March 17

March 17 is the 17^th day in March.

Events

1845 -- Rubber band is patented. Almost as good as spitwads.

1877 -- Austria: Psychoanalyst & libertarian revolutionary Otto Gross lives (d.1920). Involved in the development of psychiatry & psychoanalysis as well as in the modern literature of Expressionism & Dadaism. [1] [2] [3]

1891 -- Better Dead Than Red?: British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574.

1894 -- 'March 18' appears, a cover illustration by Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, from "Le Chambard Socialiste," March 17, 1894. [4]

1897 -- Jules Jouy (1855-1897) dies. Anarchist songster, poet, & pioneer of the social song. [5]

1901 -- Italy: Severino di Giovanni lives. Anarchist/typographer. [6]

1906 -- US: Johann Most (1846-1906) dies, Cincinnati, Ohio. German-American anarchist, propagandist, bookbinder, publisher of "Freiheit." [7]

1921 -- USSR: Kronstadt falls to the Bolshevik military assault under the direction of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Trotsky, who boasted he would "shoot them like pigeons."

1948 -- Cyberpunk author William Gibson lives. [8]

1960 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Ike Eisenhower authorizes secret training of Cuban exiles for an invasion of Cuba. Another selfless American gesture to "help" the people of Cuba.

1968 -- England: In London, at the largest Vietnam antiwar march in Britain to date, 25,000 people attempt to storm the American Embassy. US won't let them in, apparently refusing to recognize their passports. Ninety-one police casualties.

1968 -- US: Yippies announce at a press conference they will sponsor a "Festival of Life" in Chicago during the upcoming Democratic Convention.

1982 -- US: Karl Marx & Co. (American foreign securities brokers) sues USSR for payment of Tsarist war debt. The company has discovered gold in the historical dustbin.

1985 -- US: Benefit for anarchist Stan Iverson (1927-1985), at Seattle's Morningtown Pizza & Subs. One of many fund raising efforts to aid Stan in his fight against cancer. [9]

1997 -- In a thorough investigation of the Human world's heads of state, there are no finalists in Cow Tse Tongue's "Remarkably Intelligent for a Human" Awards. [10]

2002 -- Jordan: Toujan Faisal, the only woman ever elected to Parliament, goes on a hunger strike in jail, a day after being arrested for accusing the government of corruption, charged with defaming the state & its officials.

2003 -- US: Having wreaked havoc on the American economy, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Bush addresses the nation to explain why he will soon be a war criminal.

External link

• http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0317.htm