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Latest revision as of 12:43, 2 May 2011
September 3 is the 3rd day in September.
Events[edit]
1516 — Thomas Moreʼs "Eutopia" sent to the printer.
1811 — Utopianist John Humphreys Noyes lives.
1864 — Leo Tolstoy, Russian author, royalty, mystical anarchist, is seized with terror in a country inn … the basis for "Notes of a Madman."
1883 — Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev dies.
1897 — Emma Goldman begins lecture tour in Providence, R.I.; speaks at two open-air meetings — attended by thousands — when the mayor warns Goldman that she will be arrested if she speaks in the open-air again. Despite the prohibition, Emma Goldman continues to lecture. [1]
1909 — Mayor of Burlington, Vt., prevents Emma Goldman from speaking anywhere in his city. [2]
1915 — Australia: Sterling work from the syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World — Wobbly Tom Barker is arrested for his anti-war poster,
1918 — United States of America: Soldiers stop civilians in NY & NJ at bayonet point to see draft papers.
1920 — Joseph Lane (1851-1920), British anarchist, dies. [3]
1921 — Italy: Death of a local anarchist in Piombino sets off clashes between radicals & fascists, & government raids on the left radicals.
1923 — England: John Strachey becomes the first radio book critic in the UK, on the BBC.
1926 — China: United States of America marines begin fighting in the Yangtze Valley (-Oct. 21, 1927).
1927 — Man Ray, surrealist, chess player/designer, anarchist, filmmaker & photographer, in this month signs "Hands Off Love" devoted to Charlie Chaplin, in "La Révolution surréaliste."
1939 — Britain & France declare war on Germany.
1944 — Mexico: Matador El Negro refuses to kill a bull at El Toreo — the police haul him off to jail.
1950 — United States of America: Bertrand Russell publishes "If We Are to Survive This Dark Time —" in "New York Times Magazine."
1953 — France: Publication in "Les Lèvres nues" #6 of Guy Debordʼs article 'Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography,' the first of a series of important Lettrist articles to appear in the Belgian journal.
1954 — United States of America: Espionage and Sabotage Act authorizes the death penalty for peacetime sabotage; also Congress passes a bill to revoke the citizenship of persons convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the government.
1956 — United States of America: Labor Day postage stamp is issued, the first United States of America stamp honoring workers.
1962 — e. e. cummings, poet, dies in new hampshire, aged sixty seven.
1967 — Folk singer Woody Guthrie dies of Huntingtonʼs Chorea in New York City. He was 52.
1971 — United States of America: Watergate Comedy Team, auditioning for TVs "Laugh-In," breaks into Daniel Ellsbergʼs doctorʼs office.
1974 — United States of America: Former Nixon attorney John Dean enters prison for Watergate crimes. Now heʼs a "criminal" attorney.
1991 — United States of America: Twenty five workers die in a fire at the Imperial Food processing plant, Hamlet, North Carolina. 19 are single mothers.
1991 — United States of America: Wanda Holloway is convicted of trying to kill her neighbor to improve her daughterʼs chance to make the high-school cheerleading squad, Texas.
2001 — Australia: Government says it used the bones of 21,830 dead Australians in a nuclear radiation study without the consent of relatives, 1957-78.
2002 — China: News reports China has blocked access to Internet search engine Google (-Sept. 2).
2003 — Thousands log on to blow up virtual Bush… many hits are coming from American government departments including intelligence agencies. [4]
