An Anniversary We Don't Mark Properly

The French have a holiday and a parade on Bastille Day (though they long ago buried the horrible ideas which were unleashed on that occasion, and are now among the most conservative peoples in the world, striving for the attributes of a not very constitutional monarchy while calling it a Republic). The Americans, now a mighty empire, do the same on 4th July to mark their departure from another empire. The USSR used to commemorate the Bolshevik Revolution on 7th November and countless...