More events than you can shake a stick at.
quote:excerpt: 1649 -- John Milton appointed Secretary of Foreign Tongues by the new Commonwealth government. http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton.html
1723 -- One of the important German lyric poets of the period, Johann Christian Güt;nther dies in Jena, Germany.
1810 -- Aernout Drost, Dutch writer whose historical novels are the first important works of the 19th-century Romantic movement in The Netherlands, lives, Amsterdam. His first novel, Hermingard van de Eikenterpen ("Hermingard of the Oak Burial Mounds," 1832), portray the conversion of a Germanic woman to Christianity in 4th-century Holland.
1812 -- England: Luddites attack Mr Vickerman's establishment, Taylor Hill, Huddersfield destroyed.
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1869 -- First federal women's suffrage amendment ever introduced in U.S. Congress.
1873 -- The Italian Congress of the International meets, Bologna.
Originally planned for Mirandola, where Cleso & Arturo Cerretti lived. But the local section was dissolved, Cerretti arrested, & so the delegates gather today meet at a Bologna factory.
Tomorrow, March 16, Andrea Costa, Errico Malatesta, Alcesto Faggioli, A. Negri & other delegates are arrested, but the Congress is able to meet elsewhere, with 53 delegates representing 50 sections: these include local federations of Naples, Florence, Ravenna, Rimini, Turin, Mirandola, Modena, Ancona, Siena, Pisa, Rome; sections of Forli, Faenza, Lugo, S. Potito, Fusignano, Fermo e circondario, Menfi, Sciacca (Sicily), Osmimo & numerous smaller localities.
dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/malatesta/nettlau/ nettlauonmalatesta.html
1874 -- France assumes 'protectorate' over Annam (Vietnam).
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1917 -- Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates as revolution sweeps his country. Marxist-Lennonists will predominate over the long haul despite all opposition. http://www.novanw.com/donsworld/firesign_theater.htm
1929 -- D. H. Lawrence, in Paris looking for a publisher for Lady Chatterley's Lover, meets Harry Crosby of The Black Sun Press; they disagree violently about everything. http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/dhl/index.html
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1937 -- Crackpot fantasist H.P. Lovecraft dies, Providence, Rhode Island.
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
---H.P. Lovecraft
1939 -- Hitler occupies Bohemia. http://www.omix.com/sites/newBohemia/home.html
1944 -- Sly Stone, guitarist/founder of Sly & the Family Stone, lives.
1953 -- Russia: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Uncle Joseph Stalin dies in his sleep, Moscow, USSR. http://www.pagesz.net/~stevek/europe/lecture10.html
1955 -- Colonel Tom Parker becomes Elvis Presley's manager. Parker manages Presley all his life & after his death. Some people die more than others.
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1971 -- Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet.
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