19 janvier

• En 1808, naissance à Athol (Massachussetts) de Lysander Spooner, anarchiste individualiste et militant abolitionniste américain.

• En 1812 -- England: Luddites torch Oatlands Mill in Yorkshire.

• En 1839 -- Artist Paul Cézanne lives. In Manhattan, Woody Allen's despondent character Isaac is listing reasons to live. One of them is Cézanne's pears. Cézanne's still-lifes (the French call them natures mortes) are food for eye & the soul.

• En 1865 -- France: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon dies. Early French anarchist philosopher/economist, author of What is Property?. His famous answer?: "Property is theft!"

• En 1883 -- France: The trial to suppress the anarchists involved in the First International, begun on January 8, concludes in Lyon, against those known as "The 66".

• En 1889 -- Sophie Taeuber-Arp lives, Davos, Switzerland. Started an independent artistic career in 1916, which leads her to contacts with the Dadaists in Zürich. Married Hans Arp (who gave up art for chess) in 1921.

• En 1898 -- France: George Claude Etievant, French typographer & anarchist, stabs a sentry at the Berzeliu street police station, & wounds another after being locked up.

• En 1908 -- US: Fire burns down the building housing an office, printing plant, & book stock at Benjamin Tucker's Unique Bookshop (a hotbed of individualist anarchism). In addition to books Tucker also published the journal, Liberty (1891-1907).

• En 1910 -- Italy: Andrea Costa (1851-1910), dies, Imola. Anarchist, participant in the national conference under the direction of Bakunin before giving up on anarchism & becoming a socialist deputy in the Italian parliament.

• En 1912 -- Armand Robin (1912-1961) lives, Plouguernével, Brittany. French translator, writer/poet, anarchist.

• En 1915 -- US: William Sanger arrested for circulating a copy of Margaret Sanger's pamphlet "Family Limitation".

• En 1915 -- US: World famous labor organizer & songster Joe Hill is arrested in Salt Lick City, Utah. He is convicted on trumped up murder charges, & executed 21 months later despite worldwide protests

• En 1932 -- Spain: Armed miners' uprising in Barcelona region in response to anarchist uprisings in Catalonia. "Libertarian communism" declared, including the abolition of money & property, followed by general strikes & armed uprisings throughout Spain over the next five days.

• En 1936 -- England: Emma Goldman lectures to the Southend Labour League of Youth on "Youth in Revolt."

• En 1941 -- Paul Reclus (son of Elie, nephew of Élisée) dies, Montpellier, France. Anarchist militant, engineer & professor.

• En 1947 -- Switzerland: Luigi Bertoni (1872-1947) dies in Geneva. Swiss anarchist, typographer, & an untiring participant in the bilingual newspaper "Il Risveglio/Le Réveil Geneva" (The Alarm Clock of Geneva) which he founded in July 1900 & edited until his death. In 1936 he & Italian companions left to fight in Spain on the Huesca front.

• En 1976 -- Spain: Government drafts 70,000 railroad workers to crush strike.

• En 1991 -- Italy: 100,000 anti-Gulf War demonstrators march in Roma.

• En 1999 -- Greece: Vasilis Evangelidis, teacher & anarchist, announces a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment & in solidarity with the student protest movement, occupations & demonstrations across the country.