578 Butz' Chan [Smoke Snake] aged 15 becomes the 11th ruler of the Maya city of Copán. He will go on to rule for 49 years. Whenever challenged he would attack people, much like his brother Jackie, and kick their butz!
1367 League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV. I am pretty sure that the victory was secured using Axe cologne.
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| The body spray for medieval knights! |
1493 Christopher Columbus first reaches Puerto Rico, inhabited by the Taíno on his 2nd voyage to the Caribbean. Wannaskan Almanac archivists uncovered the following poem written about this event:
In fourteen hundred and ninety three
Columbus crossed an ocean of pee
This poem never did catch on, for obvious reasons.
1873 William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed", of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment. Of course he would have been considered innocent if he had just run for Congress first.
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1894 1st mushroom on a stamp (China) This is not even a joke. Which makes it a joke. Or not I guess. They would have done it earlier but they said that fungi take up to mush room.
1911 NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy. This was just in the nick of time as NY's car warranty was about to expire.
1977 Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt. Their relationship was simply plutonic after that.
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