OCTOBER 6 — TENNESSEE CLAFLIN
Victoria Woodhullʼs sister and partner; published
first U.S. edition of Communist Manifesto.
OCTOBER 6, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF SPIRITUAL ANARCHY.
ALSO ON OCTOBER 6 IN HISTORY…
1536 — William Tyndale burned at the stake for heresy.
1843 — William Morton demonstrates the effects of ether, Boston, Massachusetts.
1845 — First co-op store in US opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
1981 — President Anwar Sadat assassinated by Muslim activists, Egypt.
1984 — French filmmaker François Truffaut dies.
1992 — Croatian council communist writer, theorist Ante Ciliga dies, Zagreb.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective