User:Crunchydillpickle/List of unusual anniversaries

This is a list of anniversaries that was initially compiled by Crunchydillpickle and hopefully will be lovingly nurtured by Wikipedians who enjoy calendar-driven trivia and oddities. It's as if WP:UNUSUAL and WP:OTD had a baby! I would love if you added to it, but please be aware that I'll remove any additions that I don't consider sufficiently unusual (sorry). If you were thinking "Hm, this is cool, but I wish it were less goofy and more focused on classical music!" then boy oh boy are you going to love Gerda Arent's page!

Notices!


 * I need to add some entries from the list of unusual deaths and list of last words.
 * Some of my summaries are almost certainly a little wrong. I copied some of these over from a document that a friend and I have slowly, sloppily maintained for months. Imagine a phantom tag next to everything.


 * https://web.archive.org/web/20020916150406/http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/tdih/ I should go through some of the old Yahoo daily facts
 * Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk, a 1940s film that made fun of Nazis
 * Jet Lady a bizarre album by the female pilot who patented the first true electronic flight bag and also had a talk-variety show on public access TV in the early 80s in Los Angeles. She also got .15% of the votes in the 1981 LA mayor election??

January
Misc: Cadaver Synod (date unknown)

April

 * Unknown date: Roy Sullivan got struck by lightening for the first time in 1942. He survived six more strikes in his life.
 * Mrs. Miller's deliberately bad cover of "Downtown" peaked at #82 on the Billboard charts in 1966

June

 * Battle of the Frogs

July
No date:


 * Dancing plague of 1518
 * July effect
 * Silly season
 * Battle of the Frogs
 * In 1984, Dr Barry Marshall drank a solution of Helicobacter pylori and over the next 14 excruciating days, he proved that it caused stomach ulcers

September
No date: "When campaigning for a second term in office, U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing, which has been noted as "the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection." - Third derivative article

December
Misc:


 * Star Trek Into Darkness Controversy


 * Norwegian butter crisis, 2011
 * New Zealanders celebrate Crate Day on the first Saturday of December (it involves finishing a crate of twelve 745ml beer bottles between 12pm until midnight)