October 11

October 11 is the 11th day in October

Events

1878 -- France: Eugène Soullier lives. Typographer, militant anarchist & anarcho-syndicalist.

1893 -- Australia: Larry Petrie gets out of gaol on or about today. An anarchist & Australian Workers Union (AWU) Secretary-Organiser in Sydney,

http://www.takver.com/history/petrie.htm

1897 -- Spain: Antonio Soto Canalejo lives. Militant anarchist & anarcho-syndicalist.

1917 -- France: Following a trial begun October 4th in Paris, anarchists involved in publishing a clandestine issue of the newspaper "Le Libertaire" are heavily sentenced for such audacity, receiving 1 to 3 years in prison.

1927 -- Canada: Emma Goldman's ambitious lecture series, October 11-December 8, begins, Toronto.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/10ref.htm#11/1927

1935 -- Argentina: Founding of Federación Anarco-Comunista Argentina. (FACA). Founders include Antonio Casanova. Changed its name in 1955, to Federación Libertaria Argentina.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/CasanovaAntonio.htm

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#FLA

1945 -- Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs. Mao. Chiang beseeches his troops:

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/humor/mao.jpg

1958 -- During this month: "10 jaar experimentele kunst: Jorn en zijn rol in de theoretische inventie ('Ten years of experimental art: Jorn & his role in theoretical invention'), by Guy Debord, appears in Dutch in Museumjournaal, the Netherlands.

1963 -- Edith Piaf, French singer, dies at 47, near Paris.

1976 -- Gang of Four arrested in Berlin. Chinese bandits or rock'n'roll?

1996 -- Georges Balansky, anarchist, dies.

External link

http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1011.htm