Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:04:28 -0500 (EST) From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us> Subject: Thursday Daily Bleed: 3/11 RALPH ELLISON What fearful power, what awesome divinity is repetition! It is the pull of the void that drags us deeper down the ever widening gullet of a whirlpool. * Robert Musil MARCH 11 RALPH ELLISON Black American novelist of under-class, under-race. Hindu: FEAST OF GUARI, celebrated by married women with widows taking no part. Elsewhere in India, a DAY FOR THE WORSHIP OF TOOLS. DEBUNKING DAY 1302 - Romeo marries Juliet. About time. 1544 - Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) lives. Greatest Italian poet of the late Renaissance, best remembered for his masterpiece *Jerusalem Delivered* (1575). http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ttasso.htm 1726 - Mme d'=C9pinay lives, Valenciennes. Friend of Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire. Best known for * Conversations of Emily* & three volume *Memoirs & Correspondence*. 1811 - England: Luddites attack machines designed to replace them in the weaving of wool. http://www.imagesmith.com/imagesmith/luddites/history.html 1812 - Luddites suffer first defeat at Rawkolds Mill, Great Britain. http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/f/afd108/neo-ludd.htm 1818 - Mary Shelley publishes her Frankenstein novel. The story of Frankenstein started on summer in 1816 when she joined with Percy Shelley & Claire Clairmont near Geneva Lord Byron. She took a challenge set by Byron & Shelley to write the most frightening ghost story. The idea came to her in a dream. The first edition of the book had an unsigned preface by Percy Shelley. Many thought it was his novel, not believing a 19- year-old woman could write such horror. Published in 1818, it became a huge success. http://iq.orst.edu/phil302/wollstonecraft.html http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~mgros/brooks/imgyou.html http://www.awa.com/library/omnimedia/frank.html 1833 - U.S. troops intervene in Nicaragua. 1847 - Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman dies. 1857 - Spanish war poet Manuel José Quintana, dies in Madrid. Wrote classical odes marked by patriotism & liberalism, including the two-volume *Vidas de espa=F1oles célebres *("Lives of Famous Spaniards"). 1892 - France: Ravachol takes retribution for the Clichy defendants, bombing the homes of the presiding judge (Mar. 11, 1892) & the prosecutor (Mar. 27, 1892). Police in Clichy had attacked a six-man anarchist labor rally. The workers defended themselves with guns & ended up with long terms at hard labor. http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/TEXT/mirbeau_ravachol.html 1907 - Bulgarian Premier Nicolas Petkov slain by anarchist. 1911 - Alba de Céspedes lives. Italian author/poet & pioneering feminist, best known for her diary novel *Quaderno proibito* (1952). A journalist in the 1930s, imprisoned twice by the Mussolini regime. In 1944 she founded literary magazine *Mercurio*, publishing works from modern Italian writers, including http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/1128.htm Alberto Moravia, Eugenio Montale & Elio Vittorini. http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/europe/lecture9.html http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/decespe.htm 1914 - Novelist Ralph Waldo Ellison lives, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. http://rs6.loc.gov/wpaintro/intro12.html 1921 - Russia: The paper Izvestia n=B09 of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of the Sailors, Workers & Soldiers of Kronstadt, notes: *We sent out a call to all the workers of Russia to fight for freely elected Soviets. Our cry was heard. Already, the revolutionary sailors, workers & soldiers of Petrograd are coming to lend us a strong hand." http://www.cs.utah.edu/~galt/bolmytkron.html 1926 - England: George Lansbury proposes in Parliament abolition of Royal Navy. 1930 - Gandhi's Salt March begins. 1935 - Shark Bait?: The trial of prolific child murderer & incorrigible sexual deviate Albert Fish begins for murdering & eating 10-yr. old Grace Budd; he will be convicted & executed, White Plains, New York. 1950 - Cuba: Beginning of the third national libertarian congress "to reorganize the libertarian labor movement & adopt concrete practical measures, enabling its militants to reorient themselves & to play a decisive part in the regeneration of the Cuban labor movement." 1950 - American Airlines maintenance workers win nationwide strike, gaining first severance pay clause in industry & limits on subcontracting. 1953 - An American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches. 1954 - US Army charges Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Senator Tail Gunner Joseph McCarthy & his counsel, Roy Cohn, with using threats in trying to get preferred treatment for Private G. David Schine. Robert Kennedy has left his staff by this time. McCarthy & Cohn's witch hunting days are about to end. 1958 - USA: H-bomb falls on Mars Bluff, South Carolina; the nuclear device does not detonate, but does leave a crater 35 feet deep. Didn't they just do this a couple years ago? 1959 - "Raisin in the Sun," first Broadway play by a black woman, opens. 1963 - André Georges Roulot (1885-1963) dies. Individualist anarchist & free thinker. Wrote for "L'anarchie" & "Libertad" & joined the Saint Germain en Laye libertarian colony with Emilie Lamotte, his partner then (1906). In 1907 his booklet, "L'idole, patrie et conséquence," landed him in prison for 15 months for inciting disobediance in the army. Creates, December 1, 1911, the review "L'idée libre" & contributes to Sebastien Faure's *Anarchist Encyclopaedia*. Sympathetic to the Bolsheviks in the 20s, he moved away from anarchism, focussing on anticlericalism, & the Federation of Free Thinkers of which he became president in 1958. 1965 - Almost 100 civil-rights activists picket the White House, demanding support for equal rights in Alabama. The protest culminates as a dozen picketers march into the presidential mansion & begin a sit-in. After six hours, police arrest the demonstrators. Today's sit-in is one of several massive protests across the country against police & mob actions in Selma, Alabama. Just this year in the city, more than a thousand protesters have gone to jail, state police have beaten to death an African American youth, white hoodlums have killed a Boston minister, the Ku Klux Klan has murdered a Detroit housewife, & state trooper attacks have sent more than 50 peaceful marchers to the hospital. http://www.hatchoo.com/whitehouse/ 1966 - US: Timothy Leary sentenced in Texass to 30 years for trying to cross into Mexico as a tourist with a small amount of marijuana; Leary appeals & gives press interviews. Meanwhile, bout this day, -Get this? Time sez there's an acid epidemic. -SF Examiner front page: bust of 25 "beatniks" from 408 Ashbury. -President of GM apologizes to Senate subcommittee for investigating Nader's private life + car safety protests. Should have apologized to Nader. 1968 - "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" earns Otis Redding his only gold record -- three months after his death. 1968 - Polish students battle Communist police in Warsaw. From 8-9 March Warsaw has seen student uprisings; today they are joined by workers uprising. 1971 - Puerto Rico: uprising University of Puerto Rico. 1972 - Run-on Sentence?: A sentence of 384, 912 years was demanded against postman Gabriel Grandos for failing to deliver 42,768 letters. 1973 - FBI agent fatally shot at occupation of Wounded Knee by Oglala Sioux where the formation of independent Oglala Sioux Nation is proclaimed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. "That women & children were casualties was unfortunate but unavoidable, & most must have been [killed] from Indian bullets...The Indians at Wounded Knee brought their own destruction as surely as any people ever did. Their attack on the troops was as treacherous as any in the history of Indian warfare, & that they were under a strange religious hallucination is only an explanation not an excuse." --- excerpts from an official investigation of Wounded Knee initiated at the behest of Congress, written by General E. D. Scott. 1976 - Cesar Chavez ends 23-day fast for US farm workers. 1979 - Ireland: In anti-tax demonstrations 50,000 people march through Dublin, most of calling for a general strike. An estimated 150,000 or more people march through Dublin on 20 March & other protests occur in 30 towns throughout the country, including a march by 40,000 workers in Cork. http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/siptu/f6_tax_march.html http://www.dnai.com/~figgins/generalstrike/index.html http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ireland_history.html 1985 - A Commie Conspiracy: Mikhail Gorbachev takes office. Beginning of the end of the USA: "Gorbachev's rise to power & the policies he implemented that led to the end of Russian Communism & the breakup of the Soviet Union must have been a lie, a fantastic Russian fairy tale the West all too recklessly wanted to believe... Furthermore, by breaking-up the Soviet Union, dismantling the Soviet military & pursuing nuclear disarmament & world peace, Moscow has instilled a false sense of security in the West that is opening the way for Russia to succesfully launch a surprise third world war against the West. All in all, through Mikhail Gorbachev's lies, the way is opened for a global war of mass destruction after which Russia can enslave the world... Of course, the leader of the New World Order that will be established after the radioactive dust settles will be the person who deceptively brought about the global chaos & insanity in the first place: Mikhail Gorbachev." 1986 - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC. http://www.romeinsight.com/ 1988 - Beginning of 10 days of direct actions at Nevada Test Site which result in over 2,200 arrests, the largest number of arrests at a political protest outside Washington, D.C. in U.S. history. 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