This Day in Radical History- Sept.18th-Huxley begins teaching Orwell

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September 18
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school

1634: Spiritual freethinker Anne Hutchinson arrives in Boston.

1838: Under forced removal order of Indiana Governor J. Tipton, Potawatomi are delivered to the ironically named "Immigrant Agency."

1850: Fugitive Slave Act is passed, specifying harsh penalties for those who interfere with the apprehension of runaway slaves. A part of the Compromise of 1850, it offers federal officers a fee for captured slaves.

1851: First issue of The New York Times was published, featuring an editorial by a mythical industrialist named "Thomas Friedman."

1873: Jay Cooke and Company, banking agent for the Northern Pacific Railroad, fails, touching off the Panic of 1873. The New York Stock Exchange closed its doors by the end of the month. 5,183 businesses failed as the nation suffered a severe depression that lasted until 1877.

1889: Hull House is opened by Jane Addams and associates with the intention of helping immigrants settle and naturalize in Chicago.

1891: Harriet Maxwell Converse (her Indian name was Ga-is- wa-noh--"The Watcher") became the first white woman to be named chief of an Indian tribe. Converse became chief of the Six Nations Tribe at Tonawanda Reservation in New York. She had been adopted by the Seneca tribe seven years earlier because of her efforts on behalf of the tribe.

1895: Booker T. Washington makes a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. Known as the "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Washington advocates acceptance of a subordinate role for African-Americans, espouses peaceful coexistence with white Southerners, and deems agitation for social equality "the extremist folly." The speech reportedly leaves some African-American listeners in tears and incurs the wrath of W.E.B. DuBois and others, but secures his reputation among whites as a successor to Frederick Douglass.

1895: Birth of Daniel David Palmer. Gave the first chiropractic adjustment to Harvey Lillard in Davenport, Iowa--now the home of Palmer Chiropractic College.

1917: Aldous Huxley, 23, is hired as a schoolmaster at Eton, where he counts among his unruly pupils Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell).

1945: Voline, Russian revolutionary and anarchist historian, dies. He had been arrested on Jan. 14 by military agents of Stalin and dragged from one prison to another. Trotsky already had ordered his execution, and according to Voline, he escaped death only by sheer accident: in 1921 the Red Trade Union International held a Congress in Moscow. The delegates included representatives of some anarcho-syndicalist organizations in Spain, France, and other countries, who had come to ascertain whether an alliance with this new International was feasible. They arrived just as anarchists in the Taganka prison went on a hunger strike for over 10 days. The Bolsheviks, publicly embarrassed and embroiled with the scandal in the Congress, released the hunger-strikers on the condition that they leave Russia. It was the first time political prisoners were deported from the vaunted Red Fatherland of the Proletariat.

1958: Termination without tribal consent was ended "in spirit" (but not in practice) by U.S. Secretary of Interior.

1968: After two months of protests, Mexican federal troops occupy National University in Mexico City, taking 3,000 prisoners, including professors and parents. The students, in alliance with poor workers, made a last stand in the suburb of Tlatelolco, which left 20 dead and 75 wounded.

1970: Rock legend Jimi Hendrix dies of an accidental barbiturate overdose, London. At least it was his own vomit.

1971: Three police killed, hundreds hurt protesting Narita airport plan, which would destroy farmlands northeast of Tokyo.

1975: Eighteen months after her abduction, San Francisco police "rescue" kidnapped heiress-turned-revolutionary Patty Hearst, killing most of her Symbionese Liberation Army comrades in the process.

1975: George Jackson Brigade bombs a Seattle Safeway store in solidarity with the grape boycott.

1980: Cuban Cosmonaut Arnoldo Tamayo becomes first Black in space. 1985: U.S. and U.S.S.R. reach a tentative agreement on a world-wide ban of medium-range nuclear missiles. Hopes of reducing the number of missiles soon ended in Iceland when Soviet Premier Gorbachev called for a limit on the development of "Star Wars" weapons and Ronald Reagan refused.

1987: Pope John Paul II, whose authority rests solely on 2,000 years of Christian tradition, speaks to Native American leaders in Phoenix, Arizona, urging them to forget the past.

1991: Native American political prisoner Eddie Hatcher is stabbed four times in back by a prisoner paid by the prison administration, North Carolina.

1997: Ten killed by Islamic militant gun and bomb attack on bus. Cairo, Egypt.