Three quick dates for November 13:
In the year 1004, the Abbo of Fleury died. The monk had written of doomsday predictions he heard preached from the pulpit at Notre Dame de Paris. However, Fleury’s report is one of the very few known instances of apocalyptic fear as Y1K approached. (That is to say, a popular conception that end-of-the-world fears were rampant around the year 1000, appears to be unfounded.)
In 1900, around 100 members of a Russian cult called the Brothers and Sisters of the Red Death committed mass suicide in the belief that the world was about to end.
And, most disturbingly of all, Roland Emmerich’s film 2012 was released to theaters on this date in 2009.
