1901 - Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the Filipino rebels is captured. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War the US had returned Aguinaldo to the Philippines to direct the native uprisings against the Spanish. In 1899 when the Filipinos learned the US did not intend to give them their independence, Aguinaldo led an armed revolt against US rule. An American force of 70,000 was sent to suppress this "insurrection". 1905 - England: John Collins, co-founder of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, lives.
1910 - Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) lives, Tokyo. Japanese film director, considered with Kenji Mizoguchi & Yasujiro Ozu among the greatest of Japanese modern film makers. 1918 - "Dada Manifesto" issued by Tristan Tzara in Switzerland. " I destroy the drawers of the brain & those of the social organization. " 1918 - US: Trial of 101 Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World; IWW) begins in Chicago, for opposition to World War I; tried for violating the Espionage Act.. I doubt if ever in history there has been a sight just like them. One hundred & one lumberjacks, harvest hands, miners, editors . . . who believe the wealth of the world belongs to him who creates it . . . the outdoor men, hard- rock blasters, tree-fellers, wheat-binders, longshoremen, the boys who do the strongwork of the world. . . ." ---John Reed http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/exhibits/iww.html See: A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn or George, Harrison, The I.W.W. Trial: Story of the Greatest Trial in Labor's History by One of the Defendants, Chicago: IWW, [1919]. 208 pages 1921 - Netherlands: War Resisters International founded, Bilthoven. 1933 - Germany: Dachau opens for business -- the first of many concentration camps in Germany for the destruction of Jews & the undesirables classified 'unfit'. 1942 - Ama Ata Aidoo (1942-) lives. Ghanaian writer, who has depicted in her works the role of African woman in modern society. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/calendar.htm 1942 -- Let us remember-- On this day in 1942 the US Government began removing Americans from their homes without benefit of trial, indictment or any other legal anachronisms, & forced them into detention centers hundreds of miles away, in the middle of the desert. 1957 - US Army sells off the last of its homing pigeons. 1970 - US: Male Call?: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Dick'M Nixon declares national emergency, orders 30,000 troops to New York City to break Postal Wildcat Strike. 1983 - In his "Star Wars" speech Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Acting President Reagan proposes a space-based system to blast incoming missiles out of the sky -- just like the 1940 film "Murder in the Air", whose hero, Secret Service Agent Brass Bancroft (played by Ronnie Reagan!), gets involved with the "Inertia Projector," a death ray that can zap planes. http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~thomabe/sw-archive.html ...the love of novelty is a pleasant sort of cross....impulsive & vibrant to crucify boredom. ---dADA Manifesto, 1918 jya; dada or gaga?
