Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:46:35 -0500 (EST)
From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Sunday Daily Bleed: 4/11 JOHN O'HARA 




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APRIL 11

JOHN O'HARA
New York School novelist, bon vivant.

FESTIVAL OF UNMEDIATED PLAY.


837 - Halley's Comet passes earth by 6 million km.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap971215.html

1241 - Hermannstadt stormed by the Mongols.

1492 - Margaret of Angoul=EAme, Queen consort of Henry II of
Navarre, a patron of humanities & religious reformers & an
author, lives, Angoul=EAme. Her most important work was
*Heptaméron* & *Les Derni=E8res Poésies*, both published
posthumously.

1617 - Pocahontas, the daughter of Native American King
Powhatan, dies on a ship returning from England to Virginia.
She leaves an infant son.

School children are fed the romantic tale of Pocahontas'
encounter with Captain John Smith. But the truth is that
English settlers in Jamestown held her captive to force
concessions from her father. Then Colonist John Rolfe married
the captive Pocahontas, changed her name to Rebecca Rolfe,
dressed her in English finery, & took her to England for Queen
Elizabeth's amusement.

1722 - Christopher Smart, dooty Brit poet, lives, Shipbourne,
Kent. In & out of asylums, the poet is finally released in
1763 & publishes his masterpiece, *A Song to David.*
http://library.utoronto.ca/www/utel/rp/authors/SMART.HTML

1772 - Manuel José Quintana lives, Madrid, Spain.
Patriot/Neoclassical poet esteemed for poems, pamphlets, &
proclamations written during the War of Independence from
Napoleon. Crowned national poet in 1855 by Queen Isabella II.

1812 - England: Attack on Rawfords Hill to destroy machinery.
Wroe & Duncliffs Mfg. set ablaze. 300 Luddites meet the first
serious resistance & suffer their first defeat in this
abortive attack. Yorkshire machine breaking  virtually at an
end as Luddism acquires new patterns.
http://www.isomedia.com/homes/harpo/galindex.htm >Collage by
SaintMeister James Koehnline
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~socs203/luddites.htm

1895 - Cuba: José Mart=ED & M=E1ximo G=F3mez land at Playitas.
In Spanish,
http://spin.com.mx/~hvelarde/Uruguay/Galeano/memoria/18950411.htm

1898 - Beloved & Respected comrade Leader President Bill
McKinley declares Cuba independent of Spain & asks Congress
for a resolution authorizing him to use armed forces in
compelling the Spanish to "liberate" the island. The
resolution  passed & US warships were dispatched to blockade
all Cuban ports.

1905 - Attila J=F3zsef  lives. One of the great Hungarian poets
of the 20th century, who spent his short life in extreme
poverty. Abandoned by his father at 3, attempted suicide at 9,
at 14 his mother died. In 1925 expelled from the University of
Szeged for a revolutionary poem. Joined the illegal Hungarian
Communist Party & was expelled in 1933 by Stalinists who
attacked him as a fascist. Committed suicide in 1937 by
throwing himself under a freight train.

Central themes in his poems are poverty, loneliness,
suffering, but, on the other hand, also love & hope for a more
human world.

1914 - George Bernard Shaw's *Pygmalion* opens in London with
Mrs. Patrick Campbell as Eliza, on the eve of Shaw's 15th
anniversary of corresponding with the actress.
http://www.gis.net/~edwardg/shaw.html

1914 - "Explaining the term 'Anarchist-Communism'," appears in
*Min Sheng*, No. 5, April 11, 1914, pp.1-5.

Another significant article seeking to define anarchist
communism was written by Shih Fu in April, 1914. Since both
the terms "anarchism" & "communism" were new to the Chinese
language, many misunderstandings had resulted, he stated.
Anarchism advocated the complete freedom of people,
unrestrained by any controls, with all leaders & organs of
power eliminated.

Later, Wu Chih-hui was to write: "Since the death of Shih Fu,
the Anarchist Party of China has been scattered & indifferent
it seems as if Shih Fu's death from tuberculosis has caused
the Chinese Anarchist Party to suffer also from this disease."
The death of Shih Fu removed a dynamic figure from the Chinese
anarchist movement & certainly damaged it severely.
THE CHINESE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT, Scalapino, R. & Yu, G.T.
(1961).
http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/worldwidemovements/scalapino.html

1916 - Richard Harding Davis dies in Mount Kisco, New York.
Reporter, popular novelist, author of 25 plays.
http://members.aol.com/mg4273/rhdavis.htm#Davis

1917 - Ragtime composer Scott Joplin dies, New York City.

1926 - American horticulturist Luther Burbank dies.

1931 - Dorothy Parker steps down as drama critic for *The New
Yorker*, ending a self-described "Reign of Terror."
http://www.electricbody.com/sections.html

1938 - Bare Market?: Richard Whitney, five-term president of
the New York Stock Exchange, was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in
prison for grand larceny.

1941 - US: Ford Motor Company signs first contract with United
Auto Workers (UAW).

1951 - Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Fade Away General
Douglas MacArthur is removed from his Korea command for
unauthorized policy statements. His idea  regards North Korea
& China was to nuke 'em early & often. WWIII an all that.
http://sites.communitylink.org/mac/photo.html

1956 - The man later known as Soul Brother Number One, James
Brown, has his first chart entry when *"Please, Please,
Please"* debuts on the R&B chart.

1961 - Bob Dylan makes his New York City stage debut at
Gerde's Folk City, a small Greenwich Village club, opening for
bluesman John Lee Hooker.

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."

1963 - Vatican: Pacem in Terris encyclical issued by Pope John
XIII, calling for an end to the nuclear arms race.

1968 - Attempted assassination of Rudi Dutschke, a well known
student anarchist activist, unleashes solidarity
demonstrations in his behalf in Paris, Rome, Vienna & London.

1968 - US: Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed into law.  The act
bars racial discrimination in housing & other areas.

1970 - John O'Hara, American novelist & short-story writer
whose sparingly styled fiction stands as a social history of
upwardly mobile Americans from the 1920s through the 1940s,
dies in Princeton, New Jersey. Many of his best-selling novels
were adapted for stage & screen, including the popular
*Butterfield 8* (1935; film, 1960) & *From the Terrace* (1958;
film, 1960).

1970 - Peter Green, founding member of Fleetwood Mac,
announces he will leave the band on May 25 to devote himself
to "what God would have me do." On May 26 he announced God
would have him do the reunion tour.

1971 - 500 marchers in support Pepe Beunza reach Spanish
border; 100 beaten by Spain's finest.

1978 - 136 Zimbabweans killed in Rhodesia napalm bombing,
Solway Refugee Camp, Zambia.

1979 - Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes
Kampala.
http://www.isomedia.com/homes/harpo/galindex.htm >Collage by
SaintMeister James Koehnline

1981 - Germany: 10,000 gather in West Berlin to protest
housing shortages. Some wore paint, some brought instruments.
It was a celebration. The next night 500 went on a rampage,
smashing cars & store windows & battling cops.

1982 - A double-deck ferry boat hits a sandbar & capsizes in
the Irnawaddy River near Rangoon, Burma; 160 drown.

1986 - US: 17 arrested on felony riot charges after police
tear-gas striking Hormel meatpacking workers in Austin, Minn.
6,000 (in a city of 20,000) demonstrate the next day. The
Hormel strike, generally regarded as the first major grass
roots revolt against corporate downsizing, is eventually
suppressed by Hormel in cooperation with both the state & the
workers' own national union. (See also 13 November 1933).

1986 - Dodge Morgan sails solo nonstop around the world in 150
days.   http://www.aloha.com/~fabian/pictures.htm

1987 - Novelist Erskine Caldwell dies in Paradise Valley,
Arizona. Wrote *Tobacco Road;  God's Little Acre*. Closely
involved with Margaret Bourke-White.
http://iasw.com/gallery/erskine.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/caldwell.htm

1990 - First US cruise missiles removed from West Germany to
be destroyed in Arizona.

1991 - United Nations officially declares an end to the Gulf War.

1996 - Egypt: Treaty of Pelindaba signed in Cairo, making
Africa a nuclear-free continent & at least in theory making
the entire southern hemisphere a nuclear-free zone.


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