PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR MAY 18

[Danny Weltman]

I think Shawn Nelson's rampage was on the 17th, not the 18th. At least,
here in San Diego 20 years after the fact, I was keeping a wary eye out for
tanks yesterday, whereas I had thought I was safe today...

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> <http://brianabbott.net/media/photos/travels/1994/POSTCRD1.jpg>
>
> On this day in *1152*, *King Henry II* of England marries *Eleanor of
> Aquitaine*, an *incredibly fascinating*
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine> world-historic person
> in her own right.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1804*, *Napoleon Bonaparte* is proclaimed Emperor of the
> French by the French Senate, which kind of flies in the face of the ideals
> behind the entire Revolutionary Project, but whatever.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1896*, a mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during
> the festivities of the coronation of Russian *Tsar Nicholas II* on the
> day of his 28th birthday results in the deaths of... hold on, can this be
> right? 1,389 people?! Sheez, that must have been some serious-ass panicking!
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1910*, the Earth passes through the tail of *Halley's
> Comet*. Despite many contemporaneous prophecies to the contrary, life as
> we know it does not cease to exist right then and there.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1927*, 45 second-to-sixth graders are killed and 58 more
> are wounded when a huge cache of explosives planted by anti-tax activist *Andrew
> Kehoe* explodes beneath a school in Bath, Michigan. It took Kehoe a year
> to plan his atrocity, and months to pack the school full of explosives
> which he then detonated remotely, herding his victims for maximum carnage,
> before blowing up his own shrapnel-packed car with himself inside it. He
> even issued a number of vague threats before doing the dirty deed, but
> nobody caught on.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1944*, the Soviet Union exiles more than 200,000 Tartars
> from Crimea because they were collaborating with the Nazis. And to think…
> the only thing the USA did with *their* Nazi collaborators - *Preznit
> Dubya*'s grand-daddy being chief among them - was give them a slap on the
> wrist and hand their descendants the keys to the White House. It's kind of
> funny, in an utterly fucking disgusting kind of way.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1974*, *India* becomes the sixth nation in world history
> to explode an atomic bomb... not counting Atlantis.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1980*, *Mount Saint Helens* erupts, gushing forth
> billions of gallons of volcanic ash, killing between 57 and 65 people
> (depending who you ask) and blasting away a huge chunk of the mountainside.
>
> *****
>
> On this day in *1995*, a crystal-meth-addicted, half-psychotic,
> authority-hating Army vet named *Shawn Nelson* steals an M60 Patton Tank
> from a National Guard base in San Diego and goes on a rampage, destroying
> cars, fire hydrants and other property before being gunned down by police
> after getting stuck on a median.
>
>
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