A few technical problems. This was intended for weeks ago. Recent calendar
postings:
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/05/7-directions-of-service-rights-of-dan.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/05/icmlpo-in-europe-on-nato-and-upcoming.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/unac-solidarity-with-student-protesters.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/03/responses-to-self-immolation-for.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/appeal-for-28th-international-camp-of.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/02/some-events-and-anniversaries-around.html
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/01/some-events-and-anniversaries-around.html
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/biden-wont-turn-his-back-on-israel
THAAD: www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/01/the-fight-over-thaad-in-korea/
ncnewsline.com/2024/05/15/nc-senate-approves-bill-making-it-a-crime-to-wear-a-mask-in-public/
ncnewsline.com/2024/05/15/durham-leaders-hope-2024-will-be-different-for-local-workforce-housing-legislation/ At the Lowes Grove Elementary School site
engagedurham.com DRE rezoning map
www.carync.gov/connect-engage/transparency/public-hearings/public-hearing-notices
Vote for Biden and don't even think of objecting to the wars, because of Trump; beyond TINA: www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/03/the-politics-of-student-protests-and-their-unintended-consequences/
5/7: NPR and Biden prepare to tar opposition to the war in the Middle East with "anti-semitism?" And then Biden and Co. will lose and blame the people he insults and ignores, the 'ignorant' youth, RFK Jr, the GPUS, Russia, China, etc. What "trademark [Biden] empathy," Tamara Keith?
www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/03/roaming-charges-tin-cops-and-biden-coming/
www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/03/the-iron-heel-of-the-state-at-ucla/
The May 13, 1999 NATO bombing of Korisa in Kosova; the May 15, 1974 storming of the Netiv Meir Elementary School, held by DFLP guerrillas, killing the three militants and 31 civilians or hostages, including 25 children; Israel bombed Lebanese refugee camps May 16th; May 12, 1949 the British Parliament approved the treaty to join NATO and May 18th two Labour Party members who had voted against were purged by Labour: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/13/dcdl-m13.html
NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy 5/7/1999 (with victim photos), Germany's Brandt, J Edgar Hoover, etc: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/06/qgzv-m06.html
diario-octubre.com/2024/05/06/una-perspectiva-alemana-sobre-la-libertad-de-prensa/
www.counterpunch.org/2024/05/03/letters-of-protest-colleges-suppress-dissent-while-closing-their-eyes-to-genocide/
The French Foreign Legion is now openly in Ukraine, May 4th?
A Latvian law passed June 16, 2022 banned Soviet-era monuments and in late April 2024 May 9th Victory Day was banned; to "divide society...question solidarity with the Ukrainian people," etc. is banned; someone in Rezekne, around 250 km southeast of Riga, faces years in prison for placing flowers at the former site of the Aliosha monument? – diario-octubre.com/2024/05/04/europa-neo-fascista-abren-un-caso-penal-por-depositar-flores-en-un-monumento-sovietico-demolido-en-un-pais-baltico/
I saw 6-7 StarLink-type satellites pass over in a spaced out line, going into rising Pegasus, after 5am May 3rd.
Police officers were ambushed and killed in Charlotte in late April.
www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2024/05/03/a-federally-subsidized-crackdown-on-antiwar-protests/
www.aaronmate.net/p/how-10-years-of-us-meddling-in-ukraine
Bogdan Syrotiuk, 25, of Pervomaisk, in southern Ukraine, a member of the Trotskyist YGBL, was arrested April 25th: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/03/zdlh-m03.html (petition)
Birding in Gaza: portside.org/2024-05-06/celebrating-links-across-species-amid-nightmare-war
On the 13-year cicadas: roadsendnaturalist.com/2024/05/05/that-sound/
reasonstobecheerful.world/mexico-chinampas-floating-gardens-sustainable-farming/
Upcoming festivals in the area, etc.: triangleonthecheap.com
DRAD on the campus protests: rightsdissent.substack.com/p/as-a-free-speech-organization-we
The ACLU on the campus protests and free speech: www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/open-letter-to-college-and-university-presidents-on-student-protests
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/what-happened-to-vote-biden-to-save
caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/05/01/remember-all-this-fascism-would-feel-way-more-fascismy-under-trump/
www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/16/statement-by-university-of-southern-california-student-asna-tabassum-class-of-2024-valedictorian/
Find an encampment: www.palestineiseverywhere.com
Pressure REI's board before May 9th: p2a.co/hNHkkB8
NC Labor History Revealed: sites.google.com/aflcionc.org/nclaborhistory/
May 1st: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/MS5430.HTM#1
slawter.substack.com/p/joseph-bidens-war
www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/11/us_helps_pro-ukraine_media_run_a_fog_machine_of_war_1023961.html
www.theamericanconservative.com/what-61-billion-for-ukraine-wont-do/
? – braveneweurope.com/geoffrey-roberts-putins-trump-card-ukrainian-membership-of-nato
? – www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_wMvLpOnPQ
? – www.washingtontimes.com/sponsored/revival-spirit-elbe-roadmap-peace/
Of course NPR covered a new Indonesian independence history text, after it was covered in The Atlantic: portside.org/2024-04-28/particular-cruelty-colonial-wars
Establishment Democrat idpol ourbodypolitic.com/were-going-on-hiatus/ (not just NPR retooling?) so over to a rightist former weekday Morning Edition male NPR host, a male Hillary Clinton connected right Democrat 'representing' the "left," and a Republican (?) rightist woman; TINA on NPR, politically and economically: www.npr.org/podcasts/381444881/k-c-r-w-s-left-right-center
The ultimately violent uprising in Hong Kong a few year ago and "EuroMaidan" = good and the so far much more peaceful US campus occupations = extreme, violent, and anti-semitic (despite the Jewish participation). Coups, civil war, and draft dodging in Myanmar versus in Ukraine.
Are Russian, Belarusian, Chinese, Iranian, Arab, Muslim, Sikh, Indian, and Afghan students being subjected to Trump-Biden-instigated hate speech and incitement?
Trump is even more pro-Israel than Biden, but Trump would discredit Israel further, so a second Trump term would be a Pyrrhic victory for the Israeli government?
husseini.substack.com/p/follow-up-on-universities-and-first
University occupations: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/MS5428.HTM#1
chrishedges.substack.com/p/revolt-in-the-universities-read-by
NPR's On the Media went after NPR dissenter Uri Berliner April 27th.
A Voice of Revolution (USMLO) article was reprinted in a CPCML email bulletin recently. ROL, USA activity as well.
From Seven Directions of Service:
Several articles about student protests; Biden's campus crackdown: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/27/ktft-a27.html COLUMBIA Act?
www.rbth.com/history/337385-lenin-life-photos
www.rbth.com/history/337401-soviet-regime-women-rights
michaelharrison.org.uk/2024/05/lubyanka-building-moscow/
Catawba Rhododendrons were blooming purple along Morgan Creek behind the NCBG about three weeks ago (not around June?). American columbo began blooming around May 2nd, was nearing full bloom May 7th, and will bloom for about a week, blooming only once in a decades long life: ncbg.unc.edu/2024/04/17/american-columbo-to-bloom/ Some trillium leaves were still up in late April and yellow stargrass (in the Amaryllis family, or is it in its own family now?), blue-eyed grass (in the iris family), hot pink and yellow Oxalises, faded bluets, green-and-gold, star chickweed, hawkweed, maple-leaved viburnum, pawpaws, tuliptrees, American fringetrees, black locusts, the last of the dogwoods, gill-over-the-ground/ground ivy (?), blackberries, buttercups, a pale yellow species of cinquefoil, lyre-leaved sage, maybe a spiderwort, etc. were blooming there. A yellow 'indigo'-type plant was about to bloom? Chinese fringetrees (?) and the last few downy arrowwoods (a Viburnum) were blooming at Durham's Southwest Library.
HRA Target Circle Partnership vote by June 30th.
? – www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246623204/housing-experts-say-there-just-arent-enough-homes-in-the-u-s
www.npr.org/2024/04/08/1242346659/genetically-modified-bioluminescent-petunias-make-their-own-light
Crackdowns on Stop Cop City, etc: portside.org/2024-04-19/war-protest
A militia base in Iraq was bombed by an unknown party around April 19th according to the BBC.
Upcoming
events: www.codepink.org/palestine
Occupying
UNC for Gaza Friday, April 19th?
fair.org/home/the-mccarthyist-attack-on-gaza-protests-threatens-free-thought-for-all/
informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/04/19/in-service-of-western-supremacy-why-germany-provides-unwavering-support-to-israel/13/
On
US-Russian
cooperation in Arctic research: archive.is/Dt6lS
In
the Chatham
Park area: actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-disney-to-commit-to-greater-environmental-protections-for-the-asteria-storyliving-development
hawriver.org/river-issues/
raleighparks.wishpond.com/tree-of-the-year-photo-contest-6/
Red
auroras in Missouri, etc. 4/19: spaceweather.com From 5/10, down to Puerto Rico: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms
On the recent auroras and CMEs, visible as far south as Puerto Rico in the Northern Hemisphere over the past few nights: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/13/edkj-m13.html
An IATSE unionist running
for NC
Commissioner
of Labor in 2024: www.votebraxton.com/
April 19, 2024, a man, 37, from St. Augustine, Florida set
himself on fire in a park near the New York
City (Manhattan) courthouse
where Donald Trump is on trial for the falsifying business records-Stormy Daniels payments trial. The police and NPR said
something like the "victim" threw "pamphlets,"
relating to "propaganda-based almost conspiracy theories"
in the air before burning himself. The "conspiracy theories" might not relate to
Trump. The man was still alive immediately afterward and a few police officers were
injured by the fire. See the second link at the top.
NYT:
Don't say
Palestine: www.globalresearch.ca/new-york-times-gaza-memo/5855110
informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/04/19/attack-on-iran-can-one-demand-restraint-while-funding-israel/16/
April
18th after 10pm: BBC report from the US that Israel
bombed in Isfahan (?), in central
Iran and there was a large IS attack in Syria.
Uri
Berliner ( www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust , twitter.com/uberliner ?)
resigned from NPR April 17th; some responses, possibly
missing some of the points – David
Folkenflik,
who apparently once worked at the
Durham Herald-Sun: www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243755769/npr-journalist-uri-berliner-trust-diversity ; www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2024/04/12/1244456600/from-npr-president-and-ceo-katherine-maher-thoughts-on-our-mission-and-our-work ; Steve
Inskeep: steveinskeep.substack.com/p/how-my-npr-colleague-failed-at-viewpoint ; Code Switch: view.nl.npr.org/?qs=c1cd831479cb2340eea283a80a13dc500
7451e4dc72b294ecdb74cd4999eed4f7c49b
97c9dd0faa432780dfeeab6ad2f1210248e710668a3e1470f534d6e45d0ac773a787b3bc5163a9671b24797667f2e2b78c15391417a ;
and Shereen Marisol Meraji and Eric
Deggans: twitter.com/Deggans/status/1778205690311643341
A gun
battle April 17th (?) in the
parking deck of Durham's American
Tobacco Campus, where I think NPR has
an office, moved from UNC's Friday
Center, where their antenna is located.
April
18th Robert Wood, representing the
US, vetoed Palestinian statehood April
18th at UNSC – no
"statehood" without
Israel's agreement, though Palestine is
mostly under Israeli control.
Ilya
Kharkow,
a writer from eastern Ukraine, later
a refugee in Lviv,
western Ukraine January
4th: www.theleftberlin.com/my-friend-oppenheimer/
Look magazine
August 3, 1948: "Could
the Reds Seize
Detroit?" The
tradition of US elite russophobia;
the mainstream media sometimes says something like
the governments of
Iran, DPR Korea, Cuba, etc. require external
enemies to attack and blame,
but they don't discuss Hillary Clinton,
Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, the military-industrial complex,
NATO, Estonia, Poland,
the UK, etc.
beyond taking what they say about external threats as more or less the
Truth. – consortiumnews.com/2024/04/16/patrick-lawrence-could-the-russians-seize-congress/
The
UK and US considered starting WWIII
right after WWII, for example there was a plan dated September
15,
1945: michelchossudovsky.substack.com/p/doomsday-blueprint-wipe-off-soviet-union
Vulcan,
West Virginia appealed to
the Soviets and
the GDR for
help when they were told that there wasn't funding to replace
a collapsed bridge (but
there is always money for
warmongering): www.rbth.com/history/337381-how-ussr-almost-built-bridge-usa
The Ewoks and
the Siberian Kalmyk indigenous people: www.rbth.com/lifestyle/337338-starwars-ewoks-speak-kalmyk
triangleland.org/company-news/the-2024-statewide-star-party-a-night-of-miraculous-and-extraordinary-magic
A
fishing
gear tangled juvenile
humpback whale washed
up dead on Pea Island, NC
April 16th, and four others not long
before, in March? Also in Virginia and New Jersey. Five in NC in 2024?
The
always imperialist John Otis on NPR – something
like 'the election will be little more than a farce,' referring not
to the orchestrated re-match of Trump and Biden (third
parties, primaries, caucuses, and debates should be banned) but to
the July 28th (?) election in
Venezuela. Machado would win, they claim, and President Maduro
would then probably be imprisoned in the US for alleged drug
trafficking and corruption. Biden, Netanyahu, Putin, etc. don't have to
worry about being prosecuted for any of the allegations against them,
and the media says
that there are no allegations against Biden,
though he is so working closely with
Netanyahu and Ukraine, and there are domestic allegations, etc.
Probably
an attack on anyone who rejects the ruling
duopoly: www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/third-party-package-2024-election/
www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations
Iranian
legislative statement April
15th: www.workers.org/2024/04/78094/
consortiumnews.com/2024/04/15/german-police-shut-down-palestine-conference/
In Germany – www.workers.org/2024/04/78084/
consortiumnews.com/2024/04/15/scott-ritter-the-missiles-of-april/
consortiumnews.com/2024/04/17/opening-the-devils-door-in-asia-pacific/
consortiumnews.com/2024/04/14/iran-refuses-to-bow-can-it-afford-to-stand/
informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/04/17/the-gaza-genocide-as-explicit-policy-michael-hudson-names-all-names/
consortiumnews.com/2024/04/17/chris-hedges-requiem-for-the-nyt/
On Assange: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/17/kyeo-a17.html
? – www.nknews.org/2024/04/kim-jong-un-debuts-new-song-praising-himself-at-grand-opening-of-housing-project/
? – Anne
Applebaum wants
NATO air forces to join the war in Ukraine, as in the Middle
Eastern
war? Slow 'boiling'
public
opinion? – www.rsn.org/001/why-did-us-planes-defend-israel-but-not-ukraine.html A US military official said that NATO will eventually enter Ukraine.
April
17th PM: A professor somewhere was fired for
"expressing support" for Hamas. In what way?
I expressed support for Hamas and Hezbollah. An NPR headline
about something like 'anti-vaccine activist" RFK
Jr and Cornel West creating "minor parties," because ballot
access is easier to obtain that way, under NC and
other state laws, made
it sound illegitimate. The dominant parties are only major
because people keep voting for them and giving them money. NC might
join other states in further cracking down on pro-Palestinian
free speech. Biden doesn't talk much about attacks
on free speech and association.
April
16th PM: David
Ignatius and Mary
Louise Kelly on
the lamentable rise of the unstable "new
cold wars," after everyone thought that the former USSR and
China would stay subservient. The US could ignore their concerns and do whatever in
Europe, etc. The Russians wanted
to trade and wanted to join the EU and
NATO.
2024
#AXADivest social media storm April 16th
5-6pm France/Ramallah? Their annual meeting was April 23rd
in Paris: bdsmovement.net/news/axa-divests-from-all-israeli-banks-except-one-escalate-boycottaxa
CRISPR
genetic engineering is easy and great, or so the
mainstream media says – unless
a US government targeted country uses
it: www.nknews.org/2024/04/north-korea-can-use-gene-editing-tech-to-craft-military-bioweapons-us-warns/ In
the past Cuba has
been accused of things, maybe just because it invested in advanced
medical technology. Why wouldn't DPR
Korea have CRISPR? I thought 'everyone' was hacking
away at genomes now. Maybe even al Qaida types out on the
periphery. In
East Asia it was Japan and the USA that were accused of carrying out
biological warfare in the 20th century.
John
Kirby (born
June 3, 1963 in Saint Petersburg,
Florida: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_(admiral) ) on The
World April
16th said something very much like: "Joe
Biden has been a Zionist his whole life,"
the point being that Netanyahu should listen to Biden.
Vote for an ardent non-Jewish Zionist. Many Jews
are against Zionism, and many Christians support it, such
as Biden and Trump. More: www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/biden-wont-turn-his-back-on-israel
The Grover
Furr talk
in Spanish: derebeldearevolucionario.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/conferencia-de-grover-furr-paul-robeson-jr-los-trotskistas-y-el-anti-estalinismo/
Cracking
down on pro-Palestinian speech
in Germany: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/16/germ-a16.html and www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/18/7253-a18.html ;
and in Texas: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/16/dfbo-a16.html
More: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/18/gmfy-a18.html Columbia occupation
crackdown April 18th. Ilhan
Omar's
daughter Isra Hirsi was among the
three suspended students?peoplesdispatch.org/2024/04/17/hundreds-of-students-occupy-columbia-university-in-solidarity-with-gaza/ Occupations in Italy: peoplesdispatch.org/2024/04/18/italian-students-challenge-universities-for-their-complicity-in-israels-crimes/
;
4/16 Google: peoplesdispatch.org/2024/04/16/google-employees-lead-sit-ins-protesting-companys-complicity-in-genocide/ and notechforapartheid.com/dayofaction ;
4/19 at UNC and the University of Miami in Ohio. Ethnic cleansing in Palestine and the beating down of pro-Palestinian speech in academia and in NATOland generally. The only "genocide" today is in pro-Israel, pro-German collaboration, pro-NATO collaboration western Ukraine, which might want to cleanse eastern Ukraine of its ethnic Russian Ukrainians and dissenters, and perhaps trade unionists. Maybe some in the media still want to talk about Xinjiang, but not about what the US government does, or 'our' "Indo-Pacific" ally India. Both the USA and Afganistan banned TikTok. An unusal 100 degrees in Gaza recently. Burning with war and climate change.
A
protest at the University
of California
Berkeley: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/16/berk-a16.html and portside.org/2024-04-18/accomplish-what
By a rightist law student
there: www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner
Keir Starmer in the UK on
nuclear war: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/15/pnpd-a15.html
Canadian war
planning: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/16/imnx-a16.html
An
article was planned in
UNC's Daily Tar Heel about Chapel Hill's
former Internationalist Books, a now closed left
bookstore. There is a photo in an old calendar post.
An article on the Chapel Hill/Carrboro's old left bookstore, Internationalist Books (it closed several years ago, after a few decades in operation), was in UNC's Daily Tar Heel in late April: www.dailytarheel.com/article/2024/04/lifestyle-internationalist-bookstore-legacy-in-chapel-hill-bob-sheldon
portside.org/2024-04-17/fareed-zakarias-speed-date-liberal-world-order
? – Whaling: apjjf.org/2024/3/morris-suzuki
? – Russian
"propaganda" in
Japan: apjjf.org/2024/3/schafer-kalashnikova
? –
On Cowboy
Carter: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/15/kesl-a15.html
? – www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2024/04/16/immigration-in-the-u-s-is-big-business/
? – earth911.com/recycling-guide/how-to-recycle-tires/
? – earth911.com/quiz/earth911-quiz-72-are-there-really-unrecyclable-materials/
? – Jeju
Island: www.nknews.org/2024/04/how-extremist-north-korean-refugees-inflicted-terror-during-a-massacre-in-south/
Voting
for
Biden: portside.org/2024-04-15/words-and-history-trouble-genocide-joe and www.californiadsa.org/news/2024-the-fascist-danger
Some
comments: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/en-marcha-there-is-risk-of.html
Anniversaries: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/15/dkvz-a15.html and portside.org/2024-04-15/week-peoples-history-apr-16-22
From Keep
Durham Beautiful:
Ovaherero under Samuel Maherero attacked the Germans in Okahandja, Namibia January 12, 1904 and in January 2024 Germany was at the ICJ for Israel; January 26, 2024 ruling; October 2, 1904 genocide ordered in Namibia? – the April 25th London Review of Books
Alfonso
Caso y Andrade (February
1, 1896 – November 30, 1970): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_Caso
BUFORA's hotline UFO Call began February 10, 1989 in the UK – April 2024/#443 Fortean Times magazine.
Rightist historian
and TV personality Sir
Simon Michael Schama (born
February 13, 1945 in Marylebone, London,
UK): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Schama
Lebanese leader Rafiq
al-Hariri was
assassinated February 14, 2005: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafic_Hariri
Edward
King, Viscount Kingsborough (November 16, 1795
–
February 27, 1837): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_King,_Viscount_Kingsborough
The Soviet BM-21
Grad (Hailstorm) truck-mounted
multiple rocket launcher, deployed by many countries,
was first used in March 1969, in the border dispute between the USSR
and China: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-21_Grad
José
Fernando Ramírez (May 5, 1804 – March 4, 1871)
Thierry
Meyssan's L'Effroyable
Impostre / 9/11:
The Big Lie was
published
March 8,
2002: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11:_The_Big_Lie and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Meyssan
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, a Boeing 777, vanished early on March 8, 2014. A new search in the Indian Ocean is planned – April 2024/#443 Fortean Times magazine.
The second
military coup
in modern Turkey was
March 12,
1971: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Turkish_military_memorandum
3/13/1963 – The Internationalists founded, later forming the CPC(M-L) March 31, 1970: cpcml.ca/cpcmlarticle2403131541/ and cpcml.ca/240506-reorganization-of-the-internationalists/
March
15, 1910 Harry Houdini was the first person to
fly in
Australia?
Anti-aircraft guns
preceded military aircraft?
Now anti-drone weapons are needed.
Mahir
Çayan (March 15, 1946
– March 30, 1972):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahir_Çayan
March 17, 1876: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Powder_River
March 28, 1966 Gerald Ford on the record about UFOs and disclosure – UFO Exist!, 1976.
Yuri
Valentinovich Knorozov (Ю́рий
Валенти́нович Кноро́зов; November 19, 1922
– March 31, 1999): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knorozov
Roger Bastide April 1, 1898 in Nimes, France – April 10, 1974 in Maisons-Laffitte: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bastide
David
Humiston Kelley (April
1, 1924 in Albany,
New York –
May 19, 2011): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Kelley
International
Workers Day/May
Day was first
marked in Japan April 2, 1901, as
a "Cherry
Blossom
Viewing by Laborers" (Roudousha
Kan'oukai) by the Heiminsha (Commoners' Group)? To avoid the police,
people marched through Ginza, Kyoubashi, Nihonbashi, Imagawabashi,
and Kanda in
Tokyo with large red
drums and red banners emblazoned
with "Shakaishugi (Socialism) banzai"
and "Shakaishugi
Dendoutai" (Group
to Propagate Socialism).
At 12pm they ran to Takeno-dai in Ueno
Park, Tokyo,
where the police had been led
to think that the gathering would be held.
31 men were arrested and seven were held for the rest of the day. Around
30 Tokyo and Yokohama non-radical (?) unions
were allowed to gather April
3rd. The emperor was praised and the
national anthem (?) sung. Sea
bream-shaped hats were a thing
for some reason: Kamikaze, Cherry
Blossoms,
and Nationalisms by Emiko
Ohnuki-Tierney, 2002.
John
Burroughs (April
3, 1837 – March 29, 1921): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burroughs
UFO reports in Robeson County and elsewhere in North Carolina April 3rd, 4th, and 6th in 1975? – UFO Exist!, 1976.
Quds Day was April 5th in 2024? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quds_Day
April
8, 1913 a shadow was
reportedly seen
moving upon the ground in the Dallas-Fort
Worth area (?) of
Texas, but no object causing it could be seen. In
mid-April 1897 a "great airship" with
giant butterflylike wings was reported – Weird
America: A Guide to Places
of Mystery
in the United States,
by Jim Brandon, 1978.
A large bird was reportedly seen April
9, 1948 in Caledonia,
Boone County,
in northern Illinois; April
9th in Freeport; and April 10th in Overland (only?).
Reportedly a flying man was seen
in the Chehalis area
of Washington state January
6, 1948 and then three were seen Longview,
WA April 9th – Weird
America: A Guide to Places
of Mystery in the
United States,
by Jim Brandon, 1978. And in Alton, Glendale,
and Richmond
Heights in Illinois and
in St Louis,
Missouri that April – The
Mothman Prophecies by John
A Keel, 1991 reprint. A "flying
humanoid" in the Lincoln
Park area of Chicago and
elsewhere March 22, April 7, June 3,
2017, etc.: Flying Saucer
Digest #218 Fall
2017. And at an airport?
A black
panther reportedly stopped
a car and attacked the driver at night (?) on SR
3 next to Shawnee National
Forest, near Olive
Branch, Illinois April
10, 1970. A truck scared
the panther away and the man went to Cairo for medical
attention – Weird
America: A Guide to Places
of Mystery in the
United States,
by Jim Brandon, 1978.
ROK legislative elections April
10th.
April 11, 1964 a "glistening" UFO was reportedly in Homer, New York, seen by a "former military pilot" and others for 45 minutes – UFO Exist!, 1976. Seaford, New York, in February and April 1958, reportedly "two 'burning' objects, one resembling a giant bird, fell from the sky over the [James M] Herrmann neighborhood." – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.
German forces attacked the Nama in Hornkranz, Namibia April 12, 1893: the April 25th London Review of Books
April
12, 1950,
etc: thedebrief.org/the-vanishing-star-enigma-and-the-1952-washington-d-c-ufo-wave/
Following
a sudden "windstorm" April
13, 1976 white pelicans fell
down dead at the Clifford O Jenson ranch on County Road 219, about 8
miles east
of Cranfills
Gap, Texas, south
of Meridian,
near Dallas – Weird
America: A Guide to Places
of Mystery
in the United States,
by Jim Brandon, 1978. American white pelicans can
be seen in North Carolina
and might be increasing in numbers, but don't breed here (?);
brown pelicans
are much more common and do breed.
April
14th National Dolphin Day and National
Gardening Day?
Fredric
Jameson (born
April 14, 1934 in Cleveland,
Ohio); at Duke? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Jameson
Potawatomi leader
chief Menominee (circa
1791 – April 15, 1841 at Saint
Mary's Mission, Kansas;
he was part of the Potawatomi
Trail
of Death,
forced to remove to Kansas
from Twin Lakes, Indiana): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Menominee
David
Émile Durkheim (April
15, 1858 in Epinal,
France –
November 15, 1917 in
Paris): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Durkheim
More
on April
15,
1561 in Nuremberg: publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomenon-over-nuremberg-april-14th-1561/ and publicdomainreview.org/collection/celestial-phenomena-16th-century-germany/
2/2/1765 in
PA? – publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-true-and-wonderful-narrative
Abraham Lincoln was shot
April 14,
1865, but passed away on April 15th.
Asa
Philip Randolph (April
15, 1889 in Crescent
City, Florida –
May
16, 1979 in New York
City): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Philip_Randolph
April
15, 1974 Patty Hearst's bank robbery with
the SLA: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/15/dkvz-a15.html
April
15, 1999 $45.5 million
dollar fine against the Allied
Pilots
Association union: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/15/dkvz-a15.html
The Boston
Marathon Bombing was April
15, 2013: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing Tamerlan
Tsarnaev died
early April
19th after being shot by the police
in Watertown, Boston: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamerlan_Tsarnaev
His younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was
captured that evening and is sentenced to execution after a
US government
appeal to the Supreme Court; accepted March 22, 2021, with the ruling handed down March 4,
2022: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Tsarnaev Ibragim
Todashev was
killed by an FBI agent May 22nd in his Orlando,
Florida apartment: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibragim_Todashev
The Notre-Dame
de Paris cathedral burned late (?) April 19,
2019 and restoration might be complete
by December 8th of
this year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris
The Borsen, the bourse in Copenhagen, Denmark, caught
fire the morning of April 16,
2024: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Børsen
The
current civil
war between
the Sudanese
military and
the paramilitary RSF began
April 15, 2023; unlike in Ukraine and Palestine, the US,
etc. want the
war to end immediately and for international law to
be followed (?): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Sudan_(2023–present).
Wilbur Wright born in April 16, 1867 in Dayton, Ohio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers
William
Thomas Stearn (April
16, 1911 – May 9, 2001): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._Stearn
The OECD
was founded by
the Marshall Plan countries,
as the OEEC, April 16,
1948: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD
April 16, 1969 a wheel landed on a moving car in Palm Springs, California – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.
On April 16th: National Orchid Day? 1972 launch of Apollo 16
April 16,
2009 redacted Bush administration torture defense memos
were
released: portside.org/2024-04-15/week-peoples-history-apr-16-22
?
The
ROK's MV Sewol sank April 16,
2014: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Sewol
DPR Korea on
the sinking – www.nknews.org/2024/04/how-north-korea-exploited-the-tragic-sewol-ferry-sinking-for-anti-rok-propaganda/
It's "propaganda" if the other side says
it.
There
was a bread
riot in Savannah,
Georgia April 17,
1864. I think the anniversary of a riot in Richmond,
Virginia was weeks ago. They also list Atlanta, Augusta,
Columbus, Macon, and Milledgeville, Blackshear, Cartersville,
Colquit, Forsyth, Hartwell, Marietta, Stockton, Thomasville,
and Valdosta in Georgia; Petersburg, Virginia; Mobile,
Alabama; and Salisbury and High Point in North
Carolina: portside.org/2024-04-15/week-peoples-history-apr-16-22 and www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/civil-war-dissent/
I think a recent book argues that
the Confederacy lost
the Civil War due to starvation. There were
also riots in the North, and a town in New York state (?) seceded
for whatever reason, and I think was left alone anyway.
French forces
were completely evacuated from Syria by April 17,
1946, marked as Evacuation Day.
National
Banana Day and National Crawfish Day are April 17th?
Palestinian
Prisoners Day demonstration
in New York City's Union Square April 17th at
6:30pm: www.instagram.com/p/C5oN2dkOxi0/
In
the mainstream media, only Palestinian groups, China, Iran,
Russia, Venezuela, etc. take hostages and political prisoners,
unlike Canada, India, Israel, Pakistan, the UK, the USA, etc. cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/MS5428.HTM#1
Paul Revere 4/18/1775 – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere%27s_Midnight_Ride
Clara
Elsene Peck (April
18, 1883 – February 1968): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Elsene_Peck
April
18, 1924 breaking a quarantine created to keep hoof and
mouth disease from entering Arizona from
California: www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/15/dkvz-a15.html
In the 1930's
there were attempts
to keep "Okies" from migrating to California.
April
18, 1959 an 11-week UAW strike
ended: portside.org/2024-04-15/week-peoples-history-apr-16-22
Reportedly a fireball and electrical problems (?) April 18, 1962 in Eureka, Ohio: UFO Exist, 1976
April
18, 1989 five
innocent teenagers
were arrested over
the rape and beating of a woman jogging in New York City's Central
Park: portside.org/2024-04-15/week-peoples-history-apr-16-22
National
Animal Cracker Day, National Lineman
Appreciation Day,
and National
Exercise Day are April
18th; National
Garlic Day April
19th?
Linda
Schele (October
30, 1942 in Hendersonville,
part of Nashville,
TN – April 18, 1998): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Schele
RFK
Jr. entered the presidential
election April 18, 2023?
Workday – keepdurhambeautiful.org/events/prairie-island-april-18 :
Prairie
Island
is a Piedmont prairie landscape just south of Blackwell Street and
Morehead Avenue, established and maintained by Extra Terrestrial
Projects in collaboration with the Durham Parks and Recreation
Department. It contains over 40 species of indigenous plants. The
greenspace is composed of historical flora of Durham County. These
plants that once sheltered and fed local jaguar [?], elk, and bison, are
also well suited for Durham’s future cityscape- requiring little
water and supporting pollinators. The newest iteration of this
ancient landscape highlights our millennia-long relationship that has
developed between plants and other creatures, and the important role
of local plants play in creating future thriving communities.
Prairie
Island was established with the aid of funds received from the County
of Durham and is provided for the benefit of all Durham County
residents. Thanks for the additional support from Burt’s Bees
Foundation, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and Rachel’s Network.
Where
is Prairie Island?
Directions:
Prairie Island is just south of Morehead and Blackwell Street in
Durham, at the entrance to the American Tobacco Trail.
There
was a riot in Baltimore,
Maryland April
19, 1861, in which Federal soldiers
and civilian rioters were killed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_riot_of_1861
Elections began in India April 19th.
A North
Carolina Highway Historical Marker recognizing
the Haliwa-Saponi
Indian Tribe was installed (?)
in a ceremony at the tribal
headquarters in Hollister Friday, April 19th
at 11am. Future markers will recognize the
NC-recognized Coharie, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi
Band of the Saponi, Sappony,
and Waccamaw Siouan tribes
and the former East
Carolina Indian School and
and Buie Mound,
in Robeson County.
Bodie
Island Lighthouse was to open for stair climbing season April 19th
while the Cape
Hatteras Lighthouse will
probably remain closed
until summer 2026, during
renovations.
Youthful
Rebellion in Japanese
Cinema April
19-27th at the Lightbox
Film
Center,
part of the Subaru
Cherry Blossom
Festival of
Greater
Philadelphia: japanphilly.org/programs/festivals/cherryblossom/youth-rebellion-in-japanese-cinema/
Japan donated thousands of Yoshino cherry and other flowering
ornamental trees beginning in
1926. In 2007 the EU banned donations, to pressure Japan to
accept "foreign agricultural products:" Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, 2002.
April
19th 8-9pm ET with leaders of the Carrizo/Comecrudo
tribal nation in South
Texas: www.jillstein2024.com/0419_carrizo_comecrudo
Banff
Centre Mountain Film Festival April
19-20th in Jamestown,
New York: rtpi.org
The famed painting Vädersolstavlan ("The Sundog Painting" in Swedish), by Urban målare and Jacob Heinrich Elbfas is supposed to depict the sky over Stockholm, Sweden on April 20, 1535: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vädersolstavlan
April
20, 1939 the first recording of "Strange
Fruit" by Billie
Holiday: portside.org/2024-04-15/week-peoples-history-apr-16-22
April
20-July
30, 1949 the Yangtze or Amethyst Incident,
between the PLA
and the UK's Royal
Navy during the Chinese revolutionary civil war: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amethyst_incident and www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/15/dkvz-a15.html
Comparisons
to today's "freedom
of navigation" exercises through
the Taiwan Strait?
420 Day April 20th
Volunteer Recognition Day, National Lima Bean Respect Day
Backyard
Snake events in
Apex April 13th and in Cary:
When:
April 20, 2024
What time: 9am
to 4pm
Where:
Buehler Shelter at Bond Park
150 Metro Park
Drive
Cary, NC 27513
April
20th cleanup
and hike 9am-12pm
at Flower
Hill
NP: triangleland.volunteerhub.com/vv2/event/0c748f3e-9248-429b-aad9-b25459e28e6e
Brookgreen
Gardens Spring
Plant Sale, Earth
Day Festival, and Earth
Day Labyrinth
Walk April
20th.
The
People for Palestine in
Durham (PSH) and
on Zoom April 20th at
5pm: www.ncbloc.black/p4p?link_id=0&can_id=ab36576d0eb3e79bb4676365b4e2c953&source=email-health-safety-the-people-for-palestine-forum-saturday-420&email_referrer=email_2286649&email_subject=health-safety-the-people-for-palestine-forum-saturday-420
April 20th For Garden's Sake 25th anniversary party 12-4pm
There
was
a military coup in Greece April 21, 1967, ending July 24,
1974: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta
In
an incident of fragging April
21, 1969 at the Quang Tri Combat Base during the Vietnam War a
fragmentation grenade was used to kill
a Marine First Lieutenant; a private plead guilty and
was sentenced to 40 year prison, one of only 10 people convicted
for fragging. There were 900 or more cases of fragging
between 1969
and 1972, killing at least 99 people, and they were
daily events in
1971, just before
the war
ended: portside.org/2024-04-15/week-peoples-history-apr-16-22 and libcom.org/article/gi-revolts-breakdown-us-army-vietnam-richard-boyle
Anwar al-Awlaki:
Anwar
Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki (أنور
العولقي , Anwar
al-'Awlaqī ;
born April 21 or 22, 1971 in as Cruces,
New Mexico and
Obama had the US citizen
assassinated September
30, 2011 in Al
Jawf governorate of Yemen,
followed
by the assassination
of two his children, age 16 and 8, under Obama and Trump, in
the same order): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
Bike
Durham Earth Day April
21st 12-5pm at Durham
Central Park.
April 22, 1864 "In God We Trust" first put on US coins?
Two
million acres
in central Oklahoma that had been given to tribes were taken to give
to settlers in
160-acre plots in about one day, beginning at 12pm on April
22, 1889? – portside.org/2024-04-15/week-peoples-history-apr-16-22
German genocide order against the Nama in Namibia April 22, 1905? – the April 25th London Review of Books
Campaign
Nonviolence: Earth Week April
22-May 1 and Action
Week September
21-October 2: paceebene.org
#StandUpDaimler Global
Day of Solidarity April
23rd: uaw.org/Daimler
Contracts
expire on the 26th.
English Jack, a hermit in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, passed away April 24, 1912 – April 2024/#443 Fortean Times magazine.
Ireland's Easter Rising was April 24-29 in 1916: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising
April 24, 1964 at 10am Gary T Wilcox, a farmer, encountered a Socorro, NM-type UFO in Newark Valley, New York? – April 2024/#443 Fortean Times magazine.
Mumia Abu-Jamal (Wesley Cook; born April 24, 1954 in Philadelphia): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal
April 24, 1967 Soyuz 1 death on re-entry
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Bishopsgate_bombing April 24, 1993
WUNC began another pledge drive April 24th. April 29th break? Ended May 3rd?
The WWI invasion of Ottoman Gallipoli by ANZAC forces April 25, 1915.
Liberation Day in Italy April 25, 1945, the Meeting on the Elba, the HST deployed in 1990
The nuclear-powered (double) USS Triton returned after reportedly circumnavigating the world underwater April 25, 1960: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Triton_(SSRN-586)
Portugal's Carnation Revolution began April 25, 1974: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution
4/25/2015 Nepal earthquake
4/25 National Zucchini Bread Day, Hug a Plumber Day, Take Our Son or Daughter to Work Day, National Lingerie Day (according to Venus Fashion; I think a Japanese equivalent is at the beginning of August)?
Bullington
Gardens Spring
Plant Sale April 25-27th
Veterans for
Peace event
on Zoom April
25th 12pm EDT "Genocide
in Gaza? Voices from the Region"
on art, the environment, and the
war: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcOqsqTosGNFIVfOWO7KVh4NMEHn-GCKW#/registration
Battle of York, in Canada, April 27, 1813.
April 27th National Arbor Day, Dissertation Day, Historic Marker Day, Pretzel Day?
April
27, 2007 –
the e-memorandum political crisis in
Turkey: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-memorandum
"McIntyre’s
Books at Fearrington Village, a cherished locally-owned and
woman-owned bookstore – recently featured in Southern Living, will
celebrate its 35-year anniversary on Independent Bookstore Day,
Saturday, April 27th. Opened in 1989 in Fearrington Village,
McIntyre’s has proudly served its local North Carolina and greater
national community for decades!
In celebration of their
anniversary and Independent Bookstore Day, 35 cents of every book
sold on April 27th will be donated to Chatham Reads. There will also
be an outdoor Storytime (weather permitting) for the pre-k crowd at
10:30am in the Village Center with Johanna Banana and Billy Sugarfix.
At 11am, Brian Panowich will read from his latest novel, Nothing But
The Bones. We will have Anniversary cookies made by the Fearrington
House and giveaways every hour on the half hour of bags packed with
books and McIntyre’s merchandise.
“At the heart of
McIntyre’s Books is its people – the readers, authors, and our
truly amazing team,” said founder Keebe Fitch. “We’re a
dedicated group of readers and hand-sellers. Between Pete, Johanna,
Sarah, Beth and myself, we bring over 135 years of combined book
selling experience to help our readers find that perfect volume.
McIntyre's Books thrives not just because of one person but because
of our beloved community of book enthusiasts. We are invested here
for the long haul.”
Keebe Fitch
McIntyre’s
Books
220 Market Street
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Call:
(919) 542.3030"
Brookgreen
Gardens Art Festival April
27-28th.
April 27th National Rebuilding Day? The USS Sultana exploded north of Marion, Arkansas in 1865.
Fourth Saturday in April Celebrate Trails Day 4/27
Tariq Aziz:
Tariq
Aziz (طارق
عزيز Ṭāriq
ʿAzīz, Mikhail Yuhanna,
a Christian Assyrian
in the Iraqi Baathist government, April 28, 1936
in Tel Keppe, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, near Mosul, –
June 5, 2015
in Nasiriyah?): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Aziz
Wayne
Madsen (born
April 28, 1954): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Madsen_(journalist)
A report about the US torture (and execution?) of prisoners held in Abu Ghraib, Iraq aired on CBS' 60 Minutes II program April 28, 2004, and there was an article in the New Yorker by Seymour Hersh April 30th, but there had been reports of torture and prisoner uprisings since June 20, 2003, etc. and it is now buried, and they will try to bury what they are doing in the current wars: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
trinitypark.org in Durham tour April 28th 1-5pm
April 28th,
rain date May 5th, 3pm Orange-Chatham Sierra
Club event,
meeting at Lanza's
Cafe,
601 West Main Street
in Carrboro: act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7013q000002JsSwAAK – Have the Orange-Chatham
Sierra Club and other local environmental and civic
groups been
captured by real
estate and construction interests, and the Democratic Party?
The two named are
connected through NEXT NC, connecting the TBB and the Sierra
Club.
And
the Durham City Council was in with the Ukraine War, though it
did eventually say something
about Palestine.
I don't know if Chapel Hill
or Raleigh ever passed resolutions,
while Carrboro I think was the first to do so locally.
Workers' Memorial
Day in
NC: April
28th at 3pm in Bicentennial Plaza (1 East
Edenton Street, on the Jones Street side) in
Raleigh, remembering 217 killed
working in
NC: act.aflcio.org/events/nc-workers-memorial-day/ , www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=972981051498226&link_id=21&can_id=daf90de7697fd5ae682ef1e44d6a257e&source=email-labor-update-45-2&email_referrer=email_2285053&email_subject=labor-update-419 ,
and www.instagram.com/p/C5YlCIusnFt/?link_id=22&can_id=daf90de7697fd5ae682ef1e44d6a257e&source=email-labor-update-45-2&email_referrer=email_2285053&email_subject=labor-update-419
cpcml.ca/240425-day-of-mourning/ April 28th
Triangle Labor
Council AFL-CIO May
Day Cookout and Kickball Worker Social April
28th 5-8pm at Biltmore Hills Park (2617 Fitzgerald
Drive) in Raleigh; RSVP :
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSec38bPC0pf34-ifZVwKTq4gt1rpRsadCGMSrRTgEcOJqf7rg/viewform and www.instagram.com/trilaborcouncil/?link_id=26&can_id=daf90de7697fd5ae682ef1e44d6a257e&source=email-labor-update-45-2&email_referrer=email_2285053&email_subject=labor-update-419
4/28 National Great Poetry Reading Day?
April 28th-May 2nd a US aircraft carrier in Souda, Crete and a French carrier May 2nd-7th; aimed at Lebanon, over Rafah?
Jill Stein was arrested at Washington University in Saint Louis ~7:30pm-1:08am 4/28; see 4/30 post
James Cook reached Botany Bay, Australia Sunday, April 29, 1770: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany_Bay and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook
4/29 National Peace Rose Day?
5-6 UFOs were photographed from an X-15 rocketplane April 30, 1962: UFO Exist!, 1976.
The Vietnam War ended April 30, 1975.
April
11-30 seed library raffle at
the Hopkinsville-Christian County
Public Library in Kentucky.
April 30th Duke/NC Carbon Plan hearing and protest at the Durham County Courthouse at 5:45, 7pm: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeICj5TSXtJD7MYZ8mq5AJdN_FuD_odQJ_JUMHOciQM-QLuKQ/
May 1st Beltane; International Workers' Day / May Day 5 and 6pm at CCB Plaza in Durham, 7pm in NYC: peoplesforum.org/events/jacobin-may-day-event-whats-next-for-us-labor/ NYC 4pm: www.instagram.com/peoplesforumnyc/p/C6LtGLZgG_o/
May 1, 1540 Hernando de Soto reached Cofitachequi, now in South Carolina.
May 1, 1960 Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane downed over the USSR.
NC
Labor History Revealed exhibit ( sites.google.com/aflcionc.org/nclaborhistory/ ) May 1st at
UA Local
421 (285 Litaker Lane, ualocal421.org)
in Concord, NC.
May 1st Durham County Government Career Fair 10am-2pm at the Main Library.
May 1st in Durham: CCB Plaza (PSL?) 5pm or (Scrap Exchange) parade 6pm, prepare 4/29th at Northgate Park 5-7pm.
Around May 1st umbrellatrees will bloom in Durham. 13-year periodical cicadas called by the 28th. Catawba Rhododendrons, fire pinks, and false Solomon's seal will bloom in May? Many roses bloom in May or have already started. Pink ladyslipper orchids and bluestars bloom in May. Red mulberries, fruiting trees are abundant in Chapel Hill, ripen in May or June? Magnolias, such as umbrellatrees/umbrella magnolias and evergreen Southern magnolias (blooming in May or June?), spreading around here: www.themarginalian.org/2023/04/13/magnolias/
May 2, 1935 – Boulder (now Hoover) Dam on the Colorado River was finished.
May
2, 1962 John C Whimpenny flew 993
yards,
five feet high, with a human-powered machine in Hatfield,
Hertfordshire,
UK? – The
Mothman Prophecies by John
A Keel, 1991 reprint.
May 2, 1964 – the USS Card sunk near Saigon.
A large bird on the Tamiami Trail in
Florida in 1961 and near the Hudson
in May 1961; in winter
1968-69 near Haymarket, Virginia at night (?);
Marines on
a summer evening in 1969 near Da Nang, Vietnam; May 21, 1973 in
a wooded area in Kristianstad, Sweden – The
Mothman Prophecies by John
A Keel, 1991 reprint.
Osama bin Laden:
Osama
bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (أسامة
بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, Usāma
bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin ; supposedly March 10, 1957
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia –
early May 2, 2011
in Abbottabad, Pakistan and his
body was dumped in the Indian Ocean or an
ocean?): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
May
2nd 100th anniversary
of Craters of
the Moon NM and NP.
May 2-4 Crossnore Communities for Children Winston-Salem annual Plant Sale.
Two UFOs reportedly came up to an aircraft flying 140 mph at 15,000' over 10 minutes around Tequesquitengo (?) and Tlalpan, Mexico May 3, 1975: UFO Exist!, 1976
May 3, 2016 Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta, Canada fire evacuation; April 27, 2020 flood; record high, near 105 degrees Fahrenheit, June 30, 2021: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McMurray
Asheville
Botanical Garden Spring Plant Sale May 3rd-4th
3/1-5/4/1886: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Southwest_railroad_strike_of_1886
Author
of The
Death and Life of Great American Cities,
etc. Jane
Jacobs (born Butzner;
May 4, 1916 in Scranton, Pennsylvania –
April 25, 2006 in Toronto,
Canada): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs
May 4th Youth Day, the May 4th (1919) movement, the May 3, 1928 Incident in Jinan, Shandong, PR China: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_Day_(China)
May 4-8, 1942: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Coral_Sea
May 4, 1970 12:24pm EDT the Kent State Massacre: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
"Hunt
Recycling will host a plant swap every first Saturday of each month
from April through September, from 9am-12pm.
No
registration is required, free to all. Come for the entire
time, or drop in when you can.
Bring
plants, seeds, or clippings that you would like to trade or swap and
enjoy the company of other gardening/planting enthusiasts!
Next
Plant Swap: Saturday 5/4/24
When:
Saturday 5/4/24
Where:
840 Moncure Pittsboro Rd, Moncure, NC 27559
Time:
9 am-12 pm
Hunt
Recycling will have some tables, chairs and tailgates available for
set up, but feel free to bring your own to add to the event.
Hunt
Recycling will also have the Smokin’ Dreams BBQ food truck on hand
for the event, so even if you do not have plants to swap or trade,
stop in and say hello, and enjoy some BBQ!
Jason
Hoyle
Vice
President-Operations
Hunt
Forest Resources, LLC
Hunt
Forest Products, LLC
Hunt
Transload Enterprises, LLC
Hunt
Recycling, LLC
East Coast
Firewood, LLC
P.O. Box
877
Pittsboro, NC
27312
Cell: Call:
919-414-2295
Office:
Call: 919-542-0792"
In
Raleigh May 4th or 11th 10am-12pm from Crank Arm Brewing
6-mile Historic
Bike Ride with
RHDC: raleighnc.gov/planning/events/historic-preservation-and-rhdc-event-series
May
4th at 2pm in Chapel
Hill, from Peace and Justice
Plaza
to the Hargraves
Community Center House
Us Now
March and Founding Assembly
of the Tenants Shout
Out
Union: www.instagram.com/p/C51cHCNKoYo/?link_id=65&can_id=daf90de7697fd5ae682ef1e44d6a257e&source=email-labor-update-45-2&email_referrer=email_2285053&email_subject=labor-update-419
May 4th 9am-5pm Kiefer Landscaping and Nursery 40th anniversary festival.
May 4th: Running dog Australia versus China over the Yellow Sea, on the BBC May 6th.
Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany and passed away March 14, 1883 in London, UK: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
A triangular, spinning UFO the size of a quarter Moon was reportedly seen by the staff of an astronomical observatory in Majorca May 5, 1960: UFO Exist!, 1976.
The Myanmar
Civil War is supposed
to have begun May 5, 2021, following a military coup February
1st: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021–present)
May
5th 12-5pm Durham
Bike Month Kick-Off,
free
tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-bike-month-kick-off-biking-to-connections-tickets-882700961337
Cinco de Mayo 1862, National Astronaut Day, Lemonade Day, Hoagie Day, Totally Chipotle Day, Infertility Survival Day, Cartoonists Day, etc.? Rikka? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lixia
Around May 5th an alleged rocket attack killed four occupation soldiers at a border checkpoint, so the planned invasion of Rafah began?
May 6th – the Exposition Universelle opened, with the Eiffel Tower, in 1889; the Hindenburg crash in 1937.
May 7th – from the National Day Calendar, etc.: National Teacher Appreciation Day, Packaging Design Day, Paste-Up Day, Foster Care Day, Barrier Awareness Day, etc.; Dien Bien Phu Viet Minh victory in 1954; the AMA and Sony were founded; Mackinac Bridge construction began in Michigan in 1954; 27th Amendment ratified; Ishiro Honda and Eva Peron born; etc. Third Shift Workers Day May 8th.
5/7/1968: cpcml.ca/240506-reorganization-of-the-internationalists/
durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/12238441 May 7, 21, and 28 NC Medicaid Expansion events
May 7th and 21st RTP South Rezoning meetings (the area south of HUB RTP bordered by 54, Davis, Hopson, and Miami – the Burdens Creek headwaters? The UDO Rewrite in 2024: engagedurham.com/27/Comprehensive-Plan
May 8, 1929 a US company contracts to design the first Soviet tractor plant and more: portside.org/2024-05-06/week-peoples-history-may-7-13
May 8th World Donkey Day?
May 8th Bank of America HQ protest in Charlotte, NC
European WWII Victory Day is May 9th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May)
5/10/28 BCE sunspots observed, not for the first time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_of_the_Han_dynasty#Astronomical_observations In 807 CE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einhard circa 775-3/14/840
JW Booth born in 1838; 5/10/1869 the transcontinental railroad completed in Promontory, Utah; 1872 Victoria Woodhull nominated; first Mother's Day, in Grafton, WV in 1908; Betamax in 1975?
Richard
John Steves Jr. (born
May 10, 1955 in Barstow,
California): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Steves
May 10th National Shrimp Day?
The APGA's Go Public Gardens week: May 10-19 #GoPublicGardens
5/11 National Archery Day? J Cochrane born in 1906; Deep Blue victory in 1997
5/11/2014 independence votes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donetsk_People%27s_Republic and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhansk_People%27s_Republic , with a Zelenskyy government bias?
Transylvania
Master Gardeners Plant Sale May 11th 8am-12pm
May
11th 11am ET "Black Liberation
and People's
China"
FSC
webinar: umanitoba.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Yrce-orT8pHNfKPX8Fkdoo8d-B23mNr3b2#/registration
John
Brown Day 2024 May
11th 2-4pm in Westport, New York: johnbrownlives.org
May
11th Stamp
Out Hunger letter
carriers' food
drive
May 11th the Piedmont Environmental Center annual Wildflower Sale in High Point 9am-12pm
UNC's Spring Commencement will be Saturday, May 11th in 2024, instead of the traditional Sunday.
Saturdays 10am-5pm starting May 11th help build Paperhand Puppet Intervention's new show, Earth and Sky, to be performed August 9th-September 29th in Chapel Hill.
May 11th 10am at Cedar Fork District Park: saathee.com/event_calender/tga-kite-festival-morrisville-nc/
5/12/1998: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisakti_shootings
May 12th Odometer Day; J Carter to Cuba in 2002; Florence Nightingale born in 1820?
Mountain laurel blooms around the anti-war holiday Mother's Day, May 12th?
5/13 – Frog Jumping Day, Apple Pie Day?
James
Warren Jones (May
13, 1931 in Crete, Indiana – November 18, 1978 in Jonestown,
Guyana): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
The Southwest Death Cafe will be at Durham's Southwest Regional Library March 25, April 22, May 13, and June 24.
The Raid on Port Arthur, in Canada, May 14-16, 1814: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Port_Dover
Michael
Douglas Coe (May
14, 1929 in New York City – September 25, 2019 in New Haven,
CT): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Coe
5/14/1931 in Sweden: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ådalen_shootings
5/14/1959 – the first wade-in in Biloxi, MS: portside.org/2024-05-13/week-peoples-history-may-14-20
5/14 – Underground America Day, the Corps of Discovery set out in 1804, 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, George Lucas born in 1944, the launch of Skylab in 1973, Mark Zuckerberg born in 1984?
Nakba
Days
of Action May
14-15th in Washington,
DC: secure.actblue.com/donate/stop-arming-israel-action-days
Nakba Day May 15th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day
A "white hot" 18" piece off "heavy chain" reportedly fell on a bulldozer operating on Crestvale Avenue in Rock Hill, St. Louis, MO May 15, 1959; an explosion and a "red-hot cylindrical object" was found on S.R. CC close to Festus, St. Louis (?) and Herculaneum May 26, 1970 – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.
5/15 – Chocolate Chip Day and Nylon Stocking Day?
Communist and supposedly Nazi symbols (what of Azov?) were banned in Ukraine May 15, 2015? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May)
5/16 – Love a Tree Day, Biographer's Day, Sea Monkey Day, etc.;5-cent coin created in 1866
The
Israeli consul-general in
Turkey, Efraim Elrom,
was seized by the THKP.C May
17, 1971 and killed by the
23rd: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Efraim_Elrom
5/17 – Endangered Species Day? Walnut, "Pack Rat" Day; first US submarine launched in 1897 in NJ? 5/17/1954 Brown v Board of Education of Topeka. 5/17/2004 MA gay marriage. 5/18 Learn to Swim Day?
PITTSBORO,
NC— The Chatham County Parks and Recreation Department invites
community members of all ages to express their creativity and create
a chalk masterpiece at the fourth annual Sidewalk Chalk Festival on
Saturday, May 18, 2024, at The Park at Briar Chapel located at 1015
Andrews Store Road, Pittsboro.
Chatham
County artists – amateur and professional alike – are invited to
draw their chalk creations. Residents also are invited to spend the
evening in the park enjoying the artwork, food trucks, art activities
and vendors, yard games, face painting, popcorn, and a Movie in the
Park. Drawing and activities will begin at 5:30 p.m., judging and
awards will begin at 7:30 p.m., and the Movie in the Park will begin
at 8:30 p.m. The featured movie is Barbie, and families are invited
to bring chairs, blankets, snacks, and enjoy a movie under the
stars.
There
will be three categories for the Sidewalk Chalk Festival: Family
(group with kids 12 and under), Teen (ages 13–17), and Adult (ages
18+), as well as a crowd pleaser award. Artists are encouraged to
pre-register online at www.chathamcountync.gov/parks-rec,
but registration will also be available on site, the day of the
event. A tabletop drawing option is available upon request for those
who are not able to draw on the ground.
“We
enjoy having the opportunity to celebrate the art community in
Chatham County and bring people together in this way,” said Tracy
Burnett, Chatham County Parks and Recreation Director.
For
more information on participant registration or vendor station
inquiry, individuals may visit the Chatham County Parks and
Recreation website at chathamcountync.gov/parks-rec,
or contact Mallory Peterson at the Parks and Recreation Department at
Call: 919-642-7086 or mallory
[period] peterson [at chathamcountync gov].
Information and updates will also be shared on Chatham County Parks
and Recreation’s social media channels (Facebook and
Instagram).
Kara
Lusk
Public
Information Officer
Chatham
County Government
Water Melon 5K Fest for Palestine May 18th at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary: www.gathergood.org
www.durhamgreekfestival.org May 18-19th on 751.
ncaatogether.org May 18th at Moore Square in Raleigh.
durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/11822287 NC Voter Photo IDs 12-3pm May 18th
historichillsborough.org/excursionday/ May 18th 10am-4pm
5/19/1919 US government Black Chamber wiretapping began; 5/17/1919 the Army admitted that it had lied about Germany's ability to invade the US, encouraging entry into WWI: portside.org/2024-05-13/week-peoples-history-may-14-20
Halley's
Comet was at perihelion April
20th in 1910 and the Earth passed
through its
tail, rumored
to be poisonous and a threat to life, May
20th. First photographed during this
apparition? Supposedly
there was an attempted human sacrifice (of a Jane Warfield by Henry Heinman and others) related
to the Comet in
Aline, Alfalfa County, in
northern Oklahoma towards the
panhandle, the evening of Wednesday, May 18, 1910 (?).
People reportedly dropped dead; went insane;
committed suicide; refused to go to work; Paul
Hammerton, a
prospector
in the San Bernardino range of California crucified
himself but was taken down; etc.
The night of May 18th the beloved street dogs
of Istanbul/Constantinople were again rounded up. Two
of four Dorsetshire calves born
at Amos
Rhodes' dairy in
Pitcher, New York had star-shaped
marks on their foreheads. In
Woodbury, New York the mayor had the police
offer a comet wake-up service. Lights,
at least some
made by humans, were seen. Pink and violet in Lille,
France. An astronomer and
his wife in a hot
air balloon at night were fired
upon in New England. Mark Twain passed
away April 21st and UK King Edward VII the
night of May 6th, with his funeral was Friday, May 20th, a historic transition a few years before WWI
began, as 9/11/2001 has been called the 'true' start of the 21st
century and current wars might loom large in future
history – Comet
Fever (A
Popular
History
of Halley's
Comet) by Donald
Gropman with Kenneth Mirvis, published in
1985. The Comet passed by the Earth April 10th in 1986,
after perihelion
February 9th. The
first
known sighting is supposed
to have been May 25, 240 BCE (May
16th or even earlier?): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet
Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528, both in Nuremberg, HRE): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Dürer
From BAJ:
7:30 PM Tuesday May 21
at Community Church of Chapel Hill
106 Purefoy Rd
the
Balance & Accuracy in Journalism
program:
Student Protests:
Anti-Semitism or a Call for Justice?
will be presented by
Hashem Amireh and JC Fishman
Hashem Amireh is a member of UNC Graduate and Professional
Students for the Liberation of Palestine and is the president of the
UNC Graduate Workers Union Co-chapter.
He was also recently suspended and banned from campus
due to his involvement with student protests along with 15 other students.
JC Fishman is involved with pro-Palestine advocacy in the area
and is a member of the Triangle Jewish Voice for Peace.
Mainstream Media reports including NC Public TV’s State Lines
have accused students of ignorance and expressed puzzlement that
students found reason to protest. Asking students themselves
didn’t seem to occur to the State Lines panel.
Bring your questions and comments to our discussion!
Our program in 2019 titled, "Was it Love, or Antisemitism?"
explored a smear campaign against Duke and UNC
for convening scholars to discuss Gaza. The accusation
of anti-Semitism, based on an attack video aired on Channel 11
led to a civil rights investigation that was dismissed in part by
testimony by Dr. Judith Ferster who attended the 2019 conference.
Ferster will join us on Tuesday evening. If we have time we will
screen a central piece of evidence.
As with all the years of war that Mainstream Media have
justified to the public, we are treated to narratives that fail
to match real history and evidence.
Artist Ellen O’Grady sketched her interview with UNC professor
and organizer Danielle Purifoy in the form of a cartoon, posted on Instagram.
Watch for further info and updates!
For Balance and Accuracy in Journalism
[ ]
May 21-June 1 art exhibit: www.greensboroprojectspace.com/blog-post/swamped
Joseph
Wood Krutch (November
25, 1893 in Knoxville, TN – May 22, 1970 in
Tucson, Arizona): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wood_Krutch
Ibragim Todashev was killed by an FBI agent May 22nd in his Orlando, Florida apartment: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibragim_Todashev
durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/12206344 – Stop the Bleed workshop, but full?
The Laotian Civil War began May 23, 1959 and ended December 2, 1975?
The
Greek destroyer HNS Velos,
commanded by Nikolaos
Pappas (Νικόλαος
Παππάς;
June 21, 1930
– April 5, 2013; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaos_Pappas )
mutinied against
the Greek coup government May 23, 1973 during a NATO execise
between Sardinia and the Italian
mainland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta
May 23-26: www.animazement.com [in downtown Raleigh]
[May 24-26th in Atlanta, GA: www.momocon.com ]
durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/12116219 – Blood drive May 24th 11am-4pm.
May 24-26th in Detroit, Michigan: peoplesconferenceforpalestine.org/register
Rightist?
TV presenter Michael
Denzil Xavier Portillo (born
May 26, 1953 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England,
UK): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Portillo
Marcia
and Mel
Rothenberg memorial May 26th 10:45am-2pm in Chicago.
[5/27/1520: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cempoala ]
5/27-28/1905: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tsushima
The
first
military coup
in modern Turkey was
May 27, 1960: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Turkish_coup_d%27état
Friday, 5/31/1889: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood in PA
Naksa Day June 5th? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naksa_Day
June 6, 1975 a "pearl-colored 50' disk" reportedly landed in Greensboro, North Carolina: UFO Exist!, 1976
[The first post to this blog was June 6, 2005.]
Manuel
Orozco y Berra (June
8, 1816 – January 27, 1881)
Daniel Ellsberg Week June 10-16: defusenuclearwar.org/edefusenuclearwar.org/ellsberg/
Three
orange or purplish to orange UFOs Thursday, June 12,
1958, around 8pm, over Dillon, Dillon County, in northeastern South
Carolina. See Circle, etc. Johnny Griffith, Mr and
Mrs Don
Barclay, Mrs EC Currin, etc. In the Florence
Morning News June
13, 1958. Flying Saucer
Digest #219
Winter 2018.
June
14, 1972 a 4' eel was
found in the water pipes of a Medford, Massachusetts apartment, and
reportedly would have had to have come from Quabbin
Reservoir 100 miles away. American eels breed far out in the
Atlantic but mature inland, and even cross moist ground,
often at night – Weird
America: A Guide to Places
of Mystery in the
United States,
by Jim Brandon, 1978.
June
14-August 9th in
Philadelphia: www.collabjapan.org/community-of-images
A
'batman' in a pecan tree in Houston, Texas June 18, 1953 at
night (?) – The
Mothman Prophecies by
John A Keel, 1991 reprint.
June
18, 1958 dark gray fish about
3" long with red spots reportedly fell
on Pentagon Parkway in
the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. On January 27, 1964 a
burning object flew around and landed at the home of
Melvin L Lewis, setting
the yard on fire and producing a strong sulfurous smell. Reportedly rocks fell on a field of corn in Trenton, New Jersey June 16-17, 1884 – Weird
America: A Guide to Places
of Mystery in the
United States,
by Jim Brandon, 1978.
The Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice is June 20th this year.
Karl
Anton Nowotny (June
21, 1904 in Hollabrunn, Austria – December 31, 1978 in
Vienna): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Anton_Nowotny
June
24th is Saint
John's Day or Midsummer
Day.
World UFO Day June 24th (Kenneth Arnold's sighting of what the media termed "flying saucers") and July 2nd (the crash in Roswell, New Mexico): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_UFO_Day
Reportedly
a train left Tomashgrodsky,
USSR June
24, 1983 pulling 28
cars filled with
crushed rock (aggregate?)
and was not seen again – Curious
Encounters:
Phantom Trains, Spooky Spots,
and Other Mysterious Wonders, by Loren
Coleman,
1985-86. Was there
really such a
train that day and, if so, what
happened to it?
June 25-26, 1876: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn
June 28, 1973 two red UFOs over New York City: UFO Exist! (Paris Flammonde, 1976).
June 29, 1881 – claimed to be the Mahdi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ahmad
June 30, 1521: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Colhuacatonco
June 30, 1962 a "red disk" seen for 10 minutes in Richmond, Virginia – UFO Exist!, 1976.
The
famous Michel
de Nostredame, Latinized
as Nostradamus, (December
1503 in Saint-Remy-de-Provence,
Bouches-du-Rhone, France –
July
1566
in Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus
Beginning 7/1/1892, a battle 7/6: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike
July
1st GoTriangle bus fees return?
7/4/1941 and 9/1/1987: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Willson
The Battle of Chippawa, in Canada was July 5, 1814: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chippawa
July 5, 1950 in divided Korea: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Osan
7/7/1959-4/28/1987: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Linder
July 8, 1994 and October 29, 1998 Mukai Chiaki, born May 6, 1952, went into space.
Cindy
Lee Sheehan (Miller;
born July 10, 1957 in Inglewood, California); her son: Casey
Austin Sheehan (May 29, 1979 – April 4,
2004) : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sheehan ; her website
is linked
on the right.
Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (Рудольф Иванович Абель), William August Fisher (July 11, 1903 – November 15, 1971): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Abel
July
11, 1908 Russian VK
Arsenyev said
that he had disturbed a large flying
creature along
the "Gobilli River." He asked
the "Udehe-men" (Udege? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udege_people) about
it that (?) evening – quoted
in The
Mothman Prophecies by John
Alva Keel (born Alva
John Kiehle; March
25, 1930 in Hornell,
New York –
July
3, 2009 in New York
City: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keel and www.johnkeel.com ),
1991 reprint.
July 12, 1961 small, "hard green peaches" reportedly fell at 2065 Lovers Lane and 2062 Shadywood Lane in Shreveport, LA; hickory shad and other freshwater fish October 25, 1947 7-8am in Marksville, LA; a "warm and sticky," "reddish, oily" bloodlike 'rain' reportedly fell from a red, pink, and green cloud over 440 Boal Street in Cinncinnati, Ohio July 22, 1955, harming peach trees and causing a stinging sensation on bare skin – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.
7/14/1877 RR strike began: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1877
The Soviet Katyusha multiple
rocket launcher was first used by an NKVD unit in a battle July
14, 1941 in Rudnya,
Russia and
more units
were formed after August
8th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha_rocket_launcher
There
was a
coup in Cyprus July
15, 1974.
There
was a
coup attempt in Turkey July
15, 2016.
July
17, 1829 "a meteor of rather singular character"
was seen in the Schuylkill (opposite?),
Kensington, and Delaware River area
of Pennsylvania for "about fifteen or twenty minutes" around
11pm-12am, going east
into NJ (Jersey)?
"A long
trail of light, like that
of a shooting star
was seen
to follow it in the beginning of its ascension; large sparkles
that separated themselves from
it and descended slowly, were distinctly visible until
hidden from view by the tops of the houses. Its motions
were rapid, irregular, and wavering, like
the fluttering
of a kite or the rocking of an air balloon. / Its appearance was
of a deep red color, and remarkably brilliant, seemingly
about half the size of
the moon. It arose until it
crossed
the Delaware, when it appeared
but an inconsiderable speck scarcely discernable,
and then descended with
astonishing
velocity until within a short
distance of the horizon, where it remained stationary for a few
moments. Suddenly it
became exceedingly large and brilliant, sparkles
again separated it [?] from the main body, and descended
as before. It soon after became dim and disappeared behind
the trees."
From "Hazard's
Register of Pennsylvania July
18, 1829, via Martin Piechota" – Flying Saucer
Digest #218 Fall
2017.
The 40th
Cullowhee
Native Plant
Conference will
be July 17-20th at WCU in Cullowhee,
North
Carolina: www.wcu.edu/engage/professional-enrichment/conferences-and-community-classes/the-cullowhee-native-plant-conference/index.aspx
A large bird in Salt Lake City
July 18, 1966; "a whitish
man-shaped flying object"
just
after 2pm in Scot,
Mississippi September
1, 1966 (year?); a 9' humanoid of some kind walking
in the middle of Buffalo Mills,
Pennsylvania August
19, 1973 – The
Mothman Prophecies by John
A Keel,
1991 reprint.
An explosion and falling rocks July 19th and an explosion and an earthquake (?) August 18, 1912 in Holbrook, in northeastern Arizona – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.
Robert
Michael Pyle (born
July 19, 1947
in Denver, Colorado): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Michael_Pyle
July 19-20 and July 26-27, or July 12-29, in 1952 UFOs seen and detected by radar over Washington, DC; escaped from interceptors: UFO Exist! (Paris Flammonde, 1976) and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C.,_UFO_incident
Turkey
invaded Cyprus July 20, 1974, following
the July
15th Cypriot coup.
Uday and Qusay Saddam Hussein, Abdul Samad
al-Hadushi,
and Mustafa Hussein were
reportedly killed in a raid by the 101st Airborne,
involving hundreds of soldiers on the ground and
in the air, over a few hours at mid-day, July 22, 2003
in Mosul,
Iraq: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Qusay_and_Uday_Hussein
7/23-25/26: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_riot_of_1877
July 23 or 25 in 1948 a UFO near Montgomery, Alabama
The Downing Street Memo covered a meeting July 23, 2002
Around
4:15pm July 24, 1973 papers were
reportedly seen falling
from high in a clear sky over North
Greenbush, near Albany,
New York; a few were picked
up off of Lape
Road 30-45 minutes later
and found to have "complex mathematical
formulas and accompanying graphs" – Weird
America: A Guide to Places
of Mystery in the
United States,
by Jim Brandon, 1978.
The Battle of Lundy's Lane or Niagara, in Canada, was July 25, 1814: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lundy%27s_Lane
The 2023
coup in Niger was July
26th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nigerien_coup_d%27état
There have been recent military
coups
in neighboring countries, such as
in Mali: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali
July
28th – elections in
Venezuela? An AFGJ.org delegation July 21-31st.
Halley's
Comet will
next be at perihelion July 28th in 2061 and be near the Earth on the
29th, and then again March 27th and May 7th in
2134: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet
The Courier-Journal of Louisville,
Kentucky reported July 29, 1880 that a man with flapping
mechanical wings had been seen by CA Youngman and Bob
Flexner – The
Mothman Prophecies by John
A Keel, 1991 reprint.
July 30, 1962 a red UFO was reportedly seen in Ocean Springs, Mississippi – UFO Exist!, 1976.
Ayman al-Zawahiri:
Ayman
Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (أيمن
محمد ربيع الظواهري, Ayman
Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī ; supposedly June 19, 1951
in Giza, Egypt – July 31, 2022
in Kabul, Afghanistan): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_al-Zawahiri
Around
1:30am August 2, 1905 JA
Jackson of Silshee,
California reportedly saw a
bright airship (while in Silshee?) with
flapping wings – The
Mothman Prophecies by John
A Keel, 1991 reprint.
At
noon August
7, 1869 a bright
flying
object reportedly landed in
a dry area 200 yards
north of Adamstown, Lancaster County,
in southeastern Pennsylvania.
"It was square and became a column about three or four feet
in height and about two feet in thickness" and shone in
the sun "like
a column
of burnished silver."
It vanished
after 10 minutes and there were no signs that it had been there.
From The Reading Eagle August
14, 1869 via Martin Piechota:" Flying Saucer
Digest #219
Winter 2018.
About the town, founded July
4, 1761 and incorporated April
2, 1850: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamstown,_Pennsylvania
Paperhand Puppet Intervention's new show, Earth and Sky, will be in UNC's Forest Theatre August 9th-September 29th.
Five crew members were killed and one hospitalized on a fishing boat in Punta Gorda, Florida August 11, 1968; golf balls reportedly fell September 3, 1969, but it is unclear if there were witnesses to a rain of golf balls; August 11, 1965 at night an explosion and cubical pieces of a very hard metal fell on the William Belt farm on Walker Road in Parkton, Maryland; ice reportedly fell in Davenport, Iowa August 30, 1882 and "small living frogs" enclosed in ice in Dubuque, Iowa June 16, 1882 with – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.
Cyprus
became independent from the UK August 16, 1960.
Paul
Kirchhoff (August 17, 1900, Halle, Province
of Westphalia –
December 9, 1972): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kirchhoff
The
night of August 18, 1962 there was an
unexplained sound like
"a flight of heavy airplanes"
in the San Francisco area;
blasts
in May and June 1951; across the country in summer 1959,
including
in Henderson (Vance County?) and in Warren
County, North Carolina (?);
October 22, 1971 over Daly
City, CA; more in CA; etc. – Weird
America: A Guide to Places
of Mystery in the
United States,
by Jim Brandon, 1978.
Joaquín
García Icazbalceta (August 21, 1824 – November 26, 1894)
Uğur
Mumcu (August 22, 1942
– January 24, 1993): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uğur_Mumcu
The White House, the Capitol, Navy Yard, etc were burned by the British August 24, 1814: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington It will surely be inundated, burn, reap the whirlwind, etc. again eventually.
Tatiana
Proskouriakoff (Татья́на
Авени́ровна Проскуряко́ва, Tatyana
Avenirovna Proskuryakova; January 23, 1909 –
August 30, 1985):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana_Proskouriakoff
9/1/1859 first solar flare, during the Carrington Event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Christopher_Carrington , born 5/26/1826
September 1, 1872 Icaiche Maya raid into Belize, from Mexico: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Orange_Walk
September 2, 1885 – Rock Springs, Wyoming anti-Chinese riot or massacre.
September 2, 1898 in Sudan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Omdurman
After
9pm on September 2,
1958 a piece of ice hit 336 Greystone Road, in Old
Bridge, New Jersey,
nearly
hitting a resident – Weird
America: A Guide to Places
of Mystery in the
United States,
by Jim Brandon, 1978.
September
6, 1901 President William
McKinley was shot in Buffalo,
New York.
Elizabeth
Hill Boone (born
September 6, 1948): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hill_Boone
An explosion and falling debris over Salt River Canyon in eastern Arizona September 9, 1970 at 4:30am, a meteor? – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.
Sir
John Eric Sidney Thompson (December 31, 1898
– September 9, 1975): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Eric_S._Thompson
The NC
AFL-CIO's 67th
Annual Convention will
be September 19-20th in Raleigh.
Palestinian poet born 9/23/1979, assassinated 12/6/2023, more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refaat_Alareer
New
York City's Fawcett
Building,
at 67 West 44th Street, was
evacuated due to unexplained shaking September 24, 1966.
Unexplained booms in Howell
Township, New Jersey,
four miles
north of Freewood
Acres,
in June 1974 and September
22nd and 25th – Weird
America: A Guide to Places
of Mystery in the
United States,
by Jim Brandon, 1978.
9/24/2023 the Cuban embassy was attacked: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/MS5310.HTM#1 Expect more under Trump?
Günter
Wallraff (born
October 1, 1942): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Günter_Wallraff
A UFO was reportedly seen in Greenville, North Carolina October 4, 1973 and there were many reports in the South on or around the 4th: UFO Exist! 1976.
A 'fireball' landed in Putnam County, New York, near Brewster, October 8, 1967 around 3:30am; summer 1976 women were darted nearby – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.
John
Lloyd Stephens (November
28, 1805 – October 13, 1852):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lloyd_Stephens
October 18, 1973 a UFO near Cleveland, Ohio.
Early kamikaze attacks
began during the Battle
of Leyte Gulf,
October 25, 1944: Kamikaze, Cherry
Blossoms,
and Nationalisms by Emiko
Ohnuki-Tierney, 2002.
The
afternoon of October 25, 2018 F-15s were dispatched to
fruitlessly look
for a white UFO, not appearing on radar, at an altitude of about
40,000,' between Seattle and Portland – Flying Saucer
Digest #219
Winter 2018.
Manadel al-Jamadi (مناضل الجمادي) was killed during CIA interrogation at Abu Ghraib, Iraq November 4, 2003: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Manadel_al-Jamadi
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