April 18 — Jo Labadie
American individualist poet, writer, anarchist theorist.
APRIL 18, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
* Zimbabwe: Independence Day
* Festival of Fabulous Wildmen
ALSO ON APRIL 18 IN HISTORY…
1839 — French decadent Charles Baudelaire expelled from college.
1850 — American anarchist poet Jo Labadie born, Paw Paw, Michagan.
1857 — American lawyer for the underdog Clarence Darrow born.
1898 — French Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau dies, Paris, France.
1906 — Great San Francisco earthquake destroys much of the city.
1955 — Relativist theorist Albert Einstein dies, Princeton, New Jersey.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective