Paracultural Calendar for Jan 14

[David Casseres]

"On this day in *1967*, the Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco,
California's Golden Gate Park, launching the *Summer of Love*."

BOOM BOOM Mahadev
– Allan Ginsberg, on that day

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On this day in *1639*, the state of Connecticut adopts *Rodger Ludlow*'s
> constitution, which he entitles the *Fundamental Orders*. One of these
> orders is that the peoples who inhabit "the River of Connectecotte and the
> lands thereunto adjoining" be given the right to "liberty of speech."
> Unfortunately, the document also give the Governor and various state
> representatives the right "to silence unseasonable and disorderly
> speakings." Unseasonable speakings? What the fuck does that mean? No
> talking about snowshoes in July?
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1794*, *Dr. Jessee Bennet* of Edom, Virginia, performs
> the first ever successful *Cesarean Section* operation on his own wife.
> Afterwards, he chops up the placenta, throws it into a bowl with some
> Romaine lettuce, bread crumbs, egg-whites and anchovies, thereby creating
> the world's first *Cesarean Salad*.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1896*, Italian immigrant *Carlo Ponzi* arrives in America
> and begins the world's first *pyramid scheme
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme>*, inspiring a generation of
> Multi-Level-Marketing "businesses" like *Herbalife *and *Amway*, wherein
> selling products isn't really the point. Rather, you sell *other people* the
> right to sell *other people* the right to sell *other people* the
> products... eventually, somewhere down the line. When the scam fizzled out
> - as all such scams must eventually do, by simple rules of mathematics -
> Ponzi was deported back to Italy in *1934*, where *Benito Mussolini* gave
> him a high position in the government's financial sector, where he promptly
> embezzled a fortune and escaped to Brazil, where he died in *1949*.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1943*, President *Franklin D. Roosevelt* becomes the
> first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office
> when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with *Winston Churchill*.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in the year *1938*, a gang of morbid, misanthropic goofs get
> together in New York and decide to form the *National Society for the
> Legalization of Euthanasia*. Their stated goals? *1)*To make sure a quick
> and painless death is available to anyone who wants or needs it. *2)* To
> increase awareness and acceptance of the practice of "mercy killing" as has
> long been practiced in secret by physicians and caregivers the world over.
> *3)* Freak out their parents and neighbors, by any means necessary.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1939*, after every other country in the world takes a
> pass, Norway claims a territory - "Queen Maud Land" - on the frozen
> continent of Antarctica.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1967*, the Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco,
> California's Golden Gate Park, launching the *Summer of Love*.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1973*, *Elvis Presley*'s concert *Aloha from Hawaii* is
> broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched
> broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1975*, teenage heiress *Lesley Whittle* is kidnapped by *Donald
> Neilson*, aka "the Black Panther". The details of Whittle's confinement
> and ultimately, her murder, are *absolutely chilling
> <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078229/Why-Donald-Neilson-k-Black-Panther-died-week-aged-75-chilling-killers-criminal-history.html>*
> .
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1990*, *The Simpsons* premieres on FOX.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *2004*, the national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the
> so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of
> some 500 years.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *2005*, the *Huygens probe* - launched from the *Cassini*
> *orbiter* two weeks earlier - lands on Saturn's moon Titan, giving us an
> astonishing video and audio record to marvel at. If only for this, I am
> glad Youtube exists. And yes, I know we ran this same video two weeks ago
> in commemoration of the orbiter launch, but who cares? If you missed it
> then, watch it now. If not... watch it again! It's that good.
>
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