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October 13
October 13 is the 13th day of October
Events[edit]
1897 -- US: A well-attended event to raise money for the imprisoned editors of the anarchist "Firebrand" is held in Chicago. Speakers include Max Baginski, Moses Harmon, & Emma Goldman, who is on a speaking tour. Goldman speaks to the Lucifer Circle on the theme of "Prostitution: Its Causes & Cure" & on "Free Love."
1909 -- Francisco Ferrer, founder of the "Modern School" movement, anarchist, murdered in Spain by the Catholic Monarchists.
1911 -- US: Commemoration of the second anniversary of the death of Francisco Ferrer, New York City. Speakers include Leonard Abbott, James P. Morton, Harry Kelly, & Emma Goldman. Bayard Boyesen, professor at Columbia University & a teacher at the Ferrer School, is later fired by university administrators for having shared the platform with Goldman at this event.
- http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FerrerFrancisco.htm
- http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm
1914 -- US: Bombs are planted in St. Patrick's Cathedral & the Church of St. Alphonsus on this day, the five year anniversary of the execution of Francisco Ferrer.
1925 -- Lenny Bruce, standup comic, social rebel, hounded to death by cops for using such words as fuck & cocksucker on stage, lives.
1934 -- France: First issue of the "Conquest of Bread" appears, as a libertarian review open to all the tendencies of anarchism. It was managed by Emile Bidault (1869-1938), a French anarchist & organizer of the "League of the Antipatriots," who had previously edited "Brochure Mensuelle".
1948 -- Pakistan: Sufi qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan lives (1948-1997), Lyallpur. In 1995, he collaborated with Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack to Dead Man Walking.
1952 -- France: Second projection of "Howls for Sade," in Paris.
1955 -- During this month (I don't have exact day) Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder (Zen anarchist poet) & John Montgomery climb the 12,000 foot high Matterhorn mountain in the Sierra Nevada chain.
1962 -- Venezuela: On the occasion of the 53rd anniversary of the execution by firing-squad of Francisco Ferrer, the first of what might be considered the current run of Spanish libertarian youth paper 'Ruta', long published in exile, sees again the light of day.
1967 -- Two Marines killed, 21 wounded when a U.S. Marine fighter mistakenly dropped bombs on them near Conthien, South Vietnam.
1978 -- Third day in a row, Sid Vicious (former Sex Pistol band member) kills girlfriend Nancy. She just won't stay down, & he just doesn't know when to quit? History as it happens — historians agree it happened, but not which day.
1997 -- The ARMAGEDDONIA ANARCHISTS created today & compete in the Cosmic Underleague during the 1998 baseball season.
