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October 23
October 23 is the 23rd day of October.
Events
1734 -- French writer, early communist theorist, Restif de la Brettone lives.
1874 -- Germany: Otto Rühle lives. Left council communist of the Spartacist League (anti-Leninist, it included Liebknecht, Luxemburg, Mehring, et al.).
1885 -- André Lorulot lives (1885-1963). French free-thinker, individualist, lecturer & propagandist.
1903 -- US: First attempt to test anti-anarchist immigration act: At an event at Murray Hill Lyceum, where Emma Goldman is scheduled to speak, English anarchist John Turner is arrested. Turner was "detained" on Ellis Island until deported, with the words "Let freedom ring" burning his ears.
1920 -- Spain: In Badalona several cenetistas are arrested. Part of an orchestrated attack on the best revolutionary labor militants during this period, marked by targeted arrests & murders, sponsored by business interests, rightwingers & the Catholic Church.
1920 -- Russia: Emma Goldman postpones her return trip to Petrograd to attend John Reed's funeral in Moscow today.
1926 -- US: In the Sacco & Vanzetti case, Judge Thayer denies the Medeiros motion, presented before him on Sept 13-17. Jan. 27-28, 1927 Appeal from the denial of Medeiros motion is argued before the Supreme Judicial Court, but on April 7, 1927 the denial of the Medeiros motion is affirmed.
1927 -- Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia lives, Frisco, California. Lamantia discovered Surrealism as a teenager. Married to Nancy Peters, a surrealist poet & co-owner, with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, of City Lights Books publishers.
1939 -- Zane Grey, author of Western novels, dies when his heart attacks him, in an ambush from behind a rock.
1956 -- Hungarian Revolution erupts, spontaneous workers' councils form, state capitalism is threatened, Russian tanks called in.
1962 -- England: 124 arrested in demonstrations at US & USSR embassies in London against Cuban Missile Crisis. Nice turn out, considering this crisis has the world on the edge of nuclear destruction.
1979 -- US: protesters demonstrate in Anaheim, California, against the Arms Bazaar being held at the Convention Center (2nd Annual Military Electronics Exposition, a corporate supermarket for selling the most modern killing techniques to over 3,000 representatives in the US & around the world).
1987 -- US: B-a-a-d to the Bone?: Senate rejects Acting President Reagan's nomination of Bobby Bork to the Supreme Court.
