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March 23
March 23 is the 23rd day in March.
Events
1860 — France: Andre Girard (known as Max Buhr) lives, [1]
1871 — France: Communes are proclaimed in Lyon & Marseilles. [2]
1872 — US: Decree by Emperor Joshua Norton I that a suspension bridge be built as soon as convenient between Oakland Point & Goat Island, & then on to San Francisco.
1901 — Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Filipino rebels is captured. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War the US had returned Aguinaldo to the Philippines to direct the native uprisings against the Spanish. In 1899 when the Filipinos learned the US did not intend to give them their independence, Aguinaldo led an armed revolt against US rule. An American force of 70,000 was sent to suppress this "insurrection." [3] [4]
1905 — England: John Collins, co-founder of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), lives.
1906 — Utopianist Thomas Lake Harris dies. Once "America’s best-known mystic."
1913 — Jack London writes to Winston Churchill, G. B. Shaw, & H.G. Wells to ask what they are paid for their "stuff".
1918 — "Dada Manifesto" issued by Tristan Tzara in Switzerland. "I destroy the drawers of the brain & those of the social organization."
1918 — US: Trial of 101 Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World; IWW) begins in Chicago, for opposition to World War I; tried for violating the Espionage Act.
1921 — Netherlands: War Resisters International (WRI) founded, Bilthoven.
1921 — Italy: A bomb explodes at the Teatro Diana in Milan, killing & wounding many. Among those accused are Giuseppe Mariani & Giuseppe Boldrini get life sentences, & Ettore Aguggini; also implicated are Ugo Fedeli, Pietro Bruzzi, & Francesco Ghezzi (editors of "L'Indivi-dualista"). [5]
1942 — On this day in 1942 the US Government began removing Americans from their homes without benefit of trial, indictment or any other legal anachronisms, & forced them into detention centers hundreds of miles away, in the middle of the desert.
1957 — US Army sells off the last of its homing pigeons.
1964 — John Lennon's "In His Own Write" (1964) is published. Alternative titles were, among others, "The Transistor Negro; Left Hand Left Hand" (after Osbert Sitwell’s Left Hand Right Hand) & "Stop One" & "Buy Me." By January 1965 "In His Own Write" had sold nearly 200,000 copies.
1967 — US: The Helix, Seattle’s first underground newspaper, debuts. [6]
1967 — Bolivia: Che Guevara starts guerrilla warfare. President Barrientos appeals to the nation "to join in the fight against the foreign & local anarchists with arms & money from Castro-communists."
1970 — US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Dick'M Nixon declares national emergency, orders 30,000 troops to New York City to break Postal Wildcat Strike.
1974 — France: Aristide Lapeyre (1899—1974) dies in Bordeaux. Hairdresser, anarchist, pacifist militant & néo-Malthusian. [7]
1983 — In his "Star Wars" speech Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Reagan proposes a space-based system to blast incoming missiles out of the sky — just like the 1940 film "Murder in the Air", whose hero, Secret Service Agent Brass Bancroft (played by Ronnie Reagan!), gets involved with the "Inertia Projector," a death ray that can zap planes. [8]
2000 — England: Tony Blair’s Labour government attempt to shut down Summerhill School is defeated.
