1977: Gay activists picket the blasphemy trial of Gay News for printing James Kirkup's poem
about a Roman centurion having sex with Jesus's dead body...
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Blasphemy - a free festival for the mind.
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1
Jack Cade's
Kentish rebel army
enters Southwark, 1450. |
2
1893: Anarchists
hold 'indignation meeting' over money spent on a
royal wedding, Hyde Park. |
3
1970: Bomb attacks on Spanish tourist offices and army recruiting centres in Holborn and S. London. |
4
Gay News
blasphemy trial starts, 1977, over James Kirkup's poem imagining sex
between
Jesus & a roman soldier. |
5
Daniel Eaton found
guilty of publishing
seditious books,
Guildhall, 1796.
(See 24 Feb)
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6
London
dock strike starts, 1810. |
7
School
for pickpockets busted,
near Billingsgate, 1585. |
8
2 silkweavers hanged for kiling strike-breaking bosses' nark Dan Clarke, Bethnal Green, 1771. |
9
Edward
Oxford declared insane
for shooting at Queen
Victoria, 1840. Insane? |
10
Locals fight
police in Hackney/
Stoke Newington, 1981,
during UK-wide riotfest. |
11
Pro-fascist Greek
queen jostled and booed
at Aldwych theatre, 1963, during constraversial
visit. |
12
Romford, 1987:
Debenhams branch firebombed by anti-fur activists. |
13
'Crimp house'
(anti-army recruitment) rioters march on
Whitehall & attack Prime
Minister's house 1794. |
14
Women strikers from Backs Asbestos factory
march to East London
Federation of Suffragettes
Womens Hall, 1914.
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15
1981: Rioting in Brixton
after police raids (following previous
riot on 10th). |
16
'Legalise Pot' hippy
fest, Hyde Park, 1967. |
17
8000 join one-day East
End strike against racist
attacks & murders, 1978.
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18
International
Revolutionary Congress held, Fitzroy Square, 1881. |
19
Lobby of Parliament
occupied by disability
rights protestors, 2017. |
20
As king struggles
with barons; poor
folk destroy enclosures
on common ground, 1262. |
21
Big meeting
demanding political
reform, Smithfield, 1819. |
22
Anabaptists Jan Pieters
and Hendrick Terwoort
burned at Smithfield,
1575. (See 3 April). |
23
'First International'
denounces Franco-Prussian
War, 1870: "solidarity with
workers of both countries!" |
24
Owzat?!
2 houses in Elm Tree
Rd, St Johns Wood, owned by nearby Marylebone Cricket Club, squatted.
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25
Having lived as man,
Dr James Miranda Barry dies, Marylebone, 1865: revealed after death to have been born a woman. |
26
Reynolds hanged,
Tyburn, for riot in which tollgate was destroyed. 1736.
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27
Urban Free
festival,
Fordham
Park,
Deptford,
1991. |
28
Convicted of plotting
revolution, Chartists
Cuffay, Fay, Dowling, &
Lacey put on transport
ship at Woolwich, 1849. |
29
1829: The first Met Police
go on patrol; generally
reviled as 'Blue Lobsters'. |
30
Dock strike ends, 1970.
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31
1971: Trade & Industry Minister John Davies
house bombed
by Angry Brigade. |
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