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March 29
March 29 is the 29th day in March.
Events[edit]
502 — Gundobad, King of the Burgundians, issues a new legal code that brings Romans and Burgundians under the same law.
1254 — The Mongols break camp, with William of Rubrick.
1626 — New World: First American forestry legislation enacted, Plymouth Colony.
1772 — England: Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg dies, London.
1790 — France: Marquis de Sade freed by "demand of the people."
1797 — England: The pregnant Mary Wollstonecraft marries novelist/anarchist/political theorist William Godwin. She dies in the autumn, 11 days after the birth of her daughter, Mary. Her daughter Mary goes on to marry the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (author of "The Mask of Anarchy") & writes the novel Frankenstein. [1]
1830 — France: Claude Rougeot lives, Demigny (Saone & the Loire). Shoe-maker, Lyons anarchist & participant in the insurrection in the Guillotière suburb in Lyon (1871 April 30) where they tried to establish a commune in conjunction with the Paris Commune & similar efforts in other cities in France.
1848 — United States of America: Niagara Falls stops falling for a full day due to high winds & an ice jam.
1867 — United States of America: Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911), lives.
1883 — France: Louise Michel Elle écrit au préfet de police pour lui dire qu'elle se rendra à , son bureau le lendemain. See also tomorrow.
1886 — United States of America: Coca-Cola is created (with cocaine).
1889 — Howard Lindsay, playwright, producer, & actor, lives, Waterford, New York. Wrote, with Russel Crouse State of the Union.
1895 — Ernest Jüenger lives. German novelist/essayist, whose militarism (after his sonʼs death) & anti-semitism changed, in his allegory On the Marble Cliffs (1939), into criticism of German National Socialism.
1898 — United States of America: Red Emma, still on her speaking tour of February—June, addressing 66 meetings, returns to Chicago for additional lectures (March 29—April 2); speaks before the gymnastic society Gut Heil in a Chicago suburb & to residents of a Jewish neighborhood in Chicago.
1900 — Italy: Con una mossa a sorpresa il presidente della Camera Giuseppe Colombo mette in votazione, con l'inusuale metodo di alzarsi o stare seduti, le modifiche al regolamento. I deputati della maggioranza si alzano rapidissimi e il presidente toglie immediatamente la seduta considerando valida la votazione. La farsa continua. [Source: Crimini e Misfatti]
1901 — Uuno Kailas (1901 — 1933) lives. Finnish poet/translator. In the 1920s Kailas came in contact with expressionism, which influenced his poetry. The knowledge of his approaching death shadowed Kailas' later works, where central themes circle around suffering, sin & mortality. [2]
1908 — Antonio Pereira lives, Naples. Italian anarchist, member of the Ortiz column in the Spanish Revolution, & the underground movement after the fascist Franco became dictator. [3]
1912 — Last entry in Scottʼs diary, in a blizzard 18 km from the South Pole. "Taint a fit nite out for man nor beast"
1918 — United States of America: Amid growing war hysteria, 300 University of Wisconsin students pack Madisonʼs Turner Hall on South Butler Street to disrupt a talk by Socialist Party national secretary Adolph Germer, who appears on behalf of US Senate candidate Victor Berger.
1923 — United States of America: War Resisters League founded, New York City. "War is a crime against humanity." [4]
1925 — United States of America: Late March. Black leaders protest the showing of D.W. Griffithʼs "Birth of a Nation," scheduled to open at the Rialto Theatre in Charleston on April 1, on the grounds it violated a 1919 state law prohibiting any entertainment which demeaned another race. Hizzoner W. W. Wertz & the West Virginia Supreme Court supported their argument & prevented the showing of the film. [Posey, The Negro Citizen of West Virginia, pages 70-71].
1929 — Lennart Meri lives, Tallinn. Author/film director/translator/statesman. Son of Estonian diplomat/writer Georg Meri. Wrote books based on his expeditions to Siberia, Soviet Far East & the Arctic. Best known is Hõbevalge (Silverwhite, 1976). His film The Winds of the Milky Way won a silver medal at the NY film festival. He translated into Estonian works by Remarque, Graham Greene, Solzhenitsyn & Boulle. Appointed in 1990 Foreign Minister. In 1992 he was elected first President of Estonia & in 1966 to his second term. [5] [6]
1935 — Clément Duval dies. Anarchist illegalist, member of "La panthère des Batignolles," sentenced to death by a French court for a burglary (in which a policeman was wounded trying to apprehend him). Following anarchist protests his sentence was commuted to life. Duval spent 14 years in prison in French Guyana where he attempted over 20 escapes. Finally, on April 14, 1901, he made good his escape & after a two year sojourn slipped into New York City, where he lived until age 85, supported & surrounded by Italian & French anarchist comrades. His memoirs, translated by Luigi Galleani were published in Italian in 1929. In 1980 Marianne Enckell at C.I.R.A. in Lausanne recovered part of his original manuscript, which was published as Clement Duval, Convict & Anarchist. "Vous m'inculpez de vol, comme si un travailleur qui ne possède rien peut être un voleur. Non, le vol n'existe que dans l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme, en un mot par ceux qui vivent aux dépens de la classe productrice."
1936 — United States of America: A reflective crowd of 10,000 watches the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis.
1943 — Spain: Nine members of the "Juventudes libertarias" (anarchist youths) an underground group opposing the fascist military takeover, are arrested & garroted at the "Modelo" prison. They are just a few of the tens of thousands who met, or will meet, a similar fate in the early years of the Franco dictatorship. Joaquin Pallarés Tomás & others of the Pallarés action group are executed. The Pallarés group was one of the very first anti-Franco urban guerrilla groups, starting its operations almost as soon as the civil war ended in 1939. In addition to guerrilla activity, they did remarkable work on the reorganisation of the Libertarian Youth of Catalonia. Captured by the police erlier this month & tortured; within days, Joaquin Pallarés is executed (today) alongside Fransisco Alvarez, Fernando Ruiz, Francisco Atares, José Serra, Benito Santi, Juan Aquilla, Arguelles & Tresols; other members of the group — Vincente Iglesias, Jos Urrea, Manuel Gracia, Rafael Olalde & Hilaria Foldevilla — have their lives spared. [7]
1949 — Beatster Jack Kerouacʼs first novel, The Town & the City is accepted for publication by Harcourt Brace. Kerouac receives a $1,000 advance in monthly installments. A novel in all the traditional manners, he has not yet found the voice that will bring him fame, nor has the "Beat Movement" that he will come epitimize, along with many of his writer pals, been formulated yet. It will be this fall that he uses "beat generation" for the first time.
1951 — United States of America: Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of selling US atomic secrets to the USSR. The case was pockmarked with glaring inconsistencies (& the chief evidence against them was the testimony of Ethelʼs brother, David Greenglass, a convicted co-conspirator) — but it was their fate to be tried during the height of McCarthyism. While most critics now concede Ethel was probably innocent, they were both executed 19 June 1953.
1952 — E.B. White writes to his editor, Cass Canfield, about Charlotte's Web: "Whether children will find anything amusing in it only time will tell."
1957 — British novelist Joyce Cary dies.
1961 — Armand Robin dies. French poet, translator, anarchist. "Que m'importe qu'on m'abatte au coin de la rue, j'écrirai des poèmes jusqu'à ce qu'on me tue." [8]
1962 — Argentina: Military coup topples civilian government.
1968 — Grateful Dead & Chuck Berry open at the Carousel Ballroom in Frisco.
1969 — United States of America: Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, John Froines, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, & Lee Weiner are indicted on Federal charges of conspiring to cross state lines with the intent of inciting violence & with individually crossing state lines to incite violence. The same Federal grand jury that returned these criminal indictments also charged eight Chicago policemen with civil rights violations for assaulting demonstrators & news reporters. None of the policemen were convicted. (41 officers of the Chicago Police Department were disciplined after internal investigations, & two resigned, for infractions like removing their badges & nameplates while on duty during Convention Week.) [9]
1970 — Death of Vera Brittain, author/pacifist/feminist/poet. [10]
1971 — United States of America: Charles Manson, convicted on 1971 January 19 of the ghastly "cult" murders of seven people, is sentenced to life imprisonment (after 9 1/2 month trial — longest in California history.) [11]
1971 — United States of America: Lt. William Calley is convicted of the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai 4. [12] [13]
1971 — Led Zeppelin registers all six of its albums on the charts simultaneously, a feat never before made in pop history.
1973 — Italy: Beginning of wildcat strike & occupation of Fiat plants at Mirafiori.
1973 — United States of America: Dick M Nixon declares meat price controls to stave off housewives meat boycott set to start April 1.
1973 — United States of America: Former Black Panther H. Rapp Brown (+ three others?) convicted for 1971 October 16 robbery.
1976 — United States of America: After a gig in Memphis, Bruce Springsteen jumps the fence at Graceland in an attempt to see his idol, Elvis Presley.
1976 — Israel: Mass protests against deportation of two leftist Arab mayoral candidates from the West Bank. Some Arabs are more free than others.
1982 — Modernist composer Carl Orff dies.
1987 — Nicaragua: US Vietnam Veterans For Peace, marching from Jinotega, reach Wicuili. "Only the United States is engaged in aggression & overt war here. As US citizens we will walk on a public Nicaraguan road made dangerous only by the US financed & directed terrorism. Therefore, only the U.S., not Nicaragua, is responsible in the eventuality of our injury, kidnapping, or death. We will walk for the truth. We will walk to share the fate of the Nicaraguan people who must walk & travel this road every day for their daily livelihood." — Veterans Peace Action Teams (VPATs) Press Release, March 20, 1987 [14]
1997 — United States of America: Second annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair held. The Fourth Anarchist Book Fair was held March 27, 1999. On May 8, 1999, the New England Anarchist Book Fair was held in Boston. The 6th Bay Area Anarchist bookfair was held March 24, 2001. The 7th Annual Bay Area Book Fair, sponsored by our friends at Bound Together Books, is held on March 30, 2002, at Kezar Pavillion. These book fairs are also occasion for Bay Area Anarchist Conferences which are held the following day. [15]
1998 — Richard Bellamy (1927—98) dies. [16] [17]
2003 — United States of America: Eighth annual Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair. One of the largest displays of political literature on the West Coast. 50 exhibitors, authors speaking on current issues, government & social change, a free event. Held at The Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, speakers include Bo Brown, Max Elbaum, Diane Di Prima, Eric Drooker, Roy San Filippo, Chris Carlsson, Ron Sakolsky, Kirk Read, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. [18] [19]
