October 10 — CHARLES FOURIER
French utopian socialist, prophet of lemonade seas.
OCTOBER 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FEAST OF THE CHAINS OF TRANSMISSION.
ALSO ON OCTOBER 10 IN HISTORY…
1837 — French utopian socialist Charles Fourier dies, Paris, France.
1917 — Jazz great Thelonious Monk born, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
1941 — Ogoni environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa born, Bori, Nigeria.
1973 — Beloved and Respected Comrade Leader U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns in financial scandal and disgrace.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective