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September 24
September 24 is the 24th day of September.
Events
1876 — Italy: A trial of 33 Umbrian anarchists & internationalists, at Perguia, ends.
1900 — Anarchist Congress begins, Holland.
1901 — Emma Goldman released from jail. Authorities had tried to make a case linking her to the assassination of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President McKinley. Dropped for lack of evidence. [1]
1909 — Emma Goldman engages in free-speech battle in Philadelphia for the next month. Being prevented from entering lecture hall to exercise her so-called free speech rights, Voltairine de Cleyre reads Goldmanʼs lecture to the audience. [2]
1918 — Labor union, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), declared illegal in Canada.
1919 — The Ukrainian anarchists, seeing themselves about to be caught in Denikinʼs vise, wheeled, turning suddenly east. Denikinʼs principle forces, continued chasing Makhno westward, thinking the anarchists were still in retreat. Never did Denikinʼs staff dream that Makhno would turn to attack the bulk of the White army. (& defeat them.) Nestor Makhno, anarchist guerilla, led Ukrainian forces against both the Bolshevik Reds & the counter-revolutionary Whites… [3]
1929 — Author Evgeny Zamiatin "resigns" under threat of expulsion from the Soviet All Russian Writers Union. Wrote A Soviet Heretic, & sci-fi allegory We.
1934 — John Brunner, British sci-fi author looks up. Author of Shockwave Rider; The Sheep Look Up; Stand on Zanzibar, dystopian forerunners of cyber-punk.
1953 — 23 Korean-American prisoners of war, who have refused to be repatriated to the United States during a United Nations prisoner exchange, are turned over to India by the North Korean command.
1968 — Mexican soldiers battle students at the National University in Mexico City, killing 17 & arresting at least 1,000.
1968 — United States of America: Anti-war protestors destroy 10,000 draft files in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1969 — United States of America: Chicago 8 Conspiracy Trial begins. David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Thomas Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Bobby Seale go on trial.
1969 — United States of America: At 4:45 p.m., 15 minutes after the second shift had begun, Local 598 Fisher Body workers take on GM in the longest strike by the UAW in GM history.
1971 — England: Although authorities claim to have arrested "all" of the Angry Brigade, the AB bombs Albany Street army barracks (near Bomb Squad HQ) in protest against army actions in Ireland.
1976 — Cuba: Arrnando Hart (prominent member of Castoʼs ruling junta) praises Soviet achievements under Stalin & urges Cubans to follow Stalinʼs example.
1991 — American childrenʼs anarchist writer Dr. Seuss dies.
1991 — Doogie Howser loses his virginity.
1994 — Protesters crash the Washington, D.C. 50th birthday party of the World Bank & International Monetary Fund.
1995 — As part of International Buy Nothing Day, activists dressed as rats urge shoppers at a Dutch shopping mall to "leave the rat race."
1998 — France: Mr. I/eye & Mr. Imagination in Paris for a show of outsider artists in the Chicago Collections.
