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September 29
September 29 is the 29th day in September.
Also known as[edit]
Germany: Goose Day, in which weather is forecast by the breastbone of a goose.
Mexico: Festival of Tezcatzonct, chief God of Intoxication.
Events[edit]
1547 -- Tilt?: Miguel de Cervantes lives, inspector of windmills, author of Don Quixote.
1883 -- English language publication of anarchist Johann Most's song "The Hymn of the Proletariat".
1909 -- US: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) during this month (I don't have exact day) attains the first victory in a strike by unskilled steel workers in the Pressed Steel Car Company strike at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.
1921 -- Russian Revolution: The Cheka (Bolshevik secret police) execute Fanya Baron, & nine other anarchist prisoners. These executions follow that of the anarchist poet Lev Chernyi on the 21st.
1926 -- Russia: Nicholas Lazarevitch is expelled. French anarcho-syndicalist, close to the Bolsheviks prior to his arrest & deportation.
1939 -- France: Louis Lecoin is arrested for his part in distributing 100,000 copies of the anti-war leaflet "Immediate Peace." Several signatories discover their knees are weak & that they have no backbone, & thus disavow the leaflet.
1943 -- US: Six war objectors imprisoned at Lewisburg, Pensilvania, start a hunger strike against censorship of mail & reading material by prison authorities. Igal Roodenko began his own hunger & work strike in support.
1960 -- On the day after the conclusion of the 4th conference of the Situationist International in London, strict measures are announced by the Gaullist government against the first 121 signatories of the "Declaration on the Right to Insubordination in the Algerian War."
Guy Debord & Michèle Bernstein co-sign the declaration, which eventually collects 200 signatures.
1961 -- France: Template:llPublication of La Nuit (The Night), a novel by Michèle Bernstein, in Paris.
1976 -- John Cage's "Renga" & "Apartment House 1776" premier, Boston Symphony.
1979 -- England: The Persons Unknown trial opens this month (I don't have the exact day).
Six anarchists were charged with 'conspiracy with persons known & unknown to cause explosions' hence PERSONS UNKNOWN. The state had nothing to go on (hence the quote). The six were found not guilty & a member of the jury became an anarchist...
2001 -- US: The Russian paper Pravda reports:
- ANARCHISTS TO RIOT ON 16TH STREET TODAY WILL MEET AT UNION STATION, HOPE TO CATCH POLICE UNAWARES
- Washington, DC -- Anarchist members of the Anti-Capitalist Convergence hope to catch DC Police unawares when they
- stage a riot on 16th Street between Union Station & Malcom X Park today, starting at 11 AM.
2006 -- US: "Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference," Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont (29th - 1st).
