March 3

March 3' is the 3^rd day in March.

Events

389 BCE — Birthday of prophet Zoroaster, the date by which Zoroastrian chronological time is reckoned, a calendar still in use primarily in Bombay. Source: 'Calendar Riots'

1240 — France: All copies of the Jewish Talmud in France are seized, & later burned.

1657 — Blacks & Native Americans rebel in Massachusetts.

1756 — England: British philosopher / anarchist William Godwin lives, Wisbech, Isle of Ely. His best known work is An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice. [1]

1815 — Source=Robert Braunwart United States of America: Government declares war against Algiers (-June 30).

1845 — United States of America: Congress overrides a presidential veto for the first time.

1847 — United States of America: Congress approves use of postage stamps.

1855 — United States of America: Congress appropriates $30,000 to introduce camels into US Southwest to fight the Indians. [2]

1863 — United States of America: First draft law passes. Contains a clause providing draft exemption in exchange for a $300 — a sum which only the rich can afford to pay.

1870 — Paraguay: This is a caravan of dead that breathes: The forces of Francisco Solano López are annihilated at Cora Hill. [3]

1871 — United States of America: Senate decides it will no longer contract treaties with Indian nations. Congress calls all Native Americans wards of state, nullifying all treaties.

1871 — United States of America: Reacting strongly to charges of corruption, Congress establishes a Commission on Civil Service Reform. In four years, however, it fails to appropriate a single penny for the Commission, which as a result, is forced to disband.

1873 — United States of America: Comstock Act makes it illegal to send "obscene, lewd or lascivious books" or birth-control information through the US mails.

1875 — Canada: The first organized hockey match is played, in Montreal.

1875 — United States of America: Illegal act of Congress removes lands from Oregon Coast Reservation, despite opposition by Coos & other tribes. Alsea Reservation, Oregon, is returned to public domain.

1878 — Edward Thomas lives. English writer who turns to poetry after a long career studying such 19th-century writers as Richard Jefferies, George Borrow, Algernon Charles Swinburne, & Walter Pater. Most of his poetry is published posthumously.

1879 — United States of America: Belva Ann Bennett, first female lawyer heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

1896 — Austria: During this month Emma Goldman completes her medical training in Austria; travels to Paris where she meets the anarchist editor Augustin Hamon.

1899 — Yury Karlovich Olesha, Russian writer who writes of the conflict between the old mentality & the new in the early years of the Soviet Union, lives (1899-1960), Elizavetgrad, Ukraine. [4]

1903 — United States of America: Colorado City free-speech fight — in the land of free speech.

1903 — Rabbe Enckell (1903 — 1974) lives, Tammela. A Finnish-Swedish writer & painter. [5]

1912 — United States of America: Emma Goldman continues lectures in Chicago, March 3-9; topics include "The Failure of Christianity" & "Edmond Rostandʼs Chantecler." She further debates Dr. Denslow Lewis on, "Resolved, that the institution of marriage is detrimental to the best interests of society." She also meets Russian revolutionary Vladimir Bourtzeff. The visit of Vladimir Bourtzeff to Chicago just after his exposure of the famous secret agent, Azeff, filled one with perplexity in regard to a government which would connive at the violent death of a faithful official & that of a member of the royal household for the sake of bringing opprobrium & punishment to the revolutionists & credit to the secret police. [Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, page 421] [Emma Goldman, Living My Life, Chapter 38']

1913 — United States of America: Over 5,000 women march on Washington DC to demand THE right to vote. In early guerrilla theatre: women & children stage "Suffrage Tableau" on the Capitol steps.

1914 — Denmark: Asger Jorn lives (1914-1973). [6] [7] [8]

1915 — United States of America: During this month Emma Goldman helps raise money for the defense fund of Frank Abarno & Carmine Carbone, members of the Italian anarchist Gruppo Gaetano Bresci, arrested yesterday, March 2, for conspiracy to bomb St. Patrick's Cathedral. On April 9, Abarno & Carbone are convicted & sentenced to six to twelve years in prison.

1918 — Germany & its allies sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Soviet Republic. In January Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Leon Trotsky denounced the German Peace Terms as unacceptable & walked out of the peace negotiations; now the Bolsheviks accept the dictated peace & the Left SRs denounce the peace & leave the government.

1919 — United States of America: Ruling on the conviction of anarchists Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman, the Supreme Court upholds the Espionage Act. Goldman & Berkman were arrested during World War I for a so-called 'conspiracy' against the draft. Todayʼs court ruling thus puts draft resistance outside First Amendment protection. Emma Goldmanʼs last act before entering prison is organizing a Political Prisoners' Amnesty League. During the war, thousands of dissenters have been sentenced to long prison terms. At Angel Island, a concentration camp for dissidents, many have been systematically tortured. At the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, prisoners have been hung by their wrists for weeks at a time.

1921 — Russia: Events continue to unfold at Kronstadt. "Nor is it only the liberty & lives of individual citizens which are sacrificed to this god of clay, nor even merely the well-being of the country — it is socialist ideals & the fate of the Revolution which are being destroyed." — Alexander Berkman, The Russian Revolution & the Communist Party (Berlin: Der Syndikalist, 1922), p. 36. [9] [10]

1922 — F. Scott Fitzgeraldʼs The Beautiful & Damned is published. [11]

1924 — Sean O'Casey play "Juno & the Paycock" premiers, Dublin.

1926 — James Merrill, poet, lives, New York. Wins 1976 Pulitzer for Divine Comedies.

1927 — Canada: In Edmonton, where Emma Goldman expects to give just two lectures March 3-11, she addresses 15 meetings in a week, speaking on trends in modern education, Ibsen, birth control, womenʼs emancipation (to the Women's Press Club); she speaks to factory girls during their lunch hour & to large Jewish audiences under the auspices of the Jewish Council of Women, the Arbeiter Ring, Hadassah, & Poale Zion, as well as to professors at the University of Alberta & a Sunday audience of 1,500.

1931 — Cab Calloway records the first million-selling jazz album, "Minnie the Moocher."

1933 — Germany: Ernst Talmann, head of the German Communist Party, is arrested by the Nazis.

1933 — Fay Wray movie "King Kong" opens, New York City. First movie Auntie Dave ever saw, sometime in the late 40s, & one his earliest memories.

1934 — United States of America: John Dillinger escapes prison with fake pistol.

1938 — Samuel Schwartzbard, Jewish watchmaker, anarchist & poet, dies, Capetown, South Africa. Escaped the Russian pogroms in 1905, settled in Paris & active in local anarcho-communist groups with Alexander Berkman, Mollie Steimer & Senya Fleshin, & Nestor Makhno. alt; Nestor Machno In 1926 he gunned down Simon Petliura, who had directed the pogroms in which some of his family were murdered. He fired three times, announcing: "This, for the pogroms; this for the massacres, this for the victims." Schwartzbard was acquitted by a jury & freed.

1940 — During this month Beatster Jack Kerouac has a second story, "Une Veille de Noel" published at Horace Mann.

1950 — United States of America: Government refuses entry to World Congress of Peace delegates, including Picasso.

[1953]] — Guatemala: Jacobo Arbenz declares the nationalization of idle lands held by the United Fruit Company; US-backed terrorism & genocide — under the catch phrase "defending freedom & democracy" — follow for the next 30 years. [12] [13] [14]

1957 — United States of America: The head of the Catholic archdiocese of Chicago (the largest in the world), Samuel Cardinal Strich, bans rock & roll from Catholic schools & "recreations" in his district. He cites the "tribal rhythms" & "encouragement to behave in a hedonistic manner." Chicago record sellers report no drop in sales of hedonism-encouraging records. This failure perhaps explains the priest-pedophiles & nuns who are molesting & buggering young children, which the church hides, denies & protects. The John Jay Study released in 2004 says that 4,392 clergymen — almost all priests — were accused of abusing 10,667 people, with 75 percent of the incidents taking place between 1960 & 1984. [15] [16] [17]

1959 — Lou Costello comedian, dies at 52.

1960 — Jean Genet play "The Balcony" opens off Broadway.

1961 — Scotland: Waterborne Polaris Action Group "welcomes" first submarines, Holy Loch.

1961 — United States of America: Chain Letter? Village Council in the Inuit town of Point Hope, in far northwestern Alaska, objects by letter to Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Johnny Kennedy to a chain explosion of five atomic bombs in nearby above-ground "Project Chariot" tests.

1964 — Olympia Press founder Maurice Girodias is sentenced to 1 year in jail for the books he published, Paris.

1965 — Owsley starts making LSD: large quantities of acid available for the first time. [18]

1967 — United States of America: First Love Circus at Winterland, music by Moby Grape & lights by the Commune & Jim Morrison & The Doors at the Avalon Ballroom, Frisco Bay area. [19]

1967 — United States of America: The "Berkeley Barb" reports that smoking bananas will get you high.

1968 — United States of America: Federal Bureau of Investigations director J. Edgar Hoover issues a memo to FBI offices concerning the goals of a "Counter-intelligence Program" against "Black Nationalist-Hate Groups": 1. Prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups. In unity there is strength; a truism that is no less valid for its triteness. An effective coalition of black nationalist groups might be the first step toward a real "Mau Mau" in America, the beginning of a true black revolution. J. Edgar Hoover, cross dressed 2. Prevent the rise of a "messiah" who could unify, & electrify the militant black nationalist movement. Malcolm X might have been such a "messiah"; he is the martyr of the movement today … King could be a very real contender for this position should he abandon his supposed "obedience" to "white, liberal doctrines" (nonviolence) & embrace black nationalism …

1968 — United States of America: Chicano students stage walkout of Los Angeles high schools, calling for an end to racist policies.

1968 — Grateful Dead leaves the Haight district in Frisco with a farewell concert before relocating to Marin County. [20] Source: [Frisco History Archive]

1974 — Reported that a famine in the Sahel, western Africa, has resulted in the deaths of 100,000, & millions more are starving. Real help in Africa to prevent food shortages & devasting health problems is not forthcoming from the "first" world countries, despite mcuh posturing, & by the year 2006 the more things have changed, the more they remain the same. [21] [22]

1974 — France: Rear cargo door bursts open during flight, causing depressurization & loss of control of a Turkish Airlines DC-10 over a wooded area north of Paris, killing all 346 on board.

1975 — Germany: Authorities free seven jailed leftists in exchange for Peter Lorenz.

1981 — United States of America: Navajo & Hopi religious leaders request halt in construction of ski resort in the San Francisco Peaks, northern Arizona.

1982 — Just before his 46th year, French novelist George Perec, dies in Ivry.

1983 — Author/activist Arthur Koestler, 77, & wife found dead of suicidal drug overdoses, London, England. Best known for his novel Darkness at Noon which reflects his break with the Communist Party. Hungarian born British novelist/journalist/critic, Koestler worked as a correspondent in the 1920s & 1930s, & was imprisoned by the fascists during Spanish Revolution of 1936, & recounts his experiences in Spanish Testament. A lifelong advocate of euthanasia.

1983 — United States of America: President Ronald Reagan] calls for a week of reporting only good news.

1985 — United States of America: Potluck benefit for anarchist Stan Iverson (1927—1985), 2pm at Seattleʼs Blue Moon Tavern. Stan has terminal cancer & the benefit is to raise funds for him to attend Carl Simontonʼs seminars in California. Other benefits are held this month at Morningtown restaurant, Left Bank Books & a.k.a. Used Books. [23] [24]

1989 — United States of America: Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for his improper & immoral oral relationship, with the President.

1989 — United States of America: TV stations refuse to show Madonnaʼs "Like a Prayer" Pepsi commercial.

1991 — LA Police savagely beat Rodney King captured on amateur video. "What you need to remember about cops is that they are just another kind of criminal, with power." [25]

1994 — Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain lapses into a coma in Italy after taking a combination of valium and champagne. [26]

1994 — United States of America: NHL players' union founder Alan Eagleson is indicted for fraud & embezzling union funds.

1996 — Author/filmmaker (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) Marguerite Duras dies. [27]

2000 — United States of America: An armored car spills 400,000 pennies on an I-5 off-ramp, Seattle, Washington.

2003 — United States of America: Stephen Downs is arrested at a shopping mall in Albany, NY for refusing to take off his T-shirt, which says "Give Peace a Chance". Dirty rotten commie terrorist conspiracy no doubt.

2006 — Ireland: Dublin Anarchist Bookfair: For a future after Capitalism - Anarchist Bookfair March 3-4. [28]

External link

• The Daily Bleed: Anarchist Calendar