29 octobre
1763 France: The Marquis de Sade is imprisoned for excesses committed in a brothel.
1866 -- Victor Loquier (1866-1944) lives. French hair dresser & anarchist propagandist. Ardent anarchist obvious in all he does but in hairdressing. Wrote for "La Vrille" from 1903 to 1914, & some of his anti-military articles earned him some jail time. Member of Cercle d'Etudes sociales & the Fédération Communiste Anarchiste & wrote for "Libertaire".
1886 -- England: "Freedom" newspaper begins publication in London, as a monthly, in October 1886. From the start it was intended not as the mouthpiece of a particular group but as an independent voice in a wider movement. At first described as a journal of "Anarchist Socialism," in June 1889 it became a "Journal of Anarchist Communism"; it attempts to represent the mainstream tradition of anarchism, through giving a voice to differing views. Continues to publish today.
1896 -- US: Every twelve years on this day, the Amerindian Iroquois tribe celebrates its Feast of the Dead, to honour the souls of departed loved ones.
1901 -- US: Leon Czolgosz, self-proclaimed anarchist, electrocuted for the assassination of US President McKinley. Emma Goldman, while repudiating Czolgosz's act, & harrassed because of a tenuous link to him, is one of the few anarchists who refuses to disown him.
1918 -- Germany: Wilhelmshaven Revolt. Sailors mutiny, take over naval base, garrison & city of Kiehl; Soldiers, Sailors & Workers Councils elected. The German government falls on November 10.
1922 -- Italy: The Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader King thingie entrusts to Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Mussolini control of the government. The new violent ones (fascists) are now legitimized by the state — the supreme organ of organized violence. This rightwing takeover is similar to the Bolshevik counter-revolution in Russia in the control & suppression of its people.
1922 -- Spain: El 29 de octubre aprovechando la nueva coyuntura, una delegación de obreros de la CNT se presentaron en Gobernación para hablar con�Ardanza, el general les recibió y escuchó a la delegación cenetistas que iba encabezada por el abogado Joan Casanovas, la conversación�verso sobre la intensión de la CNT de estar dentro de la legalidad. Ardanza se limitó a decirles que él transmitirÃa el mensaje a Madrid. El�gobierno de la nación tardó varios dÃas en contestar, pero evidentemente no podÃan más que aceptar aquella nueva situación.
1970 -- US: Sans Hose? Anti-war protesters pelt Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Prez Dick M Nixon's motorcade with rocks & eggs in San Jose, California.
1970 -- Source=Robert Braunwart US: An FBI memo recommends 15,000 new domestic intelligence operations. Ahhh, Freedom is a Grand Thing!
1981 -- George Brassens, French anarchist poet/songster, dies.
