Paracultural Calendar for July 21

[Joe Allonby]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8a3W_LbKc4


On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> <http://dkiel.com/GreeceTurkey/Ephesus/ArtemisTemple/artemistemple.jpg>
>
> On this day in *356 BC*, the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the
> Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson. How does one burn down
> marble columns?!
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *365*, a tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt.
> The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the
> Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died
> outside the city.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1865*, the first-ever true-life old-timey "wild West
> showdown" takes place in Springfield, Missouri, when*Wild Bill Hickok* guns
> down *Dave Tutt* in the market square. Eight years later to the day, on
> this day in *1873*, the*James Younger Gang* pulls off the first-ever
> true-life old-timey train robbery. *Tupac* and *Biggie* had nothing on
> those gansta honkies, I tell ya whut.
>
> ***
> On this day in *1880*, twenty workers are killed during the construction
> of the *Hudson River Rail Tunnel*. The men had been able to dig beneath
> the river thanks to an air compressor that pumped 35 lbs of pressure into
> the void, thus preventing the river from collapsing down on top of them.
> But they were digging through soft silt, and when they came to within
> fifteen feet of the bottom, the whole thing blew out like a wad of *herniated
> chewing gum*
> <http://www.enr.com/advertise/aboutUs/125enrHistory/990208.asp>.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1973*, Mossad agents assassinate a waiter in Norway after
> mistaking him for one of the terrorists who took Israeli athletes hostage
> during 1972's Munich Olympics. D'Oh!!!
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1984*, our soon-to-be metallic overlords take the first
> tentative step in their plan to destroy the human race when a factory robot
> in Jackson, Michigan crushes a worker against a safety bar… history's first
> robot-related death!
>
> ***
>
> Also on this day in *1984*, fitness guru *Jim Fixx* - the man who
> single-handedly launched the jogging craze of the late seventies - dies of
> a massive heart attack at the ripe old age of… 43! *BWAH-HA-HA-HA!!!*
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1990*, legendary sour-puss *Roger Waters* and a cast of
> dozens perform the infamous prog-rock opera*The Wall* on the very site
> where the Berlin wall once stood. Paid attendance is around 200,000 people,
> but it is estimated that the real attendance figure was somewhere around
> 600,000. Every penny of the gate went to the War-Dead Fund.
>
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