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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
August 1:
1867 - African Americans vote for 1st time in a state
election in South (Tennesee).
August 2:
1991 - Sad day for the revolution - Funk singer Rick James,
arrested on sexual torture charges - what the hell was he thinkin'?
August 3:
1941 - In an effort to feel endlessly inferior, The Man
brought Martha Stewart into this world, on this day in 1941.
August 4:
1988 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer
fraud case.
August 5:
1861 - U.S. levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over
$800)
1966 - Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march
1981 - President Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers
who struck 2 days ago
August 6:
1890 - Axe murderer William Kemmler is the first person
executed in the electric chair in the United States. The first 17 second
shock of 1,000 volts failed, so an additional shock was required.
Not everyone was impressed by the "humanity" of the new method
and an expert interviewed for the New York Times said that the execution
was "an awful botch, Kemmler was literally roasted to death".
(The
Electric Chair)
 1970
- Hippies and Radical Yippies try to take over Disneyland. 750 infiltrate
the park, take over the Wilderness fort, raise the Vietcong flag and
pass reefers out to passersby. This was a protest by the "Youth
International Party" to make a statement against Disney's policies
against long hair and mini skirts. The photo at right shows police on
Main Street. (More
Info)
August 7:
1991 - Did anyone actually go for this?...Manhattan Cable's
final day of amnesty to return illegal cable boxes
August 8:
1846 - The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Wilmot
Proviso, a controversial measure that bans slavery from territory acquired
in the Mexican War. The proviso fails to pass the Senate.
1974 - President Richard M. Nixon announced he'd resign
his office 12 p.m., August 9.
August 9:
1870 - The British Parliament passes the Married Women's
Property Act, which grants women limited control over property they
bring into a marriage and income they earn outside the home.
1936 - Berlin Olympics, African American track star Jesse
Owens wins his fourth gold medal of the Games in the 4x100-meter relay.
His relay team set a new world record of 39.8 seconds, which held for
20 years. In their strong showing in track-and-field events at the XIth
Olympiad, Jesse Owens and other African American athletes struck a propaganda
blow against Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, who planned to use the Berlin
Games as a showcase of supposed Aryan superiority. (History
Channel)
1997 - Brooklyn's 70th police precinct sodomize 30 year
old Haitian immigrant Abner Louima with a toilet plunger, then insert
the feces-contaminated plunger into Louima's mouth. Police tried to
explain the damage done to the suspect as resultant from homosexual
activity, but a medical examination was inconsistent with this claim.
August 10:
1981 - The Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes.
August 11:
1984 - During a radio voice test Pres
Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever.
We begin bombing in 5 minutes".
August 12:
1988 - In Hollywood, the controversial
religious movie "The Last Temptation of Christ" was released,
sparking protests from evangelical church groups across the nation.
August 13:
1831 - Nat Turner leads uprising of
slaves in Virginia.
August 14:
1971 British begin internment without trial in Northern
Ireland.
August 15:
1969 - The Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened. Two dozen
bands came to play on a wooden stage in the middle of a pasture. It
was a happening unlike any other. 450,000 people formed a love-in for
three days and nights. Joan Baez was there, Sly and The Family Stone,
The Who, Jefferson Airplaine, Santana, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young,
Janis Joplin, and Arlo Guthrie, too.
Although many different types of people attended the festival, many
were members of the counterculture, often referred to as "hippies,"
who rejected materialism and authority, experimented with illicit drugs,
and actively protested against the Vietnam War.
Much of the music had a decided anti-war flavor. Representative of this
genre was the "Fixin' to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish.
This song and its chorus ("And it's one, two, three, what are we
fighting for…Don't ask me, I don't give a damn, next stop is Vietnam….And
it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates…There ain't no
time to wonder why…Whoopie, we're all gonna die!") became
an anti-war classic. Jimi Hendrix closed the concert with a freeform
solo guitar performance of "The Star Spangled Banner." Woodstock
became a symbol of the 1960s American counterculture, sticking it to
The Man and a milestone in the history of rock music.
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