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November 30
November 30 is the 30th day in November.
Events[edit]
1667 -- Jonathan Swift, critic, lives, Dublin, Ireland. His Gulliver's Travels is the only work for which he ever receives payment: 200 pounds. See Kenneth Rexroth, More Classics Revisited.
1870 -- France: Henri Beylie lives, Paris. Militant anarchist, antimilitarist & naturalist.
1900 -- Irish wit, playwright, anarchist, gay pioneer Oscar Wilde 46, dies in Paris.
1907 -- US: Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle, Washington State. Current home of Left Bank Books, a collectively owned & operated anarchist bookstore still going after 25 years.
1914 -- Anselmo Lorenzo, Spanish anarchist, dies.
1936 -- "Yippie" leader Abbot (Abbie) Hoffman, aka "Free," lives, Worcester, Massachusetts. Wrote the philosophical Steal This Book, & the dance classic, Square Dancing in the Ice Age. Consummate joiner (Chicago 7, Viet Nam War protester, etc.)
1967 -- France: The Revolution of Everyday Life, by Situationist Raoul Vaneigem, is published in Paris (Traité de savoir-vivre à l'usage des jeunes générations).
1980 -- Death of Dorothy Day, anarchist, pacifist, co-founder of Catholic Worker movement, New York City.
1987 -- James Baldwin dies. African American novelist, dramatist, essayist, Civil Rights activist, gay. Hung out in New York City anarchist circles in his early days.
1994 -- Guy Debord dies, Champot, Upper Loire, France.
Member of the Situationist International, writer, filmmaker, critic of Spectacular, Too-Late Capitalism, best known for his book The Society of the Spectacle, popularized with the May Uprising of 1968.
1998 -- Portugal: Acácio Tomás de Aquino (b. 1899) dies. Militant anarcho-trade unionist and life-long anarchist. Companion of LuÃsa Adão, a nurse & also an anarchist.
1999 -- US: WTO meets in Seattle, Washington amid massive ongoing protests, cab strikes & 40,000 anti-WTO demonstrators.
