Pick an interesting one!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_22
609 – Muhammad claims to receive his first revelation.
Here's some information that I bet you didn't know:
Major schools and branches of Islam (N.B.: Ja'fari and Twelver boxes are interchanged)
I bet JP would pick this one:
1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).
my pick: 1984 – Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, New York.
Even though I was living in California, this NY case had big coverage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_York_City_Subway_shooting#Shooter
"Goetz was tried before a Manhattan jury of 10 whites and 2 blacks, of whom 6 had been victims of street crime. He was acquitted of the attempted murder and first-degree assault charges and convicted of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree ... Some saw the incident as racial (with Goetz being white and the four young men black), and the jury verdict as a blow to race relations ... An investigation by the office of U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani determined that the impetus for the shooting had been fear, not race. In an interview with Stone Phillips of Dateline NBC, Goetz later admitted that his fear was enhanced due to the fact that the alleged muggers were black."
Carl,
I was thinking the exact same thing too about JD's pick if he made one.
"An investigation by the office of U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani determined that the impetus for the shooting had been fear, not race. In an interview with Stone Phillips of Dateline NBC, Goetz later admitted that his fear was enhanced due to the fact that the alleged muggers were black."
Dugh. I am not racist in stating this statistic, with the link below:
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-black-americans-commit-crime
"Blacks were disproportionately likely to commit homicide and to be the victims. In 2008 the offending rate for blacks was seven times higher than for whites and the victimization rate was six times higher."
Goetz was living in the real world where he witnessed real threats from real crimes from real people.
Just like cops, common sense tells them that there is a MUCH higher threat from black muggers.
If purple people with green faces committed violent crime at a rate 7 times higher than blacks and some purple people with green faces were confronting me aggressively, you bet that I would have even MORE fear!
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/story-bernhard-goetz-subway-vigilante-article-1.815968
"Mayor Edward Koch quickly condemned the shootings. "Vigilantism will not be tolerated in this city," he said. "We are not going to have instant justice meted out by anybody." Koch now ordered 1,350 street cops to join transit police in patrolling the subway system, which, in 1984, had logged nearly 12,000 felonies."