This Day in Radical History- Sept.14th-Henry Bliss dies

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September 14
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

1812: Napoleon occupies Moscow.

1830: Supt. Dart arrives at Point Orford, Oregon, to persuade 500 Coquille and Tututni Indians to cede their valuable land.

1874: The White Leagues, paramilitary organizations dedicated to the restoration of lily-white rule in Louisiana, temporarily seize control of the state government in a bloody coup d'etat. Twenty-seven killed, 105 wounded.

1883: Reproductive rights advocate Margaret Sanger born.

1891: John Adams Hyman dies in Washington, D.C. The first African-American congressman from North Carolina.

1899: While in New York, Henry Bliss becomes first automobile fatality.

1901: Pres. William McKinley dies of gangrene which set in as a result of the gunshot wounds he suffered September 6. His injuries originally were not considered serious.

1918: Eugene Debs imprisoned for opposing U.S. entry into World War I, violating the Espionage Act. Sentenced to 10 years.

1923: Murder of Ito Noe, Japanese anarchist and feminist.

1930: Over 100 Mexican and Filipino farm workers arrested for union activities, Imperial Valley, California.

1940: First peacetime draft in the U.S. was initiated.

1956: First prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC. Really.

1959: Landrum-Griffin Act passed, further limiting trade union activities in U.S.

1963: Due to pressure from folksingers boycotting television's "Hootenanny" program, ABC invites Pete Seeger to appear on the show--only if he'll sign an oath of loyalty to the U.S. He refuses, and ABC extends its blacklist/ban on him.

1968: Four hundred Viet Cong killed in 24-hour battle.

1968: Forty oversea officials of the United States Information Agency are required to attend a concert in D.C. by Blood, Sweat, and Tears. It's part of the USIA's program to acquaint its overseas staff with cultural developments in the homeland.

1972: U.S. Senate approves U.S.-Soviet "freeze" of offensive nuclear arsenals.

1982: Wisconsin becomes first U.S. state to support nuclear freeze referendum. 1983: U.S. House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning the Soviet Union for shooting down a Korean jetliner. Later studies indicate Russian charges the U.S. was using the passenger liner as a spy plane are probably true.

1985: U.S. TOW antitank missiles sent to Iran by Israel in Iran-Contra Deal.

1988: Hundreds in San Francisco protest appearance by Vice Pres. and presidential candidate (and very bad father) George Bush; in the ensuing police riot, cops rupture the spleen of and nearly kill legendary 58-year-old Chiaana labor organizer Dolores Huerta

1990: Pentagon announces $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

1991: South African government, African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party sign the National Peace Accord, leading to multi-racial elections and the end of South Africa's apartheid system in 1994.

1991: U.S. and Soviet Union sign an agreement calling for an end to all outside military assistance to warring factions in Afghanistan. The fiercely conservative Muslim opposition to 1979's Soviet invasion had, with CIA training and support, eventually forced a Soviet withdrawal in 1989. Among the CIA's students: the faction later known to the world as the Taliban, and Osama bin Laden.

2001: About 2,000 gather in New York's Union Square, near the site of a horrific terrorist attack three days earlier, to call for peace, the first such large public rally in the U.S. Within days, scores of other cities follow suit.

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