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November 5
November 5 (aka Guy Fawkes day, National Doughnut Day) is the 5th day in November.
Events
1605 — Gunpowder plot to blow up English Parliament detected, leader Guy Fawkes captured. [1]
1885 — Will Durant, historian (The Story of Civilization), lives. A teacher & a director at the anarchist Modern School. [2]
1886 — Guy Aldred, British anarchist anti-militarist, lives.
1895 — England: King Edward VII says "We are all Socialists nowadays".
1916 — US: Everett Massacre, Washington state. Industrial Workers of the World labor activists are killed by Everett's finest.
1920 — Eugene Debs, Convict #9653, receives nearly one million votes as Socialist Party presidential candidate while occupying a jail cell.
1937 — Germany: Julius Nolden, sentenced to a 10-year prison term for "preparing an act of high treason with aggravating circumstances." [3]
1960 — Denmark: Launch, at the Statsgymnasium in Århus, of the Ceramic Mural (27 meters long, 3 high), produced by Asger Jorn. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sources.htm#Situationists
1966 — US: Walk for Love & Peace & Freedom: 10,000+ show up, including Poets Allen Ginsberg, & Gary Snyder, Paul Krassner, the Fugs. The "first hippie style demo in NYC".
2007 — Greece: Eight simultanious demonstrations in solidarity with prison uprisings in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patra, Heraklion Crete, Larisa, Volos, Ioannina, and Komotini. In Athens the riot police attacked the demo of 800-1.000 anarchists, which resulted to clashes and tear gas. [Source: A-Infos]
