Friday, November 8, 2024

PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR NOVEMBER 8


On this day in 1519Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.

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On this day in 1901, bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. Of all the reasons to riot… 

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On this day in 1917, the People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir LeninLeon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin. Trotsky soon falls out of favor, however, and gets an ice pick to the forehead.

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On this day in 1923Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch takes place in Munich, where he leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

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On this day in 1937, the Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.

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On this day in 1960John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States.

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On this day in 1973, the right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay 2.9 million USD.

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On this day in 2002, UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". The brutal irony being, of course, that Iraq had already disarmed, and that the US was going to invade no matter what... the bully only beating up his victim once he'd tied both the victim's hands behind his back.

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On this day in 2004, more than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. It's a freaking massacre and a war crime. But nobody gives a fuck.

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