Paracultural Calendar for March 1

[jochen stremmel]

>As of this day in the year *743 AD*, because of an official decree,
citizens of the Holy Roman Empire are no longer allowed to export their
servants and/or children to slave traders from "heathen" lands.<

Could it be that you mean the Eastern Roman Empire? The Holy one didn't
exist before 962 AD.

2015-03-02 0:31 GMT+01:00 Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>:

> On this day in *752 BC*, *Romulus*, legendary first king of Rome,
> celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses,
> following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
>
> ***
>
> As of this day in the year *743 AD*, because of an official decree,
> citizens of the Holy Roman Empire are no longer allowed to export their
> servants and/or children to slave traders from "heathen" lands. This might
> seem like a progressive move at first glance, but it had the unintended
> consequence of creating a white slave-trade deficit that sent shockwaves
> through the global economy.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1562*, 23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy,
> France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1633*, *Samuel de Champlain* reclaims his role as
> commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1692*, *Sarah Good*, *Sarah Osborne* and *Tituba* are
> brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning
> what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1780*, Pennsylvania becomes the first American state to
> abolish hereditary slavery. Children of Pennsylvania slaves were thereafter
> born "free"… to do what, exactly, Godzilla only knows.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1790*, the first United States census is authorized.
>
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>
> On this day in *1811*, King *Muhammad Ali Pasha*, founder of the modern
> state of Egypt, personally oversees the murders of over 500 Mameluke
> warriors in a single day's slaughter. I don't have a joke, here. I just
> like the word "Mameluke". We don't use it nearly enough these days.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1872*, Yellowstone National Park is established as the
> world's first national park.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1893*, electrical engineer *Nikola Tesla* gives the first
> public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1896*, *Henri Becquerel* discovers radioactivity.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1910*, the worst avalanche in United States history
> buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County,
> Washington, killing 96 people.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1912*, *Albert Berry* makes the first parachute jump from
> a moving airplane.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1932*, *Charles Lindbergh Jr*, the 20-month-old son of
> Nazi-sympathizing aviation legend *Charles Lindbergh Sr*, is kidnapped
> from his nursery in New Jersey. The child's corpse would be discovered
> buried not very far from the Lindbergh home, two months later, after the
> family paid a $70,000 ransom. If any of you old-timers know any Lindbergh
> Baby Jokes, kindly send them to yer old pal Jerky. I'm chokin' for a
> chuckle!
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1936*, the Hoover Dam is completed.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1937*, the first ever permanent automobile license plates
> are issued, in the state of Connecticut. Prior to that, drivers had to
> chalk in their license numbers on small blackboards that were affixed to
> the front of every vehicle sold.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1947*, the International Monetary Fund begins financial
> operations.
>
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>
> On this day in *1953*, Soviet Premier *Joseph Stalin* suffers a stroke
> and collapses; he dies four days later.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1954*, the Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is
> detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst
> radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1954*, Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States
> Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1961*, American President *John F. Kennedy* establishes
> the Peace Corps.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1966*, Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus
> becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1970*, Family-man *Charles Manson* releases his first
> album. Entitled Lie, the folk-tinged collection of melodies fails to find
> an audience. You know, maybe if Manson had scored a gold record, things
> might not have soured so quickly for the hippies. In other words… it's a
> good thing it flopped!
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1971*, a bomb explodes in a men's room in the United
> States Capitol: the *Weather Underground* claims responsibility.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1989*, the United States becomes a member of the Berne
> Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1990*, *Steve Jackson Games* is *raided by the United
> States Secret Service <http://www.sjgames.com/SS/>*, prompting the later
> formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1998*, *Titanic* became the first film to gross over $1
> billion worldwide.
>
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