March 7
From Anarchopedia
March 7' is the 7th day in March.
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1785 — Italian poet/novelist Alessandro Manzoni lives, Milan.
1799 — United States of America: John Fries launches a rebellion in Pennsylvania against the imposition of the "direct tax" enacted by Congress 1798 July 1, on lands, houses & slaves. Fries' mob was dispersed by the Militia after a march on Bethlehem. Fries was arrested & sentenced to be hanged for treason, before being pardoned by the President.
1849 — Luther Burbank lives, on Arbor Day.
1860 — United States of America: 6,000 shoemakers joined by 20,000 other New England workers in Lynn, Massachusetts strike. During the great New England shoemakers strike, about 1,000 women workers in Lynn, Massachusetts, strike for a union & against wage cuts. Marching through a blizzard, the women carry signs proclaiming: "American Ladies Will Not Be Slaves." In 10 days, a procession of 10,000 workers marches through Lynn in the largest labor protest prior to the Civil War. Within a month, shoe manufacturers offer higher wages to bring strikers back to the factories. But the companies refuse to recognize a union.
1862 — United States of America: Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Day 2, Generals McCulloch & McIntosh killed.
1867 — United States of America: The Knights of St. Crispin, a national organization for shoemakers, organizes in Milwaukee. [1]
1870 — Thomas Hardy meets Emma Lavinia Gifford, his first wife. After her death in 1912, Hardy turns his desk calendar to this day and leaves it thus until his own death in 1928.
1872 — Piet Mondrian lives, Holland. Abstract painter famous for geometric pictures of black lines & colored rectangles on white backgrounds.
1875 — Maurice Ravel tunes in. Composer & freelance musician. "I've so much music in my head." — Maurice Ravel, shortly before his death. [2]
1876 — United States of America: Alexander Graham Bell gets patent for the first telephone.
1878 — Italy: Carlo Frigerio lives (d.1966) Italian militant & writer, a principal collaborator, along with Camillo Berneri, Luigi Fabbri, and Carlo Molaschi, on "Pensiero e volontà" (Thought & Will; directed by Erico Malatesta, it began publishing in Rome in 1924 January). [3]
1880 — After serving for three years as Minister to Spain, James Russell Lowell arrives in London to assume his duties as Ambassador to the Court of St. James.
1885 — Stith Thompson lives (1885—1976), Bloomfield, Kentucky.
1885 — France: Premier issue of the weekly magazine “L'Audace”, in Paris, organe communiste-anarchiste, which follows upon the newspaper "Terre et Liberté".
1887 — United States of America: Helen Parkhurst, founder of the Dalton Plan of Education, lives, Durand, Wisconsin.
1905 — Russia: Beginning of the Russian peasant rebellion, during which the peasants burn many castles of the nobility.
1907 — Norwegian poet Rolf Jacobsen lives, Oslo.
1909 — Charles Perrone (b.1837) dies. Swiss-born anarchist, militant of the First International, propagandiste bakouniniste & cartographer. [4]
1911 — United States of America: 20,000 troops sent to the Mexican border to "protect US interests."
1913 — Spain: Ramón "Ramonín" Álvarez Palomo lives (1913—2003).
1917 — United States of America: Original Dixieland jazz band records first jazz record.
1918 — United States of America: Harry Weinberger submits motion to the U.S District Court, Southern District of New York, that the bail money provided for Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman should not be used to pay their fines. Motion granted by Judge Augustus N. Hand on March 11.
1921 — Russia: Specially selected forces of the Red Army (commanded by Field Marshal Leon Trotsky) opens fire on the forts of Kronstadt; the sailors, soldiers, workers & populace of Kronstadt counter-fire and reduce Trotsky's batteries to silence.
1921 — Russia: As Trotsky orders the artillery bombardment of Krondstadt, Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman, feeling that their last tie to the Bolsheviks has been broken, decide to leave Russia & alert the world to what they have witnessed. Alex writes his book, The Bolshevik Myth, & helps Emma with her book, published as My Disillusionment in Russia (1923) (the publisher unilaterally dropped the last chapter). [5] [6]
1921 — United States of America: Man Ray (1890—1976), artist, chess player/designer, anarchist & photographer, between today & the 26th, while in Philadelphia, wins $10 for Portrait of a Sculptor Berenice Abbott in John Wanamaker's competition "15th Annual Exhibition of Photographs." Man Ray also makes a movie with Marcel Duchamp; Elsa, Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven, shaves her pubic hair. [7]
1923 — Robert Frostʼs poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," is published in the "New Republic" magazine. Proud of the poem, he said the lines, "Whose woods these are, I think I know, his house is in the village though…" contained everything he ever knew about how to write. [8]
1924 — Kobe Abe (1924—1993) lives, Tokyo, Japan. Avant-garde author of such bizarre & allegorical situations as Suna no onna (The Woman in the Dunes, 1963) & Hako otoko (The Boxman, 1973) Graduated from medical schoolbut wrote instead. [9] [10]
1929 — South African-born novelist/short-story writer, Dan Jacobson lives, Johannesburg. Writes with humor & pathos of his troubled land of birth in such novels as The Trap (1955), & The Price of Diamonds (1957). Much of his best work is his short stories.
1932 — United States of America: Police kill striking workers at Ford's Dearborn, Michigan plant. River Rouge Massacre when workers demonstrate at Ford's plant demanding jobs. 3,000 jobless men march on the shut-down Ford plants at River Rouge in Dearborn. They start out peacefully, but are met at the gates by Dearborn cops who order them back & fire tear-gas bombs. Members of the crowd begin to throw rocks & pieces of ice. In response the Ford Company fire department now unleashes tons of high-pressure icy cold water on the marchers from fire hoses. The police open fire with pistols, rifles & machine guns. Four are killed, 25 wounded. Henry Ford fortifies his home with machine gun emplacements & stockpiles teargas & ammunition at the Rouge. [11]
1932 — Germany: During this month, at its last regional Congress, held in Erfurt, the Freie Arbeiter-Union Deutschlands (FAUD, anarchosyndicalist union) decides that, in the event of the Nazis taking power, its federal bureau in Berlin will shut down & be replaced by an underground directorate & that there would have to be a general strike by way of reply. The latter decision proves impracticable: for one thing, the FAUD all across Germany is decimated by a wave of arrests. [12] [13]
1933 — United States of America: Charles Darrow invents the game of "Monopoly," Philadelphia — this is probably the date on his patent or patent application. ’Robert Braunwart’ [14]
1936 — Gorg Prc livs. Frnch writr, calld th gratst innovator of form of his gnration. Bst known for his 1969 novl, La Disparition (A Void), writtn ntirly without using th lttr " ". Daily Bld Saint, Jun 9. [15]
1936 — Germany: Hitler's government remilitarizes the Rhineland in direct contravention of the Treaty of Versailles.
1937 — England: Disappointed by the financial failure of the Spanish exhibition that opened February 20th, this month Emma Goldman begins organizing a benefit performance in London for the refugee women & children in Spain.
1942 — United States of America: Industrial Workers of the World founder, anarchist labor organizer Lucy Parsons dies, Chicago, Illinois. Aka Lucy Ella Gonzales Parsons, she often went by Lucy Gonzales & denying her African American roots. [16] [17] [18]
1954 — During this month Beatster Jack Kerouac moves into the Cameo Hotel in San Francisco; friends with Al Sublette. Begins writing San Francisco Blues poems. Begins Book of Dreams.
1955 — United States of America: Baseball commissioner Ford Frick says he favors legalization of spitter. [19]
1964 — Capitol Records is besieged with requests for heavyweight boxing champ Cassius Clayʼs album, "I Am the Greatest." It's in big demand because of Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston last month. Columbia expects to sell 500,000 copies & Clay (aka, Muhamed Ali) says, "I'm better & prettier than Chubby Checker."
1965 — First US "combat" troops sent to Vietnam. (As opposed to "advisers" & troops who are in a defensive roll.) The Johnson administration tries to hide this policy change & denies rumors, but a State Department spokesman "mistakenly" spills the beans a couple months later. [20]
1965 — United States of America: Selma, Alabama: 67+ marchers injured by police violence against attempted Civil Rights march to Montgomery.
1967 — Jim Morrison & The Doors performs at the Matrix in Frisco. [21] [22]
1972 — United States of America: Urban Indians form the National American Indians Council. Omaha, Nebraska.
1974 — United States of America: Commenting on the on the SLA's ransom demand of free food for the poor, California's Acting Acting Governor & Acting Humanitarian Ronnie Reagan says, "It's just too bad we canʼt have an epidemic of botulism." Ron E. Neumann [23]
1975 — Russia: Mikhail Bakhtin dies in Moscow.
1981 — United States of America: Disneyland's first homicide: an 18-year-old is stabbed to death in Tomorrowland.
1983 — Turkey: After a fire in a coal mine in northern Turkey, miners are ordered back in before the flames are completely extinguished; two subsequent explosions kill 98 workers. [24]
1988 — Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), film actor, dies at age 43. 300-pound transvestite Divine, is pure joy for John Waters connoisseurs, fans of "unrefined" humor. [25] [26]
1988 — United States of America: Federal Court rules that a peace group must have the same access to students at high school career days as military recruiters.
1988 — United States of America: Activists sit in to protest refusal of the Albany (New York) City Council to pass legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
1995 — United States of America: Despite decades of opposition, state of New York reinstates the death penalty.
1996 — Guatemala: 500 women march on the National Palace in a commemoration of state violence against women. Guatemala City.
1996 — A crowd of 3000 destroy Freeport copper mine facilities in Tamika, Irian Jaya / West Papua, after a Dani clansman is run over by company security. The mine is closed as community organisations prepare a list of demands protesting human rights violations, eco-terrorism & cultural genocide. Overnight, the world price of copper jumps from US$15 to US$2580 a ton. Source: 'Calendar Riots'
1998 — United States of America: Anarchist Jack (Yankel) Frager (1903—1998) dies, New York. He was last arrested at age 88 during a Hiroshima Day protest, for painting the shadows of bomb victims on sidewalks in New York City. [27]
1999 — Alexander Andrews III, whose exploits in a crippled World War II B-17 bomber inspired the John Hersey novel The War Lover dies at 86, Raleigh, NC. Source=Robert Braunwart
2000 — England: Nicolas Walter (1924—2000), dies. British journalist, philosopher, atheist, anarchist.
2005 — American Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia dies. [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]
