April 5
From Anarchopedia
April 5 is the 5th day in April.
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1208 — Quetzalcoatl, Toltec king, priest, astronomer & culture-hero, dies; he reduced Mayan calendar & appendices to a system of signs & ideographs which fitted all languages equally.
1531 — Richard Roose boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop.
1837 — Algernon Swinburne lives.
1839 — Constant Martin. Teacher, Communard, First Internationalist, Blanquist, anarchist. [1]
1877 — Italy: Debut of the anarchist "Gang of Matese". Carlo Cafiero, Errico Malatesta, & Pietro Cesaré Ceccarelli are among the 26 gangsters in the town of Letino where a social revolution & libertarian communism aredeclared three days hence. [2] [3] [4]
1887 — United States of America: Anne Sullivan teaches the word "water" to Helen Keller. [5]
1895 — England: Anarchist Oscar Wilde is arrested for homosexuality.
1910 — France: Kissing is banned on French railways for causing too many delays.
1920 — Ireland: 120 police stations & 22 tax offices are torched to commemorate the insurrectionists of the Easter Rising.
1926 — H.L. Mencken arrested in front of hundreds of cheering spectators in Boston, for selling "American Mercury."
1930 — Antoine Cyvoct dies. Lyons anarchist militant. Cyvoct then worked in the bookstore business, & gave talks in on living conditions in the prisons. [6]
1944 — United States of America: Dances by Merce Cunningham & John Cage, "Spontaneous Earth" & "Triple Paced," premier in New York City.
1952 — Howard Hughes temporarily closes down MGM studios. His explanation: The authors of all 11 stories currently shooting are suspected Commie sympathizers.
1959 — Cuba: Censorship of the media, prohibition of strikes & other anti-labor & anti-anarchist activities in Castro’s regime. [7]
1967 — United States of America: The Food’s Good, But Don’t Drink the Punch?
1969 — Vatican: Pope Paul VI abolishes the galero (red hat) & red shoes of cardinals.
1976 — China: Tien an men Square incident, popular demonstration of criticism of the Chinese regime in power in defiance of banning such criticism.
1976 — Howard Hughes dies. Despite living in plastic bags for over 30 years, the germs finally get him.
1978 — United States of America: Marcelo Salinas dies, Miami, Florida. Anarchist, author, forced to flee Castro’s Cuban Socialist Paradise. See 1959 above.
1981 — Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Ronnie Reagan is declared a Public Moron, Berkeley, California. why only Berkely is beyond us…
1983 — El Salvador: Two members of a christian community in San Ramon are abducted, tortured & shot by the national police. In September, death squads (Ronald Reagan loves these guys) bomb the Jesuit residence in San Salvador.
1994 — Nirvana lead singer & defacto head of the grunge generation, Kurt Cobain commits suicide, Seattle.
1997 — The climatic conclusion of a generation as Beat poet Allen Ginsberg ("Howl") ceases to Howl.
2006 — Allan Kaprow unhappens. Pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art & "Happenings" Fluxus, Performance art, & Installation art was influenced by his work. [8] [9]
