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August 1
August 1 is the 1st day in August.
Events[edit]
1758 — First Indian reservation in North America established.
1765 — England: After a notice is posted in the Northampton Mercury inviting "well-wishers to the Cause now in Hand" to a football match at West Haddon, a tumultous mob assemble on the designated day, pull down & burn the fences in defiance of the Enclosures Act.
1870 — Norton I is listed by the US Census taker with the occupation of "Emperor."
1875 — François-Henri Jolivet lives (1875—1955), Paris. French working poet, anarchist & pacifist songster. [1]
1885 — Pierre Mualdes lives (1885—1966). French anarchist.
1889 — United States of America: "Der Anarchist" first appears today, in St. Louis. German language anarchist-communist paper, published by Claus Timmermann. In 1891 he moved to New York City, where it publishes until 1895. Emma Goldman is among its contributors.
1892 — Over 300 anarchists meet to discuss Alexander Berkman’s bungled attempt to assassinate Henry Clay Frick.
1897 — France: André Daunis lives, à Bages, (Aude). Militant & anarchist propagandist in southern France.
1907 — Angelo Sbardellotto lives (1907—1932). Italian anarchist & antifascist, executed by a fascist firing squad on 1932 June 17, having admitted before a Tribunal Spécial (fasciste) of his intention to assassinate Mussolini. [2]
1909 — Spain: Revolt in Catalonia leaves over 1,000 dead. See Murray Bookchin’s The Spanish Anarchists.
1917 — United States of America: Industrial Workers of the World labor organizer Frank Little lynched in Butte, Montana. During a prolonged conflict between miners & copper companies, a vigilante group drags Industrial Workers of the World organizer Frank Little — broken leg & all — from his boarding house & hang him from a railroad trestle. As a warning to others, the lynchers pin the old vigilante numbers, 3-7-77, to his clothes. Authorities make no attempt to find the assailants. [3]
1919 — Alexander Nakov lives. Bulgarian anarchist militant activist & Esperantist. [4]
1921 — United States of America: The murders of Sid Hatfield & Ed Chambers by the Baldwin-Feltz death squad agency for their part in the Matewan labor battle. [5]
1938 — 51 longshoremen, racially mixed, & union supporters in Hilo, Hawaii are gassed, hosed, bayoneted & shot in the back by police.
1942 — Jerry Garcia, vocalist & guitarist of the Grateful Dead, lives.
1950 — Jim Carroll lives, (12:03 AM)
1960 — Elvis Presley is named Public Enemy #1 by the East German newspaper, "Young World."
1963 — Poet Theodore Roethke dies. Hung out at the Blue Moon Tavern, sucking suds, near Recollection Used Books first location.
1971 — France: 2nd Congress of the International of Anarchist Federations (IAF-IFA) held in Paris, August, 1—4 1971. This follows the founding Congress in Carrara, Italy, in August 1968.
1983 — US resumes making chemical weapons after a 14-year suspension. A tug of the suspenders, & America gets back down to what it does best, creating, selling & housing the world’s greatest collection of Weapons of Mass Destruction; a virtuous recommitment to "Taking the High Moral Road."
1986 — Jeanne Humbert (1890—1986) dies. French pacifist, anarchist militant who devoted her life to fighting for sexual freedom & birth control rights. [6]
