Paracultural Calendar for March 6

Mark Thibodeau jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
Sat Mar 7 17:23:24 CST 2015


On this day in *1521*, *Ferdinand Magellan* arrives at Guam.

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On this day in *1820*, the Missouri Compromise is signed into law by
President *James Monroe*. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union
as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes
the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory
slavery-free.

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On this day in *1834*, York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.

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On this day in *1836*, after a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000
Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman *Davy
Crockett* and colonel *Jim Bowie*, defending the Alamo are killed and the
fort is captured.

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On this day in *1857*, the Supreme Court hands down its decision in the *Dred
Scott* case, establishing that slaves cannot be considered citizens. It
would take a Civil War, and the deaths of nearly ¾ of a million Americans,
to correct this stupid mistake.

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On this day in *1869*, *Dmitri Mendeleev* presents the first periodic table
to the Russian Chemical Society.

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On this day in *1899*, Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.

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On this day in *1943*, *Norman Rockwell* published Freedom from Want in the
The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by *Carlos Bulosan* as part
of the Four Freedoms series.

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On this day in *1951*, the trial of *Ethel and Julius Rosenberg* begins.

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On this day in *1953*, *Georgy Malenkov* succeeds *Joseph Stalin* as
Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union.

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On this day in *1964*, Nation of Islam's *Elijah Muhammad* officially gives
boxing champion *Cassius Clay* the name *Muhammad Ali*.

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On this day in *1967*, *Joseph Stalin*'s daughter *Svetlana Alliluyeva* defects
to the United States.

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On this day in *1970*, an explosion at the *Weather Underground *safe house
in Greenwich Village kills three.

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On this day in *1975*, for the first time the Zapruder film of the
assassination of *John F. Kennedy* is shown in motion to a national TV
audience by *Robert J. Groden* and *Dick Gregory*.

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On this day in *1978*, Klan assassin *Joseph Paul Franklin* shoots and
cripples *Larry Flynt*, apparently because he was enraged by an interracial
photo spread published in Hustler Magazine. Franklin was never prosecuted
for the attack on Flynt, but he currently sits in jail, considered party to
upwards of 20 racially-motivated murders and a number of other violent
offenses, including the attempted murder of former Clinton lawyer *Vernon
Jordan*.

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On this day in *1981*, *Walter Cronkite* signs-off as anchorman of The CBS
Evening News. Twenty-five years later, he's still kicking himself in the
ass for retiring too early and leaving that show-boating loon *Dan Rather *in
charge.
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