30 janvier

1826 -- Gustave Lefrancais lives (1826-1901). French revolutionary, member of the First International, of the Paris Commune, & a founder of the anarchist Jura Federation. Lefrancais helped Elisée Reclus in producing Géographie Universelle. Wrote Souvenirs d'un Révolutionnaire (Préface de Lucien Descaves) & Le mouvement Communaliste a Paris en 1871 Eugene Pottier, who wrote the text of "The Internationale" while hiding out in Paris in June 1871, dedicated the song to Gustave Lefrancais.

1871 -- Stoyanov Parachkef (or Paraskev) (1871-1941) lives, Giurgiu. Significant figure of Rumanian & Bulgarian anarchism. Named professor of surgery at the University of Sofia in 1918, he continued collaborating with the Bulgarians — Stoinoff, Kilifarski, etc. — & with libertarian publications & the clandestine activities of the movement. Died in November 1941.

1894 -- Francesco Saverio MerlinoJanuary 30, 1894, it is arrested in Naples and is imprisoned until May 1896.

1909 -- US: Radical organizer Saul Alinsky lives, Chicago, Illinois.

1916 -- Italy: Giuseppe Scarlatti dies, in Florence.

1926 -- France: The chief of police in Paris forbids the playing of jazzed-up versions of the French national anthem, La Marseillaise.

1939 -- Germany: Hitler announces he will exterminate the Jewish race in event of war.

1940 -- France: Denis Langlois lives, Etrechy. Lawyer, anarchist & pacifist writer who does prison time for his beliefs ("Le cachot.)

1948 -- India: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political & spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, is assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic.

1956 -- US: As Martin Luther King, Jr. stands at the pulpit, leading a mass meeting during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, his home is bombed. By chance, King's wife & 10-week-old baby escape unharmed.

1972 -- Northern Ireland: "Bloody Sunday." British soldiers gun down 14 Roman Catholic civil-rights marchers in Londonderry.

1978 -- Spain: In Barcelona 50 anarchists are arrested, accused of the dastardly crime of attempting to "reconstitute" the F.A.I" (Iberian Anarchist Federation). Franco is dead, but the old fears of a powerful revolutionary organization re-emerging persists.

1992 -- The Guthrie Center is dedicated. The Guthrie center is a non-profit organization, put together by folksinger Arlo Guthrie. It is housed in the church building that provided the setting of his best known story-song Alice's Restaurant.

1994 -- French novelist Pierre Boulle (1912-1994), The Bridge Over the River Kwai & Planet of the Apes, dies in Paris, age 81. Catégorie:Janvier