Elizabethan poet-dramatist Christopher Marlowe was not killed in 1593, but banished; he continued writing under the pseudonym "William Shakespeare." So say some.

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marlowe.htm

We poets hate hate & make war on war.

      — Pablo Neruda

Daily Bleed Saint 2004-05

German-Scottish libertarian anarchist, gay novelist.

"Mr Cooper drank 15 bottles of hydrogen beer in order to maximize the size of the flames he could belch during the contest. He catapulted balls of fire across the room that Godzilla would be proud of, but this was not enough to win him first prize since the judgement is made on the quality of the flames & that of the singing, & after 15 bottles of lager he was badly out of tune."

Button, in Philadelphia

"If the union had won," explained 1909 Triangle Shirtwaist Company striker Rose Safran,

"we would have been safe. Two of our demands were for adequate fire escapes & for open doors from the factories to the street. But the bosses defeated us & we didn't get the open doors or the better fire escapes. So our friends are dead."

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

1915 -- Soledad Estorach Esterri lives (1915-1993). Anarquista, feminist, member of Mujeres Libres, companion in arms with Concha Liaño.
http://www.nodo50.org/mujeresred/libertarias.htm
http://struggle.ws/ws99/ws57_mujeres.html
http://www.alasbarricadas.org/ateneovirtual/index.php/Soledad_Estorach_Esterri



1918 -- England: Women over 30 allowed to vote.


1918 -- Italy: Temistocle Monticelli, secretary of the Comitato di Azione Internazionalista Anarchica (Anarchist International Committee of Action), arrested, relegated. Other members arrested & confined at Lipari are Emilio Raimondo, Pasquale Binazzi & his partner Petroni Carlotta Zelmira (see July 1920 reference page). Organized during the war, among the committee's major activities was providing support for the victims of repression, for internees & for exiles. With their arrests, & that of Torquato Gobbi, & the death of Gregorio Benvenuti, the committee was broken up.
[Details / context] Le 6 février 1918, à Rome, arrestation du compagnon Temistocle Monticelli, secrétaire du "Comitato di Azione Internazionalista Anarchica" (Comité d'Action Internationaliste Anarchiste); celui-ci est envoyé en relégation. D'autres anarchistes comme Emilio Raimondo, Pasquale Binazzi et sa compagne Zelmira sont confinés à Lipari où à Nola. // in Rome, arrest of the companion Temistocle Monticelli, secretary of the “Comitato di Azione Internazionalista Anarchica” (Committee of Action Anarchistic Internationalist); this one is sent in relegation. Other anarchists like Emilio Raimondo, Pasquale Binazzi & his/her Zelmira partner are confined in Lipari where in Nola.




1919 -- US: Seattle General Strike begins, 10am. Shipyard strike of 32,000 workers sparks General Strike as workers take control of the city for a week. Crime drops dramatically.

Began in response to government sanctioned wage cuts. Sees the formation of a workers, soldiers & sailors council. Succumbs to bureaucratic labor union intervention as the latter scramble to seize control.

It is this sort of 'wildcat' activism which leads the Postmaster General, in the 30s, to refer to the US as being comprised of these
"47 states & the Soviet of Washington".

Harvey O'Connor's sympathetic Revolution in Seattle remains the best book on this event. Originally published by Monthly Review Press; reprinted, with new introduction by BleedMeister, by Left Bank Books Collective (no longer publishing books) in Seattle.

See also Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States.
Also see the excellent Seattle General Strike Project page:
http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/
http://www.washington.edu...The%20Cold%20War%20and%20Red%20Scare%20in%20Washington%20State.pdf
http://struggle.ws/hist_texts/seattle1919_p2.html


1921 -- Charlie Chaplin silent movie "The Kid" is released.


1922 -- Italy: Mussolini fa l'elogio del nuovo Papa Pio XI. Si vuole così accattivare il consenso dei cattolici.
Source: [Crimini e Misfatti]


1926 -- Kurt Weill orchestral work "Quodlibet" premiers, Coburg, Germany.


1931 -- Charlie Chaplin silent movie "City Lights" is released.


1932 -- French filmmaker Francois Truffaut lives.

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Not literally true. Here's what I have:

Feb. 1935 Parker Brothers introduces the game of "Monopoly" — probably what your entry refers to, but I haven't been able to find the exact day.

Mar. 7, 1933 Charles Darrow invents the game of "Monopoly," Philadelphia — this is probably the date on his patent or patent application.

— Bleedster Robert Braunwart

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May Day Monopoly Website WOMBLES UK, May Day Monopoly Game Guide to Anti-Capitalist Actions in London on Tuesday 1 May 2001

The game of monopoly is one of accumulation, making it perfect for our times. The aim is for each player to make profits through the sale of a single commodity — land — & to expand their empire. In real life one single commodity generates all profits - our labour power. Since labour power cannot be separated from people, we are literally bought & sold in the market place. To prevent stagnation, capitalism must constantly expand. Thus we must also consume as well as produce.

http://web.archive.org/...infoshop.org/octo/mayday2001.html

1937 -- John Steinbeck novel Of Mice & Men is published.


1937 -- "La Charte Tunisienne", organ of the Tunisian independence movement, complains about the 'ridiculous suspicion' of French customs officers about all Middle Eastern imports.

Green tea & Ham? Customs officers set up a gramophone between the green tea & bales of rice, & are listening to all records that come from the Middle East. If they recognize a word like 'fatherland' or 'victim' in a song, the record is prohibited, whatever the subject may be. (Tunisia became independent in 1956 & Bourguiba, "La Charte" editor, is its first president.) http://www.iisg.nl/today/en/06-02.php

1938 -- Algeria: Han Ryner (1895-1938) dies. French teacher, anticlericalist, pacifist, anarchiste, philosopher (called a "contemporary Socrates"). See 7 December & 7 January 1895. Married to poet/author Georgette Ryner.


1939 -- Spain: 130,000 refugees cross the border, fleeing Franco's fascists.


1939 -- Raymond Chandler's first Philip Marlowe novel, The Big Sleep, appears.



1941 -- France: Maximilien Luce, 82, dies. French painter & engraver. Important artist in Pointillism & social realism. A reader of Jean Grave's "La révolte," & eventually his friend. In 1887, Pissaro, Seurat & Signac inducted him into their group of neo-impressionists.

Luce produced many drawings for anarchist newspapers such as "Le père Peinard," "La révolte," "L'en dehors."

During the repression of 1894 Luce was imprisoned as a "dangerous anarchist" whose drawings were judged "inciting people to revolt".

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1943 -- US: Government of freedom & liberty for all requires the 110,000 Japanese-Americans imprisoned in internment camps to answer loyalty surveys. Question 27 asks draft-age men: "Are you willing to serve in the US armed forces on combat duty, wherever ordered?"

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1945 -- Reggae musical hero Bob Marley lives, Spanish Town, Jamaica.
http://web.bobmarley.com




1947 -- US: A Real Bang-Up Job? Three shots fired at Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Hubert Humphrey, the Mayor of Minneapolis, as he returned home after a political meeting. All three bullets missed their mark, & no trace was ever found of the would-be assassin.


1947 -- US: Seattle restaurateur Ivar Haglund eats pancakes out on the street in the midst of a tank car spill of corn syrup.


1950 -- US: Republicans adopt the 1950 slogan "Liberty Against Socialism."


1951 -- US: Commuter train plunges through a temporary overpass in Woodbridge, New Jersey, at the cost of 85 lives.


1951 -- France: Marcelino Massana arrested in Toulouse.

Massana's arrest was a typical example of harassment against the CNT exiles & the willingness of the French carabineros to work with their fascist counterparts in Interpol. Spain demanded his extradition for "crimes" in Spain, but a court refused. Massana is one of the great anti-Franco guerrillas, on a par with Francisco Sabaté, Vila Capdevila & Facerías. Anti-Franco guerrilla... [Details / context]

1956 -- US: Autherine Lucy, the first black student to enter the University of Alabama, is suspended after three days of riots due to her presence. It is not clear why the University, in its vast academic wisdom, did not elect to suspend the rioters.


1960 -- ¶ Poet John Ciardi in the Saturday Review publishes the critical "Epitaph for the Dead Beats" which accuses the Beats of being anti-intellectual.



1960 -- Argentina: Manuel Fandiño (aka Alejandro Silvetti) formou parte da Comisión Normalizadora da CGT. Poucos anos despois, como nos conta Óscar Troncoso: "Aínda inquieto e combativo, sentiuse enfermo de xeito imprevisto e logo duns días foi internado no Centro Galego onde foi desmellorando paulatinamente." Segundo contan os seus amigos na súa agonía murmurou:

"Compañeiros meus...a revolución social..." eran as 16,45 horas do 6 de febreiro de 1960 e rodeaban o seu leito de morte a súa compañeira, as súas fillas e o seu amigo entrañable Sebastián Marotta. Con Silvetti morrían moitos personaxes: Alba, Campos, Benítez e o verdadeiro Fandiño."

Recoñezo que esa é unha debilidade miña -dixo-. Eu nunca tomei en serio esas cuestións de avoengo familiar.
Coa morte de Fandiño desapareceu un dos máis destacados dirixentes sindicais da clase obreira arxentina.
http://www.estelnegre.org/documents/fandino/fandino.html
http://enciclopediadaemigraciongalega.com/biografias/fandi%F1o_manuel.htm

1961 -- US: The jail-in movement begins when students in Rock Hill, South Carolina are arrested & demand jail time rather than fines.


1968 -- ¶ Beatster Jack Kerouac's novel Vanity of Duluoz is published.



1970 -- US: After 136 days on strike, Fisher Body workers ratified a new agreement.

See John Zerzan's "Organized Labor versus 'The Revolt Against Work',"
http://libcom.org/library/organized-labor-versus-revolt-against-work-john-zerzan

At the end of a four-hour walk across the dusty surface of Fra Mauro on the moon, Shepherd produced a golf ball & a club. The third swing was a success, & the ball flew "miles & miles" through the near-vacuum. With all the craters, a hole-in-one, no doubt.

Publicly NASA is delighted; privately they are teed. Shepard said later that the first ball landed in a small crater, referring to it as a rather unique hole-in-one.

1972 -- US: Over 500,000 irate letters arrive at CBS-TV, when word leaks out the network would air an edited-for-TV version of the X-rated movie, The Demand.

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This kind of entry is difficult to word. Since it's unlikely all 500,000 letters arrived on the same day, I would guess this is when newspapers, or CBS itself, reported the story. However, that's conjecture. Based on what I know for sure, I would word this "CBS has received 500,000 irate letters..."

(Also, I cannot find this movie on IMDb.)

— Robert Braunwart

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1972 -- US: DixyLand? Dixy Lee Ray[diation] becomes chair of the US Atomic Energy Commission. A nuclear reactor in every garage. Chernobyl is our middle name?
Source: ’Robert Braunwart’
http://www.chernobyl.info/
http://www.chernobyl-international.com/


1973 -- US: 200 American Indian Movement protesters clash with police for three days in Custer (!), South Dakota, over the murder of Wesley Bad Heart; 37 arrested.

I called her Mo-nah-se-tah, the name of the beautiful daughter of the Cheyenne chief, Little Rock. At first, she didn't particularly care for the name, which means, "the young grass that shoots in the spring," but after I explained to her that Mo-nah-se-tah was supposed to have had an illegitimate son by General George Armstrong Custer she took to the name like a duck to water. — Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It http://www.generationterrorists.com/quotes/river.html

1975 -- Hélène Patou (1902-1975) dies. French writer, militant anarchiste & néo-Malthusian. See 3 February 1902.

The FBI is often fondly referred to, because of its criminal conduct in cases like this, as the Federal Bureau of Fabrication.

February 6 of each year has become THE INTERNATIONAL DAY IN SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER. Protest gatherings to publicize Peltier's plight & help gain his release are held around the world, from a few individuals in small towns, to thousands on the Internet registering their protest with elected officials & the White House.

http://www.dickshovel.com/caged.html
http://www.thenativeamericantaoist.com/2011/07/native-political-prisoner-leonard.html

1977 -- Canada: Quebec PM Rene Levesque drives over a man lying in a Montreal street. Levesque is fined $25 for not wearing his glasses at the time of the accident.


1978 -- Homeless Bums?: Record snowfall of 27.1 inches over 32 hours brings the city of Boston to a standstill. The entire city closes, National Guard put on alert, as the storm continues, eventually causing 29 deaths & rendering 10,000 people homeless.


1983 -- France: Nazi Klaus Barbie is charged in Lyon with crimes against humanity. Barbie ('Butcher of Lyons') was able to escape to South America with the aid of the US government following WWII as part of the infamous "Ratline" (the American plan to smuggle accused Nazi war criminals out of Europe).
See John Loftus' The Belarus Secret. For the Vatican's role in helping Nazi war criminals escape, see his book Unholy Trinity.
http://www.john-loftus.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/14/national/main617522.shtml


1983 -- 18-hour miniseries "The Winds of War" (Herman Wouk) premiers on ABC TV.


1985 -- England: Peace camp evicted by the army at CIA base, Molesworth.



1989 -- Last person shot to death crossing the Berlin Wall, Chris Gueffroy. Meanwhile, German citizens taking pieces of the wall grumble about the shoddy quality of the wall.




1989 -- Australia: A rain of sardines falls on Ipswich.

Many thousands of sardines, "Like a sheet of silver rain," fell around the house of Harold & Debra Degen of Rosewood, Australia, on February 6th, 1989.

The Degens gathered a bowlful for their cat & to keep as a souvenir; the rest were,"Gobbled by kookaburras." The fall was confined to two acres, according to the Ipswich police.

Source: "Look Out Below!" (No longer online.)

Painting: 'Sardines' (Damir Ceric; Oil on cupboard, 1998)

1990 -- Billy Idol breaks several bones in a serious motorcycle accident. He had been scheduled to have a major role in Oliver Stone's "The Doors" but because of the accident he has to give it up. Friends previously dismissed his prediction "something bad gonna happen" as just another idol threat.


1995 -- Dr. Seuss animated cartoon "Daisy-Head Mayzie" premiers on WTNT.


1996 --

US: Axis of Primeval? Government admits it shipped plutonium to 39 countries over the last 59 years (including Israel, South Africa, Iran & Iraq).

2001 -- INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST TO FREE LEONARD PELTIER on the 25 anniversary of his arrest.

The US government claims worldwide to be a fierce defender of human rights & democracy but behind the walls of American prisons the myth collapses...

His sentence by the US government to two consecutive life terms was solely based on false testimonies made under FBI duress, on manufactured ballistic evidence & on perjury by FBI officials. Furthermore, his two co-defendants — who stood a separate trial — were acquitted of the same charge on grounds of self-defense.

Supporters of Native American Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier hold protests & start hunger strikes in an effort to pressure the Clinton Administration to keep its 1992 campaign promise. (In 2001 Clinton reneged in the face of an FBI campaign mounted against Peltier)

These protests continue all over the world including Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Washington DC, San Diego, Tacoma & Rapid City, South Dakota.

Contacts, resources:

http://www.leonardpeltier.net/

http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/peltier.html
http://www.refuseandresist.org/other_fronts/120598nwlpsn.html

2001 -- México: Striking students mark the anniversary of police raid ending their 10-month old strike a year ago today.

Students at México City's university had been on strike for greater say in the running of the institution & opposing the change of tuition from nearly free for all Mexicans to a cost of $140. per year.

2002 -- US: Secretary of State Powell tells Congress there must be a "regime change in Iraq, & the US may have to do it alone". Congress laps it up.


2003 -- North Korea: Government says it is entitled to make a preemptive attack on the US. (This follows the peaceloving Bush regime's declaration it will attack any country it deems fit for such benevolent treatment.)



2004 -- Scotland: Walter Morrison MBE, community activist in Glasgow, dies. Militant, active in the anti-nuclear Scottish Committee of 100.

A week after the anarchist Stuart Christie was arrested in Spain in 1964, having been caught playing a part in a plot to assassinate the country's dictator, General Franco, Morrison hitched-hiked from Glasgow to London to hold a fast & a picket the Spanish embassy (having first telephoned Scotland Yard to ask permission). No sooner had he settled down on the pavement when a police van drew up & four policemen jumped out, bundled him into the van & drove to an unidentified London police station.

http://libcom.org/history/morrison-walter-1924-2004

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"Many say that millions would die if the present techno-global fealty to work & the commodity were scrapped. But this overlooks many potentialities. For example, consider the vast numbers of people who would be freed from manipulative, parasitic, destructive pursuits for those of creativity, health & liberty."

       — John Zerzan

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