The events API had already been pretty crippled some time ago, looks like it's been made close to entirely useless now.

This is interesting to me, cause while I think their motivation was mostly about PR (although who knows, it's just kremlinological speculation), events are the main thing that keep many people I know from abandoning facebook -- it's the only way to find out about what's going on in many social circles. I contemplated trying to make something that used API to keep you in the loop on events on FB without having to actually use FB; it already wasn't really possible, now _really_ not possible.

Although wait, there is still iCal feeds for at least some read-only access.... okay, back to the my own research on the matter. :)