April 15 — Pierre Ramus
Austrian writer, pacificst, anarchist propagandist.
APRIL 15, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Jewish Passover begins.
*Tax Resister’s Day
*African Freedom Day
ALSO ON APRIL 15 IN HISTORY…
1452 — Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci born.
1882 — Anarchist Rudolph Grossman (aka Pierre Ramus) born, Vienne, Austria.
1889 — Painter and radical Thomas Hart Benton born, Neosha, Missouri.
1898 — Blues vocalist great Bessie Smith born, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1921 — Albert Enstein gives a lecture on temporal relativity.
1938 — Peruvian poet Cesar Vellejo dies, Paris, France.
1908 — Marxist existentialist Jean Paul Satre dies, Paris, France.
1986 — Gay French novelist, criminal, Saint Jean Genet dies, Paris, France.
2001 — Joey ramone, iconic punk outcast, dies of cancer, New York City.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective