On This Day in Paracultural History

[Allan Balliett]

Thanks for brightening my day, Mark.

Hopefully, this will be a regular feature for the coming year! (?)

-Allan in WV

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On this day in *1799*, 4000 people attend *George Washington*'s funeral
> where *Henry Lee III*declares him as "first in war, first in peace and
> first in the hearts of his countrymen."
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> On this day in *1846*, trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without
> food, members of the*Donner Party* resort to cannibalism.
>
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> On this day in *1862*, the largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took
> place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die.
>
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> On this day in *1898*, *Marie and Pierre Curie* announce the isolation of
> radium. They would soon both die of radiation poisoning.
>
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> On this day in *1900*, a relief crew arrives at the lighthouse on the
> Flannan Isles of Scotland, UK, only to find the previous crew has
> disappeared without a trace. *Oo-We-oooo!
> <http://sjhstrangetales.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/the-flannan-isles-lighthouse-mystery/>*
>
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> On this day in *1982*, Time's *Man of the Year* is for the first time a
> non-human: the *Personal Computer*.
>
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> On this day in *1991*, the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and
> formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
>
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> On this day in *1996*, one of the most infuriating cases in the history
> of American jurisprudence gets rolling when 6-year-old beauty queen *JonBenét
> Ramsey* is found beaten and strangled to death in the basement of her
> family's home in Boulder, Colorado. To list all the reasons why it's
> obvious that the Ramseys either killed their daughter themselves, or else
> damn well know who did, would take more time and patience than I am
> currently willing to bestow upon the subject. Suffice it to say that the
> multi-millionaire couple were just too white and too rich to go to jail
> over something as trifling as a the brutal rape/murder of their own fucking
> daughter.
>
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>
> On this day in *2003*, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast
> Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel
> of Arg-é Bam. One year later, on this day in *2004*, a 9.3 magnitude
> earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India,
> Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the
> rim of the Indian Ocean, killing close to *a quarter of a million human
> beings*, for fuck's sake. Un-fucking-believable.
>
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