March 27

March 27 is the 27^th day in March.

Events

922 — Execution of Abu al-Mughith-al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj.

1513 — New World: Ponce de Leon reaches Florida looking for fountain of youth.

1599 — Earl of Essex sent to put down a rebellion in Ireland.

1797 — Alfred de Vigny (1797 — 1863) lives. French poet/playwright/novelist, gave up a military career for poetry. Friend of Victor Hugo and his circle. [1]

1814 — Massacre of Tohopeka (Horseshoe Band). General Andrew Jackson overwhelms Creek forces. To count the dead, whites cut off their noses — piling 557 of them — & skin bodies to tan hides for souvenirs.

1871 — Heinrich Mann (1871 — 1950) lives, Lübeck. German writer, brother of Thomas Mann.

1873 — United States of America: Major W.H. Brownʼs troops attack Tonto Apache camp at Turret Butte, Arizona.

1892 — France: Bomb explodes, partly destroying the building where the Paris prosecutor lives. François Ravachol set it off, in revenge for trying and sentencing of the anarchists Descamps, Dardare, and Léveillé (1891 August 28).

1893 — Hungary: Social theorist Karl Mannheim lives, Budapest.

1898 — United States of America: Red Emma Goldman lectures in Cincinnati to a large meeting of the Ohio Liberal Society. Brady complains about their separation; she responds by asserting her need for freedom.

1909 — United States of America: Wally Nelson, tax-resistor and non-violent activist, lives, in Arkansas. Massachusetts farmer & conscientious objector who has refused income tax payments for over 50 years.

1910 — Ai Qing, poet, lives, Jinhua, China. Advocate of the doctrines of Mao Zedong. Selected Poems of Ai Qing is published in 1982.

1912 — Canada.: Start of 8-month Fraser River Strike by Industrial Workers of the World railroad construction workers, British Columbia. [2]

1912 — United States of America: First Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington DC.

1912 — Canada: Unable to further tolerate the unbearable living conditions in the Canadian Northern Railway work camps, the 8,000 "dynos and dirthands" walk out. The strike extended over 400 miles of territory, but the IWW established a "1,000-mile picket line" as Wobs picketed employment offices in Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma, San Francisco, & Minneapolis to halt recruitment of scabs. August, 1912 they were joined by 3,000 construction workers on the Grand Trunk Pacific in BC & Alberta. (According to legend) CN strike also spawned the nickname "Wobbly." A Chinese restaurant keeper who fed strikers reputedly mispronounced "IWW" in asking customers "Are you eye wobble wobble?" & the name stuck. "Scab on the job" tactic is created, by sending convert Wobs into scab camps to bring the workers out on strike. Source: A Brief History of the IWW outside the US (1905 — 1999) by Morgan Miller [3]

1920 — Italy: The metal workers' union (FIOM) in Turin begins a General Strike. The Turin anarchist newspaper "L'Ordine Nuovo" publishes a proclamation, "Pour le congrès des conseils d'usine. Aux ouvriers et paysans d'Italie," signed by the libertarian group of Turin, including the strike organizers and militant Councilists Pietro Ferrero (assassinated by the fascists in 1922) and Maurizio Garino. On April 14, the authorities intervene with an extreme rigor to break the strike (which continues until April 23). Arrests en masse occur, which include Maurizio Garino. [4]

1923 — American poet Louis Simpson lives, Jamaica, B.W.I. Won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for At the End of the Open Road.

1923 — We commemorate the passing on this day of James Dewar, inventor of the thermos flask. [Source: Calendar Riots]

1923 — Italy: Pier Carlo Masini lives (1923 — 1998). Grand historien de l’anarchisme, militant libertaire lui-même surtout pendant les années 1940 et 1950. http://artic.ac-besancon.fr/histoire_geographie/HGFTP/Autres/Utopies/anitadat.doc

1924 — Legendary American jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughn ("Divine Sassie") lives. Daily Bleed Saint 2004, SARAH VAUGHN

1928 — D. H. Lawrence, writing to Aldous Huxley, calls Arnold Bennett "a pig in clover." Exactly three years later, in 1931, Bennett dies of typhoid at 64, after drinking water in a Paris hotel to prove to companions that it is safe. The next night Virginia Woolf notes in her diary: "Queer how one regrets the dispersal of anybody…who had direct contact with life — for he abused me; & yet I rather wished him to go on abusing me; & me abusing him."

1931 — Uruguay: In Montevideo, the celebrated Argentinian anarchist expropriator, Miguel Arcángel Roscigna (or Roscigno), is arrested and disappeared.

1933 — United States of America: Some 55,000 people stage a protest against Hitler in New York.

1938 — Portuguese militant Arnaldo Simões Janário (b.1897) dies in the prison camp of Tarrafal.

1942 — United States of America: The Army issues Public Proclamation No. 4 prohibiting the changing of residence for all in Military Area No. 1, effectively ending the "voluntary evacuation." [5]

1951 — Iran: Mossadeq nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.

1953 — United States of America: The State Department bans Dashiell [DASH-ell] Hammettʼs novels from its overseas libraries. [6] [7]

1959 — Netherlands: During this month the Dutch section of the Internationale Situationniste adopts a Resolution Against the Renovation of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange — a renovation called for by the dominant opinion in the artworld — proposing instead, "the demolition of the Stock Exchange & the redevelopment of the land as a playground for the areaʼs population […] the center of Amsterdam is not a museum, but a place inhabited by living beings." [8]

1962 — Good Friday psilocybin experiment.

1964 — United States of America: A magnitude 8.3 (Richter) earthquake flattens Anchorage, Alaska. Some 30 blocks of residential & commercial buildings are destroyed in the city, & 131 die (most victims of a tidal wave generated by the quake). One of the largest ever recorded, the quake is felt as far away as Seattle.

1966 — South Vietnam: 20,000 Buddhists in silent march for peace, Hue.

1967 — A riot breaks out at a Rolling Stones concert in Halsinborg, Sweden. Five days later, 154 fans are arrested in another riot at a Stones concert in Vienna, Austria. and then three weeks later, another riot breaks out at a Stones concert in Zurich, Switzerland.

1967 — United States of America: Local 225 organizes Hudson Transit Lines in New Jersey.

1968 — Colonel Yuri Gagarin killed in a crash of his jet trainer — the cosmonaut who piloted Vostok 1 as the first man in space.

1968 — Little Willie John, 31, dies of a heart attack in Walla Walla (Washington) Penitentiary. A teenage R&B singer in the gospel-influenced mold of James Brown, Sam Cooke & Jackie Wilson before going to jail for killing a man in a Seattle street fight in 1961.

1969 — United States of America: The first Chicano Youth Liberation Conference in history is held by the Crusade for Justice. During the week-long conference, the poet known as Alurista (Alberto Baltazar Urista) presents his poem on the myth of Aztlán, which captures the imagination of the conference by defining a symbolic Chicano homeland within the borders of the United States. The conference celebrates its delegates' cultural identity as the 'nation of Aztlan' & organises the Brown Berets (for community self-defence).

1969 — Bo Diddley opens at Winterland, Frisco.

1970 — United States of America: Alice Herez dies after immolating herself on March 16 to protest the Vietnam War.

1971 — NY radio station WNBC bans the song "One Toke Over the Line" by Brewer and Shipley for alleged drug references. Other stations around the country follow suit. The composer of the tune, Tom Shipley, responds, "In this electronic age, pulling a record because of its lyrics is like the burning of books in the Thirties." [9]

1971 — Today Heberto Padilla, the renowned Cuban poet & former editor of "Granma" (fired for favorable comments on the work of Guillermo Cabrera Infante [a Daily Bleed patron Saint]), is jailed for 37 days. He is also denied work for a year. His case aroused a world-wide storm of protest by prominent pro-Castro & other intellectuals & writers. Dumont, in true Stalinist fashion, confesses he was guilty of adopting "counter-revolutionary" attitudes & in his own words, "… providing information to CIA agents like myself & K.S. Karol (p. 120ff.; Karol is a friendly critic of Castro & author of Guerillas in Power, & like Dumont invited to visit Cuba by Castro). — Sam Dolfoff, The Cuban Revolution

1972 — United States of America: Soledad Brothers acquitted.

1977 — Worst accident in aviation history occurs when a Pan Am 747 collided with a KLM 747 on a runway in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, resulting in about 580 deaths.

1977 — Spain: In Madrid, concretamente en la Plaza de Toros de San Sebastián de los Reyes, la CNT organiza un mitin que alberga a más de 25,000 personas. [10]

1980 — A leg of the North Sea oil drilling platform Alexander L. Keilland breaks off during a storm, causing the platform to capsize; 123 die.

1980 — United States of America: Mount St. Helens in Washington State becomes active after 123 years.

1985 — United States of America: Benefit for anarchist Stan Iverson (1927 — 1985), at Seattleʼs a.k.a. Used Books in the University District. One of many fund raising efforts to aid Stan in his fight against cancer. [11]

1986 — United States of America: US Senate approves 100 million for rightwing Nicaraguan contras while cutting domestic programs, slashing welfare programs. 2/3 of the global military spending is by the Americans who, ostensibly, have no enemies after the end of the American Cold War. The Gas-Oil-Pentagon junta running the White House soon scare up new bogeymen.

1988 — Charles Willeford dies. Novelist, poet. [12]

1988 — Israel: Mordechai Vanunu jailed 18 years for disclosing Israeli nuclear weapons program. He is kept incommunicado, in solitary confinement, for the next 10 years.

1993 — Germany: A new generation of Rote Armee Fraktion activists destroys a recently completed hi-tech prison. [Source: Calendar Riots]

1995 — Berlin: People climb power station chimney in acid rain protest. During the Berlin Climate Conference, Greenpeace climbers occupy a chimney stack at an RWE coal-fired power station. An attempt to remove them fails. The pictures are broadcast live to the Conference.

1995 — Sudanese government agrees to two-month cease fire in its war with rebels in southern Sudan.

1996 — Germany: The Kleine Hamburger Strasse 5 is evicted. This follows yesterdayʼs eviction of The Palisadenstrasse 49, & is part of a 2-year government assault on the Squatter's Movement. [13] [14] [15]

1998 — United States of America: Five thousand demonstrate in Washington, D.C., in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, & other political prisoners in America.

1999 — United States of America: Fourth Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. Frisco County Fair Building, Golden Gate Park. Admission - FREE! Over 60 anarchist groups participate & over 2000 persons attend. Artists & Speakers include: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (now poet laureate of SF), Harry Britt (gay ex-supervisor), Ed Mead (member George Jackson Brigade, just released after 20 years in jail), Eli Rosenblatt (California Prison Focus), Stephen Dunnifer (Pirate Radio). [16]

2003 — Slovenia: 1a Fiera del libro anarchica balcanica: Incontro anarchico internazionale, in Lubiana, Marzo 27-30.

2004 — England: British anarchist pacifist & militant Tony Smythe dies, age 65. Anti-nuclear activist, director of, MEDACT, the Medical Campaign for Global Security.

2006 — Stanislaw Lem dies this morning… Author best known for his satire, humor, & irreverent reflections of society. [17] [18] [19] [20] Links at http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/abstracts/a40.htm

External link

• The Daily Bleed: Anarchist Calendar