Paracultural Calendar for Oct 14

[Jamie McKittrick]

I really fuckin' love these.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On this day in *1066*, during the Norman Conquest, in the Battle of
> Hastings, in England, on Senlac Hill, the Norman forces of *William the
> Conqueror* defeat the English army and kill *King Harold II* of England.
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> On this day in *1322*, *Robert the Bruce* of Scotland defeats *King
> Edward II* of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's
> independence.
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> On this day in *1888*, *Louis Le Prince* films first motion picture: *Roundhay
> Garden Scene*.
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> On this day in *1912*, while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the
> former President of the United States,*Theodore Roosevelt*, is shot and
> mildly wounded by *John Schrank*, a mentally-disturbed saloon keeper.
> With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Mr.
> Roosevelt still carries out his scheduled public speech.
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> On this day in *1933*, Nazi Germany announces its withdrawal from the *League
> of Nations*. Also on this day, in *1950*, soon-to-be-cult leader *Sun
> Young Moon* is liberated from prison in Korea. Thirty-two years later, on
> this day in *1982*, Moon weds 6,000 Unification church couples in a mass
> Moonie wedding. *Bob Marley* held his final concert on this day in *1980*.
> These events are all connected somehow. Yer old pal Jerky just doesn't have
> the time to figure it out right now.
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> On this day in *1962*, the world comes *thisclose* to total nuclear
> annihilation when photographs taken by a U-2 spy plane offer
> incontrovertible proof that the Soviets had set up missile bases on the
> island nation of Cuba. That put Soviet nukes a mere 90 miles off the
> American coastline. During the next two weeks, *Nikita Kruschev* and *John
> F. Kennedy* played the highest-stakes game of chess ever played in the
> history of all mankind. Thank Godzilla it ended in a twenty-eight-year
> stalemate!
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> On this day in *1966*, the city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation
> of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.
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> On this day in *1977*, child-abusing crooner *Bing Crosby* dies of a
> heart attack at 74 while vacationing in Madrid, Spain. Two months later, *der
> Bingle* records his last ever Christmas special.
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> On this day in *1979*, the first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C.,
> the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an
> end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and
> gay people", and draws 200,000 people.
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> On this day in *1981*, Vice President *Hosni Mubarak* is elected as the
> President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of
> Egypt, *Anwar Sadat*. He keeps that job for a looooong-ass time.
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> On this day in *1982*, U.S. President *Ronald Reagan* proclaims a *War on
> Drugs*. Chaos ensues.
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> On this day in *1994*, the Palestinian leader, *Yasser Arafat*, Prime
> Minister of Israel, *Yitzhak Rabin*, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, *Shimon
> Peres*, receive the *Nobel Peace Prize* for their role in the
> establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of the future Palestinian
> Self Government.
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