[13.11.13] on this day...

Day 2,185, 13:02 Published in Austria Austria by exkrementensammler
November 13: Quack Like a Duck Day, Feast of Hermaphrodite, Day of the Cool People



* 10,000 B.C. - Humans begin destroying the forest, driving out bears and things.

* 7,573 B.C. - Hermes and Aphrodite have a lovely bouncing boy, Hermaphroditus.

* 7,558 B.C. - Hermaphroditus gets into a swimming pool with Salmacis, and 2 becomes 1.

* 1 B.C. - New way of counting up instead of down, ADD, proposed, but no one finishes project off.

* 832 - Saint Anselm is permabanned from the Vatican for setting fire to the Pope.

* 1915 - French Army phases out custard pies as infantry weapons, replaces them with hand-buzzers.

* 1932 - William Butler Yeats marries his dog Chico.

* 1972 - Mediocre Britain votes on whether to join the European Community, turnout low, result 6-4.

* 1978 - While starring in an open air production of Shakespeare's Henry V, Sir John Gielgud is carried off by a hunting kingfisher. He is found unharmed some hours later, having tricked the bird into incubating his egg-like head.

* 1992 - The title of world's first penguin to eat rocks was taken by Magiwatoo, a penguin from the North East Columbian waters.

* 1990 - The first webcomic is launched, entitled Two Sarcastic Badgers and Some Clipart.

* 2009 - It is officially announced that the language of Liverpool is Quack. Every Liverpudlian goes quackin crazy.

* 2015 - The French get tired of rioting, someone quacks for comedic value, rioting ensues.

* 2063 - Jacob von Hogflume, inventor of Time travel, is born in a log cabin in 1864.

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