Monday, February 16, 2009

2009 Anniversaries - Follow Up

As a follow up to my blog article on 2009 anniversaries, I should point out a few anniversaries that I missed at the time.
  • 50th anniversary of the Day the Music Died. While the anniversary, strictly speaking, memorializes the day Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash, some say that it was the beginning of the end of early rock and roll.
  • 50th anniversary of statehood for Hawaii.
  • 50th anniversary of statehood for Alaska.
  • 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.
  • 25th anniversary of overcoming the Orwellian destiny foretold in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Or did we?

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