Paracultural Calendar for August 4

[glenn fuller]

On 08/06/2015 05:21 PM, Mark Thibodeau wrote:
> <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Second_Temple.jpg>
>
> On this day in the year *70 AD*, Jerusalem’s *Second Temple*, located 
> on the Temple Mount (aka Mount Zion) is destroyed by Roman occupiers. 
> The Second Temple had been built 586 years earlier to replace 
> *King Solomon's Temple*, which was destroyed by neo-Babylonian *King 
> Nebuchadnezzar II* upon his siege of Jerusalem and subsequent 
> enslavement of the Jewish people in 587 BC. Jewish eschatology holds 
> that, before the Messiah can appear on Earth, a Third Temple must be 
> built. Various messianic groups have attempted to get this project 
> started up, but that particular piece of real estate is one of the 
> most hotly contested spots on the face of the Earth... if not MOST 
> hotly contested
>
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> On this day in *1693*, a Frenchman by the name of *Dom 
> Perignon* allegedly invents the sparkling wine commonly referred to as 
> *Champagne*. This is a traditional belief, however, for which there is 
> no evidence or proof.
>
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>
> On this day in *1892*, the father and stepmother of *Lizzie 
> Borden* are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. 
> Borden’s subsequent trial and acquittal gave rise to the popular 
> rhyme: “Lizzie Borden took an axe. Gave her father forty whacks. When 
> she saw what she had done… Gave her mother forty-one!”
Shut your door... Lock and Latch it...  Lucy's loose....  With a brand 
new hatchet....
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1944*, a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo 
> to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and 
> arrest Jewish diarist *Anne Frank*, her family, and four others.
>
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>
> On this day in *1964*, civil rights workers *Michael Schwerner*, 
> *Andrew Goodman* and *James Chaney* are found dead in Mississippi 
> after disappearing on June 21. The film /Mississippi Burning/ is based 
> on these events.
>
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> On this day in *1964*, the destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy 
> report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin, near Vietnam. This 
> led to an escalation of American intervention in the region – and the 
> number of deaths on all sides – despite the fact that the events most 
> likely *never took place 
> <http://fair.org/media-beat-column/30-year-anniversary-tonkin-gulf-lie-launched-vietnam-war/>*.It 
> was, in many ways, the lie that launched America's war against Vietnam.
>
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>
> On this day in *1987*, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 
> rescinds the *Fairness Doctrine*, which had required radio and 
> television stations to present controversial issues fairly, giving 
> equal time to both sides of an issue.*Rush Limbaugh* ensues.

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