Archive for March, 2010

239 BC – 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet. Natives think the world is ending; proved wrong once again.

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1867 – US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 paying 2 cents/acre. The Russians become the laughing stock of the real esate world. 118 years later, the Russians get even by producing uber-boxer Ivan Drago who kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition boxing match. Rocky Balboa vows revenge. No one born after 1990 gets this reference.

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1953 – Einstein announces revised unified field theory. Most people were content with the original unified field theory, but Einstein wants to be “that guy” who is always changing things.

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1962 - MC Hammer is born. Nearly 30 years later, Mr. Brough becomes 2 Legit 2 Quit.

782.421 WAT

1798 – The republic of Switzerland forms

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1848 – For the first time in recorded history, Niagara Falls stopped flowing. An ice jam in the Niagara River above the rim of the falls caused the water to stop.

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1943 – Eric Idle of Monty Python fame is born.

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1987 – 93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant. Hulkamania runs wild!

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