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January 7
January 7 is the 7th day in January. It is Christmas of the Orthodox Christians.
Events
1584 — Last day of the Julian calendar in Bohemia.
1610 — Galileo discovers first 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa, and Ganymede. Inspired by the grand vista, he writes the smash song by Andy Williams, "Moon River".
1714 — England: First typewriter patent issued.
1745 — Jacques Montgolfier lives.
1758 — Scottish poet and literary antiquary, Allan Ramsay, dies in Edinburgh. A wig maker, bookseller, collector and composer of Scots poetry.
1773 — The Resolution, under Captain James Cook, is the first ship to cross the arctic circle.
1785 — French aviation pioneer Jean Pierre Blanchard and American doctor John Jeffries become the first men to cross the English Channel by balloon, from England to France. To retain their height, they found it necessary to jettison almost everything on board – including their clothes! [1]
1800 — Revolution in Switzerland.
1800 — United States of America: The guy they named the Filmore West for — the unforgettable Millard Fillmore — lives. Also known the first "No-Nothing" president. History renders the description redundant.
1806 — United States of America: Cherokee cede 7,000 square miles of land in Tennessee and Alabama.
1841 — Victor Hugo is elected to the Académie Française on his fifth try. [2]
1873 — Sinners and Saints guy, Charles Peguy, Roman Catholic socialist writer/poet, lives, Orleans. [3]
1895 — Georgette Ryner (1895 — 1975) lives, Nogent-le-Rotrou, France. Poet, writer, teacher and collaborater in many anarchist newspapers. Partner of Han Ryner. Devoted to children, to whom she brought aid in Algeria in 1966. Author of numerous books and poems. Wrote Dans la ronde éternelle (1926), Adolescente passionnée (1969).
1896 — Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook.
1900 — France: Ludovic Masse lives (1900 — 1982), in Roussillon. Proletarian and libertarian writer.
1903 — Zora Neale Hurston, African-American folklorist/writer lives, Eatonville, Florida. Her controversial second novel, Their Eyes were Watching God (1937), brings her wide acclaim.
1911 — United States of America: First airplane bombing experiments with explosives, Frisco, California. [4]
1917 — United States of America: January—April 2, Emma Goldman lectures before Yiddish and English-speaking audiences in New York City, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Passaic, New Jersey, Boston, Springfield, and Brockton, Mass.
Topics include "Obedience, A Social Vice," "Celibacy or Sex Expression," "Vice and Censorship, Twin Sisters—How Vice is Not Suppressed," "Michael Bakunin, His Life and Work," "Walt Whitman, the Liberator of Sex," "The Speculators in War and Starvation," "American Democracy in Relation to the Russian Revolution," and a course on Russian literature…
1919 — Argentina: Beginning of "Bloody Week" ("Semaine Sanglante") in Buenos Aires. The Argentine police invent the electric prod to convince those in doubt and straighten out those who buckle… Discepolinʼs last tango sings that the world was and will continue to be a dirty joke… — Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind, p99-100 Workers, demonstrating for the 8-hour work day, are fired on, leaving four dead and about 30 wounded. Clashes with authorities the day of the funerals leave another 50 dead. Workers seeking refuge in the Vasena factory were driven out as 30,000 infantrymen were called out. A General Strike shuts down the trade unions, printing works, libraries, etc. The anarchists involved are attacked by trade union reformists and paramilitary groups ("Les défenseurs de l'Ordre") acting in concert with the police. By January 16 the strike is crushed in blood, with as many as 700 dead and 2000 wounded. Argentinean anarchism is decimated by repression, and the reformist trade unions are in control.
1920 — United States of America: Five socialists expelled from New York Assembly. NY hasnʼt heard, yet, of Rooseveltʼs "Four Freedoms" or the ageing "Bill of Rights".
1920 — England: Albert Meltzer lives (1920 — 1996), Tottenham, London. Militant anarchist, historian, publisher. [5] [6]
1925 — Gerald Durrell, zoologist, author and younger brother of Lawrence, lives, in India to Irish parents.
1927 — United States of America: Harlem Globetrotters, basketball team, make their debut.
1927 — Canada: Emma Goldman lectures in London, Ontario, on Communist and Fascist dictatorships, having finished her lecture series in Toronto on Russian dramatists with talks on Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, and Andreyev.
1928 — William Peter Blatty lives. American screenwriter and novelist, who gained international fame with The Exorcist (1971), a story of a small girl who is unaccountably possessed by the devil and turned into a repellent right-wing monster. [7]
1929 — United States of America: "Buck Rogers," first sci-fi comic strip, premiers. [8]
1935 — Emma Goldman talks to Jewish audiences — the Temple Emanu-El adult school today, the second meeting arranged by Rabbi Harry Stern, and the womenʼs branch of the Arbeiter Ring on January 12 — which are are well received.
1935 — Italy: Il governo italiano e quello francese firmano un accordo riguardante le questioni coloniali. Il ministro degli esteri francese Pierre Laval (ex aderente del partito comunista) in una dichiarazione rimasta segreta garantisce la non interferenza del suo governo riguardo alle azioni del governo italiano contro l'Etiopia. E' un formale avvallo della futura aggressione. [Source: Crimini e Misfatti]
1939 — United States of America: Tom Mooney, a labor activist wrongly convicted of murder in the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing in 1916 July, is freed after 22 1/2 years in jail on false charges, granted an unconditional pardon by Governor Culbert Olson. [9]
1943 — United States of America: Romanian-born scientific genius Nicola Tesla dies, New York City. Nicola Tesla worked with time travel technology. Much of his information came from extraterrestrials. Part of it was used by Albert Einstein in the Philadelphia Experiment (trying, unsuccessfully, to turn city officials and cops into human beings): [10] [11]
1952 — United States of America: Actor Phillip Loeb, blacklisted in 1950 as a possible Communist sympathizer, is fired from highly successful TV comedy "The Goldbergs" because no one would sponsor it otherwise. Ronald Reagan, Federal Bureau of Investigations informant during the 1940s and 1950s who even had his own code name because of the prolific nature of his snitching, and others, deny to this day there was a "blacklist". [12]
1958 — Donna Rice (party girl with a Hart) lives.
1959 — In a hotel room in Tacoma, Washington, Mel Lyman notes: "It sure is fun sitting here looking out the window…" — Diary of a Young artist [13]
1961 — Cuba: Education nationalized in famous literacy campaign. When the US and American free-market business owned Cuba, the mob and CIA forgot to educate the populace except in craps and whorehouses.
1964 — Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game. In the air, in a Boeing 707.
1968 — United States of America: Friscoʼs KMPX-FM, a pioneering "underground" radio stations, holds a "grass ballot" vote among its listeners. Among those elected are: Bob Dylan (president), Paul Butterfield (vice-president), George Harrison (U.N. ambassador), Jefferson Airplane (Secretary of Transportation), and the Grateful Dead (attorney general)
1968 — Stop the Draft Week defense fund concert dance at the Fillmore with Phil Ochs, Loading Zone and The Committee. [14]
1969 — United States of America: Governor and Federal Bureau of Investigations snitch Ronald Reagan asks California legislature to "drive criminal anarchists and latter-day Fascists off the campuses".
1969 — Look magazine issue, devoted to relations between blacks and whites, has an article called "Jimi Hendrix Socks It to the White House" with a photo of the black musician lounging beside a swimming pool surrounded by bikini-clad white women. The story reads, "…Jimi is not so much the Experience as a menace to public health. Plugged in and zonked, he only has to step across the stage to turn on their high-pitched passion."
1970 — United States of America: Owners of area farms sue neighbor Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages from the Woodstock Festival on his farm that summer.
1971 — United States of America: Federal courts enjoin most uses of the pesticide DDT, nine years after the publication of Rachel Carsonʼs Silent Spring.
1972 — After "Filling her compact and delicious body" with paprika, poet John Berryman jumps off a bridge into the Big Muddy — suicide at 58. [15] [16]
1973 — United States of America: Six killed, 15 wounded in New Orleans sniper attack from atop Johnson's Motor Lodge. A week after killing two cops, Mark Essex goes on a rampage. All day and all night, 500 police exchanged shots with the gunman; finally, police hovering in a helicopter succeeded in bringing him down.
1979 — Cambodia: Pol Pot, plowman of the Killing Fields, is overthrown.
1980 — United States of America: Frisco marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Americaʼs only monarch, Dei Gratia Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, with lunch-hour ceremonies at Market and Montgomery streets. Best ruler the country ever had. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]
1982 — United States of America: Acting President Ronald Reagan continues draft registration.
1985 — England: First issue of "Medicine and War" appears.
1986 — United States of America: Acting President Ronald Reagan imposes economic sanctions on Libya for its role in international terrorism, a "Free-Market" effort to corner the market. "Now we are trying to get unemployment to go up and I think we're going to succeed" — Ronald Reagan, precursor to the half-wit George Bush (Sr., Jr., etc.)
1989 — Japan: Hirohito, Japanʼs emperor, dies at 87 after 62-year reign.
1993 — England: Leah Feldman (1899 — 1993) is cremated in London. One of the ordinary men and women who rarely get into history books but provide the backbone of the anarchist movement.
1995 — Mexico: Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of Soconusco (COCES) marches on the municipal building of Tapachula. 500 demonstrators demand answers to long-ignored questions about working conditions, environmental health, educational reform and political corruption. Led by Francisco Aranda, the activists start across town from the State of Chiapas administrative building, a building that COCES had been occupying for three months because it stands as a symbol of the state government COCES detests.
1996 — Bienvenido N. Santos (1911 — 1996) dies. "One of the giants of Filipino American literature."
