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October 20
October 20 is the 20th day of October.
Events[edit]
1854 -- Arthur Rimbaud lives... Published his first poem at age 16, quit writing at age 20. Precocious boy-poet of French symbolism, wrote some of the most remarkable poetry & prose of the 19th century before he abandoned writing for gun-running.
- http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RexrothKenneth.htm
- http://www.levity.com/corduroy/rimbaud.htm
1895 -- Gaston Leval, anarchist/writer, lives.
1916 -- US: Appearing in court to testify on behalf of Bolton Hall, anarchist-feminist Emma Goldman is arrested for having distributed birth control information... Her friend Margaret Sanger is also arrested, on the 26th, for distributing birth control information.
1923 -- Beat poet Philip Whalen lives, Portland, Oregon.
1926 -- US: Good Ol'Days?: Labor activist, anti-militarist & socialist Eugene Debs dies. His "radical" reforms included an eight-hour workday, pensions, workman's compensation, sick leave, social security ... Ran for president from his jail cell. [Seems to us it's the elected ones should be ensconced in the hoosegow].
1932 -- Michael McClure, beat poet, lives
1945 -- Spain: "El Quico" & two other anarchist guerrillas, Jaime "Abisinio" Pares Adán & Juan "Roget" Salas Millón, at the request of Committee of Resistance of the CNT, bust three prisoners out of jail.
1985 -- France: Libertarian songster Jean-Roger Caussimon dies.
- http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/autobio3.htm
- http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#Ferre
1993 -- Serbia: Women In Black attacked by paramilitaries during weekly anti-war vigil, Belgrade.
2001 -- England: London's 20th annual Anarchist Bookfair.
