In the French Revolutionary Calendar, today Saturday, November 2, 2013 is: Duodi 12 Brumaire, the forty-second day of year 222 of the revolutionary era—the second day of décade 5 of this year, and the twelfth day of Brumaire, the second month in the French Republican Calendar. Fête du jour (Feast day of the people): Macre (Water Chestnut: The water chestnut is actually not a nut at all, but an aquatic vegetable that grows in marshes, underwater in the mud. It has tube-shaped, leafless green stems that grow to about 1.5 metres. In China, they are most often eaten raw, sometimes sweetened. They can also be ground into a flour form used for making water chestnut cake, which is common as part of dim sum cuisine. They are unusual among vegetables for remaining crisp even after being cooked or canned, because their cell walls are cross-linked and strengthened by certain phenolic compounds, like oligomers of ferulic acid.This property is shared by other vegetables that remain crisp in this manner, including the tiger nut and lotus root.) All days of the French Revolutionary Calendar had the name of an agricultural or ornamental plant, except the 5th (Quintidi) and 10th days (Décadi) of every decade, which had the names either of a domestic animal on the fifth day (Quintidi) or an agricultural tool on the tenth day (Décadi). Ninety six years ago today was the tenth day of the Russian Revolution! 1789. French Revolution. Constituent Assembly decrees expropriation of Church property. 1909. Washington. Police arrest 150 in IWW free speech fight in Spokane. 1917. Russia. The Soviet Government proclaims the Declaration of Rights of the Peoples of Russia, permitting the nationalities of Russia to break away and have full independence. Meanwhile, M. V. Frunze leads the Red Guards of Petrograd, sailors of the Baltic Fleet, and Red Guard detachments from Ivanovo-Voznesensk to reinforce the Moscow workers. This breaks the back of the counter-revolutionary forces. 1920. USA. Railroad union leader & socialist Eugene V. Debs receives a million votes for president while in prison. 1932. UK. Beginning the day before, the months long march to London by the Hunger Marchers Army broken up by police in Trafalgar Square and the marchers have been dispersed and escorted out of London. W. A. L. Hennington, head of the movement, and other leaders were arrested on the charge of sedition, and the offices of National Unemployed Workers Movement (N.U.W.M.) raided and destroyed. 1963. Vietnam. Ngô Ðình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup. 1965. Washington, D.C. A man dies when he sets himself on fire to protest Vietnam War in front of the Pentagon.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 09:45:23 +0000