This Day in Radical History- Sept.5th-Crazy Horse & the Soviet Union end

[underpants]

September 5
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

1863: Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama.

1877: Crazy Horse assassinated at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, at age 33, bayoneted by a U.S. soldier after allegedly resisting confinement in a jail cell.

1882: Thirty thousand workers march to protest working conditions in the first U.S. Labor Day parade, New York City.

1914: Battle of Marne, first major battle of World War I. Ultimately, this battle alone would result in 300,000 dead or wounded.

1917: In 48 coordinated raids across the country, later known as the Palmer Raids, federal agents seize records, destroy equipment and books, and arrest hundreds of IWW (Wobbly) activists (including William D. "Big Bill" Haywood, a leader of the organization) for the crimes of labor organizing and "obstructing" World War I.

1954: Peace Pledge Union organizes demonstration against H-Bomb, Trafalgar Square, London.

1957: Publication of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," an inspiration for a generation of restless spirits.

1961: Pres. Kennedy orders resumption of nuclear testing, "underground, with no fallout."

1964: "Rebel Girl" Elizabeth Gurley Flynn dies, Moscow, USSR.

1972: Palestinian terrorists seize nine athletes of the Israeli Olympic team, who are then shot dead by police during a rescue attempt. Munich, West Germany.

1975: Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme, a member of Charles Manson's "family," is caught pointing a handgun at Pres. Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California.

1981: Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp established outside Greenham Air Base, Britain, as "Women For Life On Earth."

1991: Dissolution of the Soviet Union as a centralist state.


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[bhikkhu]

1. good to remember...

the wobblies (my grandfather talked about them). Organization effectively terminated in 1917 for obstructing World War 1. How many organizations can claim such a distinction?