Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
This Week in History:
June 11th - 14th
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Notes:
The 1956 film The Conquerer was shot in Utah and generally downwind of the Nevda US nuclear bomb tests. 91 members of the cast and crew developed some form of cancer. The film, about the life of Ghengis Kahn is considered one of the worst ever made.Wayne received a postumous Golden Turkey for his performance.
What the BBC ignored:
June 11 - 1955: 83 people killed in the Le Mans disaster, the worst accident in the history of motorsports
June 11 - 1963: Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government
June 11 - 1987: Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng, Bernie Grant and Keith Vaz are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain
June 11 - 1999: Deforest Kelley (Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy) dies aged 79
June 12 - 1967: The US Supreme Court delares all state laws again interracial marriage to be unconstitutional
June 12 - 2016: 49 people are killed and 58 inured in the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando
June 13 - 1966: The US Supreme Court in Miranda v Arizona rules that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them
June 13 - 1971: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers
June 14 - 2017: 72 people are killed and 70 injured in the Grenfell Tower fire
Would you have swapped any of the events above for any of the events chosen by the BBC? I'm sure the recording predates the Grenfell disaster.
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