And, playing catchup, Paracultural Calendar for Jan 29th!

[Mark Thibodeau]

On this day in *904*, *Sergius III* comes out of retirement to take over
the papacy from the deposed antipope *Christopher*.


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On this day in *1845*, "The Raven" is published in the *New York Evening
Mirror*, the first publication with the name of the author, *Edgar Allan
Poe*.


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On this day in *1886*, the first ever gasoline-driven car is patented by *Karl
Benz*, in Germany. Fly rides ensue.


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On this day in *1891*, *Liliuokalani* is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its
last monarch.


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On this day in *1959*, Cuba's highly corrupt and unpopular Batista regime
crumbles. Dictator *Fulgencio Batista* flees the country, and revolutionary
leader *Fidel Castro* steps up, immediately proving himself to be almost as
big of an asshole as the asshole he replaced. Almost.


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On this day in *1967*, the proclaimed "ultimate high" of the hippie era,
the *Mantra-Rock Dance*, takes place in San Francisco and features *Janis
Joplin*, *Grateful Dead*, and *Allen Ginsberg*.


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On this day in *1976*, the world-famous *Zeiss Planetarium* in the
Netherlands is burned to the ground after a Laser Floyd show gets out of
hand.


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 On this day in *1987*, CIA director *William J. Casey* steps down after
six years spent managing Black Ops, Wet Ops and Psy Ops for the
*Bush/Reagan* regime. Lucky break for *Bush the Elder* that Casey should
*die* <http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_15.htm> just two days
before he was scheduled to testify in the *Iran/Contra* hearings.


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On this day in *1996*, President *Jacques Chirac* announces a "definitive
end" to French nuclear weapons testing.


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On this day in the year *1998*, pro-life terrorists score one for Jesus in
Birmingham, Alabama, when they bomb an abortion clinic, killing a police
officer and severely mutilating and blinding a receptionist.


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On this day in *2002*, In his State of the Union address, President *George
W. Bush* describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in
which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
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