In the year 1564 of the common era (CE), at the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church issues its (mostly non-sensical) conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing with the power of semantics and rhetoric a distinction between the Roman tradition of Christianity and various other traditions that had developed in protest to it, and beginning a period of reformation that, five hundred years later, is still to be completed…but hey, we’re getting there. Three hundred and ninety-eight years later bishop Burke of the Catholic diocese of Buffalo, New York declares the dance craze named for Chubby Checker's song The Twist to be impure and bans it from all Catholic schools.
In the year 1784 CE, Benjamin Franklin expresses his unhappiness over the election of the American Bald Eagle, a bird of prey and a scavenger, as the simple of the newly formed nation, preferring the voluptuous fecundity of the turkey instead.
In 1926 CE John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television in his laboratory in London, England.
In 1972 CE, Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant from Serbia, survives a fall of 10,160 meters without a parachute; eleven years later, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
In 1978 CE Frank Herbert completes his novel: Destination Void, in which he examines the dangers of the quest for artificial intelligence, the social, ethical and spiritual implications, set in a comparative context with Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein.
