On This Day in Weird, February 24...
1510: Pope Julius II excommunicates the entire Republic of
Venice. Local priests ignore the papal hissy fit.
1807: Seventeen London residents die in the crush of
witnesses gathered to watch the hanging of murderers John Holloway, Owen
Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey.
1942: Rumors of enemy aircraft spark the one-sided
"Battle of Los Angeles," an overnight antiaircraft barrage lasting
into the next morning. Some modern Forteans blame the panic on UFOs. Steven
Spielberg gave the near-catastrophe a comic twist (and changed the date) in his
1979 film 1941.
1977: Witness Rudi Grutsch reports two humanoids with round
heads and slanted eyes, seen near a UFO AT Langenargen, Germany.
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