Today we celebrate a strange set of events spanning 1460 years, beginning with an army of Goths attacking Rome.
On March 11 (a few days before the Ides of March, don't y'know) 537, the Ostrogoth King Witgis set up his troops in camps around the various gates of Rome in a siege that would last a year and 9 days. It ended better for the Roman General Belisarius, though, when on March 20th, 538, the Ostrogoths dispersed in defeat.
Fast forward 1460 years, and two significant cultural figures from the 1960s were being given their props, some thirty years after their crowning acheivments.
On one side of the Atlantic ocean, the ashes of Star Trek's creator, Gene Roddenberry, were blasted off into space. Meanwhile, Queen Elizabeth II had Paul McCartney around to Buckingham Palace for the first time in three decades. The first time Macca had visited, back in 1965, she gave him and his fellow Beatles an MBE medal apiece. This time, she whipped out a sword and knighted him Sir Paul.
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