NOVEMBER 8 — GEORGE MACIUNAS
Lithuanian-born founder of “Fluxus” radical arts group.

NOVEMBER 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
DUNCE DAY. Tunisia: TREE FESTIVAL.

ALSO ON NOVEMBER 8 IN HISTORY…
1674 — “Paradise Lost” poet John Milton dies.
1801 — Robert Dale Owen born, Glasgow, Scotland.
1895 — X-Rays discovered.
1897 — Catholic Worker Dorothy Day born, Brooklyn, New York.
1929 — Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City.
1931 — “Fluxus” founder George Maciunas born, Kaunas, Lithuania.
1898 — Surrealist painter René Magritte born, Lessines, Hainaut, Belgium.
1974 — U.S. Freedom of Information Act passed.

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 – MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
3. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – EUGENE DEBS
4. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – LEO HUBERMAN
5. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – MAN RAY