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February 4
February 4 is the 4th day in February.
Events[edit]
1856 -- Paul Napoleon Roinard lives. Wrongfully ignored French anarchist poet. Kicked around with poets & artists of the time, such as Stephen Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, & Laurent Tailhade.
1857 -- Russia: During this month Mikhail Bakunin, in various
prisons since his part in the Dresden uprising in 1849, currently
imprisoned in Schlusselberg, has his sentence commuted to
Siberian exile.
1869 -- Wobbly "Big Bill" Haywood lives, in Salt Lake City, Utah -- where all good Mormons try to emulate him. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) honcho.
1896 -- Bulgaria: Gueorgui Cheitanov lives (1896-1925). Anarchist militant captured & executed after an attack in Sofia.
1899 -- Philippines: Revolt against the non-imperialist benevolent peace-loving US occupation forces begins. The American genocide of Filipinos follows; Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader president of the Philippine Commission notes "We propose to stay there indefinitely in working out this good that we propose to do them." This "good" would be called terrorism by any decent people. "In November 1901, the Manila correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger reported: 'The present war is no bloodless, opera bouffe engagement; our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners & captives, active insurgents & suspected people from lads of ten up, the idea prevailing that the Filipino as such was little better than a dog...." 4,165 US troops, 10,000-20,000 guerrillas & 200,000+ civilians are killed in the next four years.
1900 -- Jacques Prévert, (1900-1977) lives. Poet, surrealist, libertarian.
1919 -- US: The "Seattle Union Record" publishes Anna Louise Strong's General Strike editorial.
1968 -- The inspirational genius of the Beat writers, Prankster Neal Cassady, pulls his last prank — collapses & dies along railroad tracks, San Miguel De Allende, Mexico.
1987 -- Portugal: Francisco Quintal (b.1898) dies. Militant, propagandist, & anarcho-syndicalist.
1991 -- Canada: Eleven arrested for spraying blood on war supplier Litton Systems, Toronto.
1995 -- Australia: Barricade Bookstore opens, Melbourne.
1998 -- Brussels: International Pie Brigade commandos, created by pie-throwing anarchist Noël Godin, delivers a pie to Bill Gates (Seattle boy makes good: "the richest man of the world") to cries of : "Entartons, entartons le polluant pognon!"
