October 18

October 18 is the 18^th day of October.

Events

1844 -- Amilcare Cipriani, Italian anarchist, lives (1844-1918).

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#18/1844

1869 -- Henrik Ibsen play "The League of Youth" premiers.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Writings/Drama/ibsen.html

1881 -- Italy: Amilcare Cipriani is arrested & imprisoned for the killing of an Italian in Alexandria in 1867.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#18/1844

1893 -- US: Emma Goldman gets a new home for the next year at Blackwell's Island Penitentiary — rent free! — for speeches delivered in NY's Union Square.

1911 -- Mexico: Zapatistas attack government troops in Huitzililla & Xalostoc.

1913 -- Annual "Mother Earth" reunion concert & ball takes place in New York to help support Emma Goldman's publication.

1914 -- US: To decrease the financial burden, Emma Goldman relocates her residence & the "Mother Earth" office from West 119th Street to smaller quarters.

1915 -- Brazil: South American Anarchist Congress (Congresso Anarquista Sul-Americano), Rio de Janeiro.

1927 -- US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Colorado Mine strike; first time all the coal fields are out.

1936 -- Spain: Emma Goldman addresses a mass meeting of 16,000 people organized by the FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation) youth in Barcelona.

1937 -- Emma Goldman confirmed as London representative of the SIA (International Antifascist Solidarity)

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#18/1937

1955 -- US: Wilhelm Reich arraigned. Plea: "Not Guilty." He goes on trial December 1.

1973 -- Cartoonist Walt Kelly, creator of "Pogo," dies.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/frame1.gif

1976 -- France: Laureano Cerrada, veteran of the plot to kill Franco & Hitler together, murdered in Paris by a Spanish Nazi who is given asylum in Canada.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/09ref.htm#03/1962

1977 -- Germany: Baader-Meinhof Gang members "commit suicide" in a German prison.

1981 -- Diego Abad de Santillan, a prominent figure of the Spanish & Argentinian anarchist movements, dies.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/AbadSantillanDiego.htm

1994 -- Berkeley Gala Riot Festival.

1998 -- Bowl Me Over?: Nummer One Son goes to his first All-Regional Bowling meet — as a bowler. Yesterday he bowled 3 games, scoring 165, 145, 94.

2000 -- US: Earth Liberation Front sabotages logging equipment in Martin County State Forest, Indiana.

2004 -- England: Artist, book illustrator & anarchist Fermin Rocker dies, London. Wrote East End: A London Childhood (1992).