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March 5
March 5' is the 5th day in March.
Events
1496 — English King Henry VII grants to Henry Cabot the right to "subdue, occupy, & possess" any lands that he might find in the New World.
1616 — Elizabethan dramatist Francis Beaumont dies at 32.
1770 — United States of America: Boston Massacre. Tri-racial American revolutionist Crispus Attucks is Americaʼs first black hero (despite evidence he may not have been black at all, but rather, a Natick Indian) when he joins a mob attacking a British peace-keeping force and is shot (the first American killed in the revolution) during the ensuing melee. In all, five die & another six injured.
1839 — Charlotte Brontë turns down Reverend Henry Nusseyʼs marriage proposal for the same reasons Jane Eyre uses to decline the Reverend St. John Rivers: "I am not the serious, grave, cool-hearted individual you suppose; you would think me romantic & eccentric." [1]
1848 — United States of America: In the Battle of Abiqua, whites attack Klamath tribe camp at Abiqua Creek near Salem, Oregon Territory; 13 men & women killed.
1870 — American writer Frank Norris (1870—1902) lives, Chicago, Illinois. One of the first American naturalist writers. [2]
1871 — Poland: Philosopher, economist, anti-militarist, revolutionist Rosa Luxemburg (1871—1919) lives.
1872 — The General Council approves a private circular, Fictitious Splits in the International, written by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, which exposes "Bakuninist intrigues & disruptive activity in the International." Part of their campaign to undermine the antiauthoritarian & democratic elements within the international. Published in Geneva as a pamphlet in May. [3]
1879 — United States of America: The first group of black so-called exodusters, en route to Kansas, arrives in St. Louis aboard the steamer Colorado. Eager to escape harsh sharecropper contracts, pass laws, imprisonment & murder, thousands of African Americans are looking to Kansas as the promised land. Many pour onto the steamboats nearly destitute & knowing nothing about the state. Tennessee cabinetmaker "Pap" Singleton, who calls himself the Father of the Colored Exodus, prints handbills encouraging the migration. Later this year, Singleton Colony is established near what becomes Emporia, Kansas. But a steamboat strike will slow the migration and, by 1881, the flood of "exodusters" is reduced to a trickle.
1882 — Dora Marsden (1882—1960) lives.
1886 — France: In Paris, the 27-year old anarchist Charles Gallo tosses a bottle of hydrocyanic acid into the Stock Exchange.
1903 — Paul Roussenq (the "anarchist convict") throws a crouton at the head prosecutor during a trial, & this dastardly terrorist act leads to his being sent the disciplinary battalions of Biribi in Africa for 5 years… and this in turn spirals ridiculously out of control. Only after a press campaign, publication of Albert Londres's expose on the prisons, & mobilization of the "S.R.I." (International Red Help) on his behalf does Roussenq finally get released from prison — in 1932!
1906 — United States of America: During this month Ricardo y Enrique Flores Magón head for Canada with Juan Sarabia. Se hacen cargo de "Regeneración" Librado Rivera y Manuel Sarabia Huelga y represión en Cananea. Aparece el Programa y manifiesto del Partido Liberal Mexicano.
1907 — Marton Taiga (1907—1969) lives. Prolific Finnish pulp writer, who published 54 books from mystery novels to science fiction. [4]
1911 — United States of America: Emma Goldman encounters police interference in Staunton, Ill., but manages to speak before members of this mining town, despite the arrest of one comrade.
1917 — Russia: First edition of "Pravda" is printed. The Russian version of the "New York Times".
1917 — United States of America: Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) go on trial, Everett, Washington. The labor agitators were gunned down by a government sanctioned mob (sheriff-led vigilantes). Like most cases of labor strife, the government, big business, police, military & the media are actively aligned against the unionists: the criminals & perpetrators go free while the victims are vilified & tried. [5] [6] [7] [8]
1920 — France: Victor Pengam (1883—1920), dies. Anarchiste propagandist.
1921 — Russia: Todayʼs "Izvestia," n°3 of the provisional Kronstadt revolutionary committee of the Sailors, Red & Working Soldiers: "Here for three days Kronstadt has been rid of the nightmarish rule of the Communists, just as four years ago it did with the rule of the tsar (…) Yes, three days that the citizens of Kronstadt breathe, free, delivered from the dictatorship of the party." [9]
1921 — Russia: Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, & several others send a letter of protest to Zinoviev, proposing a commission to settle the dispute with the Krondstadt sailors peacefully; no response received. In two days Leon Trotsky orders the artillery bombardment of Krondstadt.
1922 — Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922—1975) lives. Italian director, screen writer, essayist, poet, critic & novelist, best known outside Italy for his films. Died violently in 1975. [10]
1924 — Frank Carauna, becomes first to bowl two successive perfect 300 games. [11]
1927 — China: US Marines land in to "protect US property" during the civil war.
1928 — France: During March-May, in Paris, Emma Goldman is reunited with old friends & comrades, including Alex Berkman, Mollie Steimer, & Senya Fleshin.
1932 — From a café table in Chez les Viking on rue Vavin in Montparnasse, Henry Miller writes Anaïs Nin, who has just left the café, "I love you….I am in a fever." Of course, Henry seems always to be in a fever. [12]
1936 — England: During this month Emma Goldmanʼs friendship with Eslanda & Paul Robeson deepens, as does her friendship with her new admirer & benefactor, Shloime Sutton. Also, Garden City Publishing Company prints a cheaper edition of her autobiography, Living My Life after purchasing the rights from Alfred Knopf.
1937 — United States of America: The American government officially apologizes to Nazi Germany for New York City Mayor LaGuardiaʼs reference to Adolf Hitler as a "brown-shirted fanatic." LaGuardia has been called "the conscience of the 20s." Best known as the tempestuous mayor of New York City, he served in Congress between 1917 & 1933, where, in an era marked by nativism & bigotry, LaGuardia spoke up for internationalism, freedom of speech, & the rights of minorities & the poor. The issues he fought for included price controls, the right to strike, public power, & the redistribution of wealth by taxation. See Howard Zinn, LaGuardia in Congress.
1939 — Bestselling adventure writer Richard Halliburton (Royal Road To Romance) sails from Hong Kong on the Sea Dragon, an unseaworthy junk with an inexperienced crew; neither he or the boat is ever seen again.
1939 — Spain: The NegrÃn government is overthrown in an overnight coup (March 5-6) in Madrid; members of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT trade union in the south-central zone are involved in the coup & occupy posts in the new National Council of Defense. Source: Emma Goldman Papers
1943 — Tunisia: Bernard Baissat lives, Nabeul.
1944 — Italy: Pasquale Binazzi, 71, dies, in Spezia.
1946 — United States of America: Winston Churchill gives his "Iron Curtain" speech, Fulton, Missouri.
1949 — England: Prepatory Conference of the Socialist International held in London.
1953 — Russia: Josef Stalin dies of a stroke, in Moscow.
1955 — With continual controversy about offensive R&B records, BMI, the largest organization of music publishers, releases plans to clamp down on objectionable lyrics. But nearly a dozen singles were released without approval, & some — like Big Joe Turnerʼs "Shake, Rattle & Roll" — became major hits.
1955 — Elvis Presley makes his television debut on the regionally telecast "The Louisiana Hayride."
1957 — British Gold Coast becomes Ghana, first independent nation of sub-Saharan Africa.
1958 — United States of America: A B-47 jettisons an atomic bomb off Georgia coast after mid-air collision.
1963 — United States of America: Country singer Patsy Cline, best known for crossover hits like "Crazy" & "I Fall to Pieces," dies in small plane crash near Camden, Tennessee.
1967 — Warren Hinckle III, editor of Ramparts Magazine, hosts a "rockdance-environment happening" benefit in Frisco in honor of the CIA (Citizens for Interplanetary Activity) at California Hall. Participants included the S.F. League for Sexual Freedom, the Diggers & the San Francisco Mime Troupe. [13] Source: [Frisco History Archive]
1968 — Italy: Il ministro della pubblica (d)istruzione destituisce il preside del Liceo classico Parini di Milano per essersi rifiutato di chiamare la polizia contro gli studenti che hanno occupato l'istituto. [Source: Crimini e Misfatti]
1970 — Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty comes into force.
1978 — China: A new constitution stressing economic development over revolutionary ideology is adopted.
1982 — Comedian & Blues Brother John Belushi, 33, dies of drug overdose in the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Beverly Hills. Belushiʼs vulgar, dangerous & physical sense of humor brought comedy closer to rock & roll than any other comedian.
1983 — United States of America: President Ronnie Reagan visits Klamath Coounty, Oregon. Reagan says "There is today in the US as much forest as there was when Washington was at Valley Forge". (A lie; actually, there is 30% as much.) Source=Robert Braunwart
1984 — William Powell dies.
1984 — United States of America: Standard Oil of California buys Gulf.
1988 — West Germany: Simultaneous demonstrations against nuclear "mafia," Essen, Gorleben, Frankfurt & Regensburg.
1992 — United States of America: Caterpillar declares strike impasse.
1994 — Ukraine: Voluntarily agreeing to give up nuclear weapons, the government begins transferring its nuclear stockpile to Russia.
2003 — United States of America: Hundreds of "Books Not Bombs" student protests nation-wide against Bushʼs planned war against Iraq. [14]
