Paracultural Calendar for March 7

[Charles Albert]

*On this day in 1994, African National Congress chief Nelson
Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers that he establish a separate
homeland for them in South Africa. Meanwhile, in Liberia, Charles
Taylor resigns as President of of the African nation established by
American whites for African blacks who wanted to return to the Motherland
after being freed from slavery. There's a joke in there somewhere, but yer
old pal Jerky doesn't trust himself to tease it out without getting himself
in trouble.*

ROLL THEM BONES, J!

love,
cfa

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On this day in *161*, Emperor *Antoninus Pius* dies and is succeeded by
> his adoptive sons *Marcus Aurelius* and *Lucius Verus*.
>
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> On this day in *1774*, British forces close the port of Boston to all
> commerce. The resulting baked bean shortage leads to a marked increase in
> the air quality of neighboring colonies.
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> On this day in *1799*, *Napoleon Bonaparte* captures Jaffa in Palestine
> and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
>
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> On this day in *1876*, *Alexander Graham Bell *is granted a patent for an
> invention he calls the telephone.
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> On this day in *1900*, the German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
> becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
>
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> On this day in *1912*, *Roald Amundsen* announces that his expedition had
> reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
>
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> On this day in *1965*, a group of 600 civil rights marchers are
> forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
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> On this day in *1985*, the song "We Are the World" receives its
> international release.
>
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>
> On this day in *1988*, one-handed pitcher *Jim Abbott* wins the 58th
> James E Sullivan Award, which is given annually to the best one-handed
> player in Major League Baseball.
>
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>
> On this day in *1989*, Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over *Salman
> Rushdie*'s novel, *The Satanic Verses*. Britain doesn't much care, seeing
> as their "relations" with Iran hadn't been very "diplomatic" for decades by
> then.
>
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>
> On this day in *1993*, Diff'rent Strokes actor *Todd Bridges* is arrested
> for stabbing a tenant in the building where he worked as a superintendent.
> A cyclical process of recovery/relapse ensues, and *Entertainment Tonight* is
> there to squeeze every last iota of material from it.
>
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> On this day in *1994*, African National Congress chief *Nelson Mandela* rejects
> demand by white right-wingers that he establish a separate homeland for
> them in South Africa. Meanwhile, in Liberia, *Charles Taylor* resigns as
> President of of the African nation established by American whites for
> African blacks who wanted to return to the Motherland after being freed
> from slavery. There's a joke in there somewhere, but yer old pal Jerky
> doesn't trust himself to tease it out without getting himself in trouble.
>
> ***
>
> On this day in *1999*, death claims the mighty *Kubrick*.
>
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