Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1978. január-június (32. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)
1978-05-04 / 18. szám
MAY 1. Count Miklós Zrínyi 1620 Count Miklós Zrínyi, great Hungarian poet-patriot, born. 1830 Birthday of “Mother” Mary Jones, trade union organizer and I.W.W. leader, active for more than three-quarters of a century in labor struggles. 1886 World’s first May Day demonstration held in U.S. 350.000 strike in many cities for the eight-hour day. The date was later adopted throughout the world as International May Day. WORLD’S FIRST MAY DAY, 1886 1900 Death of Mihály Munkácsy, world famous Hungarian painter. 1903 The first progressive Hungarian language American newspaper, Népakarat, published in New York. MAY 4. 1886 Explosion in Haymarket, Chicago, resulted in frameup of Albert Parsons and seven other leaders of the struggle for shorter hours. Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer and George Engel were hanged. 1970 The Ohio National Guard kills four students demonstrating for peace at Kent State College in Ohio. MAY 5. 1818 Birthday of Karl Marx. 1909 Birthday of Miklós Radnóti, renowned Hungarian poet. MAY 8. 1945 V-E /Victory in Europe/ Day brought World War II to a close in that arena. 1897 First soccer game played in Hungary 1869 First transcontinental railway line was finished with the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific at Promontory Point, Utah. MAY 13. 1607 Jamestown, Va.,was founded as the first permanent English settlement in the New World. 1916 Sholem Aleichem, great Yiddish author , died in New York City. MAY 14. 1970 State police officers at Jackson State College, Mississippi, fire into black students demonstrating for peace, killing two black students, wounding many more. MAY 15. 1954 György Dózsa unfurls the flag of peasant revolt in Hungary on the field of Rákos. MAY 17. 1954 U.S. Supreme Court, as a result of more than a century of struggle, handed down a decision outlawing segregation in the public schools. MAY 21. 1471 Birthday of Albrecht Dürer, world renowned painter, son of Albrecht Ajtós, Hungarian goldsmith. The family originally resided in the town of Ajtós /Door/, County of Bekes, whence their name derives. MAY 25. 1803 Birthday of Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer, active Abolitionist. IRON HORSES MEET, 1869 1824 Women weavers of Pawtucket, R.I. joined in first U.S. Strike of men and women together. MAY 30. 1937 Memorial Day Massacre in South Chicago. During a strike for a contract, workers of Republic Steel, their wives and children, held a parade which was attacked by 500 uniformed police. Ten were killed, hundreds wounded. Among the dead: Mike Eperjessy, Hungarian worker. REPUBLIC STEEL WORKERS MASSACRED, 1981 1964 Leo Szilard, noted Hungarian atomic scientist, co-worker of Einstein, builder, together with Fermi of first uranium reactor, died in U.S.A. MAY 31. 1819 Birthday of Walt Whitman, poet of American democracy. World famous son of a Hungarian goldsmith ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528) See note in Almanac A MEMORABLE. MAY DAY (continued from page 7) copy of Karl Marx’s Capital in Litographs by Hugo Gellert, doubly so because of the autograph of the author on this copy that you say he requested be sent to me. I see a strong resemblance in one of his lithographs to the one he made of me from memory after his visit to me on May Day /International Labor Day/ 1930 with Count Károlyi. Tell him when you see him that I feel highly honored by his drawing. I shall also write to Hugo myself later on, after I have had an opportunity to more closely examine and read the book. Please accept my profound thankful appreciation for sending me this splendid book which I consider a great contribution to proletarian literature and art. With warm personal greetings and good wishes, I am sincerely Tom Mooney When Count Michael Karolyi, first president of the Hungarian republic, and his friend, Hugo Gellert, visited San Quentin May 1 to visit Thomas Mooney, famous prisoner. Gellert made this sketch of Mooney, who hopes for an early pardon. For the past 60 years, Hugo Gellert has been a dauntless artist of the people. He is a teacher, writer, artist, unionist, muralist, humanist. 8 _________________________________AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZO________________Tl"'r,<lay- Ma) 4. me.
