Los Angeles when an anti-war march turns into a riot during Chicano National Moratorium. Thousands of Chicanos gathered at Laguna Park in East L.A. to protest disproportionate number of deaths of Chicano soldiers in Vietnam.
LAPD attack & one shot, fired into Silver Dollar Bar, kills Ruben Salazar, LA Times columnist & commentator on KMEX TV (accused by LAPD of inciting the Chicano community.)
1970 -- US: Selective Service Systems reports prosecutions for draft evasion have increased 10 times over 1965 level.
1970 -- US: Huey Newton offers Black Panther troops to the Vietnamese National Liberation Front. Source: 'Calendar Riots
1971 -- England: Military wing of Edinburgh Castle bombed.
Source: [Calendar Riots]
1976 -- Jimmy Reed, the "Big Boss Man" of the blues, who was a major influence on Pete Townshend, the Rolling Stones & others, dies in Frisco. He was 50.
1976 -- Anissa Jones dies at 18.
1977 -- Three people are arrested in Memphis after trying to steal Elvis' body. As a result of that incident, the King's body is moved to Graceland.
1982 -- Ingrid Bergman, academy award winning actress, dies on her 67th birthday.
1983 -- Italy: "Radio Libertaria" is torched during the night of the 28 & 29 in Trieste (au moment o๙ "Radio Libertaire" Paris est saisie par le pouvoir socialiste), a case of arson perpetrated by fascists. http://www.ephemanar.net/aout29.html
1987 -- An American liquor company reports a 200% sales increase of its Brass Monkey cocktail mix, thanks to the Beastie Boys hit, "Brass Monkey."
1987 -- South Korea: After she is charged with swindling $8.7 million from followers, police find the bodies of cult leader Park Soon Ja & 31 followers in a factory, evidently the result of a suicide pact.
1990 -- US: Seattle Mariners becomes the first baseball team to have father-son teammates, signing Ken Griffey to play with son Ken Griffey, Jr.
1990 -- UN Security Council agrees to settlement to end 20-year civil war in Cambodia.
1991 -- Bosnia: Women call on women worldwide for peace. European Peace Caravan, Sarajevo.
1992 -- Radical analyst & schizo-theorist Felix Guattari dies, Paris. From his gravestone:
"There is no mark in the absence / the absence is a presence in me / the Club of Borders."
"One cannot escape the feeling, despite his supposedly radical intention, of an embrace of alienation, even a wallowing in estrangement & decadence."
1992 -- English children's writer & creator of the Borrowers series, Mary Norton, dies in Hartland, Dovonshire. The Borrowers (1952), her most renowned work, features the tiny Clock family & is considered a children's classic. There are four sequels.
1992 -- A news report says 500 Latin American journalists have been assassinated in the last 10 years. All assigned to the Obit Page on it rather than writing it to "protect US corporate interests" no doubt, if history teaches us anything about who owns the Americas.
1993 -- Brazil: Police murder 21 people at random in a Rio de Janeiro shantytown.
1996 -- Isaac Hayes, who co-wrote the Stax classic "Soul Man," sends protest letter to presidential candidate Bob Dole requesting he stop using his song, which his supporters had changed to "I'm A Dole Man."
"I believe the second half of the 20th century will be known as the Age of Nixon."
Bob Dole
2000 -- Panama: Panama University students & teachers burn likenesses of President Mireya Moscoso, Education Minister Doris Rosa de Mata & Supreme Court Justice Eligio Salas. The university protest opposes the government decision to abolish a law protecting the school budget.
2000 -- Australia: Government says it will restrict visits by UN human-rights inspectors because of criticism of its treatment of Aborigines.
2005 -- US: Hurricane Katrina hits the south, destroying much of New Orleans (thanks to the Army Corp of Engineers), where upwards of 50,000, mostly poor African Americans, are unable to escape. At least 28 government agencies, from local Louisiana parishes to the Bush White House reported New Orleans levees were breached, the Bush administration in the know as early as 8:30 a.m. EST.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/05/the-big-uneasy-documentar_n_671147.html
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Maurice Maeterlinck lives.
The attentat was in retribution for the Milan massacres of 1898.
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Italy: "Radio Libertaria" is torched during the night of the 28 & 29 in Trieste (au moment o๙ "Radio Libertaire" Paris est saisie par le pouvoir socialiste), a case of arson perpetrated by fascists. 
"I believe the second half of the 20th century will be known as the Age of Nixon."
