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September 4 is the 4^th day in September.

Events[edit]

1626 — New World: First patent in American history, for a device to restrain natives, to W. Claiborne, Jamestown, Virginia.

1639 — New World: First prohibition law, outlawing the drinking of toasts, passed in Massachusetts. Repealed in 1645 as unenforceable.

1768 — Vicomte Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand lives, Saint-Malo in Brittany. Writes Atala in 1801, recreating impressions from his trip to America in 1791.

1781 — Mexico: In an unassuming settlement near San Gabriel, California, 46 Spanish settlers settle on a tiny name for their tiny town: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula. Of the 46 settlers of Californiaʼs second pueblo, (aka Los Angeles), 26 are recorded as blacks or mulattos.

1833 — United States of America: Barnaby Flaherty hired as the first newsboy. "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." — Thomas Jefferson

1864 — «El Obrero» begins publishing monthly, in Barcelona, from today until suppressed in June 1866. Director, Antonio Gusart: contributions from Cartaña, Espinal, Roig, Bergés, Cabús, Freixa and Ferrer. Not anarchist, but cooperativist and federalist, it championed workers' interests, favored federation and solidarity and, in its latter years, took a very positive stand on the IWMA. // Il catalano Antoni Gusart i Vila fonda il periodico «El Obrero»: fu proibito nel 1866 e riapparve nel 1880 come portavoce delle Tres Classes de Vapor. [1] [2]

1873 — England: According to "Nature" (9/43), a black rain fell at Marlsford, and more than twenty-four hours later another black rain fell in the same small town. [3] [4]

1882 — United States of America: First use of electric lighting, Grand Central Station, New York City.

1886 — United States of America: Legendary Apache Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, ending the last major US-Indian conflict. Geronimo had led a small band of men, women and children out of forced internment on the San Carlos reservation, successfully evading thousands of US and Mexican troops, regiments of Indian auxiliaries, and an unknown number of civilians, for over 18 months in the Southwest wilderness.

1894 — United States of America: 12,000 un-unionised tailors launch a successful spontaneous strike — striking a sew-what attitude.

1894 — United States of America: Emma Goldman meets with the American journalist and labor rights advocate John Swinton and his wife Orsena, who had visited her in prison at Blackwell's Island. Emmaʼs interest in reaching more American-born citizens grows, and she resolves to conduct more anarchist and radical propaganda in the English language. During this month she moves into an apartment with Edward Brady.

1896 — French playwright, poet, essayist, actor, director, madman Antonin Artaud lives.

1900 — Cyril Hare lives.

1903 — United States of America: Cripple Creek, Colorado, where mine owners are trying to bust the labor union, police and deputy sheriffs are relieved of their duties and all citizens are required to register their firearms. Governor Peabody sends in the the militia. In 1904 they seize the local sympathetic newspaper, and round up strikers into "bullpens" or take them to the Kansas border and abandon them. Dozens are arrested without warrants… General Sherman Bell of the Colorado National Guard shouted, "Habeus Corpus, hell! We'll give 'em post mortems."

1904 — Italy: Repressione a Bugerru (Cagliari) di una manifestazione di minatori : 3 morti e 20 feriti. [Source: Crimini e Misfatti]

1905 — Novelist Mary Renault lives, London. Author of The Bull from the Sea.

1908 — Richard Wright, novelist and short-story writer, lives, Natchez, Mississippi. Wright is among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940).

1918 — Russia: American troops land at Archangel in North Russia, one year after the Russian Revolution, to "protect U.S. interests." (see also 1918 August 3, 1920 August 8, 1919 April 7). They are ultimately soundly defeated in a little known US invasion with disastrous effects of US Foreign policy in the following decades. Allied invasion and intervention was continuous from 1918-20. The US 27th Regiment was part of the Allied force in Siberia. The US 31st Infantry Regiment (Polar Bears), as well as British, Canadian, Czech, Chinese, Italian, French, and Japanese troops, also participated. [5]

1920 — United States of America: Hundreds of miners assemble on Lens Creek in West Virginia in response to rumors women and children are being killed in Logan County by the anti-union mine owners and deputy sheriffs who are on their payroll. "They trudged on over the hills and by the roads. Many of them carried guns; 5,000 miners had gathered by nightfall. There were no leaders…" This was a prelude of the near civil war in the coal fields. Deputy sheriffs on company payrolls ran organizers out of town and arrested and beat up union sympathizers. See Jeremy Brecher.

1921 — United States of America: Federal troops march up Hewitt Creek in Logan County after gaining a cease fire the the Battle of Blair Mountain yesterday. Efforts to unionize the southern West Virginia coal fields are ended with the arrival of the 10th US Infantry.

1924 — Joan Aiken (daughter of poet Conrad Aiken) lives, Sussex, England. A prolific writer of fantasy, adventure, horror, and suspense. Considered the inventor of a genre called the "unhistorical romance," she wrote for both children and adults.

1926 — Germany: Ivan Illich (1926 — 2002) born.

1933 — Cuba: Coup against the provisional government. SER Machadoʼs tyranny fell on August 12th, brought down by a general strike fomented and maintained by libertarian elements of the Transport Union, and then by the Streetcar Worker's Union and, ultimately, by the masses of people. 1930—33 was one of the most confused and bloody periods in Cuban history, and the Federacion de Grupos Anarquistas de Cuba (FGAC) were fully involved.

1935 — Simone de Beauvoir joins the bookstore Shakespeare and Company, and for the next six years borrows scores of American titles. Sharing her interest in Dos Passos and Faulkner with Sartre and André Malraux, the American writers win critical acclaim in Europe before they are accepted in America.

1937 — "Contemporary Nationalism," by Crane Brinton appears in "The Saturday Review", 1937 September 4, p. 17. A book review of Rudolf Rockerʼs book, Nationalism and Culture.

1945 — Ruben Fine wins four simultaneous rapid chess games blindfolded.

1954 — England: Peace Pledge Union organizes demonstration against H-Bomb, Trafalgar Square, London.

1954 — United States of America: Peter Cortese achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania.

1955 — First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

1957 — United States of America: Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel. [6]

1957 — WJZ-TV in Baltimore debuts "The Buddy Deane Bandstand." Itʼs a rock and roll show running three to five, Monday through Saturday. Viewers go crazy for the show and when thereʼs a chance to call in and talk to one of the celebrities, the phone lines are swamped. The phone company is forced to ask Deane to desist.

1957 — United States of America: Little Rock, Arkansas: Nine Negro students try to attend Central High; Governor Orval Faubus orders National Guard to prevent them.

1959 — United States of America: In the wake of stabbing deaths of two teenagers by a 17-year-old, and other similar incidents of violence in New York City, WCBS radio in the Big Apple bans all versions of "Mack the Knife." The tune is a chart climber for Bobby Darin.

1965 — Equatorial Africa: Medical humanitarian Albert Schweitzer dies, Lambarene. Daily Bleed Saint, 2003

1966 — United States of America: National Guard confronts white supremacist mobs in Cicero, Illinois, outside Chicago.

1968 — The Rolling Stones latest tune, "Street Fighting Man" is banned in Chicago and other American cities where authorities fear it will "incite riots and other forms of public disorder."

1970 — Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) begin Operation RAW (4 September through 7th).

1970 — Chile: Salvador Allende gana las elecciones presidenciales en Chile. The US government, CIA, corporate business and labor unions will take care of him soon enough, kill him and install a ruthless dictatorship friendly to democracy and freedom "US interests".

1973 — United States of America: John Ehrlichman and G. Gordon Liddy are indicted along with two White House officials for the burglary of a psychiatristʼs office two years ago. [7]

1977 — Paul Simonson of the Clash tells the "New Musical Express" the Clash shouldnʼt be labeled a political band, saying, "I didnʼt even know who the Prime Minister was until a few weeks ago!"

1978 — Simultaneous demonstrations against nuclear weapons and power in Red Square, Moscow, and the White House lawn, Washington D.C. [8]

1980 — United States of America: Congress establishes reservation for reinstated Siletz tribes of Oregon.

1982 — Germany: 10,000 dance on nuclear reactor site, Gorleben, West Germany. [9]

1986 — United States of America: "When the chapter on how America won the war on drugs is written, the Reagans' speech is sure to be viewed as a turning point." — White House announcement of an upcoming anti-drug speech amusingly billed as the Reagans' first "joint address" [10]

1987 — Russia: Soviet Union convicts West German pilot Mathias Rust for his daring landing of a small plane in Moscowʼs Red Square, after flying undetected into the heart of Russia. Gets four years in a labor camp, but is released after serving a year.

1989 — Georges Simenon, Belgian author, creator of Inspector Maigret novels, dies in Lausanne, Switzerland. Though not activist, during an interview he states he has considered himself an anarchist from the age of 16, adding, "Je me considère comme un anarchiste non violent, car l'anarchie n'est pas nécessairement violente, celui qui s'en réclame étant un homme qui refuse tout ce qu'on veut lui faire entrer de force dans la tête ; il est également contre ceux qui veulent se servir de lui au lieu de lui laisser sa liberté de penser". [11] [12]

1991 — United States of America: Route 35 Theater in Hazlit — the last drive-in in New Jersey — closes.

1995 — United States of America: Radical lawyer William Kunstler (1919 — 1995) dies.

1996 — United States of America: Scattered protests around the country greet the latest gratuitous US bombing of Iraq. About 100 gather at the Federal Building in Seattle; in Washington DC, eight are arrested for dumping buckets of rubble on the White House lawn. [13]

1996 — Yusaf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, emerges from seclusion in London to sign copies of his first album in 18 years.

External link[edit]

• The Daily Bleed: Anarchist Calendar