PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER 9

[Mark Thibodeau]

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On this day in *768*, *Carloman I* and *Charlemagne* are crowned Kings of
The Franks.

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On this day in *1446*, the *hangul alphabet
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul> *is published in Korea.

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On this day in *1514*, *Louis XII* of France maries England's *Mary Tudor*.
The sex is incredible.

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On this day in *1604*, Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to happen
in the visible Milky Way, is observed.

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On this day in *1635*, *Roger Williams* is banished from the Massachusetts
Bay Colony for complaining about civic powers being used to punish
religious dissidents and confiscate Indian land. With the help of native
Americans, he establishes a colony of his own: *Rhode Island*. Think about
that for a minute... this guy was too liberal for Massachusetts! It boggles
the frickin' mind!

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On this day in *1701*, the Collegiate School of Connecticut (later
renamed *Yale
University*) is chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.

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On this day in *1888*, the very *Freemason-friendly
<http://www.calodges.org/scrl/monthly/stones.htm>* *Washington
Monument* officially
opens to the general public.

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On this day in *1911*, an accidental bomb explosion in Hankou, Wuhan, China
leads to the ultimate fall of the Qing Empire. Interesting, how such a
thing can *happen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuchang_Uprising>*...

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Heralding the arrival of two of the most despised social trends in living
memory, one man in a moving automobile*telephones* another man in an
airborne plane for the first time ever on this day in the year *1947*.

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On this day in *1967*, Cuban revolutionary *Che Guevara* is executed
by *CIA-trained
soldiers* <http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB5/> in the jungles of
Bolivia, much to the delight of apolitical t-shirt vendors throughout the
pseudo-civilized world.

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On this day in *1969*, in Chicago, the United States National Guard is
called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with
the trial of the *Chicago Eight* that began on September 24.

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On this day in *1980*, *Pope John Paul II* shakes hands with the *Dalai
Lama* during a private audience in Vatican City.

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On this day in *1989*, an official news agency in the Soviet Union reports
the landing of a *UFO* in Voronezh.

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On this day in *1999*, artists such as the *Eurythmics*, *George
Michael*, *David
Bowie*, *Robbie Williams* and *Bono*take part in *NetAid*, an event to
raise money for global poverty. NetAid took place live on the internet and
at concerts in London, New York and Geneva. It was a pathetic failure
which, due to the structuring of the financing, actually*increased* Third
World poverty by nearly 47 percent.

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On this day in *2001*, the second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton,
New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack.

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On this day in *2006*, North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
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