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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – JULIO CORTÁZAR


AUGUST 26 — JULIO CORTÁZAR
Cronopio? Fama? Fine leftist novelist, Hopscotchplayer.

AUGUST 26, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY.

ALSO ON AUGUST 26 IN HISTORY…
1786 — Shay’s Rebellion, armed insurrection, begins, Western Massachusetts.
1880 — Guillaume Apollinaire born, Rome, Italy.
1904 — British writer Christopher Isherwood born, High Lane, Cheshire.
1910 — American philosopher William James dies, Chocoura, New Hampshire.
1914 — Argentine novelist Julio Cortazar born, Brussels, Belgium.
1920 — 19th Amendment guarantees U.S. women’s right to vote.
1937 — “Gimme a pigfoot” chanteuse Bessie Smith dies, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
1968 — Pigasus, a true porker, wins Yippie! nomination for U.S. President.
1970 — “Alice Doesn’t” Day. (Unfortunately, Alice still does, more than ever.)

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – Pierre Ramus!

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April 15 — Pierre Ramus
Austrian writer, pacificst, anarchist propagandist.

APRIL 15, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Jewish Passover begins.
*Tax Resister’s Day
*African Freedom Day

ALSO ON APRIL 15 IN HISTORY…
1452 — Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci born.
1882 — Anarchist Rudolph Grossman (aka Pierre Ramus) born, Vienne, Austria.
1889 — Painter and radical Thomas Hart Benton born, Neosha, Missouri.
1898 — Blues vocalist great Bessie Smith born, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1921 — Albert Enstein gives a lecture on temporal relativity.
1938 — Peruvian poet Cesar Vellejo dies, Paris, France.
1908 — Marxist existentialist Jean Paul Satre dies, Paris, France.
1986 — Gay French novelist, criminal, Saint Jean Genet dies, Paris, France.
2001 — Joey ramone, iconic punk outcast, dies of cancer, New York City.

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