Paracultural Calendar for June 1

[Monte Davis]

There's also the sad decline of "filibuster," which was a lot more
interesting when it denoted adventurers like Walker than it is now.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:14 AM, David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "On this day in *1855*, American lawyer, journalist and "filibuster" *William
> Walker* conquers the nation of Nicaragua with an armed band of
> mercenaries and rules it for just over one year before being routed by
> Central American forces led by *Costa Rica*. Walker would be executed in
> 1860. In 1987, cult film director *Alex Cox* would make an insane film,
> *Walker*, about this incident. You can watch the whole thing right here."
>
> As a Costa Rican-American, I've never been so disappointed by a movie as I
> was by this one. There are several real and amazing stories to be told, but
> this movie totally avoided all of them in favor of a handsome-rascal
> confection. What a wretched waste of Ed Harris's talent.
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR JUNE 1
>> <http://uselesseaterblog.blogspot.ca/2015/06/paracultural-calendar-for-june-1.html>
>>
>> <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Fleurs-du-mal_destruction.jpg>
>>
>> On this day in *1495*, friar *John Cor* records the first known batch of
>> Scotch whisky in – you guessed it – Scotland! Yummy!
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1533*, *Anne Boleyn* is crowned Queen of England. And
>> she lives happily ever after
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1779*, *Benedict Arnold*, a general in the Continental
>> Army during the American Revolutionary War and a man whose name would go on
>> to become synonymous with treason, is court-martialed for malfeasance.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1813*, *James Lawrence*, the mortally wounded commander
>> of the USS Chesapeake, gives his final order: "Don't give up the ship!"
>> This is an early instance of "meme" spreading, as soon, word spreads and
>> everybody knows what he said.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1855*, American lawyer, journalist and "filibuster" *William
>> Walker* conquers the nation of Nicaragua with an armed band of
>> mercenaries and rules it for just over one year before being routed by
>> Central American forces led by *Costa Rica*. Walker would be executed in
>> 1860. In 1987, cult film director *Alex Cox* would make an insane film,
>> *Walker*, about this incident. You can watch the whole thing right here.
>>
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1857*, French poet *Charles Baudelaire*'s *Les Fleurs du
>> Mal* is published.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1916*, *Louis Brandeis* becomes the first Jew appointed
>> to the United States Supreme Court.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1921*, one of the most shameful pages in the Great
>> American History Book is written when the *Black Wall Street Riots
>> <http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/> *take place. A prosperous
>> black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma is burned to the ground by a 5000-strong
>> mob of armed white folk, who were enraged that a 100-strong mob of armed
>> black men had convened on City Hall in order to prevent the lynching of a
>> shoe-shine boy accused of "impugning the dignity" of a white female
>> elevator operator. She later admitted making up the story. At one point,
>> the city called in bi-planes to air-bomb the community with dynamite,
>> leveling it. Officially, the body-count was 81 (21 whites, 60 blacks), but
>> estimates have ranged as high as 3000. Many records were destroyed during
>> and after the attack, and efforts are underway to examine abandoned
>> mine-shafts in the area, long-believed to have been used as mass graves for
>> hundreds of unaccounted-for blacks.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1958*, *Charles de Gaulle* comes out of retirement to
>> lead France by decree for six months.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1962*, after being kidnapped by Mossad in South America,
>> Nazi official *Adolf Eichmann* is hanged in Israel.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1967*, the Beatles release their magnum opus, *Sgt.
>> Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* by The Beatles is released.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1974*, the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking
>> victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1979*, the first black-led government of Rhodesia (now
>> Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power. And they all live happily ever after.
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *1980*, eccentric billionaire *Ted Turner*'s Cable News
>> Network -- better known as *CNN* -- begins broadcasting its particular
>> blend of USA Today-style quasi-news-nuggets and obsessive-compulsive
>> over-coverage of irrelevant bullshit... And it's been all down-hill from
>> there.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *2001*, a Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at the
>> Dolphinarium disco in Tel Aviv, Israel. Also on this day in *2001*,
>> Nepal's *King Birendra* -- the only Hindu king in the world -- has his
>> reign cut shot by his useless, fat-faced son, the sullen *Party Boy
>> Prince Dippy*, who went bonkers, unloading a couple clips of ammo into
>> King Birendra and seven other royal family members, including the Queen and
>> his own brothers and sisters, before turning the gun on himself. In a
>> shocking twist, as he lay brain dead in hospital, *Prince Dippy* was
>> crowned *King of Nepal* in accordance with the laws of the land. Sparing
>> the nation the indignity of having a mass murderer as the head of its royal
>> family, Prince Dippy graciously succumbed to his wounds later that same
>> day, at which point *Gyanendra*, brother of the slain King, was crowned
>> just in time to preside over the funerals of over a half-dozen of his
>> family members..
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *2009*, Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic
>> Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All
>> 228 passengers and crew are killed. Also on this day in *2009*, General
>> Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United
>> States bankruptcy in history.
>>
>>
>>
>> ***
>>
>> On this day in *2013* - that's today - *One World Trade Center* opens in
>> Lower Manhattan, New York City.
>>
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