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− | '''March 28''' is the [[28]]<sup>th</sup> day in [[March]].
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− | ==Events==
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− | [[193]] — [[Didius Julianus]], highest bidder in Praetorian
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− | auction, becomes Emperor of [[Roman Empire|Rome]].
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− | [[1849]] — [[France]]: [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]] gets three years in
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− | prison & fined 3,000 francs for one of his lampoons published
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− | in "[[Le Peuple]]". The unhappy tribunal explains the reasons for
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− | his harsh sentence:
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− | "D'excitation, provocation, attaque"
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− | # Stirring up hatred against the government
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− | # Provoking civil war
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− | # Attacking the Constitution & property!
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− | [http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Proudhon/proudcarn3.jpg]
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− | [[1871]] — [[France]]: [[Paris Commune]], over 200,000 people turn
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− | out at the City Hall to see the Central Committee of the
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− | National Guard abolished by their newly elected officials,
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− | members whose names are read to to the crowd which
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− | acclaims them, making this day a revolutionary festival.
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− | The red flag, raised over all public buildings, emblem
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− | of the Commune.
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− | [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/[[anarchism|anarchist]]_Archives/pariscommune/Pariscommunearchive.html]
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− | [[1892]] — [[France]]: Ravachol is arrested in [[Paris]] for having blown
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− | up the homes of Benoit, the judge of the Supreme Court of
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− | Appeal, & Bulot, the deputy prosecutor of the republic.
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− | [[1909]] — Novelist [[Nelson Algren]] ("[[A Walk on the Wild Side]]")
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− | lives (1909—[[1981]]). Grew up in Chicago in a poor Polish
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− | neighborhood, served a four-month jail term for stealing a
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− | [[typewriter]]. Algren joined a [[John Reed Club]] & was editor of the
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− | "[[New Anvil]]," an experimental magazine. Heavy drinker & gambler,
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− | involved with [[Simone de Beauvoir]].
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− | [http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/03ref.htm#28/1909]
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− | [[1911]] — Bonnot — gang bandit — caught & killed by [[police|cops]]
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− | after months of joyous bank robbing & other escapades.
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− | Many letters had been sent publicizing their actions &
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− | taunting the police.
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− | Comprised of unemployed [[anarchism|anarchist]]s, the [[Bonnot Gang]] received much enthusiastic response from the public.
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− | [http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/02ref.htm#28/1913]
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− | [[1915]] — [[Emma Goldman]] lectures again on "Limitation of
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− | Offspring—Why & How Small Families are Preferable"
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− | in New York.
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− | [http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/03ref.htm#28/1915]
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− | [http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm]
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− | [[1918]] — [[Canada]]: 2,000 demonstrate against conscription, in
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− | [[Quebec]]; [[police]] are forced to retreat into the police station.
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− | [[1960]] — [[Scotland]]: 20 firefighters trying to put out
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− | a fire in a warehouse full of scotch whiskey are crushed by a
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− | collapsing wall after the whiskey explodes, Glasgow.
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− | [[1968]] — [[France]]: In Nanterre, suspension of all school
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− | courses until [[April 1]] because of student unrest.
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− | [[1969]] — [[Anna Louise Strong]], former Seattle School Board
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− | member & organizer during the 1919 Seattle General Strike,
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− | [[death|dies]] in [[China]].
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− | [[1976]] — [[United States of America|US]]: [[Federal Bureau of Investigations|FBI]], largest & highest US [[police]]
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− | agency, discloses it burglarized the [[Socialist Party]] 92+ times
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− | between [[1960]] & [[1966]].
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− | [[1979]] — [[United States of America|US]]: A Three Mile Island cooling unit fails, leading
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− | to a meltdown. Amid the worst nuclear disaster in US history,
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− | it takes authorities three days to advise pregnant women &
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− | children to evacuate. Thousands flee, but the men — apparently
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− | born macho mutants — hang around for their daily dose.
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− | [http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/03ref.htm#28/1979]
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− | [[2001]] — [[United States of America|US]]: First [[Annual Anarchist Awards]] presented.
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− | Celebrating a year’s worth of the best protests, meanest
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− | cops, & stinkiest hippies! by the Academy of Anarchy…
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− | Includes Protester of The Year, Best Choreography of a Protest, Best Protest Involving Pets, Villain of the Year.
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− | ==External link==
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− | * http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0328.htm
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− | [[Category:Days in March|28]] [[Category:Days of year]]
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