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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 2/5/25: A Few Notable Anniversaries [1]
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Date: 2025-03-05
In my topic search I saw that there were several anniversaries that are relevant to events happening today.
1558 Smoking tobacco introduced into Europe by Spanish physician Francisco Fernandes. Lungs were never the same after that.
1616 Astronomical work 'de Revolutionibus' by Nicolaus Copernicus placed on Catholic Forbidden index. Looks like science will be forbidden again.
1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings. I hope he didn’t die in vain.
1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes) How’d that work out?
1945 World War II: The Battle of the Ruhr begins. Oh, that was how it worked out.
1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of Europe. So much for that.
1960 The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase. People still believe to this day.
1970 "Airport" based on the book by Arthur Hailey, directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin is released. Remember this disaster movie? We’re going to live it.
2019 Kylie Jenner is the world's youngest-ever billionaire at 21, according to Forbes. How to get rich by doing absolutely nothing.
Are we happy yet?
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