AUGUST 28 — E. P. THOMPSON
British radical social historian and anti-war activist.

AUGUST 28, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FESTIVAL OF NEON REVOLUTION.

ALSO ON AUGUST 28 IN HISTORY…
1749 — Writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe born, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1882 — Anarchist Praxedis Gilberto Guerrero born, Los Altos de Ibarra, Mexico.
1903 — Utopian nature planner F. Law Olmsted dies, Belmont, Massachusetts.
1916 — Radical American sociologist C. Wright Mills born, Waco, Texas.
1919 — Seattle mayor demands “hang or incarcerate all anarchists for life.”
1993— British Marxist historian E. P. Thompson dies, Upper Wick, Worcester.

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