16 janvier

1916 -- Emma Goldman, anarchist feministUS: Emma Goldman gives a lecture at the Masonic Temple at 26th Street & Lenox Avenue, in NY City, on "The Child's Right Not to Be Born".

1919 -- Argentina: End of the "Sanglante" ("Bloody Week") in Buenos Aires. The General Strike begun a week ago is crushed in blood, with as many as 700 dead & 2000 wounded. Argentinean anarchism is decimated by the following repression, & the trade unions reformists are left fully in control.

1925 -- Russia: Leon Trotsky, pretender to the throne, is dismissed from the chairmanship of the Russian Revolutionary Military Council.

1932 -- Rwanda: Dian Fossey lives (1932-1985). Primatologist, who could have been killed by one swipe by a gorilla, is murdered instead by poachers, Karisoke Center. She had launched an international campaign against poachers who killed one of her favorite gorillas.

1936 -- Spain: Socialists / communists / anarchists form "Unidad Popular".

1938 -- Spain: Fascists begin daily bombing of Barcelona (Spanish Revolution/Civil War).

1966 -- US: Joan Baez is jailed for 10 days for Vietnam antiwar protest during a demonstration, Oakland, California.

1991 -- US invades Kuwait & Iraq. Several dozen US troops (many victims of "friendly fire") & up to 400,000 Iraqi citizens die in the following weeks. An estimated 1,000,000 Iraqis die — a vast number being children — due to the effects of the following five years of U.S.-led global economic embargo. Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark has termed this US policy genocide.