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Default Darker Side of the Holidays

-This is a rather macabre side to holidays and the events that have transpired because of them or on them. You've been warned-

I thought it would be fun to educate each other on events that happen on various 'Happy' Holidays.

So Here are a few I've found

Valentines Day

Saint Valentine's Day massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1382, England: The first known association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is in 1382's "Parlement of Foules" by Geoffrey Chaucer, but the earliest origins of the holiday can be found hundreds of years earlier. The date was likely named in honor of a priest who was clubbed, stoned and then beheaded in the 3rd century for marrying young couples in contravention of Claudius II's edict forbidding marriage.

1537 England: King Henry VIII declared, by Royal Charter, that England would celebrate February 14th as "Saint Valentine's Day". The irony of a King, most remembered for having married six women, divorcing two and beheading another two, celebrating Valentine's Day doubtlessly

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