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October 15
October 15 is the 15th day of October. It is also known as the mushroom day and national grouch day.
Events
1814 -- Mikhail Lermontov, Russian author, lives. Exiled twice to the Caucasus region because of his libertarian verses.
1842 -- During this month Mikhail Bakunin's "Reaction in Germany" is published.
1884 -- Stephen Mac Say lives. French anarchist militant, professor, bee-keeper. Founded, with his life-long partner Marie-Adele Anciaux, the libertarian school at Sébastien Faure's colony "La ruche".
1896 -- France: Célestin Freinet lives. Pedagogist, founder of the Coopérative de l'Enseignement Laïc (C.E.L), & author of The French Modern School. Influenced the Spanish artist Ramón Acin, who founded a school based on the ideas of Ferrer & Freinet. His partner Elise, also a militant educator, carried on his work following his death.
- http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FreinetElise-Celestin.htm
- http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/AcinRamon.htm
- http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FerrerFrancisco.htm
1902 -- France: André Prudhommeaux lives. Early communist, then an anarchist, he founded a Paris bookshop specializing in social history — & the scene of many lively debates.
1902 -- Spain: Amparo Poch y Gascon lives (1902-1968). Spanish anarchist feminist, propagandist for sexual freedom.
1904 -- Italy: Oreste Lucchesi dies. In prison since 1895 for assassinating the editor of "Il Telegrafo," whose articles resulted in the repression & arrest of numerous anarchists.
1907 -- US: Mid-October, the anarchist Emma Goldman evades US immigration authorities by entering New York via Montreal.
1911 -- US: Emma Goldman begins a series of Sunday afternoon & evening lectures in Yiddish & English to residents of New York City's Lower East Side.
1915 -- US: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) free speech fight in Fresno in de Land of de Free.
1920 -- Italy: Errico Malatesta, anarchist militant/writer, arrested. He is held responsible, as is Armando Borghi, for workers' factory occupations in Milan during the summer.
1920 -- Russia: Les makhnovistes & les bolcheviques signent un accord de collaboration contre les troupes du général Wrangel. Soon the treacherous Bolsheviks will turn on the makhnovistes.
1920 -- Spain: Ernest Queraltó, "El pintor" (The painter), dies. An old member of the band of Köenning.
1926 -- Harley-Semiotic?: French biker-philosopher Michel Foucault lives
1926 -- Japan: Nakahama Tetsu executed for anti-government acts, including a plan to assassinate Prince Hirohito. Member of the Girochin Sha.
1926 -- Canada: Emma Goldman arrives by ship, to lecture; proximity rekindles her hope for readmission to the US, where she grew up, but has been banished from the "Land of the Free."
1933 -- US: Liberal Mabel Carver Crouch, during this month, begins working furiously for Emma Goldman's readmission to the "Land of the Free".
1957 -- Guy Debord's "Remarques sur le concept d'art expérimental" (Remarks on the Concept of Experimental Art), a critique of the text "Pour un concept d'expérimentation musicale" (Toward a Concept of Musical Experimentation) by Walter Olmo of the Situationist International's Italian Section.
1959 -- US: Robert Crumb's "Fritz the Cat" comic strip premiers.
1966 -- Artists' Liberation Front Free Fair in Frisco's Golden Gate Park Panhandle. Takes place in the Mission District & was one of the first (if not first) free outdoor rock performance in the Bay Area.
1969 -- France: "Operations Within the French Section after October 1969," internal document unanimously adopted at a meeting of the French section of the Situationist International.
