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March 26
March 26 is the 26th day in March
Events
752 — Pope Stephen II dies after serving for only two days.
1827 — German classical composer Ludwig von Beethoven begins decomposing.
1850 — Edward Bellamy, author of "Looking Backwards", lives. American utopianist, his tract Looking Backward prophesied a socialist paradise in the year 2000. Bullseye!
1872 — Ernest Armand (1872—1963), individualist, free love activist, lives. Wrote "l'Initiation individualiste anarchiste"" (1923) & "La révolution sexuelle et la camaraderie amoureuse" (1934). [1]
1879 — France: Georges Cochon (1879—1959) lives. Tapestry maker, anarchist & very popular secretary of the "Federation of Tenants" Helped the evicted with bills & taking over housing. [2]
1889 — Russia: Jacques Doubinsky lives (1889—1959). As a young labor radical he joined the Ukrainian peasant uprising in 1918, fighting with the famed insurrectionary Makhnovist army. Involved in many publishing enterprises & assisting Bulgarian refugees. [3]
1890 — Raymond Callemin, member of the anarchist Bonnot Gang, lives. Guillotined April 1913. [4]
1892 — Great American poet Walt Whitman mows no more, age 72, Camden, New Jersey. Constantly revising & augmenting his "Leaves of Grass", he receives the final, ninth, edition on his deathbed.
1897 — Oscar Wilde’s wife writes about her husband’s arrest & imprisonment: "I think his fate is rather like Humpty Dumpty’s, quite as tragic & quite as impossible to put right."
1910 — US Congress bars paupers, anarchists, criminals, & the (other) diseased from the US; Immigration Act of 1907 amended.
1916 — Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary, for giving a guard the bird.
1918 — An anarchist draft resister, Philip Grosser, reports from Alcatraz Prison that he & other opponents of World War I are being tortured.
1920 — American poet & leading member of the Beats, Gregory Corso, lives. Convicted of theft at 17, he discovers literature in prison & later meets Allen Ginsberg & publish his first book, "The Vestal Lady on Brattle" in 1955.
- You too can support a prison literature program, nurture some new reader or writer; AuntieDave’s favorite is Books to Prisoners, which he helped found in the late 1970s: http://www.bookstoprisoners.net/
1923 — Bulgaria: In Yambol, during an anarchist protest against the government decision to disarm the people, the army shoots into the crowd, wounding the speaker Atanas Stoitchev & massacre others. About 30 are murdered here, as are others at the Yambol barracks tomorrow. [5]
1959 — Raymond Chandler dies.
1966 — Over 50,000 march in Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade in New York City.
1967 — New York City Central Park Love-In, 10,000 show up.
1969 — John & Yoko Ono-Lennon start seven day bed-in against the Vietnam War.
1969 — Mexico: anarchist novelist B. Traven dies. Wrote one of the great travel ship novels, "The Death Ship". Makes the Titanic blush… [6]
1996 — Germany: During the Squatter’s Movement, which comes under heavy government attack for the next two years, The Palisadenstrasse 49 is evicted. [7]
2000 — Alex Comfort dies. British physician, sexologist, anarchist, poet, novelist, etc. [8] [9]
2005 — Antonio Téllez (1921—2005) dies. anarchist, guerrilla, historian. Author of, among other works, Sabaté, guérilla urbaine en Espagne 1945—1960, (translated into English by Stuart Christie). [10]
