Happy Zombie Calendar Day!
What some of you may not know is July 15th is a national holiday in the United States! It’s Calendar Day! It’s a little known holiday that no one follows because I just made it up. The thing is though it is the day that a SLEW of calenders are released. So I am now turning this into Happy Zombie Calendar Day!
For the rest of the day all you will see here are the zombie themed calendar releases for 2011! YES! (Lazy editor… skimping on posts for the entire rest of the day by just posting calendars. You should be ashamed. ASHAMED AT HOW LAZY YOU ARE!)
Other important events of July 15th:
- 1353 – Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410 z. 1410)
- 1381 – John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England. (Suspected of being a Zombie?!)
- 1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign. (Later used to show zombies were once thought to be a curse from the Egyptian Gods.)
- 1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage. (Ralph also uses this time to claim Jesus was the first zombie.)
- 1888 – The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people. (Fortunately it was later discovered that at least 300 of them were already dead and it helped prevent the spread of an outbreak.)
- 1927 – Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna. (All 89 of them later returned from their graves.)
- 1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. (This is later ignored when we discover the wonderful effect of small nuclear warheads in cities overrun by the undead.)
- 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous “malaise” speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as “this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.” (He later uses a focus against zombies to give purpose to our nation.)
- 1983 – The Orly airport attack in Paris leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured. (Sadly the 30 of the 55 turned, eating the remaining survivors.)
- 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. (The flight recorder’s last message was ‘bbrraaiinnss’)
- 2002 – “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. (He was used in experimentation on how long it takes one to turn into one of the undead.)
