Paracultural Calendar for Sept 15 (Gilles de Rais edition!)

[Mark Thibodeau]

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On this day in *1440*, one of the earliest known serial killers, *Gilles de
Rais*, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the
Bishop of Nantes. Was this one time ally of *Joan of Arc* really
guilty of *murdering
hundreds of children
<http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/rais/index_1.html>*,
as so many claimed? Some still wonder .

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On this day in *1835*, the HMS Beagle, with *Charles Darwin* aboard,
reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal,
the easternmost of the archipelago.

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On this day in *1916*, during World War I, tanks are used for the first
time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.

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On this day in *1935*, Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the
swastika.

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On this day in *1959*, *Nikita Khrushchev* becomes the first Soviet leader
to visit the United States.

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On this day in *1963*, the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four
children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama,
United States

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On this day in *1966*, U.S. President *Lyndon B. Johnson*, responding
to *Charles
Whitman*'s *sniper attack
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/mind-murderer_n_1384102.html>* at
the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the
enactment of gun control legislation.

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On this day in *1981*, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously
approves *Sandra
Day O'Connor* to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States

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On this day in *2008*, Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the
largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
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