Many terrible things have happened on this day in history, and I feel that I should get the word out there so people are aware of these terrible occurrences.



A few famous people died on this day, such as Christopher Columbus, Gilda Radner and Randy Savage.

In 1631, the city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.

In 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.

In 1940, The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.

In 1956, in Operation Redwing (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

In 1965, PIA Flight 705, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 720 – 040 B, crashes while descending to land at Cairo International Airport, killing 119 of the 125 passengers and crew.

Year unknown, Klimbatize is born. Someone somewhere also dies. A horrible painful death, to be sure.

In 1983, the first publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.



Hooray for massacres!

Hooray for slavery!

Hooray for genocide!

Hooray for nuclear weapons!

Hooray for plane crashes!

Hooray for AIDS!



And Hooray for Klimbatize! Happy Birthday!