Paracultural Calendar for Jan 25

[Mark Thibodeau]

On this day in *1881*, *Thomas Edison* and *Alexander Graham Bell* form the
Oriental Telephone Company.


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On this day in *1890*, *Nellie Bly* completes her round-the-world journey
in 72 days.


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On this day in *1919* the *League of Nations* is founded.


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On this day in *1924*, the 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the
French Alps, inaugurating the first ever Winter Olympic Games.


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On this day in *1947*, *Thomas Goldsmith Jr.* files a patent for a "Cathode
Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.


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On this day in *1971*, *Charles Manson* and three female "Family" members
are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.


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On this day in *1971*, *Idi Amin* leads a coup deposing *Milton Obote* and
becomes Uganda's president.


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On this day in *1981*, *Jiang Qing*, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced
to death.


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On this day in *1993*, five people are shot outside the CIA headquarters in
Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.


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On this day in *1995*, Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it
mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident
missile.


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On this day in *1996, Billy Bailey* becomes the last person to be hanged in
the USA.


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On this day in *1998*, during a historic visit to Cuba, *Pope John
Paul II* demands
political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning
US attempts to isolate the country. Meanwhile, in the States, everybody
loses their goddamn minds over a blowjob.


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On this day in *2005*, a stampede at the Mandhradevi temple in Maharashtra,
India kills at least 258.


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On this day in *2011*, the first wave of the Egyptian revolution begins in
Egypt, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of
civil disobedience, riots, labour strikes, and violent clashes in Cairo,
Alexandria, and throughout other cities in Egypt.
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