Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 17:35:18 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Daily Taint: 2/17 GIORDANO BRUNO




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FEBRUARY 17

GIORDANO BRUNO
Renaissance occultist & radical, burned at the stake by the
Catholic Church in it's beneficent wisdom.

Egypt: FEAST OF SHESMU, God of the Wine Press.

Japan: BONTEN FESTIVAL: A race up an icy hillside to see which
youths will provide the shrine to the animal of the year.

DAY OF CANCELED EXPECTATIONS. (According to main character in
William Least Heat-Moon's "Blue Hiways".

SAN FRANCISCO HOLIDAY (Thelonius Monk).

1495 - Miguel de Cueno, a member of Columbus' second
expedition, ships 550 captured Carib Indians to be slaves in
Europe. 200 die at sea.

1600 - Rome: Giordano Bruno advocate of Copernican theory &
plurality of worlds burned at the stake by the Inquisition.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier3.html#17

1673 - French playwright Moliere dies, Paris, France, 51. The
Church at first denies him burial on holy ground. The funeral
occurs at night to avoid scandal, but thousands attend in
dramatic torchlight procession.
http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/FileRoom/documents/Cases/166moliere.html

1776 - The first volume of Edward Gibbon's "History of the
Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire" is published.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Frank/People/gibbon.html

1793 - Alexander McGillivray, Cree Indian leader, dies.

1801 - US House of Representatives breaks a tie in the 1800
Presidential election between Aaron Burr & Thomas Jefferson,
selecting the latter on the 35th ballot, when Alexander
Hamilton wielded his influence against Burr. It is thought
Hamilton & Burr may not have got on well.

1817 - US: Baltimore is first city to illuminate its streets with
gas.

1856 - Heinrich Heine, 58, dies in Paris, leaving his estate
to his wife under the condition that she remarry:  "Then there
will be at least one man to regret my death."
http://www.duesseldorf.de/tourist/heine/welcome.htm

1862 - Mori Ogai, one of the creators of modern Japanese
literature, lives, Tsuwano, Japan.

1867 - Why did the chicken cross the road? First ship passes
through the Suez Canal.

1879 - Russian nihilists unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate
Czar Alexander in St. Petersburg (see 13 March).

1899 - Anti-Imperialist League is founded.

1902 - American gospel songstress Marian Anderson lives.

1906 - Western Federation Mineworker (WFM) leaders Haywood,
Moyer & Pettibone framed on murder charges in Idaho.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/1756
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/haywood.htm
http://iww.org/labor/

1909 - Apache leader Geronimo dies, about 80 years old.
http://www.a1.com/shirt/t-shirt.html
http://taoswebb.com/nmusa/geronimo/index.html

1913 - Pacific Northwest naturalist, poet Joaquin Miller dies.
http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Ludlow/People/miller.html

1913 - New York Armory Show brings European modern art to the U.S.

1920 - Elleston Trevor (1920-95) lives. Prolific English
thriller/mystery writer, who has also published plays,
juvenile novels & short stories. His best known characters are
British agent Quiller from his novels as Adam Hall & Hugo
Bishop from novels as Simon Rattray.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/etrevor.htm

1929 - Chaim Potok lives, New York. A Conservative rabbi whose
books explore conflict between religious & secular interest.
http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~ah329/books.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/potok.htm

1930 - "Ollie" became the first cow to be flown & milked in an
airplane.

1932 - "Baby Face" Nelson escapes from prison.

1933 - Hermann Goering endorses Nazi terrorism after two weeks
of violence against labor unions & leaders.

Coverage of Nazi concentration camps appeared in magazines
such as AIZ in 1933. This publicly available information did
nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of Hitler's financial
supporters (such as Henry Ford) or press agents (or supporters
like Charles & Anne Morrow Lindbergh) in Europe & the US.

Meanwhile, real journalists like George Seldes who documented
the ties between American companies & the Nazis were
suppressed. His stories were censored by the US press & his
170,000 subscriber newsletter was driven out of business by J.
Edgar Hoover's FBI.
http://www.brasscheck.com/heartfield/gallery2.html
http://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/

1936 - Goodyear sit-down strike begins.

1938 - African American historian & lawyer Mary Frances Berry
lives, Nashville.  Berry's books include "Black
Resistance/White Law", which focuses on the nation's
government-sanctioned racism.

In 1976, Berry accepted the University of Colorado
chancellorship -- the first African American woman to lead a
major research university. President Carter appointed her to
the US Commission on Civil Rights, but in 1984, President
Reagan tried to dismiss her. Berry also helped found the Free
South Africa Movement & was arrested at an anti-apartheid
protest on Thanksgiving in 1984 at the South African Embassy
in Washington, D.C.

1940 - Canada: Emma Goldman suffers a severe stroke. After
growing up in the US, then deported by the government during
the Red Scare years, she has been banned from the country
(called the "land of the free" by some), since 1931, except
for a brief visit in 1934. Anti-anarchist laws are still used
to prevent certain people from entering the US with their
tainted foreign ideas.

Emma died on May 14th, 1940 in Toronto, Canada. Her death
finally allowed her a visa back into the US, where she was
buried in Waldheim Cemetery, next to the Haymarket Martyrs in
Chicago.

1942 - Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton lives, New Orleans,
Louisiana.
http://www.undergrad.brandeis.edu/~geldz1/blpanthers.html
http://www.afroam.org/history/Panthers/

1942 - US: Motor City: African Americans moving into Sojourner
Truth low-cost housing project are attacked by armed whites.

1942 - Norway: Silent indoor commemoration of martyred
compatriots leaves public places deserted, Oslo.

1944 - Italy: Pietro Bruzzi captured & shot by the fascists,
in Melegnano. Young anarchist who spent several years in
France & in 1936 fought in Spain. Extradited to Italy & sent
to the island of Ponza during WWII. He escaped & joined the
anarchist resistance in Lombardy & began publishing the
clandestine newspaper "L'adunata dei libertari" in 1943.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/csj/posters/40.html

1953 - Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane
shot down in Korea.

1958 - First meeting of Britain's Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament (CND).

1966 - Sergeant Barry Sadler receives two gold-record awards,
for the single "The Ballad of the Green Berets" & the album
"Ballads of the Green Berets."

1968 - Second Tribal Stomp.

1969 - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash collaborate on recording
project in Nashville. A number
of songs were recorded of which only "Girl From the North
Country" was released. Of working with Johnny Cash, Dylan said
"I was scared to death".

1970 - US: 76 are arrested & 20 injured in a downtown
confrontation between police & an anti-war demonstration
organized by the Seattle Liberation Front. Auntie Dave be
there. Seattle, Washington.

1971 - Former Sergeant Major of the Army William Woolridge,
once the Armed Forces' highest ranking noncommissioned
officer, indicted for conspiracy to defraud enlisted men's
clubs in Vietnam through bribery & kickbacks.

1975 - Germany: Several hundred residents of Wyhl occupy the
construction site of a nuclear power plant. Police respond
with water cannons & arrests; by the following week, 28,000
join the occupation, & police withdrew for over a year.
Believed to have been the first such plant occupation in the world.

1976 - Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatrical society
gives "Woman of the Year" award to Bette Midler. She says in
her acceptance:

This award characterizes what the American male wants in a
woman--brains, talents & gorgeous tits.

1977 - Italy: Massive demonstrations all over the country as
young people continue to reject all authority, this time
against the cooperation of the Communist Party in the
government & with employers (see Feb 16).

1979 - The Clash, kick off their first American tour, dubbed
Pearl Harbor '79.  Bo Diddley opens. Their first song in America?
I'm So Bored with the U.S.A.

1982 - Jazz pianist Thelonius Monk dies in a Pork Pie hat,
Englewood, New Jersey. All monks should bebop so well.
http://www.achilles.net:80/~howardm/tsmonk.html
http://www.hob.com/spotlight/theloniusMonk/body.shtml

1985 - Burn Baby, Burn?: Pursuing the strategy many urged him
to adopt during the Vietnam War, General Westmoreland
withdraws his libel suit against CBS & declares victory. He
later contends that the naked girl shown running down the road
in a famous Vietnam War-era photo had not been napalmed, but
had been burn by a hibachi.

1986 - Indian Theosophist, guru, Jiddu Krishnamurti dies.

1988 - A 12-year old Hollywood, Florida, Motley Crue fan set
his legs on fire while trying to imitate a stunt in the
group's "Live Wire" video. The boy suffered burns
over ten percent of his body. Motley Crue issued a statement
saying the band's stunts should not be tried at home.

1993 - Wang Dan & Guo Haifeng, leaders of 1989 Chinese student
protests, released from prison.

1996 - US: 3-day UAW wildcat strike at Chrysler truck plant,
Warren, Michigan.

"They want to work you until you drop dead. My neck & arms are
messed up, but they don't care. They want to get rid of the
older people so they can bring in younger ones. I think a lot
of times the union just goes along with the company."
http://www.socialequality.com/public_html/prioriss/iwb2-26/wildcat.htm


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