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'''December 5''' is the [[5]]<sup>th</sup> day in [[December]].

==Events==

[[1349]] â€” [[Jew]]s are massacred at [[Nuremberg]] in Black death riots.

[[1484]] â€” The pope establishes severe penalties against [[Germany|German]] [[witch]]es and [[magic]]ians; over the next 300 years perhaps 200,000 accused witches are executed.
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1770]] â€” Six of the British troops involved in the [[Boston Massacre]] found innocent, largely due to defense attorney [[John Adams]]Ê¼s intimation that Crispus Attucks, AmericaÊ¼s first black hero, may have caused â€œthe dreadful carnage of that nightâ€ with his â€œmad behaviorâ€¦at the head ofâ€¦[a] rabble of Negroesâ€¦â€

[[1784]] â€” [[Phillis Wheatley]] [[death|dies]], aged about 31 years, Boston.

[[1791]] â€” [[Mason]]ic conspirator [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] [[death|dies]], Vienna, Austria.
[http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/costhistpage.htm]

[[1804]] â€” [[United States of America]]: [[Thomas Jefferson]] reâ€elected US president, George Clinton is his vice-president.

[[1830]] â€” [[poetry|Poet]] [[Christina Rossetti]] [[birth|lives]], London. Sister of fellow poet [[Dante Gabriel]] and historian [[William Michael Rossetti]].
[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rossetti.htm]

[[1848]] â€” [[France]]: [[EugÃ¨ne Thennevin]] (or Tennevin), anarchiste, [[birth|lives]] (1848 â€” [[1908]]).
[http://ytak.club.fr/decembre1.html#thennevin]
[http://ytak.club.fr/mai1.html#Vienne]

[[1854]] â€” Folding theatre chair patented.

[[1860]] â€” BeadleÊ¼s publishes its only halfâ€dime novelette, â€œMyrtle: The Child of the Prairie.â€
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1880]] â€” [[Italy]]: Anarchist Congress convenes at Chiasso (Tessin), presided over by [[Carlo Cafiero]]. Among participants is [[Kropotkin]] and [[G. Herzig]], [[Malatesta]] and [[Merlino]], [[Johann Neve]], [[Joseph Lane]], [[Louise Michel]], [[Emile Gautier]], [[Victorine Rouchy]], [[Chauviere]], [[Miss Lecomte]], [[Tchaikowski]], etc.

[[1885]] â€” [[United States of America]]: American sex/pol radical [[Louise Bryant]] [[birth|lives]], Reno, Nevada.

[[1890]] â€” Filmmaker [[Fritz Lang]] [[birth|lives]], Vienna, Austria.

[[1896]] â€” [[France]]: [[Henry Poulaille]] [[birth|lives]], Paris. [[novel|Novelist]], [[anarchism|anarchist]], publisher of proletarian authors, director of Ã©ditions Grasset, the journal â€œ[[Le nouvel Ã¢ge littÃ©raire]],â€ founder of â€œ[[Le musÃ©e du soir]].â€

[[1896]] â€” [[Henrik Ibsen]] play â€œEmperor and Galileanâ€ premiers, Leipzig.
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1897]] â€” [[Jew]]ish mystic [[Gershom Sholem]] [[birth|lives]], Berlin, Germany.

[[1897]] â€” [[Nunnally Johnson]] [[birth|lives]]. American screenwriter, producer, director, who made scripts to such film as The Grapes of Wrath (1940, directed by [[John Ford]]), The Woman in the Window (1944, directed by [[Fritz Lang]]), and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), starring Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, and Betty Grable.
[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nunnally.htm]

[[1899]] â€” [[England]]: The anarchist historian and collector [[Max Nettlau]] reads â€œResponsibility and Solidarity in the Labour Struggleâ€ to the [[Freedom Discussion Group]]. This became one of his favorite works.

[[1901]] â€” Animator, amusement park builder [[Walt Disney]] [[birth|lives]]. Fascist symp and [[Federal Bureau of Investigations]] informer on Hollywood â€œsubversives.â€

[[1901]] â€” [[Bavaria]]: Theoretical physicist [[Werner Heisenberg]] probably [[birth|lives]], Wurzburg. German quantum theorist who may have helped slow Nazi progress in development of atomic weaponry.

[[1908]] â€” First football uniform numerals used, University of Rome.
[http://www.deuceofclubs.com/books/022footb.htm]

[[1908]] â€” [[Bulgaria]]: The newspaper â€œ[[Acratie]]â€ first appears, in Razgrad. Founded by [[Varban Kilifarski]], it represents the largest diffusion of anarchist and anarchoâ€syndicalist thought in the country before the First World War. The last number appears on [[1911]] [[January 27]].

Three issues of the paper were published clandestinely in Tirnovo in 1924-1925, by Gueorgui Cheitanov.
Cheitanov was eventually captured and executed, along with his companion Mariola Sirakova and others, by the fascist government during a crackdown on leftists.

[[1910]] â€” [[Abraham Polonsky]] [[birth|lives]]. American director, screenwriter, novelist, who wrote essays, radio scripts and several novels before starting his career in Hollywood.

[[1912]] â€” [[general strike|General Strikes]] in both Germany and US in response to declarations of war yesterday â€” no one will go to war â€” forcing cancellation of the war within the week. (Jack London, The Iron Heel.)
[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jlondon.htm]

[[1916]] â€” [[United States of America]]: Having conquered [[Puerto Rico]] in [[1898]], the [[Jones Act]] is today approved.

[[1918]] â€” [[Theodore Schroeder]], letter, to: Editor, [[League for The Amnesty of Political Prisoners]], sending copies of letters to Wilson appealing for release and letter by Hutchins Hapgood. TL, 1 p.
[http://iâ€share.carli.illinois.edu/sic/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi]

[[1919]] â€” [[United States of America]]: Representative Isaac Siegel, after a trip to Ellis Island yesterday, declares he has discovered how anarchists are made.
â€œBooks in our public libraries help to make anarchists,â€ he said.

[[1919]] â€” [[United States of America]]: â€œMade Anarchistsâ€ â€” Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman â€” detained at Ellis Island.
Goldman and Berkman appear in federal court before Judge Julius M. Mayer, December 8th, who declares that as aliens, they have no constitutional rights. They remain in detention at Ellis Island and are be kicked out of the â€œLand of the Freeâ€ before monthÊ¼s end, sent to Red Russia on a leaking scow that is in danger of sinking with them and 247 other radicals and labor organizers who are also deported to protect American free speech.

[[1919]] â€” [[M.L. Polonsky]], [[Bolshevism|Bolshevik]], commander of a regiment of the Makhnovist army, arrested by the Makhnovist counterâ€intelligence under suspicion of planning to kill the anarchist [[Nestor Makhno]], is shot today.
â€œOnce a Bolshevik parliamentarian by the name of Polonsky was executed at Makhnovist headquarters. Many members of the general staff were unhappy with this.
Voline arrived at the headquarters, and when he heard what had happened he asked: â€œWhat does Batko [Makhno] think? If he says it was the right thing to do I wonÊ¼t go into the issue.â€
Makhno was sitting in the next room and had got tipsy. When he heard his comrades talking he came in and went up to Voline: â€œSo you donÊ¼t give a damn that a man has just been shot? You donÊ¼t even ask why he was executed! As long as Batko approves itÊ¼s alright, huh? But a man can make mistakes, canÊ¼t he, especially when heÊ¼s drunk. What do you say to that, eh?â€
Voline decided it was prudent not to answer.
[http://www.nestormakhno.info/english/personal/personal1.htm]

[[1919]] â€” [[Spain]]: This evening several cenetistas in [[Barcelona]] open fire on the Civil Guard and capture Gregorio Daura, to whom they apply the â€œley de fugas.â€ This is in response to government assassinations and repression of the CNT (nevertheless the city remains under control of the CNT and affinity groups). [Source] http://[http://www.manelaisa.com/texto/Articulos/PagArticulos9.htm]

[[1923]] â€” One of the founders of the [[Irish Literary Theatre]], [[Edward Martyn]], [[death|dies]] in Tulira, County Galway, Ireland. Broke with the mainstream of Irish revivalism, but later helped found the Irish Theatre in Dublin. Some of his noted plays are The Heather Field and Maeve.

[[1925]] â€” American author [[Joan A. Williams]] [[birth|lives]].

[[1929]] â€” [[United States of America]]: First US [[nudism|nudist]] organization, [[American League for Physical Culture]], [[New York City]].
Kurt Barthel, a German immigrant living at New York City, founded the American League for Physical Culture with a predominantly German membership, their first outing was a nude picnic in the Peekskills included eight men and four women. Two years later the first â€œnaturistâ€ organization had over 200 members.

[[1931]] â€” [[Vachel Lindsay]], 52, commits suicide by drinking Lysol. [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lindsay/lindsay.htm]

[[1932]] â€” German physicist [[Albert Einstein]] fleeing Nazi Germany, granted a Visa, after rejection by Amex, Discover, Mastercard.
â€œWith his own private horrors further unfolded into an ideology of the mortal and uncontinued self, Brock came to visit, and strangely to comfort, in the halfâ€lit hallways of the night, leaning in darkly in above her like any of the sleek raptors that decorate fascist architecture.â€
â€” Thomas Pynchon, Vineland.

[[1933]] â€” [[United States of America]]: Drinkers toast the end of Prohibition and the end of an era.
It had been 14 years between (legal) drinks. The long dry spell ended at 5:32 p.m., when Utah became the last of 36 states to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (repealing the 18th Amendment, that had prohibited all booze).

[[1934]] â€” [[Joan Didion]] [[birth|lives]], Sacramento, California. Novelist (Play It As It Lays) and observer of contemporary mores (The White Album; Salvador). She notes of the writing profession,
â€œWriters are always selling somebody out.â€

[[1936]] â€” â€œSaturday Evening Postâ€ publishes William Faulkner story â€œVendee.â€
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>
[http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/index.html]

[[1937]] â€” â€œLucy Parsonsâ€, a poem by Aaron Kramer, appears in the Sunday Worker today.
[http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/gilzind/AkbibE.htm]
[http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/gilzind/akbib.htm]

[[1942]] â€” [[United States of America]]: Fred Tayama is attacked and seriously injured by a group of inmates at Manzanar. The arrest of the popular Harry Ueno for the crime triggers a mass uprising.

[[1943]] â€” [[France]]: National Plenum of the Regionals of the CNT in Exile held in Marseilles.
Originally planned to be held at St Henri, it is held in La Fare (Marseilles) amid the greatest difficulty (the Nazi repression). Those attending included Juanel, Acracio BartolomÃ©, Sanclemente, Merino, Francisco GarcÃa (Marseilles), Buenacasa (Free Zone), GermÃ¡n and Berruezo (Cantal department), SeÃ±er (Toulouse), Paulino Malsand (Bordeaux) Cruz and the BÃ©ziers committee.
[http://www.manelaisa.com/texto/Articulos/PagArticulos9.htm]
[http://www.christiebooks.com/html/history/archives3.html]

[[1944]] â€” [[United States of America]]: [[wildcat strike|Wildcat strike]] at Dodge truck plant, Detroit, Michigan. One of many â€œillegalâ€ wartime strikes.
[Source: [[Calendar Riots]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1946]] â€” [[United States of America]]: [[Alexander Schapiro]] [[death|dies]] in New York. Russianâ€born anarcho-syndicalist and an important figure in the international movement. Secretary of the anti-authoritarian A.I.T. (â€œAssociation internationale des travailleursâ€).
[http://ytak.club.fr/decembre1.html#shapiro]
[http://ytak.club.fr/decembre4.html#rocker]

[[1947]] â€” British [[satanism|satanist]] [[Aleister Crowley]] is cremated.
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1950]] â€” The Danish Baker Street Irregulars (Sherlock Holmes Klubben i Danmark) is founded. The first meeting was held at Buriis on January 5th â€¦
[http://www.sherlockiana.net/shklub/index_en.html]

[[1951]] â€” [[United States of America]]: â€œDragnetâ€ premiers.
[http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes.html]
[http://www.comâ€www.com/stccg/stccg-all.html]

[[1954]] â€” Author [[Hanif Kureishi]] [[birth|lives]].

[[1955]] â€” [[United States of America]]: Two largest American labor organizations merge to form the AFLâ€CIO, with membership about 15 million. George Meany president. Asa P. Randolph and Willard S. Townsend, African Americans, are elected vice-presidents.

[[1955]] â€” [[United States of America]]: Montgomery, Alabama civilâ€rights bus boycott begins. Lasts for 54 weeks, to end segregation practices.
Rosa ParkÊ¼s refusal to give up her bus seat on 1December starts yearâ€long Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott by 30-40,000 Negro riders (out of a Negro population of 50,000). The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) is formed to coordinate the boycott, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is elected president. Boycott ends in victory 21 December 1956).

[[1956]] â€” [[Thornton Wilder]] play â€œThe Matchmakerâ€ opens, NY (486 performances).
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1957]] â€” [[William Inge]] play â€œThe Dark at the Top of the Stairsâ€ premiers, NY (468 performances).
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1963]] â€” [[Ghana]]: French soldiers stop protest march from Accra against French nuclear weapons tests. Western Sahara, Africa.

[[1965]] â€” Aircraft loaded with a nuclear bomb rolls off a US aircraft carrier somewhere in the midâ€Pacific. The plane, with the pilot and the bomb, sank in 16,000 feet of water. It has not been recovered.

[[1965]] â€” [[Milan Kundera]] completes his first novel, The Joke.
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1967]] â€” [[United States of America]]: Dr. Benjamin Spock and poet Allen Ginsberg among those arrested at New York City army induction center, opposing the Vietnam War.
December 5-8, â€œStop the Draft Weekâ€ at Whitehall, NY Army Induction Center.
Over 500 arrested. Demonstrations also occurred in Madison, Manchester, N.H., Cincinnati, New Haven.
[http://www.cs.ubc.ca/cgiâ€bin/nph-spock]
[http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/mar1998/spocâ€m18.shtml]

[[1967]] â€” [[England]]: Opening of Apple Shop, Baker St, London, with murals by The Fool.
[http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html] | [Situationist Resources]

[[1968]] â€” DÃ¡maso Alonso es elegido presidente de la Real Academia.
[http://www.elâ€mundo.es/larevista/num132/textos/crono.html]

[[1972]] â€” [[Australia]]: End of [[conscription]] announced.

[[1974]] â€” [[Monty Python]]Ê¼s final episode airs on [[British Broadcasting Company|BBC]].

[[1978]] â€” Start of Ken FollettÊ¼s On Wings of Eagles, about an escape from Iran.
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1981]] â€” [[United States of America]]: [[Chicago Anarchist Conference]].

[[1982]] â€” Interviewer asks [[Fran Lebowitz]] â€œDo you ever use a thesaurus?â€
â€œNo. IÊ¼ve never been able to figure out how to use one. I must have been absent that day.â€
â€œVery few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.â€

[[1984]] â€” [[Taiwan]]: 93 workers killed in mine disaster.

[[1990]] â€” Author [[Salman Rushdie]] appears in public for first time in nearly two years, London.
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1991]] â€” [[Fernando del Paso]] wins the Mexican Premio Nacional de Literatur; Ricardo Legorreta, Vicente Rojo and Mario Lavista win Mexican arts prize.
[Source: [[Robert Braunwart]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>

[[1997]] â€” [[Rudolf Bahro]] stirbt an einem Krebsleiden in Berlin. Dies age 62. (What some call a Watermelon Manâ€¦Green on the outside, Red on the inside.)
â€œThe Greens are almost worse than useless,â€ he said. â€œThey have become so much a part of the system that capitalism would have had to invent them if they werenÊ¼t here already.â€
[http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BahroRudolf/]
[http://www.umweltdebatte.de/bahroâ€beitraege.htm]
[http://www.democracynature.org/dn/vol4/hart_melle_bahro.htm]

[[2003]] â€” [[Italy]]: Memorial meeting (Naples, December 5-7 ) in memory of [[Errico Malatesta]], 150 years after his birth.
In spite of his comprehensive and openâ€minded temper, for his perseverance in his ideas and in his political praxis Malatesta became â€” and still is â€” one of the most remarkable personalities of the Italian and international anarchist movement.
He was one of the most famous revolutionaries in his times and he became an icon of freedom for the Italian working class movement. After the Second World War, authorities and â€œofficialâ€ history tried to delete all of his life and theories from historical memory.
This meeting intends to counter this situationâ€¦unofficial history.

[[2007]] â€” [[United States of America]]: [[Ron Paul]] became the first Presidential candidate to cross the [[picket line]] of striking Hollywood writers so he could appear on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] show â€œThe Viewâ€.
[http://www.laborradio.org/node/7423]

==External link==
* [http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1205.htm Daily Bleed - Anarchist Calendar]

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