Paracultural Calendar for April 20

[jochen stremmel]

Hey,
nice that you went out of your way
to put somebody between Hitler and Holiday!

2015-04-21 3:56 GMT+02:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
> *****
>
> 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*.
>
> *****
>
> 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.
>
> *****
>
> 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.
>
> *****
>
> 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.
>
> *****
>
> 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.
>
> ***
>
> 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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