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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells
SEPTEMBER 21 — H. G. WELLS
Pioneer science fiction writer, radical socialist, visionary.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Bashi, Congo: FESTIVAL OF NYAMUZINDA, God of Famine and Epidemics.
Belize: INDEPENDENCE DAY.
Siberia: FEAST OF KUODOR-GUP, God of Riches.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 21 IN HISTORY
1327 — British king Edward II murdered in prison with hot poker, Berkeley Castle.
1792 — Following years of revolution, French abolish the monarchy.
1827 — Angel Moroni visits Mormon-to-be Joseph Smith, drops off gold tablets.
1866 — H. G. Wells, author and futurist, born, Bromley, Kent, England.
1934 — Canadian poet, songwriter Leonard Cohen born, Montreal, Quebec.
1937 — J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit published.
1938 — Hurricane strikes Long Island, New York, kills an estimated 700 people.
1939 — Pro-Nazi Iron Guard assassinates Romanian Prime Minister Calinescu.
1976 — Former Salvador Allende-era Chilean socialist U.S. ambassador
Orlando Letelier fatally car-bombed in Washington D.C.
1993 — Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament & constitution.
2004 — Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People’s War and Maoist
Communist Centre of India merge, forming Communist Party of India (Maoist).

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — MALCOLM X

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May 19 — MALCOLM X
Petty criminal, prisoner, convert to Islam, one-time spokesman for Elijah Muhammad. Embracing a more enlightened orthodox Islam, he was assassinated by either the FBI or Black Muslims. Revolutionary genius and martyr.

MAY 19, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Britanny: Pardon of the Poor. Pilgrimage of poor to shrine of St. Yves.

ALSO ON MAY 19 IN HISTORY…
1864 — American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne dies.
1890 — Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh born, Kim Lien, Vietnam.
1895 — Cuban revolutionary José Marti dies, Dos Rios, Cuba.
1928 — First annual Frog-Jumping Contest, Calaveras County, California
1925 — Malcolm X born, as Malcolm Little, Omaha, Nebraska.
1935 — T. E. Lawrence (“of Arabia”) killed in motorcycle accident.
1954 — Modernist composer Charles Ives dies, West Riding, Connecticut.

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

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – Vera Zasulich


May 8 — VERA ZASULICH
Russian anarchist. Direct-action assassin.

MAY 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*England: Furry Day, A day of mischief, revels, entering houses by windows, Morris dances & the Furry Dance. Bands of rogues prevent anyone from going to work or to school.

ALSO ON MAY 8 IN HISTORY…
1880 — French writer Gustave Flaubert dies.
1891 — Theosophical kingpin Madame Helena Blavatsky dies.
1903 — Drop-out painter Paul Gauguin dies.
1904 — Photographer Eadweard Muybridge dies, Kingston upon Thames, England.
1919 — Vera Zasulich, anarchist assassin, dies, Petrograd, USSR.
1937 — Reclusive American novelist Thomas Pynchon born, Glen Cove, New York.
1988 — Science fiction great Robert Heinlein dies.

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