Paracultural Calendar for Feb 23

[Mark Thibodeau]

If at first you don't succeed... on this day in the year *1574*, Catholic
France begins its fifth "Holy War" against French Protestant Huguenots. The
reason why you don't know what a Huguenot is, is because they killed them
all.

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On this day in *1820*, a plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers
is exposed. The Cato Street Conspiracy.

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On this day in *1836*, the *Battle of the Alamo* begins in San Antonio,
Texas.

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On this day in *1861*, President-elect *Abraham Lincoln* arrives secretly
in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot
in Baltimore, Maryland.

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On this day in *1896*, the *Tootsie Roll* is invented.

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On this day in *1898*, writer *Émile Zola* is imprisoned in France after
writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism
and wrongfully imprisoning Captain *Alfred Dreyfus*.

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On this day in *1903*, Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in
perpetuity".

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On this day in *1918*, the last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits
suicide.

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On this day in *1927*, German theoretical physicist *Werner Heisenberg* writes
a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his
uncertainty principle for the first time.

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On this day in *1941*, Plutonium is first produced and isolated by *Dr.
Glenn T. Seaborg*.

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On this day in *1954*, the first mass inoculation of children against polio
with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.

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On this day in *1987*, *Supernova 1987a* is seen in the Large Magellanic
Cloud.

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On this day in *1997*, a small fire occurs in the Russian space station,
Mir.

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It was on this day in *1999 *that yer old pal Jerky took over writing
duties on The Daily Dirt from the previous author, *Pig McBaker*, after Pig
decided to pursue career opportunities in Angola, where he worked
alongside *Jonas
Malheiro Savimbi*, leader of the Angolan rebel group UNITA. Unfortunately,
Savimbi was killed <http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/507.cfm> by theAngolan
army a while back, and yer old pal Jerky hasn't heard from Pig ever since.
Hey, Pig! If you're reading this, drop us a line and let us know you're
still out there!
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