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October 2
October 2 is the second day in October
Events
1869 -- Joshua Norton I, "Dei Gratia" Emperor of the United States & Protector of Mexico, He Invents a Better Switch.
1883 -- France: Louis Laurent (1883-1972) lives. Militant trade unionist, member of the Revolutionary Anarchist Union & the Anarchist Federation of Languedoc. Helped found "Libertarian" in 1968.
1890 -- Great Marxist?: Groucho Marx, great Marxist economist, lives.
1934 -- Canada: Emma Goldman delivers a series of eight lectures at Forester's Hall, Toronto, on literary & political topics, including [[George Bernard Shaw]], munitions manufacturers, Russian literature since the revolution, & German literature & the Nazi book-burnings.
- http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm
- http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/RockerRudolf.htm
1936 -- Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti interview in the Toronto Daily Star published (or August 5?), where he declares:
- "We have always lived in slums & holes in the wall...
- We are not in the least afraid of
- ruins ... The bourgeoisie might blast & ruin its own world
- before it leaves the stage of history.
- We carry a new world here, in our hearts, & that
- world is growing in this minute."
1947 -- Birth of Ward Churchill, radical Native American author & activist.
1956 -- US: Power Lunch? First atomic power clock exhibited, New York City.
1968 -- Mexico City: Student demonstration is drowned in blood in the Tlatelolco Massacre.
2001 -- US: The Layabouts play, "Rock Against Profiling!"
2004 -- Italy: Enzo Santarelli dies. L'historien marxiste de l'anarchisme italien.
