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February 18
February 18 is the 18th day in February
Events[edit]
1884 -- Moscow police seize all copies of anarchist Leo Tolstoy's "What I Believe In" at the printers. [1]
1887 -- Juan Peiro (d.1942) lives, Barcelona. Spanish anarcho-syndicalist theorist & militant in the CNT. Assiduous collaborator of the confederal & libertarian press with his many reviews & newspapers. During the Spanish Revolution Peiro became Minister of Industry (three other "pajaros carpinteros" also took government positions). [2]
1895 -- England: Lord Queensberry leaves a card for Oscar Wilde at the Albemarle Club calling him a "somdomite" (the basis of Oscar's libel suit).
1896 -- André Breton (1896-1966) lives, France. Poet, essayist, critic, editor, communist, surrealist, promoter. [3]
1905 -- Frank Wedekind play "Hidada" premiers, Munchen.
1916 -- US: The brothers Enrique & Ricardo Flores Magón arrested at their Community Farm near Los Angeles, California. Enrique is beaten by the Officer Friendlies & hospitalized. Both are charged with mailing articles inciting "murder, arson & treason," & sent to prison. [4]
1930 -- Poet Joel Oppenheimer lives (The Great American Desert). Attended Black Mountain College where he was a student of Charles Olson & anarchist Paul Goodman. He lived among the poets & artists of Greenwich Village, & was a columnist for "The Village Voice" from 1969-1978.
1961 -- England: 20,000 — including 89-year old Bertrand Russell — march against nuclear weapons & 5,000 stage a sit-down at Ministry of Defense in the Committee of 100's first public demonstration, London. That desperado Russell is jailed for seven days.
1970 -- US: Federal jury finds the "Chicago 7" innocent of conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. However, 5 were convicted of crossing state lines with intent to incite riots.
1972 -- Italy: Letters to an Editor, the collected correspondence between the Situationist International & the Italian publishing house Feltrinelli, is published during this month by Gianfranco Sanguinetti, in poster form, & plastered around Milan. [5] [6]
1992 -- Mexico City announces plans to build giant antipollution fans.
2003 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader G.W. Bush says he will ignore protests over war against Iraq. Better believe it... for once (unfortunately) a truth slips from the White House. "All Hat & No Cattle" is no longer an operative appellation for this TexassLongHorn.
