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Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – WILLIAM PHILLIPS


SEPTEMBER 13 — WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Anti-Stalinist writer, editor, co-founder Partisan Review.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
GRANDPARENTS’ DAY. Andalusia, Spain: VINTAGE FEAST. Parades, bull-
fights, horse races, drinking and dancing until dawn.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 13 IN HISTORY…
1872 — Christian socialist philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach dies, Rechenberg.
1922 — World’s hottest temperature recorded (136.4°F), Al-Aziziyah, Libya.
1971 — New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller orders attack on Attica Prison,
resulting in 28 prisoners killed, along with 9 hostages.
2002 — Partisan Review co-founder William Phillips dies, New York City.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – STEPHEN J. GOULD


SEPTEMBER 10 — STEPHEN JAY GOULD
American Marxist paleontologist, writer,
theorist of “punctuated equilibrium” evolution.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Old Japan: FESTIVAL OF THE POETS.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 10 IN HISTORY…
1676 — British Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley dies, London, England.
1797 — Anarchist, feminist Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin dies, London, England.
1895 — Melville Herskovits, pioneer of African-American studies, born.
1897 — French critic, philosopher Georges Bataille born, Billom, Puy-de-Dôme.
1901 — Emma Goldman arrested in alleged link to McKinley assassin.
1928 —Extraordinary folksinger Yma Sumac born, Ichocan, Peru.
1941 — American Marxist paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould born, New York City.