Songster, poet, anarchist, pioneer of the social song. Over 2,300 perished, many of them emaciated Union soldiers returning north after being released from a Confederate prison camp. Ralph Waldo Emerson dies in Concord, Massachusetts. The jury finds no extenuating circumstances nor goes easy on him. Dr. Ben Reitman arrested in New York for distributing pamphlets on birth control.
Soviets attempt to repress all political protests of the raid.
Goldman helps collect food provisions for the starving anarchist prisoners. Hart Crane jumps overboard, a suicide at 34, while returning by ship from Mexico. The Check Is In the Mail. August Wilson lives, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Situationist International Spectacle is a slogan, used by a Paris based group known as Situationists, to describe capitalism, the state, the whole shooting match.