OCTOBER 11 — HULDRYCH ZWINGLI
Swiss protestant radical leader, humanist leveller.

OCTOBER 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
DESSERT DAY. IT’S MY PARTY DAY. FEAST OF REAL FAMILY VALUES.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 11 IN HISTORY…
1424 — Religious reformer Jan Zizka dies.
1531 — Swiss religious rebel Huldrych Zwingli killed in Battle of Kappel.
1868 — Electric vote recorder patented, Edison’s first invention.
1874 — Masseseditor Mary Heaton Vorse born, New York City.
1924 — Founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research.
1961 — Film comedian Chico Marx dies.
1963 — Jean Cocteau dies, Milley-la-Fôret, Paris, France.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective