Paracultural Calendar for Jan 25

[Mark Kohut]

Well, we blew our minds over a FEW BLOWJOBS...

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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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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