September 24
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school
1794: President Washington orders militia to put down Whiskey Rebellion.
1824: General Council of the Cherokee Nation passes a law making it unlawful for white men living on the Nation to have more than one wife, or to make use of her property without her consent.
1869: Black Friday, another fiscal crisis, precipitated by scumbag Jay Gould and "Jubilee Jim" Fisk. Thousands of businessmen ruined in a Wall Street panic after the two financiers attempt to corner the gold market.
1893: A civil guard is slain during a Barcelona, Spain rebellion; anarchist Pauli Pallas is executed for the crime, leading to further violence and 20 deaths in a bombing six weeks later.
1894: Birth of E. Franklin Frazier lives, Baltimore, Maryland. Noted social scientist and author of "The Negro Family in the US" and "Black Bourgeoisie." First African-American president of the American Sociological Society.
1900: Anarchist Congress begins, Holland.
1905: Four thousand of Louis A. Gantz's 7,000 sheep were shot and/or clubbed to death by cattlemen. Knowing full well that the cattle interests controlled the courts, the Basin, Wyoming herdsman did not even attempt to prosecute.
1918: Labor union, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), declared illegal in Canada.
1924: Mohandas Gandhi begins 21-day fast for Hindu-Moslem unity, India.
1929: Author Zamiatin "resigns" under threat of expulsion from the Soviet All Russian Writers Union. Wrote "A Soviet Heretic," and sci-fi allegory "We"--a precursor to "1984."
1945: Saigon captured--workers, peasants, and the poor have set up insurrectionary communes in parts of the city.
1953: Twenty-three Korean-American prisoners of war, who have refused to be repatriated to the United States during a United Nations prisoner exchange, are turned over to India by the North Korean command. The U.S. soldiers issue this statement: "We love our country and our people...Unfortunately, under present conditions in America, the voices of those who speak out for peace and freedom are rapidly being silenced. We do not intend to give the American government a chance of silencing our voices too."
1960: U.S. Navy launches the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Enterprise.
1968: Anti-war protestors destroy 10,000 draft files in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1968: Mexican soldiers battle students at the National University in Mexico City, killing 17 and arresting at least 1,000.
1969: Beginning of the trial of the Chicago Eight, a broad conspiracy trial stemming from the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests that sought (unsuccessfully) to imprison eight of the country's leading anti-war protest organizers: David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Thomas Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale.
1981: CIA Director William Casey urges "total exclusion from Freedom of Information Act for intelligence agencies."
1985: Wojciech Jankowski resists military conscription; later jailed for three years. Gdansk, Poland.
1988: James Brown is arrested in Augusta, Georgia after leading police on a hour-long, two-state car chase. Claimed he fled because he feared for his life.
1991: American children's anarchist writer, Dr. Seuss, dies.
1995: As part of International Buy Nothing Day, activists dressed as rats urge shoppers at a Dutch shopping mall to "leave the rat race."
1996: U.D. government signs Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
1997: UNESCO conference discusses relationship between masculinity and violence. Oslo, Norway.
