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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — George Carlin

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June 22– George Carlin
Premier American comic, edgy social critic.
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*Armenia: The Flaming of the Rose, the Christianized festival of Anahit, the ancient Goddess of chastity; sheep with gaily painted horns are led to church service, with food and flowers piled at the altar.

ALSO ON JUNE 22 IN HISTORY…
1633 — Catholic Church forces Galileo to recant theory Earth orbits Sun.
1909 — Black American dance innovator Katherine Dunham born, Joliet, illinois.
1935 — French surrealist René Crevel dies, Paris.
1938 — Joe Louis knocks out “Aryan supremacy” claimant Max Schmeling.
1939 — American individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker dies, Monaco.
2008 — American comic, social critic, George Carlin dies, Santa Monica, California.

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 – BENJAMIN TUCKER


April 17 — BENJAMIN TUCKER
Publisher, theorist of American individualist anarchism

APRIL 17, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Feast of Random Walks

ALSO ON APRIL 17 IN HISTORY…
1790 — American inventor, revolutionist, Benjamin Franklin dies, Philadelphia.
1802 — British scientist Erasmus Darwin dies, England.
1854 — Publisher Benjamin Tucker born, South Dartmouth, England.
1863 — Gay Greek poet Constantine Cavafy born, Alexandria, Egypt.
1894 — Opening of Lowell astronomical observatory in Arizona, first in U.S.
1961 — Surreptitiously C.I.A. backed Bay of Pigs invasion fails, Cuba.

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