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1864—“Big Gravy” and Pumpkin Pie industry lobbyists persuade President Lincoln to formally establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
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1864—“Big Gravy” and Pumpkin Pie industry lobbyists persuade President Lincoln to formally establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday.
NFL producers attempting to maintain a modicum of theatrical professionalism were forced to remind Clay Matthews not to make direct eye contact with the sideline cameras trained on him for the duration of the Dolphins game Sunday.
409—The Vandals cross the Pyrenees, covering them in graffiti as they climb.
In the same way that gasoline powers an automobile, alcohol fuels the Capitol Pedaler. Patrons utilize their drunken strength to furiously crank on the bicycle pedals beneath their seats, propelling the 2,000 pound contraption up and down State Street.
1. “Deedle-doodle”
1777—Americans beat the British in the second Battle of Saratoga and the Battle of Bemis Heights. Keep tuning into Almanac to find out whether or not these scrappy Americans win their independence!
1836—Dr. Charles H. Sheppard opens the first public bath in Brooklyn, NY. Hundreds crowd around Sheppard’s single bathtub waiting their turn.
In 1947, Bugs Bunny made his first wrong turn at Albuquerque. He chalked it up to ordinary absent-mindedness. But then it happened again in 1953. And again in 1955. An unsettling pattern was forming.
1867—Karl Marx’ “Das Kapital,” is published. The illustrated children’s edition is released in 1870.
440—Leo 1 is installed as Pope. Leo 2.0 is installed six months later on the next Popeware update.
Mike McCarthy’s rousing halftime speech during the Detroit Lions game Sunday lost some of its inspirational momentum when, mid-sentence, the Green Bay Packers head coach loudly farted in front of his player audience.
On Satruday night I humored my 20-year-old housemates and went to a childish little apartment party at La Ville. It was worth it to see the smiles on their little faces as they spastically gyrated on the carpeted dance floor with their girlish, baby-faced companions. But I stuck out like a sore thumb, a man among boys. And men go to the bars.
1. The Wildebeef
1890—After years of incessant nagging from his eleven wives, the President of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that polygamy should be abandoned.
1561 - King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida. Elderly Spaniards are severely disappointed.
1784 - Russian trappers establish a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska. On the first day, they huddle together for a picture, a real Kodiak moment.
It seems Bucky Badger is a lot more human than we thought, at least according to a study released by the Francovis Institute of Science.
On Sept. 13, 2014, I turned 21. As a well-respected journalist, a gatekeepr of information, it’s my civic duty to relate to the drinking public what I learned on that fateful day about the bar scene on campus.
642—Arab forces destroy the library at Alexandria.They burn the books, but keep the best VHS tapes.