PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR AUGUST 19

[Mark Thibodeau]

On this day in *295 BC* the first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of
love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by*Quintus Fabius Maximus
Gurges* during
the Third Samnite War

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On this day in *43 BC*, *Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus*, later known as
*Augustus*, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.

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On this day in *1612*, the "Samlesbury witches", three women from the
Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of
practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British
history.

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On this day in *1692*, Salem witch trials: in Salem, Province of
Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a
clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.

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On this day in *1839*, the French government announces that *Louis Daguerre*'s
photographic process is a gift "free to the world".

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On this day in *1934*, by dint of a national plebecite, the German people
hand over sole executive power to *Adolph Hitler*. The vote was
thirty-eight million for Hitler to four million, two hundred and fifty
thousand against... which means he had an approval rating of 88%.

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On this day in *1953*, the CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the
government of *Mohammad
Mosaddegh* in Iran and reinstate the *Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi*.

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On this day in *1960* in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2
pilot *Francis Gary Powers* is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the
Soviet Union for espionage.

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On this day in *1960*, the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the
dogs *Belka* and *Strelka*, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.

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On this day in the year *1972*, it is not beyond the realm of possibility
that a drunken, bare-naked *George Dubya Bush*snorted a line of cocaine off
a stripper's belly in a Tijuana tavern while his buddies beat the
bartender's blind old hound dog to death with their fat fucking wallets.

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On this day in *1987*, in the United Kingdom, *Michael Ryan* kills sixteen
people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.

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On this day in *1991*, Soviet President *Mikhail Gorbachev* is placed under
house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.

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On this day in *1991*, Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of
Crown Heights in New York, New York for three days, after two black
children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man.

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On this day in *2003*, a car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in
Iraq kills the agency's top envoy *Sérgio Vieira de Mello* and 21 other
employees.

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On this day in *2010*, Operation Iraqi Freedom comes to an end, with the
last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border into
Kuwait.
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