4 février

1856 -- Paul Napoleon Roinard lives, Maritime Seine. Wrongfully ignored French anarchist poet.

1857 -- Russia: During this month Mikhail Bakunin, in various prisons since his part in the Dresden uprising in 1849, currently imprisoned in Schlusselberg, has his sentence commuted to Siberian exile.

1869 -- US: Wobbly "Big Bill" Haywood lives, in Salt Lake City, Utah — where all good Mormons try to emulate him. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) honcho.

1896 -- Bulgaria: Georgi Cheitanov lives (1896-1925). Anarchist militant captured & executed after an attack in Sofia.

1900 -- Jacques Prevert (1900-1977) lives. Poet, surrealist, libertarian. Worshiped freedom & glorified the spirit of rebellion & revolt.

1917 -- US: In Cleveland, Emma Goldman speaks on "The Message of Anarchism" before a full assembly of the North Congregational Church.

1924 -- British release Mahatma Gandhi early, after two years in prison, due to ill health.

1950 -- US: 12 prominent US scientists protest any future use of the hydrogen bomb.

1961 -- Filming starts on Luis Bunuel movie "Viridiana," Mexico.

1979 -- Peru: Six workers are killed in the massacre of Cromotex, Lima.

1981 -- Guatemala: 68 campesinos are killed in the massacre of Chimaltenango.

1990 -- Colombia: Government recognizes native rights to half its forest, 69,000 square miles (slightly larger than area of state of Washington in Amazon Basin, home to 55,000 indigenous tribal peoples.

1996 -- Chechnya: Start of week of marches for peace by thousands, Grozny.

1998 -- Brussels: International Pie Brigade commandos, created by pie-throwing anarchist Noël Godin, delivers a pie to Bill Gates (Seattle boy makes good: "the richest man of the world") to the cries of: "Entartons, entartons le polluant pognon!" Catégorie:Février