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November 9
November 9 (aka No Cookies day) is the 9th day in November
Events
1839 -- France: Paule Mink lives (1839-1901); friend of Louise Michel & Marie Ferre. Daughter of Polish nobles, Communard, socialist, prominent feminist & the mother of the anarchist Henri Jullien.
1880 -- France: Louise Michel, freed by amnesty after nine years in prison, is met in Gare Saint-Lazare by an enormous crowd cheering her with cries of,
- "Vive Louise Michel,
- vive la Commune,
- A bas les assassins!"
1899 -- Portugal: Acácio Tomás de Aquino lives (1899-1998). Militant anarcho-trade unionist & life-long anarchist. Wrote "O Segredo das Prisões Atlânticas," (Lisboa: Regra do Jogo, 1982; The Secret of the Atlantic Prisons), a personal testimony which is also very much a history of the Portuguese anarchist movement. Lifelong companion of LuÃsa Adão, a nurse & also a militant anarchist.
1918 -- Germany: Berlin workers march on Reichstag & brings down the government to a halt. Philip Scheidermann declares a German Republic.
1921 -- England: Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir William Harwood, poisoned by arsenic-filled chocolates. Didna read today's Bleed, or he would no it's "No Cookies" Day.
1925 -- Argentina: Perez Millan (rightwing nationalist who killed the anarchist Kurt Gustav Wilckens in his prison cell), is killed in an asylum in Buenos Aires. Boris Vladimirovitch, a doctor & biologist doing time for an "expropriation", feigned madness so as to be transferred to Millan's asylum. Vladimirovitch was unable to get close enough (Millan was "protected"), so another internee killed him.
1928 -- Uruguay: At 4 am, in Montevideo, 300 stalwarts from the police force & the army encircle the house at 41-J.J . Rousseau street, trapping anarchist illegalists inside. Those sent to prison escape thanks to a tunnel built by anarchist comrades
1928 -- France: Paul Gourmelon dies. "Maison du Peuple" de Brest qu'il découvre l'anarchie et rencontre les compagnons Jules Le Gall, René Martin, Jean Tréguer, René Lochu, etc. See "René Lochu's Libertaires mes compagnons de Brest et d'ailleurs" (1983; foreword by Léo Ferré).
1928 -- Spain: Felipe Cortiella lives (1871-1937), Barcelona. Prominent Catalan author, poet, translator & dramatist. An anarchist militant & CNT fighter, the chief focus of his literary & cultural effort was the theatre (he founded the Agrupació Avenir company) which he sought to place in the service of the common people.
1932 -- Switzerland: Army opens fire on crowd where thousands gather for an antifascist demonstration, killing 13 & wounding a hundred others.
1943 -- US: Today, after Igal Roodenko's strike had reached the 12th day, he was arrested...
1953 -- Welsh poet Dylan Thomas dies, age 39, following a six-day coma brought on by drinking 18 straight whiskeys in a New York tavern. At the funeral parlor, a friend looking down at the body with its rouged face & garish suit, carnation in buttonhole, says: "He would never have been seen dead in it."
1961 -- Interview with Asger Jorn in the Danish journal Aften-Posten on the foundation of the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism in Silkeborg.
1982 -- US: Zonker Harris receives one vote for the governorship in Illinois.
1988 -- US: John Cage's reading 'On Anarchism' at the Cooper Union in New York City.
