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In their serious corner, the players move the gradual pieces. The board detains them until dawn in its hard compass: the hatred of two colors.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Chess (I) (see 1859 below for II) |
FELIX GUATTARI
Innovative theorist of Capitalism & Schizophrenia.
BELTAINE EVE.
WALPURGISNACHT. Witches' sabbath. Witches, warlocks & demons hold revels in Harz Mountains. Whole towns rush into streets, making as much noise as possible. Church bells ring, bonfires are lit. A traditional Mischief Night in Britain. In British Isles, a scapegoat is chosen by lots & burned, hobby horse parades are held, chasing evil away until Mid-summer's Night. Also a celebration of spring in Scandinavia.
VIKING FEAST OF SPRING.
HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY.MAY EVE: Eve may.
Of Man's first disobedience, & the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, & all our woe.
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535 -- Nice Guy Award?: Theodahad, King of the Ostrogoths, has his wife Amalasuntha, daughter of Justinian, Emperor of the East, strangled.
1006 -- Brightest supernova in recorded history is observed.
1713 -- Alexander Pope, writes a friend about the success of Joseph Addison's play Cato, for which Pope himself has supplied the prologue:"The town is so fond of it that the orange wenches & fruit women in the park offer the books on the side of the coaches, & the prologue & epilogue are cried about the streets by the common hawkers."
[Sorry, we don't know why the wenches were orange. — editor]
1721 -- Mary Read dies during this year (exact day unknown).Daily Bleed Saint 2006-2008
Disguised as a male, along with Anne Bonny, a lesbian pirate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Read
1771 -- US: Hosea Ballou lives. Universalist preacher (“a sect with individualism of anarchistic proportions”). Related to Adin Ballou (1803-1890), a Christian anarchist/pacifist/abolitionist who founded the utopian community at Hopedale, Massachusetts.
1777 -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the great mathematicians of all time, lives.
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1803 -- US: Louisiana is purchased from France, at four cents per acre. Way serious financial loss to the US over the past couple centuries.
1841 -- After spending 40 years exile in Paris, Peter Heiberg, — Danish poet & playwright — dies.
1843 -- Poet, Paris Communard, & Bakuninist Charles Keller lives (1843-1913). Companion of Mathilde Roederer, a militant in the A.I.T., & Jura Federation. Author of the song "La Jurassienne" which was put to music by James Guillaume. Its refrain:"Nègre de l'usine,
Forçat de la mine,
Ilote du champ,
Lève -toi peuple puissant !
Ouvrier, prends la machine,
Prends la terre, paysan!"
http://www.ephemanar.net/juillet21.html
1844 -- US: Thoreau accidentally burns 300 acres of forest near Concord, Massachusetts during a fishing trip, causing $2,000 in damages.
http://killdevilhill.com/waldenpondchat/wwwboard.html
Although one of the earliest popularizers of the term “anarchism” was Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), another Frenchman, Anselme Bellegarrigue, his contemporary, was the first to publish a periodical with an explicitly anarchist title. His "L’Anarchie: Journal De L’Ordre", first appeared in April, 1850. Bellegarrigue was even more anti-electoral than Proudhon & was explicitly nonviolent. According to him, the task of abolishing governments "must be carried out neither by political parties, which will always seek to dominate, nor by violent revolution, which needs leaders like any other military operation. The people once enlightened will act for itself."
The people will make its own revolution, by the sole strength of right, the force of inertia, “the refusal to co-operate.” From the refusal to co-operate stems the abrogation of the laws that legalize murder & the proclamation of equity.http://www.anarchism.net/anarchism_anarchismandpoliticsinhistory.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BelleguarrigueAnselme/anselmeBelleguarrigue.htm
Tenuous king, slant bishop,
bitter queen, straightforward castle & the crafty pawn— over the checkered black & white terrain they seek out & enjoin their armed campaign.
They do not realize the dominant hand of the player rules their destiny. They do not know an adamantine
fate
The player, too, is captive of caprice (the sentence is Omar's) on another ground crisscrossed with black nights & white days.
God moves the player, he, in turn, the piece. But what god beyond God begins the round of dust & time & dream & agonies?
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1865 -- Austria: Max Nettlau lives (1865-1944), in Neuwaldegg, a suburb of Vienna. Anarchist, historian, bibliographer, philologist.Edited & financed "The Anarchist Labour Leaf." A member of the Freedom Group, Max also helped fund the "Torch for Freedom." Sold his collection of anarchist materials to the International Institute of Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam in 1935. His writings include Bibliographie de l'Anarchie (1897), & Errico Malatesta: The Biography of an Anarchist (NY: Jewish Anarchist Federation, 1924), among many others.
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In German, see http://ur.dadaweb.de/btip002.htm
1871 -- US: Gettin' Civilized (Ayn Rand Style)? Mob massacres more than 100 Apaches who had placed themselves under US protection at Camp Grant, Arizona.As to the Indians, "[t]hey didn't have any rights to the land & there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived & were not using...
What was it they were fighting for, if they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their "right" to keep part of the earth untouched, unused & not even as property, just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or maybe a few caves above it. Any white person [emphasis mine, — ed] who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent."
— Ayn Rand, West Point, 1974
1877 -- Get Anything You Want, Where?: Alice B. Toklas lives (1877-1967), San Francisco. American literary figure & close associate of author Gertrude Stein, her secretary, cook, & confidante in Paris in her literary salon. Wrote The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, 1954, What is Remembered, 1963.Toklas gained wide attention with the publication of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), which is actually Gertrude Stein's memoirs. The book contains Toklas' first-person observations of Stein's life & her friends, among them Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, & Georges Braque. The book appeared first in an abridged form in "The Atlantic Monthly."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/toklas.htm
1877 -- Charles Cros, French poet, patents the phonograph.
Charles Cros, the inventor of the phonograph, was the most popular poet-singer of this kind in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, & his poems spoke for a way of life completely unassimilable by the money-crazy, hypocritical, debauched, & puritanical society of Louis Napoleon’s gimcrack Second Empire.
It is out of people like Charles Cros, simple, sensuous, lyrical, & sarcastic, that poets like Verlaine come, & all of those that he, Verlaine, first called “poètes maudits,” the cursed, the outcast poets, Germain Nouveau, Arthur Rimbaud, Alfred Jarry, Tristan Corbière, Jean Richepin. All of these poets are still sung.
— Kenneth Rexroth, Subversive Aspects of Popular Songs
http://www.alalettre.com/cros-bio.php
1880 -- France: A la suite d'un discours qu'elle a prononcé à, Saint-Étienne et de sa participation à, un meeting suivi de manifestations violentes à Vienne, Louise Michel est arrêtée.
[Source: Michel Chronologie]
1882 -- Italy: La Corte di Assise di Milano condanna Giuseppe Rovetta, redattore responsabile del settimanale 'La lotta', per aver incitato gli oppressi alla lotta e per offese al re.
[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]
1883 -- Jaroslav Hašek lives (1883-1923), Prague. Czech novelist, anarchist, humorist, Bolshevik, story writer, journalist. Editor of the anarchist magazine "Komuna". Austrian police informers considered him "particularly dangerous."
Early in his career an active anarchist. A drunk, a dog-stealer, & a cook who calculatedly pretended to commit suicide & invented animals which did not exist while editing the (serious) magazine "The Animal World." Founder of The Party of Peaceful Progress Within the Limits of Law, he spent the cash collected from this political party partying at the local pub. During WWI Hasek served at various times in Czech, Russian & Austrian armies. Captured on the Russian front, a prisoner of war.
Wrote a four-volume novel, The Good Soldier Schweik, acclaimed as one of the greatest satires in world literature. Hašek died before the whole book was finished & Karel Vanek's completion of the century's bawdiest, disrespectful & immoral novel is weak. Hasek also wrote Shouts in May (1903).http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/ppl/wri/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hasek.htm
1886 -- US: On the eve of May 1, 50,000 workers in Chicago are on strike. 30,000 more swell their ranks tomorrow, bringing most of Chicago manufacturing to a standstill. Chicago cops kill four unionists on the 3rd. A demonstration will be held on the 4th in Haymarket Square; a cop is killed by a never identified assailant & eight anarchists (some not in attendance) are tried for murder & sentenced to death.This evening fears of violent class conflict grip the city. No violence occurred on May 1 or May 2. But on May 3, Chicago's finest, swollen in number & heavily armed, attacked a demonstration & lilled four unionists. Angered, a group of anarchists, led by August Spies & Albert Parsons, called for a massive protest demonstration in Haymarket Square for May 4. The demonstration appeared to be a complete bust, but someone threw a bomb that killed seven cops...
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1887 -- Ireland: Black Rain at Castle Common.
Strange Stuff: Ireland was again deluged with a black rain on April 30, 1887 at Castlecommon. It was "thick, black rain."
I'm just a little black rain cloud
Hovering under your honey tree,
Only a little black rain cloud,
Pay no attention to little me.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-GcP0S6ZH4
http://home.comcast.net/~jholmes20/substory3.htm
http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm
1888 -- John Crowe Ransom, educator/poet, lives, Pulaski, Tennessee.
1888 -- India: All Hail!? Hailstones kill 246 in Moradabad.
1895 -- French-Canadian doctor-novelist, Philippe Panneton, who portrays people caught in the transition from primitive rural to modern urban life, lives, Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Wrote Trente Arpents (Thirty Acres, 1938) about the plight of a small French-Canadian farmer forced by economic & social upheavals of the late 19th / early 20th centuries to migrate to the city.
1896 --US: Emma Goldman speaks at John Turner's concluding lecture in New York.
Emma had helped to arrange lectures for the English anarchist & labor leader, whose visit gives Goldman the opportunity to gain experience addressing English-speaking audiences.
(Turner was eventually arrested (1903) & booted out of the country for his anarchist views.)[Details / context]
1899 -- US: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho miner's strike, 1,200 workers arrested, put into specially erected bullpens until the strikes are broken.In 1892, area mine workers launched a generation of deadly warfare against armed & deputized strikebreakers...
1900 -- US: The Organic Act signed by President McKinley.This act incorporated Hawaii as a Territory of the US. As a territory, contract labor is no longer legal in Hawaii once the act goes into effect on June 14. As a result, over 20 major strikes take place within a month. Over 8,000 laborers participated in these strikes which called for, among other things, higher wages, reduced work hours, & the hiring of Japanese overseers.
[Sources]
1903 -- France: Simone Larcher lives (true name Rachel Willissek) (1903-1969), in Oise. Proofreader, antimilitarist & anarchiste. With her companion, Louis Louvet, she publishes the newspaper "L'anarchie," which continues until 1929.
1917 -- US: American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) founded.
1922 -- No Siree, a revue pastiche assembled by the Algonquin Round Table wits, opens at the Forty-ninth Street Theatre, New York.
1923 -- US: In the Sacco & Vanzetti case, the Hamilton motion for a new trial for the anarchists is filed. It is based upon criminologist & gun case expert Hamilton who signed an affidavit stating that said the bullets at the scene & in Berardelli did not come from Sacco’s gun.Similarly, on Nov 5, 1923, the Proctor motion for a new trial is made. Prosecution expert witness Proctor admitted that the use of the ambiguous phrase “consistent with” was prearranged by the District Attorny to allow the jury to believe he was testifying that Sacco’s gun was the gun that killed Berardelli.
See Heroes & Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, & the Revolutionary Struggle, an audio CD by Howard Zinn.
http://www.torremaggiore.com/saccoevanzetti/storia.html
http://infoshop.org/page/Sacco-Vanzetti
1930 -- France: Radical anti-psychiatrist, anti-capitalist Felix Guattari lives, Paris.
[John Zerzan comments...]
1936 -- Poet A. E. Housman dies at 77. On his deathbed, his doctor tells him a dirty joke. Housman replies: "Yes, that's a good one, & tomorrow I shall be telling it on the Golden Floor."
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/168.html
1939 -- US: NBC/RCA hold first public TV demonstration with FDR speaking at the opening of NY World's Fair. Within months, television development stopped for seven years due to WWII.
1939 -- Spain: Chief inspector of the Hospitalet police is killed by the anti-fascist urban guerrilla
Pallarés group.
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1944 -- Last day of April:"Rainy days, I generally sat in a dry place & read a book, often just an axe length away from a ping-pong table. The training course lasted three weeks, ending on a Saturday, a very rainy one...I remember standing at an end window of our Quonset hut for a very long time, looking out at the slanting, dreary rain, my trigger finger itching imperceptibly, if at all...Then, after synchronizing my wristwatch with the clock in the latrine, I walked down the long, wet cobblestone hill into town. I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't."
(It appears the last day of April 1944 is a Sunday, but J. D. Salinger's short story, "For Esmé, With Love & Squalor," gives it here & in the final letter from Esmé as a Saturday.)
1945 -- Germany: Nazis Eva Braun & hubby, Adolph, most probably commit suicide, in Berlin.
1948 -- US Rubber Stamp Day?: Organization of American States (OAS) is founded.
1950 -- Italy: Founding of the Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Laboratori (CISU).
1950 -- China: Marriage law enacted authorizing divorce & forbidding the sale of children.
1953 --Étranges étrangers
Kabyles de la Chapelle et des quais de javel
hommes des pays loin
cobayes des colonies...
Apatrides dAubervilliersbrûleurs des grandes ordures de la ville de Paris
Tunisiens de Grenelle
embauchés débauchés
manoeuvres désoeuvrés...
Enfants du Sénégal
dépatriés expatriés et naturalisés...
Etranges étrangers
Vous êtes de la ville
vous êtes de sa viemême si mal en vivez
même si vous en mourez.— Jacques Prévert
Algerian anarchist Sail Mahomed (1894-1953) dies.
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