July 16– Margaret Fuller
American transcendentalist, revolutionist, feminist activist.

JULY 16, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*U.S.: Atomic Bomb Day.
*Festival of Convivial Tools.

ALSO ON JULY 16 IN HISTORY…
1862 — Racial justice advocate Ida B. Wells born, Holly Springs, Mississippi.
1850 — Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller dies, shipwrecked, Fire Island, New York.
1918 — Russian Czar Nicholas and family executed by Bolsheviks

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Previously on Arthurmag.com:

1. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Tom Lyttle
2. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Margaret Sanger
3. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Henri de Saint-Simon
4. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Lu Xun