Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:06:51 -0500 (EST) From: danceswithcarp <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us> Subject: Daily Resume: 6/7 DOROTHY PARKER Web Nooxe: http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/0607.htm JUNE 7 DOROTHY PARKER Acid-tongued Algonquin Round Table wit, journalist. When told of the death of the taciturn U.S. president Calvin Coolidge, she is said to have asked, "How can they tell?" Of Katherine Hepburn's performance in a 1934 play, Parker said she "ran the gamut of emotions from A to B." She also is responsible for the couplet "Men seldom make passes / at girls who wear glasses." Southwold, England: MAYOR'S DAY. Dignitaries mount merry-go- round horses, party. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS DAY. FESTIVAL OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS. 570 - Birth of Muhammed. 1099 - First Crusade reaches the walls of Jerusalem. http://www.stone-dead.asn.au/ 1391 - Skin, Man?: Death of Robert I "The Bruce," King of Scotland, of leprosy. 1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas: the Pope divides the New World between Spain & Portugal. 1631 - Death of Mumtaz Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India. The Taj Mahal is her tomb. 1712 - Pennsylvania State Assembly bans slavery. 1775 - Not Anti-American? United Colonies change name to United States. 1825 - R. D. Blackmore (*Lorna Doone*) Lives, England. 1839 - The Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed. 1843 - Mad German poet Friedrich Holderlin dies. http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/05968.html 1848 - French drop-out painter Paul Gauguin lives. http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/art/gauguin_ptg.html 1852 - American utopianist Hosea Ballou dies. 1860 - First US "dime novel" published: *Malaseka, The Indian Wife*. Probably cost a dime. 1862 - Kauppis-Heikki (1862-1920) lives, illegitimate son of his mother. Finnish self-learned author with rural worker's background. Kauppinen's stories are generally considered among the best of Finnish folk writers. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kauppish.htm 1862 - Flush?: Former gambler William Bruce Mumford, who tore down a flag flying over the U.S. Mint, becomes first US citizen hanged for treason. As the noose slowly tightened around his neck, the hangman whispered in his ear, "That flag was in mint condition!" 1866 - Death of Duwamish leader Chief Sealth at Port Madison Reservation, on Kitsap Peninsula, Washington state. 1891 - Urho Karhum=E4ki (1891-1947) lives. Prolific Finnish writer who won the first prize for novels at the Berlin Olympics of Arts who could run: wins in an international competition for the 5,000 meter run. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/urhokarh.htm 1892 - John J. Doyle of Cleveland Spiders is first to pinch hit in a baseball game. 1896 - Spain: A bomb explodes during a religious parade, killing a dozen people & wounding 30. In response the government totally represses the anarchist movement, torturing hundreds of people in the Montjuich Prison. 1896 - Two Tubs Up?: G. Harpo & F. Samuelson, row, row your boat, across the Atlantic, only 54 days to go. http://www.oars.com/index.html 1898 - US: In Chicago, Emma Goldman attends the first convention of Eugene Debs's Social Democracy movement; in her view it is a "fiasco." When she is at first prevented from speaking at the event, Debs personally invites the anarchist-feminist to address the convention. 1899 - Novelist/short story writer Elizabeth Bowen is born in Dublin. 1902 - Germaine Berton lives, in Puteaux. French trade union militant who attempted to kill Leon Daudet (Jan 1923), a notorious rightwing extremist/propagandist of l'Action Fran=E7aise. A solidarity campaign by the "Libertaire" rallied anarchists, such as Severine, Louis Lecoin & others in support of her defense & she was acquitted (December 24, 1923). She first joined l'Union Anarchiste in 1922. Jailed once for insulting a policeman & was active in the committee to defend the "Black Sea Mutineers." Arrested May 22, 1924, in Bordeaux, following a conference, & a brawl ensued. Newly imprisoned, Germaine Berton went on a hunger strike & was hospitalized. Thereafter, heavily depressed, she attempted suicide several times before disappearing from anarchist circles. http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juin1.html#7 1905 - Norway: Independence from Sweden obtained by nonviolence, dissolves a union in effect since 1814. The peaceful separation was impelled by their inability to resolve religious differences, (do you spell that with an on or en?). 1907 - State militia sent to Cripple Creek, Colorado to suppress a Western Federation of Miners (WFM) strike. Rockefeller owns the police & the state. He will make various promises of peace, then break them. 1909 - Free-speech conference in New York City. Emma Goldman has had a dickens of a time exercising her free speech rights in the Land of the Free for years. She seems to have an odd interpretation of the Bill of Rights. "To the daring belongs the future* when we run out of dreams, we die* Emma Goldman said that. & it*s the truth." ---Federico Arcos http://www.afmltd.demon.co.uk/meltzer/utopia.html 1913 - US: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW): Pageant of Paterson Silk Strike performed at Madison Square Garden, New York City. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/rebelgirl.html http://iww.org/labor/ 1914 - Italy: At the end of meeting where Errico Malatesta appeared in Anc=F4ne, the police open fire, killing three people & wounds about 15. In response to this police violence, the U.S.I proclaims a nation-wide General Strike, setting off insurrections. It is the beginning of "The Red Week of Anc=F4ne ", which lasts until June 14 & is only broken by the treason of the Socialists & their trade union. Malatesta, escaping the police, is forced again into exile in London. http://burn.ucsd.edu/~anow/ppl/rev/malatesta/bio.html http://www.pitzer.edu/~dward/Anarchist_Archives/malatesta/nettlau/nettlauonmalatesta.html 1917 - African American writer Gwendolyn Brooks lives. 1917 * Belgium: In the biggest single military explosion with conventional ordnance, the British detonate one million tons of Ammonal in 24 tunnels 100' underneath the German lines on Messines Ridge near Ypres. 1924 - George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit. On the lecture tour, after the 1922 expedition, trying to raise money for the 1924 attempt: Everywhere they went, they were inundated with mundane questions. Was it cold? Where is Tibet? Why do you want to climb Everest? In exasperation, in a hurry, he spoke the words that will always be associated with Everest. "Because It's There!" 1929 - US: Striking textile workers in Gastonia, North Carolina, repel a vigilante attack on their union hall. During today's battle, police chief O.F. Aderholt is accidentally killed by one of his own officers. But who gets blamed? Six strike leaders, including Fred Beal, get convictions of "conspiracy to murder" & prison sentences of five to 20 years. The workers belong to the Communist-organized National Textile Workers Industrial Union, which has led walkouts at cotton mills in South Carolina, North Carolina & Tennessee. Police have responded with an array of violence, including a shooting that killed six strikers fleeing from tear gas in Marion, North Carolina. Unlike militant strikes across the north, the cotton-mill strikes never win popular support. Mill owners & the media strike a chord by pointing to ties between the southern union organizing & African American resistance. 1930 - The Big 'N' Word?: NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro." 1943 - Nikki Giovanni, poet lives. 1943 - Ken Osmond (Eddie Haskel) lives. 1945 - The fourth draft of *Under the Volcano* is destroyed when Malcolm Lowry's shack on a beach in British Columbia burns to the ground. http://www.interlog.com/~merlinds/volcano/news.html 1946 - Author/actor Antonin Artaud released from Rodez (mental institution). http://www.hydra.umn.edu/artaud/ab.html http://members.xoom.com/icono/artaud/index.html 1965 - US Supreme Court holds "right of privacy" covers use of contraceptives. 1966 - Artist/sculptor/dadaist Jean Arp dies, Basel, Switzerland. The air is a root . . . the stones woke to eat the exact hour See *Daily Bleed* Gallery page, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/ArpJean.htm 1966 - US: Martin Luther King, Jr. (SCLC), Floyd McKissick (CORE), Stokely Carmichael (SNCC) announce larger march on same route following shooting of James Meredith. They had ignored his one man "march" until he was shot. 1967 - Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem. The holy city breathed Like a dying man It moved with hopeful tears With the tears of the blind And on and on as the night drew in Through broken streets That sucked me in My feet were bare and cut with stones With walking to the promised land I pushed through crowds Through seas of prayer Through twisting hands and choking air A vulture at the wailing wall I circled 1968 - "This explosion was provoked by groups in revolt against modern technical & consumer society, whether it be the communism of the East or the capitalism of the West. They are groups, moreover, which have no idea at all what they would replace it with, but who delight in negation, destruction, violence, anarchy & who brandish the black flag". ---Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Besieged General De Gaulle, June 7th 1968 http://www.tao.ca/~freedom/1968/words.html 1970 - In Coventry, Warwickshire, novelist, essayist, social & literary critic E. M. Forster (*A Passage to India; Howard's End*) dies. His 1927 classic discussion of aesthetics & the creative process, *Aspects of the Novel*, is still read today. 1974 - Two Liars?: Former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who pleaded guilty to charges that he lied before the Senate Judiciary Committee, was called a man of "highest integrity" by Judge George L. Hart, & was sentenced to a $100 fine & one month of unsupervised probation. 1977 - US: Dade County, Florida vote repeals anti-gay ordinance (singer Anita Bryant is active in campaign to oppose the repeal). (or 1976?) 1979 - 3 Strikes & You're In?: Chuck Berry charged with 3 counts of tax evasion -- this coming one day before the Chuckster performs on the White House lawn in front of President Jimmy Carter at the Black Music Association gala. 1980 - Free-living sex novelist Henry Miller dies, Big Sur, California. *WHATEVER THERE BE OF PROGRESS IN LIFE COMES NOT THROUGH ADAPTATION BUT THROUGH DARING, THROUGH OBEYING THE BLIND URGE.* ---Henry Miller, from * Reflections on Writing* http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/1538/henry.htm 1981 - At least 268 (possibly as many as 500) people died when an overloaded passenger train is swept off a railway bridge into the flood-swollen Bagmati River near Mansi, India, making this one of the worst rail disasters in history. 1981 - Israel bombs suspected Iraqi nuclear installation. 1988 - Palestinian Liberation Organization announces its willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist. 1994 - South Africa unveils plans to grant amnesty for political crimes committed during apartheid era. http://www.sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history.html 1997 - Seven activists arrested outside the pro-nuclear Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, for passing out copies of the *Bill of Rights*. They were protesting the prior arrest of anti-nuclear activists for leafleting outside the museum. Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. 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