OCTOBER 29 — TERRY SOUTHERN
Inspired American black-humorist, beat-era social rebel.

Still from Easy Rider, co-written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern.

OCTOBER 29 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Iroquois FEAST OF THE DEAD: Held once every twelve years, the dead
are reinterred and honored, with a huge common grave dug and lined
with beaver skins. CANDY IS DANDY DAY.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 29 IN HISTORY…
1618 — British adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh executed for treason, London.
1897 — Land ownership and wealth theorist Henry George dies, New York City.
1901 — Leon Czolgosz electrocuted for assassination of U.S. President McKinley.
1929 — Pandemonium on Wall Street as stocks crash, capitalism in crisis.
1964 — Star of India and other gems stolen from Natural History Museum, NYC.
1995 — American underground satirist, writer Terry Southern dies, 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

Previously on Arthurmag.com:

1. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Henry George
2. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Margaret Sanger
3. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — JUN TSUJI
4. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Henri de Saint-Simon
5. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Lu Xun