Paracultural Calendar for April 7

[Mark Thibodeau]

The leader of a small sect of nationalist Jewish separatists is crucified
by Roman troops in Jerusalem on this day in the year *30 A.D.*

***

On this day in *451*, *Attila the Hun* sacks the town of Metz and attacks
other cities in Gaul.

***

On this day in *1827*, *John Walker*, an English chemist, sells the first
friction match that he had invented the previous year.

***

On this day in *1943*, in Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to
undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the
nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.

***

On this day in *1945*, the Japanese battleship *Yamato*, the largest
battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of
Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

***

On this day in *1948*, the *World Health Organization* (WHO) is established
by the United Nations.

***

On this day in *1967*, film critic *Roger Ebert* published his very first
film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

***

Today in *1969* is the Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.

***

On this day in *1978*, development of the neutron bomb is canceled by
President *Jimmy Carter*.

***

On this day in *1990*, Reagan/Bush National Security Advisor *John
Poindexter* is found guilty of five charges relating to the Iran-Contra
scandal, including obstruction of justice, conspiracy and destroying
evidence. The nation of Costa Rica still bars him entry after having
officially labeled him as a drug trafficker. But that didn't stop *Preznit
Dubya* from naming Poindexter to head up the Orwellean "Information
Awareness Office" in February of 2002. He's only one of many former
political felons who once have returned to positions of influence in the
USA. Do some digging *HERE* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poindexter> if
you're interested.

***

On this day in *1994*, massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
***

On this day in *1995*, Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of
civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.

***

On this day in *1997*, singer *George Michael* is arrested for jacking
himself off in front of an undercover cop in a notoriously gay pickup
washroom. *Pee Wee Herman* mistakenly assumes this means the heat is off.
Dream on, Pee Wee!

***

On this day in *2003*, U.S. troops capture Baghdad;* Saddam Hussein*'s
regime falls two days later.

***

On this day in *2009*, former Peruvian President *Alberto Fujimori* is
sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by
security forces.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20150407/14943e40/attachment.html>