Oct. 19 Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Lu Xun

Lu XUN
OCTOBER 19 — LU XUN
Famed Chinese writer of rebellion and revolution.

OCTOBER 19 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FEAST OF THE WICKED SCAM.
LAILAT UL QADR.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 19 IN HISTORY…
1433 — Metaphysical giant Marsilio Ficino born, Figline, Florentice Republic.
1745 — Irish satirist and scatological critic Jonathan Swift dies, Dublin, Ireland.
1781 — Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown; world turned upside down.
1862 — Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer, born.
1895 — Architect and culture critic Lewis Mumford born, Flushing, New York.
1899 — Guatemalan novelist Miguel Angel Asturias born, Guatemala City.
1936 — Chinese revolutionist, writer Lu Xun dies, Shanghai.
1983 — Grenadan leader Maurice Bishop killed in internal political coup, Grenada.
1987 — “Black Monday” stock market crash, world-wide.

Excerpted from The 2010 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — JUN TSUJI

jun tsuji
OCTOBER 4 — JUN TSUJI
Japanese anarchist, translator, musician, bohemian.

OCTOBER 4, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
London: CARRYING IN THE PUDDING, a ceremony dating to 1775, opens
pudding season with an eighty-pound meat pie, and songs such as “Ye
Pancakes and Toasted Cheese.”

ALSO ON OCTOBER 4 IN HISTORY…
1884 — First issue of Chicago anarchist paper, The Alarm.
1884 — Anarchist, bohemian Jun Tsuji born, Mukaiyanahara-machi, Asakusa-ku.
1928 — American civil rights pioneer James Forman born, Chicago, Illinois.
1967 — Radical American songwriter Woody Guthrie dies, New York City.
1970 — Rock singer Janis Joplin dies, drug overdose, Los Angeles, California.