October 21
Simply for future references and anyone who might be interested, this will be a short (hopefully short) log of events regarding this date and any of my comments that may follow.
Information will be partly derived from news, wikipedia and “365 Modern History-From World War Two to the World Wide Web: Great Stories from Modern History” by Gerard Cheshire with John Farndon
Note: These will only include topics of interest to me. It’s personal, after all, in a sense.
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In 2007 news
Iran court jails U.S.-Iranian scholar: report
Protester assails Blair in Palestinian mosque
HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) – Bodyguards subdued a Palestinian man Tuesday as he approached Middle East envoy Tony Blair, shouting “You are a terrorist.”
The world over-regards the words terrorists and terrorism. We are all terrorists to someone, ad we all practice terrorism daily. Just ask yourself what the pigs in the pen would be calling you if you can understand what they are saying. Ok, so they are pigs, not men.EC Copyright Overhaul Could Spur Google Book Project
Europe’s patchwork of copyright laws may soon get an revision from the European Commission in order to more easily compensate authors and publishers whose books are turned into digital works by companies like Google. If changes are not undertaken, book-scanning projects like Google’s could make digitized European works easier to find in the U.S. than in Europe.
Aphrodisiac attack wife convicted
A woman who fed her husband an aphrodisiac before cutting his throat and going off to meet another man has been convicted of attempted murder.
I wonder what was going on in the head of the woman. Seriously.
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1520 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
One of my childhood fantasies was to be on that very ship. For some reason, this was the one story I liked the most as a kid. Although, honestly, I can’t recall most of it.
1867 – Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate a reservation in western Oklahoma.
1895 – The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
And hence started what my grandparents considers-the better days of Taiwan. No kidding, for many elders, those were the peaceful days when you needn’t fear your neighbors. Do what you are told and don’t step out of line, everything will be fine. However, what’s life without some rebellion and turmoil?
1945 – Women’s suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
1945 – Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón married actress Evita.
1967 – Vietnam War: More than 100,000 war protesters gather in Washington, DC. A peaceful rally at the Lincoln Memorial is followed by a march to The Pentagon and clashes with soldiers and United States Marshals protecting the facility. Similar demonstrations occurred simultaneously in Japan and Western Europe.
I don’t understand the thing about Vietnam War. Actually, I don’t understand the thing about any war, except… drama is always “in”.
1978 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
Seriously, I would prefer it to have been a UFO, but then I don’t believe aliens would fly all that distance (or float all that distance) just to take 1 sample out the air. Unless, of course, there was some mass abduction as in 4400 that we are simply unaware of. How stupid can humans be? Quite stupid, apparently. Personally, I prefer Arthur C. Clarke’s notion of alien rendezvous as suggested in his “Rendezvous with Rama”. We’re tiny specks in the universe, why would the higher intelligence be interested in us anyways? Although it would be interesting to imagine that they might have a group of nerds studying humans like those in our world that studies bacteria.
1994 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weaponsprogram and agree to inspections.
2001-Anthrax claims third victim in US
Reading through the book, I’m excited about October 23 a lot more.
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