Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 17:13:12 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Saturday 4/3 ADAM CLAYTON POWELL (fwd)




http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0403.htm

The fluid call in a sudden
silence abandons the search for direction

* George Kalamaras, "Evening"


APRIL 3

ADAM CLAYTON POWELL
Harlem politico, high liver, nemesis of state bureaucracy.

Ancient Egyptian FESTIVAL OF MIN.

Iran: SIZDAR-BEDAH: It is unlucky to stay indoors.
(Bowlers Beware!)


1279 - Kublai Khan defeats the Sung Chinese in a battle at sea.

1783 - Washington Irving lives (1783-1859). American author,
short story writer, essayist, poet, travel book writer,
biographer, and columnist, best known for the short stories
*The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Winkle*. In Joseph
Heller's novel *Catch-22* the central character, Captain
Yossarian, signs the censored letters of the soldiers with the
name Washington Irving (or Irving Washington).

"I don't go upstairs to bed two nights out of seven," writes
Charles Dickens, "...without taking Washington Irving under my
arm."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wirving.htm

1789 - US: A Boston trader visits & describes Neah Bay, a
principal village of the Makah Indians (Washington state).

1837 - Paul Robin lives, in Toulon (VAr). Wrongfully forgotten
anarchistic educator & néo-Malthusian whose libertarian legacy
would influence the educators Sebastien Faure & Francisco Ferrer.

See *Daily Bleed* Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/PaulRobin.htm

1860 - Pony Express service begins, between Sacramento,
California & St. Joseph, Missouri. It was discontinued six and
a half months later due to the completion of the first
transcontinental telegraph line. An ad in California newspaper
read:

"Wanted. Young, skinny, wiry fellows. Not over 18. Must be
expert riders. Willing to risk death daily.

Orphans preferred."

1868 - An Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50'
tidal wave.

1882 - Jesse James shot by Robert Ford at St. Joseph, Missouri.

1910 - Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt. Denali
climbed.

1915 - Poland: Deadbeat?: Having played an important
moderating role as deputy chairman at the Yiddish Conference
that assembled at Czernowitz to promote the status of the
language & its culture, Isaac Leib Peretz, dies in Warsaw.

1920 - F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald kicked out of Biltmore
Hotel bridal suite, New York City for rowdiness.

=2E.....in a real dark night of the soul

it is always three o'clock in the morning,

=2E.. day after day
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html

1924 - Marlon "Stella, I coulda been a contender," Brando
lives, Omaha Nebraska.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/9766/brando.html

1933 - First airplane flight over Mt. Everest.
http://aleph0.clarku.edu/rajs/mountains/everest.html

1938 - Italy: During the 1000-mile Mille Milaga sportscar road
race, a Lancia hits street car tracks & somersaults into the
crowd, killing three adult & seven child spectators & injuring
27 others, Bologna.

1948 - Marshall Aid plan for Europe formally ratified by U.S.

1950 - Radical composer Kurt Weill dies, New York City.
http://www.kwf.org/pages/kwbio.html

1954 - United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 833 strikes the Kohler
bathroom fixtures company in Kohler, Wisconsin.

Before the union contract expired, the company prepared for
the strike by installing rooftop searchlights & arming guards
with shotguns, tear gas, revolvers & thousands of ammunition
rounds. The strike did not end until September 1960, when the
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decides the Kohler
Company is guilty of refusing to bargain. The company will
agree to reinstate 1,400 strikers & pay them 4.5 million
dollars in back pay & pension credits.

1959 - The BBC bans the Coasters song *"Charlie Brown"*
because of the word "spitball." Two weeks later the uptight
Brits change their decision & play the single.

1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr., launches voter registration
drive in Birmingham, Alabama, (Home of the Free). Police Chief
"Bull" Connor responds with fire hoses & attack dogs. Sit-ins
& demos begun by SCLC & volunteers. The progressive city
government & Bull will get an injunction to prevent
demonstrations on April 11, & King & many others will be
jailed on the 12th for violating the injunction.

1963 - Achille Daude dies. French anarchist, trade union
activist, &, especially, advocate of cooperatives. Daude
contributed to Sebastian Faure's *Anarchist Encyclopaedia* as
well as writing numerous works on cooperatism, food & social
questions.
See *Daily Bleed* Gallery page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/AchilleDaude.htm

1963 - England: 700 in Budget Day protest against taxation for
nuclear arms, House of Commons, London.

1965 - Students at UC Berkeley circulated a flyer which
claimed seismologist Dr. Charles Richter suggested the next
big earthquake would be centered in the East Bay. It was a
tongue-in-cheek ad for the <a
href="http://www.rockhall.com/induct/otisjohn.html">Johnny
Otis Show at Zellerbach Hall which, the flyer said, met all
State earthquake requirements.
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rock.html

1969 - 7,000 Illinois National Guardsmen mobilized to quell a
wave of shooting, stoning & looting that broke out in black
neighborhoods of Chicago in response to police brutality.

1972 - Politico Adam Clayton Powell dies, Harlem, New York City.

1974 - California Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke indicted on three
counts of lying under oath during a Senate Judiciary Committee
investigation into charges that political influence was a
major factor in the settlement of an antitrust case against ITT.

1975 - Steve Miller charged with setting fire to the clothes &
personal effects of a friend, Benita DiOrio. In the late night
confusion, Miller tussles with policemen & is also charged
with resisting arrest. The incident is quickly forgotten the
next day when DiOrio asks to drop the charges & Miller jokes
with reporters that the publicity might "rekindle" his career.

1975 - Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for
refusing to defend his title & drink the blood of his
vanquished opponent.

1980 - US: Congress reinstates the Shvwits, Kanosh, Koosharem,
& Indian Peaks & Cedar City bands of Paiute Indians of Utah.

1985 - US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Rightwing-
sweetheart B-1 Bob Dornan (R-CA.) reveals the "best
compliment" he has yet received on the House of
Representatives floor -- Henry Hyde (R-IL.) had said to him,

If we were Indians in the Plains Wars & you were a cavalry
trooper, we would kill you just to drink your blood."

This, explains Bob, was how true warriors showed respect.
http://www.subgenius.com/newdevivals.html

1989 - In Mississippi Choctaw Case, U.S. Supreme Court upholds
rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of
1978.

1990 - Singer Sarah Vaughn, 66, dies of lung cancer in Los
Angeles.

"I don't remember when I first heard her, but I remember when
she died. I heard it on the radio & I had to pull the carover.

She means more to me than any other artist, because she truly
had to sing. She didn't do that well commercially, she had
trouble with record companies, she needed to sing what she
wanted to sing.

She was the singer's singer."


Auntie-Rekindle 1999
Dave
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