March 4

March 4' is the 4^th day in March.

Events

1634 — New World: First tavern in America opens, Boston, Massachusetts.

1712 — England: Jane Wenham tried for talking to her cat & for flying. The last witchcraft trial in England.

1774 — First recorded observation of the Orion Nebula (by William Herschel).

1841 — United States of America: William Henry Harrison caught a fatal cold while standing hatless in the drizzle at his own Presidential inauguration. A month later, he is the first US president to die in office.

1848 — George Sand (a Daily Bleed Saint) & Frederic Chopin meet for the last time. [1]

1852 — Nikolay Gogol dies in Moscow, 42, believing himself damned. His creative theory is summed up in these words "I must present the face of life & not discuss life."

1854 — Russia: During this month Mikhail Bakunin, imprisoned in the dreaded dungeons, the Alexis ravelin of the Fortress of Peter & Paul in St. Petersburg, is transferred to Schlusselberg.

1882 — Russia: Joseph Spivak lives, Uman.

1888 — Amos Bronson Alcott dies, Boston, Massachusetts.

1891 — United States of America: The International Copyright Act, halting the piracy of British, Belgium, French, Swiss books by US publishers is passed by U.S. Congress.

1901 — African modernist poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1901—1937) lives, Tananarive, Madagascar. [2]

1906 — Poland: Rosa Luxemburg arrested & imprisoned at the Warsaw Citadel for revolutionary activities in Warsaw.

1908 — United States of America: Lakeview School, in Collinwood, Ohio, caught fire; 174 children & two teachers killed.

1910 — United States of America: Industrial Workers of the World begins Spokane, Washington free speech fight.

1912 — England: Suffragettes, walking single file in Knightsbridge, London, smash every window they pass to protest government inaction.

1913 — United States of America: Department of Labor begins laboring.

1918 — United States of America: The Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice orders copies of all correspondence to and from Emma Goldman sent to its office in Washington, D.C.

1921 — E. M. Forster begins his passage to India (or on the 1st?) to assume duties as secretary to the Maharaja of Dewas Senior. Source: Neal Jones (ed.), "A Book of Days for the Literary Year"; (HistoryChannel.Com says March 1st) [3]

1921 — Russia: "At the Extraordinary Session of the Petrograd Soviet, called to decide the fate of Kronstadt, Zinoviev said: "Of course Kozlovsky is old and can do nothing, but the White Officers are back of him and are misleading the sailors." Alexander Berkman, however, stressed the fact that the sailors would have none of Trotskyʼs former pet General, nor would they accept the offer of provisions & other help of Victor Tchernov, leader of the Right S.R.ʼs (Socialist Revolutionists) in Paris." [4] [5]

1921 — Russia: During Krondstadt uprising (March 1-17), in support of striking Petrograd factory workers, sailors demand democratic election of Soviet representatives. Emma Goldman attends todayʼs meeting of the Petrograd Soviet, which votes to accept Zinovievʼs proposal to force the surrender of Krondstadt sailors upon penalty of death.

1928 — Allan Sillitoe, "angry young man," lives, Nottingham. English novelist/poet/playwright & social critic, who introduced in post-World War II British fiction realistically portrayed working-class heroes. Encouraged by Robert Graves, he wrote his first novel The Saturday Night & Sunday Morning. His best known work is The Loneliness of Long-Distance Runner (1959). [6]

1930 — Emma Fahning is the first woman to bowl a perfect game.

1932 — Zensi Miriam Makeba, "Empress of African Song," lives, Prospect Township, South Africa.

1935 — Canada: Emma Goldman delivers two further lectures to Jewish groups — on "Crime & Punishment" on March 4 & birth control on March 15 — & the last in her drama series conclude Emmaʼs lectures in Montreal; she returns to Toronto on March 17.

1937 — United States of America: UAW workers sit-down victory in Flint, Michigan. The United Automobile Workers sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan, wins a contract forcing General Motors to recognize them. The 40-day action at Fisher Body Plant Number One is the longest sit-down strike in history. Employees inside are protected by 5,000 armed workers circling the plant. After police tear-gas attacks, workers fight back with firehoses. Gunfire wounds 13 workers, but the cops are driven back. By the time the National Guard arrives, the strike spreads to GM plants across the nation.

1937 — Spain: The newspaper "La Noche" carries an announcement introducing the aims, characteristics & membership conditions of the anarchist Friends of Durruti Group. Also, the Generalidad issues a decree winding up the Control Patrols. In "La Batalla", Nin passes favorable & hopeful comment on an article by Jaume Balius carried in the March 2nd edition of "La Noche". [7] [8] [9] [10]

1939 — United States of America: Lala Har Dayal (aka Hardayal, or Hardyal) (1884—1939) dies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Indian revolutionary & scholar dedicated to the removal of British influence in India. In March or April (I have conflicting dates) 1914 he was arrested by the US government for spreading anarchist literature. Released on bail, he fled to Switzerland & then to Berlin, where he tried to foment an anti-British rising in northwestern India. [11]

1947 — Beatster Neal Cassady leaves New York after his first visit.

1950 — Prelude to Ukulele guy Paul Mooreʼs musical walk on the wild side…The only One Man Band in the world to be hosted by the “Israel Philharmonic Orchestra”. [12]

1954 — Russian lyric poet, essayist, & political dissident, Irina Georgiyevna Ratushinskaya, lives.

1960 — United States of America: It is revealed, in connection with the current congressional investigation into payola, that Federal Communications Chairman John Doerfer took a six-day trip to Florida courtesy of Storer Broadcasting.

1962 — US nuclear reactor begins operating, Antarctica.

1962 — Discovered today in the Family Planning Association archives: Guy Aldred, 4 Mar 1962 to John Peel (who was writing a history of FP) re: Sanger: 'Her work was very important but I believed that she liked to be patronised too much by the great & the rich. I had no time for that sort of thing.' [Aldred] & his partner Rose Witcop published a cheap UK edition of Sangerʼs "Family Limitation" & were prosecuted for obscenity. He was an anarchist & it would seem something of a Puritan (certainly from this letter, written when he was quite old) about matters of sex. Obviously writing with some degree of hindsight, but itʼs interesting that Stella Browne, writing to Havelock Ellis about her break with Sanger, said rather the same things.

1963 — William Carlos Williams dies, Rutherford, New Jersey. His little red wagon fatally rusted, there will be no more late night notes on his refrigerator door.

1966 — London newspaper publishes interview with John Lennon of The Beatles: "Christianity will go. It will vanish & shrink. I neednʼt argue that. I'm right & will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus right now." This quote causes a storm of protest & a worldwide series of Beatles record burnings.

1966 — The Charlatans & the Electric Chamber Orkustra appeared at Soko Hall, 739 Page St., Frisco, California.

1968 — United States of America: Martin Luther King, Jr. announces he will lead a Poor People's March on Washington in April.

1968 — Picasso dona su serie sobre Las Meninas al museo barcelonés que lleva su nombre. [13] [14]

1969 — United States of America: S.S. Yukon, carrying 150,000 barrels of oil, hits a submerged object & spills its cargo into Cook Inlet, Alaska. [15]

1969 — Union of Concerned Scientists founded.

1970 — Janis Joplin fined $200 for using obscene language onstage in Tampa, Florida.

1970 — Puerto Rican student killed by police during a demonstration against the Vietnam War.

1974 — Argentina: Acting in collusion & at the behest of striking lead workers, the urban guerrilla People's Revolutionary Army kidnap one of the INSUD plant managers. As a result, and in just 22 days, the strikers win compensation for lead poisoning and a reduction of the working day to six hours. [Source: Calendar Riots]

1977 — United States of America: First CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico.

1978 — Netherlands: 40,000 demonstrate against uranium enrichment plant, Almelo.

1982 — Frank Zappaʼs son Dweezil & daughter Moon Unit form a band called Fred Zeppelin.

1985 — United States of America: Supreme Court upholds right of Oneida nation of New York to sue for lands illegally taken in 1795.

1986 — Richard Manuel, 41, of "The Band" dies by hanging.

1986 — United States of America: Six months after gunning down a liquor store clerk, 15-yr. old "Devil Child" Sean Sellers conducts a "Satanic Ritual" & kills his final victims, shooting his parents in their sleep, Oklahoma City.

2006 — France: To celebrate the centenary of the Congress of Amiens (1906 October 8-13), "Editions CNT-RP" & the CNT-93 are organizing a conference entitled "Revolutionary Syndicalism, the Charter of Amiens ("Charte d’Amiens") & workers' autonomy" on 4th & 5th March 2006 to be held at the Bourse du Travail in Saint Denis (Rue Bobby Sands). [16]

External link

• The Daily Bleed: Anarchist Calendar