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Setting up as a prophet/ess can be profitable - but never let believers stop you partying...
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1
Jake Prescott sentenced to 15 years for alleged involvement in Angry Brigade bombings, 1971 |
2
Mass squat evicted, Buckingham House, Cleveland Street,
Marylebone, 1976. |
3
High Sheriff's attempt to burn Wilkes' North Briton magazine ends in riot, Royal Exchange, 1763. |
4
Whitehall Conference opens, 1655: leads to
re-admission of Jews to England after 365-year ban. |
5
Wayne Douglas dies in Brixton police station, 1995. Sparks rioting. |
6
Camberwell
Art College occupied
by students, 2010. |
7
Clarence Willbrook
refuses to show ID card to cop,
Finchley, 1950:
resulting
court case
leads to cards' abolition. |
8
Protest at Greek
embassy, Holland
Park, in solidarity with
riots in Greece, 2008. |
9
Millenarian
poet John Milton
born, Cheapside, 1608. |
10
14 'British
Committee for Withdrawal from
Ireland' activists
acquitted of incitement
to disaffect soldiers, 1975. |
11
19 journeymen
printers at
The Times jailed
'for conspiring', 1810. |
12
Hanging Judge Jeffreys caught in Wapping pub, fleeing after fall of his boss king James II. 1688. |
13
Pitched battle in
gasworkers' strike,
Old Kent Road, 1889. |
14
Poor box robbed,
Westminster Abbey, 1743 (tho' they hadn't given cash to any poor for years, so...) |
15
1921: Ediswan
light bulb factory,
Edmonton, occupied by
unemployed workers. |
16
Houndsditch
murders, 1911:
3 policemen shot dead by
'anarchist' jewel thieves. |
17
PM William Pitt's
coach stoned by
riotous mob, 1795. |
18
National Secular Society founded, Hall of Science, Old Street, 1861. |
19
William Hone tried for publishing seditious parody of Athanasian Creed, 1817. No, me neither. |
20
Actors nicked
in Clerkenwell, & jailed, after Commonwealth
bans plays, 1649. |
21
Riot in Newgate
Prison, 1648: weapons
smuggled in by visitors. |
22
TUC HQ,
Belgravia, besieged
by unemployed, 1926. |
23
Chartist socialist
Bronterre O'Brien
dies, Pentonville, 1864. |
24
300 attend funeral of Mad Pride founder Pete Shaughnessy, 2002 (he committed suicide on 15th). |
25
Puritan ban on Xmas festivities widely ignored in London, 1644. |
26
Tony's Cafe re-occupied, against gentrifiers of Broadway Market, 2005 (see Nov 29th). |
27
1814: Prophetess Joanna Southcott dies, not giving birth to expected messiah aged 64. Surprise!* |
28
Mass rally of Jewish radical workers, Mile End, 1889. |
29
Anarchist Thomas Cantwell, publisher of Freedom, dies, 1906. |
30
1770: Crew of
the ship Glatton fight off press gang attempt to force them into navy. |
31
1881: Salvation Army pelted with mud and rotten fruit by Skeleton Army, Blind Beggar, Whitechapel. |
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