The “International Day for Tolerance” is a new idea and wasn’t around when the Spanish were doing their thing in South America or when the Canadians were doing theirs up north. I guess we’re not the only ones who screwed over the natives in the New World. We’re just the ones everyone loves to hate for it.
From Wikipedia
November 16: International Day for Tolerance
- 1384 – Jadwiga was crowned “King of Poland” despite being a ten-year-old girl.
- 1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack in Cajamarca, Peru, capturing Sapa Inca Atahualpa.
- 1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and “Father of Manitoba”, was executed by hanging for high treason.
- 1938 – The psychedelic drug LSD (molecule pictured)was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, as part of a large research program searching for medically useful ergot alkaloid derivatives.
- 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline, an oil pipeline connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Alaska.
- 2002 – The first case of the respiratory disease Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was recorded in Guangdong, China.
I just love the little LSD molecule turning around and around and around . . .
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