|
Vendémiaire
| Brumaire
| Frimaire
| Nivôse
| Pluviôse
| Ventôse
| Germinal
| Floréal | Prairial
| Messidor
| Thermidor
| Fructidor
| Sansculottides
 First
day of month of
Floréal
(Floral month), French
Revolutionary Calendar
On
October 24,
1793 the French
National Convention adopted the French Republican Calendar
(French Revolutionary Calendar) retrospectively as from September
22, 1792.
Napoleon
Bonaparte abolished it and restored the Gregorian
calendar on January
1, 1806 (the day after 10 nivôse an XIV), a little over twelve
years after its introduction. However, it was used again during the
brief Paris
Commune in 1871
(year LXXIX).
It was designed
by the politician and agronomist
Charles
Gilbert Romme, although it is usually attributed to
Fabre
d'Églantine, who invented the descriptive names of the months.
Instead of most days having a saint
as in the Catholic Church's calendar, each day has a
plant, a tool or an animal associated with it. Some enthusiasts
in France still use the calendar.
Each month
lasted 30 days and was divided into three decades. Every day had the
name of an agricultural plant, except the 5th (Quintidi)
and 10th day (Decadi) of every decade, which had the name
of a domestic animal (Quintidi) or an agricultural tool (Decadi).
Autumn
Vendémiaire
(from Latin vindemia, 'vintage'), begins Sep
22, 23
or 24
Brumaire
(from French brume, 'mist'), begins Oct
22, 23
or 24
Frimaire
(From French frimas, 'frost'), begins Nov
21, 22
or 23
Winter
Nivôse
(from Latin nivosus, 'snowy'), begins Dec
21, 22
or 23
Pluviôse
(from Latin pluviosus, 'rainy'), begins Jan
20, 21
or 22
Ventôse
(from Latin ventosus, 'windy'), begins Feb
19, 20
or 21
Spring
Germinal
(from Latin germen, 'seed'), begins Mar
20 or 21
Floréal (from Latin flos, 'flower'), begins Apr 20
or 21
Prairial
(from French prairie, 'meadow'), begins May
20 or 21
Summer
Messidor
(from Latin messis, 'harvest'), begins Jun
19 or 20
Thermidor
(from Greek thermos, 'hot'), begins Jul
19 or 20
Fructidor
(from Latin fructus, 'fruits'), begins Aug
18 or 19
 Sansculottides
The Sansculottides
(also Epagomenes; French Sans-culottides, Sanculottides,
jours complementaires, jours épagomènes) are the end
of the calendar. They follow Fructidor
and precede Vendémiaire
of the next year, belonging to the summer quarter of the year.
The Sansculottides, named after the Sansculottes,
amend the 360 days of the calendar so that the beginning of the next
year is on the autumnal
equinox. There were five Sansculottides in a common year and six
in a leap year (from this derives the French name of the leap year année
sextile). The Sansculottides start on September
17 or 18
and end on September
22 or 23.
| |
1re Décade |
2e Décade |
3e Décade |
| Primidi |
1. |
Pomme
(Apple) |
11. |
Salsifis
(Salsify) |
21. |
Bacchante
(asarum baccharis) |
| Duodi |
2. |
Céleri
(Celery) |
12. |
Macre (Water
Chestnut) |
22. |
Azerole
(Crete Hawthorn) |
| Tridi |
3. |
Poire (Pear) |
13. |
Topinambour
(Jerusalem Artichoke) |
23. |
Garence
(Madder) |
| Quartidi |
4. |
Betterave
(Beet Root) |
14. |
Endive
(Endive) |
24. |
Orange
(Orange) |
| Quintidi |
5. |
Oye
(Goose) |
15. |
Dindon
(Turkey) |
25. |
Faisan
(Pheasant) |
| Sextidi |
6. |
Héliotrope
(European Turnsole) |
16. |
Chervi
(Skirret) |
26. |
Pistache
(Pistachio) |
| Septidi |
7. |
Figue (Fig) |
17. |
Cresson
(Cress) |
27. |
Macjonc (Sweetpea) |
| Octidi |
8. |
Scorsonère
(Black Salsify) |
18. |
Dentelaire (Leadwort) |
28. |
Coing
(Quince) |
| Nonidi |
9. |
Alisier
(Chequer Tree) |
19. |
Grenade
(Pomegranate) |
29. |
Cormier
(Service Tree) |
| Decadi |
10. |
Charrue
(Plough) |
20. |
Herse
(Harrow) |
30. |
Rouleau
(Roller) |
Source: Wikipedia Website converts
Gregorian calendar to FRC (and has desktop
program)
High
resolution image of the calendar by Louis-Philibert Debucourt
(951x1098, 486 KB)
Antique
Decimal Watches Criticisms
and shortcomings of the FRC Julian day calculator (pop-up)
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converter for numerous calendars, including this one
Calendrica,
great calendar comparisons
The
Book
of Days index page shows the current day's date in the French
Republican Calendar
Lyrid meteor
showers (Apr 15 - Apr 28,
peaking Apr
22)
Egyptian
day (dies egypticus, dies ægypticus
or dies mala), unlucky day in Medieval
Europe. ("But, notwithstanding, I will trust the Lord" was
the associated saying.)
Feast day of St Agnes of
Montepulciano
(Spring snowflake, Leucojum vernum, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Agnes (1268 -
1317) was born into
a noble family in Gracciano, a small village near
Montepulciano
in Tuscany,
Italy, where, at
the age of nine she entered the monastery. A
prioress at 20, for 15 years she lived on bread and water, and
slept on the ground with a stone for a pillow. She gained a
reputation for performing miracles: people suffering from mental and
physical ailments seemed cured by her mere presence and she was
reported to have multiplied loaves on a number of occasions. After
her death, her body remained
incorrupt,
and a perfumed liquid flowed from her hands and feet. Or, so it is
said. She was canonized by Pope
Benedict
XIII in 1726.
The
Incorruptibles
The Incorruptibles.
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Anzy-le-Duc
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Grace-Dieu
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Feast day of St Margaret of
Amelia
Feast day of Blessed
Oda of Brabant
Oda of Brabant was a
Belgian
prioress of the
12th
Century.
Feast day of St Servilian
Feast day of St Simon
Rinalducci
Feast day of St Sulpicius
Feast day of St Theodore
Trichinas
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of Tomi
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Syria
Easter Rising
Day, Ireland
Nagasaki
Takoage, or Kite-Flying Event,
Nagasaki,
Japan (Apr 3 - 29)
Bunsui
Oiran Dochu, or Courtesan (oiran)
Parade, Nishkanbara, Niigita Prefecture, Japan (Apr 16 - 23)
Radunitsa,
ancestors' day/day of dead, Slavic
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dating of items in Wilson's Almanac
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2004); second
Monday and Tuesday after (Orthodox
calendar)
Easter (Great and Holy Pascha; April 11 in
2004), alternately May 1.)
See also yesterday, April 19
420 Pot smoke-out
In Canada and the United States, April 20 is a ceremonial
day to 'smoke out' (smoke marijuana).
The number 420 (pronounced four-twenty) is a euphemism
for the consumption of cannabis
and elements of its associated culture.
The exact origin of the term is unknown. Marijuana users gather on
April 20 every year to celebrate and consume marijuana. Source
Mawlid al-Nabi,
Muhammad's
birthday,
Islam
(date varies; see 571
below)
The day is fixed at the 12th day of the month of Rabi`-ul-Awwal
in the Islamic
calendar.
Ridván
begins at sunset (Bahá'í
Faith)
Festival
of Matsu, Southeast
Asia (2006)
On
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From Wikipedia:
Matsu (Hanyu
Pinyin: Māzǔ;
Wade-Giles:
Ma-tsu; literally 'Mother-Ancestor'; POJ:
Má-chó·), mortal name Lin Moniang, is the Taoist
goddess
of the Sea
who protects fishermen
and sailors.
She is extremely popular among the Taiwanese,
Fujianese,
Cantonese,
and Vietnamese
people, who have cultures strongly linked to the sea. The Matsu
Islands are named after her.
According to legend, Lin Moniang was born
in 960
(during the early Northern
Song Dynasty) as the seventh daughter of Lin Yuan on Meizhou
Island, Fujian.
She did not cry when she was born, and thus her given
name means "Silent Girl."
There are many legends about her and the
sea.
Although she started swimming
relatively late at the age of 15, she soon became an excellent
swimmer. She wore red
standing on the shore to guide fishing boats home, even in the most
dangerous and harsh weather.
According to one legend, Lin Moniang's father
and brothers
were fishermen. One day, a terrible typhoon
arose while they were out at sea, and the rest of her family feared
that those at sea had perished. In the midst of this storm,
depending on the version of the legend, she either fell into a trance
while praying
for the lives of her father and brothers or dreamed
of her father and brothers while she was sleeping.
In either the trance or the dream, her father and brothers were
drowning, and she reached out to them, holding her brothers up with
her hands and her father up with her mouth. However, Moniang's mother
now discovered her and tried to wake her, but Moniang was in such a
deep trance or dream that it seemed like she was dead. Moniang's
mother, already believing the rest of their family dead, now broke
down, crying, believing that Moniang had also just died. Hearing her
mother's cries, in pity, Moniang gave a small cry to let her mother
know she was alive, but in opening her mouth, she was forced to drop
her father. Consequently, Moniang's brothers returned alive (sadly
without their father) and told the other villagers that a miracle
had happened and that they had somehow been held up in the water as
a typhoon raged.
There are at least two versions of Lin
Moniang's death. In one version, she died in 987
at the age of 28, when she climbed a mountain
alone and flew to heaven
and became a goddess. Another version of the legend says that she
died at age 16 of exhaustion after swimming far into the ocean
trying to find her lost father and that her corpse later washed
ashore in Nankan
Island of the Matsu
Islands.
Her birthday-festival
is on the twenty-third day of the third lunar month of the Chinese
calendar. It falls in late April or early May in the Gregorian
calendar.
571 Muhammad
(the date of the prophet's birth is uncertain; different
dates are given by different sources – January 19, May 2, 570,
or 571, among others, are sometimes given as his birth date). It is believed he died on June
8, 632
(or 634) in Medina,
Saudi Arabia.
The Book of Days covers the prophet's birthday more
thoroughly at May 15, 570
CE.
702 Jafar
Sadiq (d. 765), Muslim scholar1633 Emperor
Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654) 1745 Philippe Pinel
(d. 1826),
physician 1808 Emperor Napoleon
III of France (d. 1873) 1818 Heinrich Göbel
(d. 1893),
inventor 1832
Ernst von
Leyden (d. 1910), physician 1871 Slavoljub
Eduard Penkala (d.
February 5,
1922), Croatian inventor
 "Slavoljub
Eduard Penkala was a naturalized-Croatian
engineer of chemistry and an inventor of the first
mechanical pencil (1906) (then called 'automatic pencil') and
the first solid-ink fountain pen (1907).
Also constructor of the first Croatian two-seat aeroplane
(1909).
He constructed and invented many other products and devices, and
has under his name a total of 80 patents. Among his inventions are
the hot water bottle, detergent,
rail-car brake and anode battery. He was associated with
'Radium Vinovica', a patent-medicine-like product,
presumably either misleadingly named or dangerous quackery.
Penkala was born in Liptowsky st. Mikulaš (in what is now Slovakia),
added 'Slavoljub' to his name after immigrating, and died in Zagreb
of pneumonia at the age of 51." Source:
Wikipedia
1879 Paul
Poiret (d. 1944), French couturier
1889 Adolf Hitler (d. April 30, 1945),
German (Austrian-born) dictator,
Führer and Reichskanzler.
His father, Alois Hitler (1832 - 1903), was
a minor customs official who had been born to unmarried parents. As
a young man he used his mother's surname,
Schickelgruber.
In 1876,
Alois took on his adoptive father's surname by having the church
declare him the son of that man after his death, which was
originally spelled 'Hiedler'.
Hitler died on Walpurgisnacht,
the German witching night, similar to
Halloween.
Source:
Wikipedia et al
The Occult Roots of Nazi Power
1889 Albert Jean Amateau (d. 1996), businessman and
social activist
1893 Harold Lloyd
(d. 1971),
actor
 1893
Joan Miró (d.
December 25, 1983),
Catalan (Spanish)
Surrealist
painter,
sculptor and
ceramicist
"While
often called a Surrealist, Miró was never a 'card-carrying'
member of the group, and never pledged any allegiance to the
'Pope' of Surrealism, André Breton … Miró was friendly with many
of the Surrealists, and collaborated with them on various
projects, but the movement was too theoretical to hold him for
long, and he followed his own individual course all his long
life."
Source: The Daily Bleed
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Miró online
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1895 Emile Christian
(d. 1973),
jazz
musician 1896 Wop May (d. 1952),
Canadian aviator 1900
Fred
Raymond (d.
January 10, 1954), composer 1908 Lionel Hampton
(d. 2002),
musician 1915 Joseph Wolpe
(d. 1997),
psychotherapist 1920 John Paul
Stevens, associate justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States 1923
Rita
Frances Rizzo, who became Mother Angelica, founder of Eternal
Word Television Network 1925 Tito
Puente (d. 2000), musician 1928 Gerald S
Hawkins (d. 2003), astronomer 1939 Gro Harlem
Brundtland,
Norwegian
diplomat, physician,
and an international leader in
sustainable development and
public health.
She is a former
Prime Minister of Norway, and has served as the Director General
of the
World Health Organization (WHO). She is also a
Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations
Secretary-General,
Ban Ki-moon. 1939 Peter S Beagle,
author 1940 George Takei,
actor (Star Trek) 1941 Ryan
O'Neal, actor 1943 John Eliot
Gardiner, English conductor 1943 Edie Sedgwick
(d. 1971),
actress 1949 Jessica Lange,
actress 1951 Luther Vandross,
singer 1962 Hank
The Angry Drunken Dwarf (d.
September 4, 2001), American radio and television
personality 1964 Crispin Glover,
actor 1964 Andy
Serkis, actor 1967 Mike Portnoy,
musician 1972 Carmen Electra,
actress 1976 Joey Lawrence,
actor
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46 BCE In a letter to Varro, Cicero indicated what he saw as
his role under the dictatorship of
Julius Caesar: "I
advise you to do what I am advising myself – avoid being seen, even if we cannot
avoid being talked about ... If our voices are no longer heard in the Senate and
in the Forum, let us follow the example of the ancient sages and serve our
country through our writings, concentrating on questions of ethics and
constitutional law."
1314 Death of Pope Clement V (b. 1264).
1534 England: Elizabeth Barton (b. 1506?), the mystical 'Nun of Kent', also known as
'The Holy Maid of London', 'The Holy Maid of Kent' and later 'The Mad Maid of
Kent',
was executed at Tyburn, for treason. She was put to death by King
Henry VIII
largely because of her prophecies.
She was a supporter of the Roman Catholics in
a time in English history when the
king, Henry
VIII, had declared himself head of the Church of England so
that he could divorce
his wife, Catherine of Aragon, and
marry Anne
Boleyn. Pope Clement VII
(as head of the Catholic Church) had outlawed this action, excommunicating
Henry in the process.
Barton claimed that she received messages from God during epileptic
seizures prophesying
the death of the King within six months should he go through with the marriage
to Anne Boleyn. As an opposition spokesperson against the actions of the King,
she received great notability both in London and across England, and her
claims were supported by many church leaders within the Catholic Church. Henry
lived for fourteen years after his marriage to Boleyn.
In the same year, Sir Thomas More was accused
of conspiring with Barton, but was able to produce a letter in which he had
instructed her not to interfere with state matters.
"Born
probably in 1506; executed at Tyburn, 20 April, 1534; called the 'Nun of
Kent.' The career of this visionary, whose
prophecies led to her execution under Henry VIII, has been the
source of a historical controversy which resolves itself into the question:
Was she gifted with supernatural knowledge or was she an impostor?
"In 1525, when nineteen years of age, being then
employed as a domestic servant at Aldington, Kent, she had an illness during
which she fell into frequent trances and told 'wondrously things done in
other places whilst she was neither herself present nor yet heard no report
thereof.' From the first her utterances assumed a religious character and
were 'of marvellous holiness in rebuke of sin and vice.'" Source
 1653 England: Oliver
Cromwell dissolved the Rump
Parliament.
Cromwell resolved to put an
end to the power of the so-called Rump Parliament, which was an impediment to
his own absolutism. On this day he ordered a company of musketeers to accompany
him to the House. He rose to speak
and told the representatives of their self-seeking and delays of justice. He got
into a violent harangue and said "It is not fit you should sit here any
longer – you have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. You
shall now give place to better men." With that he called in his armed men
and expelled the members, calling them drunkards and worse as they filed out.
"It is the Lord that hath caused me to do this," he said.
1657
Jews of New
Amsterdam (later New York City) were
granted freedom of religion.1689 The former King James
II of England, now deposed, laid siege to Derry. 1769 Death of Pontiac (born
c. 1720),
Chief of the Ottawa tribe .
1775
American
Revolutionary War: British troops began a
siege of Boston, Massachusetts.1792 France declared war on Austria. 1836 US Congress
passed an act creating the Wisconsin Territory. 1841 The first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe's
'Murders in the Rue Morgue',
was published.
1859 The first volume of
Charles Dickens's
A Tale
of Two Cities appeared.
1861
American Civil War: Robert
E Lee resigned his commission in the United States Army in
order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.1862 The first pasteurization
test was completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude
Bernard. 1884 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical,
Humanum
Genus. 1887 The first motor race took place, in Paris, with just one
entrant.
1900 Financially assisted (at
Lawson's request) by Lord Beauchamp, the Governor of New South Wales, Australian
author Henry Lawson
and his wife Bertha, with their two children, Jim and Bertha, set sail for
London. (Lawson also had written to bibliophile David Scott Mitchell asking for
money to go to England; whether he received any I do not know.) Lawson had hoped
to make a big success of himself in England, but things turned out otherwise.
Lawson & Co:
associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson Louisa and
Henry Lawson
1902
Pierre
and Marie
Curie refine radium
chloride (not fully purified to the isolated element). They thought they had
isolated it.1906 SF April 18 - 23, 1906
earthquake and fire chronology
1908 Forty-four people were killed at Sunshine railway station,
Victoria, Australia, when two trains collided.
1912 Death of Bram
Stoker (b. 1847),
Irish author best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula.
1913 Dancer Isadora Duncan's two children drowned when the car in
which they were travelling plunged into the Seine. (Duncan herself died
tragically in a car accident on September 14, 1927.)
 1914
USA: The Ludlow
Massacre of striking Colorado, USA coal miners and families by the
National Guard.
In an attempt to persuade strikers at Colorado's Ludlow Mine
Field to return to work, company 'guards', engaged by John D Rockefeller, Jr
and other mine operators – sworn into the State Militia just for the occasion
– attacked a union tent camp with machine guns, then set it afire. Five men,
two women and 12 children died as a result.
The Cleveland Leader, echoing the sentiments of
much of the US press, wrote,
"The charred bodies of two dozen women and
children show that Rockefeller knows how to win!"
The attack
started on this day after a miner and company guard got into a fight. When
strike leader Lou Tikas approached the company gunmen for a cease fire, he was
shot dead. On the next day, a telephone lineman going through the ruins found a
shallow pit beneath a cot with the charred remains of two women and 11 children.
After burying
their dead, armed miners took to the hills and began destroying mines and
killing guards. The Colorado governor asked for federal troops and, a few months
after the army arrived, the strike was broken.
Source: The Daily Bleed
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1918
Manfred von Richthofen
(The Red Baron) shot down his 79th
and 80th
victims, marking his final victories before his death the following day.1926 Western
Electric and Warner Bros. announced Vitaphone, a
process to add sound to film. 1929 Italy's King Victor III opened a parliament comprised of
Mussolini's Fascists.
1944 In a single raid on Germany, the RAF dropped a record 4,500
tons of bombs.
1945
US troops captured Leipzig, Germany, only to
cede the city to the Soviet Union at a later
date.1968 Pierre
Trudeau succeeded Lester B Pearson as Prime Minister
of Canada. 1968 English politician Enoch Powell made his
controversial Rivers of Blood
Speech. 1969 USA: Violence erupted at a rock concert at
Venice Beach, near
Los
Angeles, with 117 arrested. Trouble started when police chased a youth through
the crowd on the beach. When they cuffed him, the crowd started chanting
"Pig, pig, pig!" A riot ensued and none of the bands scheduled to play
appeared.
1969
People's Park was planted,
Berkeley,
California – a resistance to the encroachment of the authorities
into peoples' space. (On January
20, 1969, People's Park had been declared a National Hallucination.)
Wilson's
Almanac Book of Days hip list
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some Catholic and Protestant youth
groups had adopted the
Yellow Submarine as a religious symbol.
1972
Apollo 16
landed on the Moon.1979 President of the United States of
America, Jimmy Carter, was
'attacked' by a fluffy rabbit. 1983 The
unfortunately named
Korean Air
Lines Flight 007 was shot down by
Soviets in
Russian airspace. They claimed it was a
spy plane for the USA, and today it is
widely accepted that they were right. It was loaded with civilians, and many say
spy gear. Everyone aboard died.
1990 Soviet forces
took over Lithuania's state printing works.
1992
An all-star concert in memory of Queen frontman Freddie
Mercury was held at Wembley Stadium in London.
1995 USA: Two women with knives robbed a priest
of $1,500, New York.
Source: Calendar Riots
1996 The model for
the human in the Winnie-the-Pooh books, Christopher Robin Milne,
died.
"Father and son saw very little of each other during
Christopher's early years – perhaps half an hour at the breakfast table and a
few minutes before dinner, although Christopher sought every opportunity to
accompany his father on his frequent walks through the woods, where they both
shared a passion and joy in nature.
"In his late teens, Christopher forged a close
friendship with his father. His mother, Daphne, was more interested in fashion
and spending her husband's money than spending time with her shy son. After his
father's death, Christopher did not see his mother again, although she lived on
for another fifteen years."
Source
1999
Columbine
High School massacre, USA: Eric Harris
and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher before turning their guns
on themselves.
Many media
(eg, Reuters, UPI) erroneously call this, or the
Virginia Tech
Massacre the biggest school massacre, but it was
not; on May 18, 1927, 45 people were killed,
including 38 elementary students, by a series of dynamite explosions at the Bath
Michigan School detonated by Andrew Kehoe, a school board member
– the Bath School
Massacre.
The
Columbine Massacre you never hear about was November 21, 1927, when IWW picketing miners
were brutally massacred.
Source: The Daily Bleed
1999 Madejczyk massacre
averted, Bridgman,
Michigan school shooting plot. 2001 The anti-globalization
movement held a People's Summit and large protest marches, some of which were
forcibly put down by police, against the Quebec
City Summit of the Americas, a FTAA
summit in Quebec City, Quebec. The
Anti-Capitalist Convergence (La Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes, or
CLAC, in French) participated in the large-scale grassroots mobilization against
the FTAA.
The CLAC,
based in Montreal, organized a Carnival Against Capitalism (includes teach-ins,
conferences, workshops, concerts, cabarets, street theatre, direct actions,
protests and more) and helped to convene a North American anarchist conference
in conjunction with Peoples' Global Action against 'Free' Trade (PGA).
Source:
The Daily Bleed and
Wikipedia CounterCulture
Wiki
2002
The body of Alice
In Chains frontman Layne
Staley was found in his Seattle
apartment after dying from an apparent speedball
overdose on April
5.
2004
Severe thunderstorms
struck Chicagoland,
USA. An F3 tornado touched
down in Utica, Illinois,
claiming eight lives.2004
In Iraq, 12 mortars
were fired on Abu
Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92.
Tomorrow: Who killed the Red Baron?
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