Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:19:00 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 2/14 FEBRUARY 14




Subject: Daily Bleed: 2/14 FEBRUARY 14

Web version: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0214.htm

FEBRUARY 14

FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Great orator, writer, Black emancipationist.

VALENTINES DAY: Grew out of Roman LUPERCALIA, when young
people drew names from urns to determine true loves ...
St. Valentine is the patron saint of prisoners.
The day birds & animals choose their mates.


1349 - 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg Germany.

1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/metalsmith & author of a
remarkable autobiography, dies in Florence.

1776 - Captain James Cook killed by native Hawaiians after
taking hostages. or 1779.

1804 - New Jersey is the last Northern state to abolish slavery.

1817 - Black abolitionist, orator Frederick Douglass lives,
born a slave, founder of the influential The North Star
newspaper in Rochester, New York.

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who
profess to favor freedom & yet deprecate agitation are people
who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain
without thunder & lightning. That struggle might be a moral
one; it might be a physical one; it might be both moral &
physical, but it must be struggle. Power concedes nothing
without a demand. It never did & never will. People might not
get all that they work for in this world, but they must
certainly work for all they get."

1831 - Parisians plunder a church & Archbishop's palace in a
demonstration against the former Bourbon dynasty.

1848 - Prussian Revolution begins.

1856 - Editor Frank Harris, author of the erotic memoir *My
Life & Loves*, lives, County Galway. Oscar Wilde quips: "Frank
Harris is invited to all the great houses in England -- once."
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws53_wilde.html

1859 - George Ferris lives, inventor of the Wheel.

1870 - US: Esther Morris becomes the nation's first woman
justice of the peace.

Morris is credited with winning women's suffrage in Wyoming
territory last year. She arm-twisted two Democratic lawmakers
into sponsoring legislation giving women the vote. Most
Wyoming lawmakers treated the measure lightheartedly, hoping
their bold step would attract more women to the territory.
Democrats, for their part, were counting on a veto by Governor
John Campbell. After the bill passed, however, Campbell
promptly signed the bill, making Wyoming the first state or
territory to enact women's suffrage. In 1872, the Democrats
try to repeal the bill, offering Campbell 2,000 dollars to
cooperate.  The governor firmly refused.

1885 - Jules Valles dies. French journalist, anarchist
propagandist, novelist. Involved in the Revolution of 1848 & a
Proudhonist imprisoned in 1853 for a conspiracy against the
Emperor. Launches the weekly magazine "The Street," June 1,
1867, involving artists & writers such as Emile Zola & Gustave
Courbet before being suppressed.

Other papers he started included the "Cry of the People"
(February 22 1871), the newspaper of the Paris Commune. Co-
signatory of "the red poster" (call to insurrection), on March
26 he became a partisan minority member & fought on the
barricades during the "Bloody Week". Condemned to death, he
took refuge in England until the amnesty of 1880. Relaunched
"Cry of the People" with the help of Severine, giving voice to
Blanquists, Guesdists & libertarians.

His autobiographical novels *The Child; The Graduate; The
Insurrectionist* were published pseudonymously. Died of a
disease, February 14, 1885 & his burial drew tens of thousands of
people.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juin2.html#11

1894 - TV comedian Jack Benny lives.

1895 - Oscar Wilde's comedy *The Importance of Being Earnest*
opens in London at the St. James's Theatre.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws98/ws53_wilde.html

1896 - George Cheitanov lives, Yambol, Bulgaria. Writer,
speaker, theorist of the Bulgarian anarchist movement.

His first radical was burning the files of the local court in
1913, which forced him to flee the country, landing in Paris
at the ripe old age of 18.  Returning to Bulgaria in 1914, he
was arrested, tortured & imprisoned two years before escaping
to Moscow. Displeased with the Bolsheviks. Foments an
insurrection in Bulgaria, again imprisoned with other
anarchists, but they manage to escape & go underground. After
launching an attack in Sofia, April 16, 1925, martial law was
declared. Cheitanov was captured & executed the night of June
2, at age 29.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier2.html#14

1898 - U.S. battleship Maine explodes, sinks in Havana Harbor,
killing 266. No evidence of sabotage was found, but the Hearst
newspapers claim the ship was intentionally blown up by the
Spanish. The accusation increased the newspapers' circulation
& drew the U.S. inevitably towards war with Spain.

1903 - Western Federation of Miners (WFM) strike for the 8-hour day .

1907 - Leading Lithuanian poet/editor/critic & pseudonymous
Vyte Nemunelis, author of popular children's books, Bernardas
Brazdzionis lives, Stebeileliai.
http://www.efn.org/~valdas/brazdzionis.html

1913 - American labor gangster Jimmy Hoffa lives. (Where is this guy?)

1921 - In New York, Jane Heap & Margaret Anderson face
obscenity charges for publishing a portion of James Joyce's
*Ulysses* in the *Little Review*. They got fined $50.
http://www.moorhead.msus.edu/~chenault/joyce.htm

1923 - American-Italian anarchist Nicola Sacco goes on prison
hunger strike.

Long ago a British judge was quoted as saying he refused
clemency at popular demand to uphold the principle of capital
punishment and to prove he was not to be intimidated by public
protest. During Hitler's time, Himmler remarked that for the
good of the state, popular complaints should be ignored, and
if they persisted, the complainers should be punished. Judge
Webster Thayer, during the Sacco-Vanzetti episode, was heard
to boast while playing golf, "Did you see what I did to those
anarchistic bastards?"
---*The Never-Ending Wrong,* Katherine Anne Porter
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sacvan.html
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/sacco_vanzetti.html

1925 - A close-up of a lottery list shows the winning numbers
drawn in the Mexican National  Lottery, dated February 14,
1925. The camera pulls  back to the hands of a man holding a
lottery ticket. The scraggly-looking bum, a dirty, ragged
scrounger [later identified as Fred C. Dobbs "Dobbsie"
(Humphrey Bogart)] tears his losing ticket to pieces. From
John Huston's film version of anarchist/recluse B. Traven's
book *The Treasure of the Sierra Madres*.
http://www.riverart.com/books/traven.htm

1929 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Seven members of
Chicago's Moran gang, waiting in a garage for a shipment of
hijacked liquor, are executed by a Capone firing squad
outfitted (fittingly?) in police uniforms.

1933 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Mayor Anton J.
Cermak of Chicago is fatally wounded in Miami, Florida., by an
assassin's bullet intended for Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1937 - Spain: "Congr=E8s constitutif de la fédération des
collectivités d'Aragon" meets today & tomorrow, in Caspe,
Saragossa. Represented 275 villages at the beginning (to which
others quickly joined). The first adopted measures are the
suppression of currency & the construction of a true federalism.

1942 - Jamake Highwater lives. Native American author.

1943 - Stanley Murphy & Louis Taylor begin three-month prison
hunger strike over discrimination against conscientious
objectors, Danbury, Connecticut.

1945 - Allied fire-bombing of Dresden, killing more than
200,000 German citizens, enters into its second day. Many die
of suffocation as fire storms, unleashed by the raids, consume
all the oxygen over large areas of the city.
 http://www.isomedia.com/homes/harpo/images/fn005.
http://www.isomedia.com/homes/harpo/ >Collage by SaintMeister
James Koehnline
http://www.duke.edu/~crh4/vonnegut/s-five.html

1949 - Canada: Asbestos workers begin six-month strike, Quebec.

1958 - Too Hip?: CBS television newsman Walter Cronkite
reports the Iranian government has banned rock & roll on the
grounds that it's against the concepts of Islam &  a hazard to
health. Iranian doctors advise the "extreme gyrations" of rock
& roll dances are injurious to the hips.

1959 - Tsitsi Dangarembga lives, Mutoko in colonial Rhodesia.
Zimbabwean writer, whose novel *Nervous Conditions* (1988) has
become a modern African classic. It was awarded the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1989.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tsitsi.htm

1965 - Malcolm X's home fire bombed, New York City.

1967 - Treaty banning nuclear weapons in Latin America signed
in Tlatelolco, Mexico.

1971 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Nixon orders secret
taping system in the white House. Instructs Bob Haldeman to "get reel".

1973 - First group of American prisoners of war (POWs),
formally held by North Vietnam, arrive in the US at Travis Air
Force Base, California.

1974 - Rolling Stone reports David Bowie has turned down a Gay
Liberation group who asked him to compose the  "world's first
Gay National Anthem."

1978 - First `microcomputer on a chip' patented by Texass Instruments.

1985 - Poet/playwright/critic Douglas Stewart, dies in Sydney,
Australia. Much of his work, like the retelling of a Maori
legend in *The Golden Lover* (1944), uses myth to recreate the past.

1986 - Frank Zappa appears on "Miami Vice", playing a crime
boss named "Mr. Frankie".  http://users.cybercity.dk/~bcc6117/

1986 - Smithsonian Museum of Natural History agrees to return
Native American skeletal remains for reburial when a clear
biological or cultural link can be established

1989 - Everyone's A Critic?: Beloved & Respected Comrade
Leader Ayatollah Khomeini (aka "Chuckles") passes a sentence
of death on Salman Rushdie, orders Moslems to murder "Satanic
Verses" novelist. Also wants to kill Penguins?

"I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author
of the Satanic Verses book which is against Islam, the Prophet
& the Koran, & all involved in its publication who were aware
of its content, are sentenced to death."
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/burning/sr-death.html
http://www.crl.com/~subir/rushdie.html

1997 - In "Prince of Peace Plowshares," six activists pour
blood & symbolically disarm the U.S.S. Sullivans at the Bath
Iron Works, Bath, Maine. All are eventually convicted of
trespass & destruction of government property.

1997 - Palestine: Last remaining Jahalin Bedoiin families, who
had been living in the Abu-Dis area for over 40 years, are
forcibly removed to make way for new Jewish settlements
(illegal under the Oslo accords).


 Sheltered in an underground meat storage locker, the Hoosier
soldier managed to survive a combined American/British
firebombing raid that devastated the city & killed an
estimated 135,000 people -- more than the number of deaths in
the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki combined. After
the bombing, the soldier wrote his father,

"We were put to work carrying corpses from Air-Raid shelters;
women, children, old men; dead from concussion, fire or
suffocation. Civilians cursed us & threw rocks as we carried
bodies to huge funeral pyres in the city."
Re: Slaughterhouse Five
http://www.kiwi-us.com/~watabe/slaughter.html
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/most-banned.html
http://www.duke.edu/~crh4/kv/
http://www.bb.com/BBBanned.cfm
http://www.researchpaper.com/forums/Arts_and_Entertainment/messages/47.html

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