September 15

September 15 is a 15^th day in September.

Events

1830 -- England: Railing?: William Huskisson, a popular member of the British Parliament, becomes the first person to be run over by a railroad train.

There isn't a train I wouldn't take,

no matter where it's going.

— Edna St Vincent Millay Poet, long-time fighter for the release of Sacco & Vanzetti

1846 -- Russia: Warlaam Tcherkesoff lives (1846-1925). Georgian Prince, anarchist militant & collaborator with that other Prince, Peter Kropotkin. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/08ref.htm#18/1925

1870 -- France: Mikhail Bakunin arrives in Lyons, from Locarno; within two weeks a popular uprising breaks out.

1872 -- Saint-Imier Congress convenes, September 15-16 1872, at the initiative of the Jura Federation. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#15/1872

1943 -- Italy: Gino Lucetti (1900-1943) dies. Tossed a bomb at 'Il Duce' Mussolini in 1926. Today he cheated on his 30-year prison sentence. WWII antifascist partisans took group names; two were 'G. Lucetti' (60-80 guerillas) & 'Lucetti bis' (58 strong). http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#11/1926

1969 -- According to today's issue of the "Library Journal", poet/anarchist Diane di Prima's "Memoirs of a Beatnik" "provides a stark & vivid characterization of her young life in New York City."

1973 -- Chile: Victor Jara murdered in massacre after American-sponsored overthrow of Salvador Allende. Also killed is at least one American Wobbly; Background materials on the Chilean workers' movement in the 1970s, http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/index.html#chile

External link

• http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0915.htm