| June Fleadh Festival - London
01 Battle of the Bean Field 1985 - Britain's
biggest mass arrest and show of police brutality - the force's reputation hasn't improved
much since, but with Peace Officers in Brixton now, perhaps people will find honest, good
public servants to protect and serve them.
06 *** A football match on Burn Fen is the guise for
anti-enclosure rioters from Ely and Lakenheath (Cambridgeshire) to assembly and destroy
the drainage ditches (1638).
07 Radiohead play South Park, a
homecoming show, to 42,000 people in Oxford. Profits go to various local charities.
12 *** Brazil's Valentine's Day - voluntary groups
normally give away around a million free condoms for the celebrations.
15 *** Magna Carta signed in 1215. Certain squatter's
rights still survive: hold a place for 12 years and it's yours.
16 Youth Day
20 Sun worship day
21 Summer solstice - also *** First
druid summer solstice festival held at Stonehenge (2183 BCE) also Deptford
X starts in Rocklands. (Deptford turns into one big gallery and family of
galleries come and live art in the bohemian South East of London Punk City) until
July 7
22 *** Joe "Brown Bomber"
Louis becomes world heavyweight boxing champion (1937) and flattens Hitler's "Great
White Hope", Max Schmeling in the first round in 1938. |