October 23rd: Today in 4004 BC the Earth was created, well it was if you go by the Ussher-Lightfoot calendar anyway. But who cares if it is pin point precise or not, it is a great excuse for a party! Yes, you can come dressed as your favorite dinosaur, but try not to draw too [...]
October 22nd: Today on 1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first known sucessful parachute jump from a hot air ballon three thousand feet above Paris. This sadly was one of the few ways available to him to participate in Extreme Sports in the dark days before the X-Games.
October 21rst: Today in 1805 the forces of the Red battled the forces of the Blue at the Battle of Trafalgar which ended as a major victory for one or the other of the forces giving them near total control of the seas. The nations involved havent been mentioned to avoid giving any national offence, [...]
October 20th: Today in 1955 Return of the King was published, the last of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books. I read this series of books first in fifth or six grade after having the first two books read to me by our babysitter Debbie. A true hero, she refused to read my sister [...]
October 19th: Today in 1781 General Cornwallis surrenders the largest British field army in America to General Washington at Yorktown. Traditionally this is considered the end of the American Revolution, but there were many small battles that occured after this. It was however a huge blow and the battle that forced England to concede that [...]
This is a brilliant animated gif sequence of slides from the first LOTR movie dubbed as if it were a World of Warcraft session. It is brilliant.
First saw this via AFK Gamer but this link is from Boing Boing
October 18th: Today in 1931 Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion. The FBI view this as a big win, but it would have been more impressive if they could have convicted him for any one of the more serious crimes he committed, but hey, you take what you can get. Sadly Capone’s conviction led [...]
You probably remember the story about how you can scramble any letters in a word but people can still read them as long as the first and last letters are in place. Common you remember
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October 17th: Today in 1937 Donald Ducks nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie first appear in the comics. Weirdly their official birthday is three years later in 1940, go figure….
October 16th: Today in 1906 Wilhelm Voigt, the Captain of Köpenick walks to the town hall of Köpenick in Prussia in a cobbled together officer’s uniform. On the way he picks up some Prussian soldiers by simply ordering them to follow him. At the town hall he has the mayor and treasurer arrested and confiscates [...]