Paracultural Calendar for April 20

[Mark Thibodeau]

On this day in *1939*, *Adolf Hitler*'s 50th birthday is celebrated as a
national holiday in Nazi Germany. Six years later, in *1945*, Hitler makes
his final trip to the surface of the Fuehrerbunker in order to award Iron
Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth. After returning underground,
he would never resurface alive.

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On this day in *1914*, the Colorado National Guard and a goon squad hired
by the *Rockefeller*-owned *Colorado Fuel and Iron Company* march on a tent
colony of striking miners and their families. Before the night was through,
nineteen people – including eleven children – would be killed in an event
that would come to be known as the *Ludlow Massacre*.

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On this day in *1939*, jazz singer *Billie Holiday* records what many
people consider to be the first Civil Rights song,*Strange Fruit*. Give it
a listen; it’s real good.

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On this day in *1968*, English politician *Enoch Powell* makes his
controversial “Rivers of Blood” speech, in which he takes a giant crap all
over the UK’s surging non-White population. Give it a listen; it’s real bad.

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On this day in *1998*, the left-wing German terrorist group *Red Army
Faction*, also known as *Baader-Meinhof*, announces its dissolution after
28 years. Seeing as most of the terrorist attacks attributed to them (and
many other left-wing European groups) were actually committed under the
aegis of *Gladio*, a clandestine fascist remnant, they needn't really have
bothered. This documentary is a good starting point if you want to
understand the truth about the evolution of Western Civilization in the
latter half of the 20th century.

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On this day in *1999*, psycho-teens *Eric Harris* and *Dylan Klebold* live
out the revenge fantasy dreams of *Doom*-playing teenage gun-nut *Rammstein*
 fans everywhere when they go on a record-breaking rampage at *Columbine* high
school in Littleton, Colorado. They left 13 dead and two dozen seriously
wounded in their wake, before turning their guns on themselves. But they
had even *bigger* plans. According to police reports at the time, Eric and
Dylan wanted to – get this – hijack a couple jumbo jets, fly them to New
York city, and *crash them into skyscrapers*
<http://www.columbine-online.com/etc/columbine-faq.htm>. Perhaps if they
had achieved their goal, *9/11* wouldn't have happened, seeing as no
suicide-hijacker worth his salt wants to be thought of as a rip-off artist.

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On this day in *2010*, *British Petroleum*’s *Deepwater Horizon* oil well
explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil
spill that would last for six freaking months. Here is a rundown of
all the *conspiracy
theories
<http://www.theweek.co.uk/13253/conspiracy-theories-behind-bp-oil-spill>* that
have grown up around this generation-staining ecological holocaust.
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