Today is ...

... Hello! Hello? Hello??? HELLO!!!!!

1783: First human filght, using a Montgolfier 380 balloon.
1920: Bloody Sunday in Dublin
1922: Rebecca Latimer Felton becomes the first female US senator
1942: Alaska Highway, the ultimate answer to transport betwen Alaska and somewhere else
1964: The then (until 1981) longest-bridge-in-the-world between Brooklyn and somewhere else
1969: Mr Nixon and Mr. Sato decides that Okinawa shall switch from Japanese-wannabe to Japanese.


Notable first time appearances:
1694: Voltaire
1877: The Phonograph. A PreIPod audio recording and playing device
1898: This is not Rene Magritte
1905: Emc
1942: Afa Anoa'i, the ultimate answer to samoan wrestling
1945: Goldie Hawn
1965: Björk
1969: ARPANET link (UCLA-SRI)

Notable last time apperarances
1953: Piltdown man
1980: Lake Peigneur
1986: Iran-Contras documents

9960 googles for Pibbur, 9960 for Microsoft, 9960 for World of Warcraft and 9960 for men without hats
 
… first annual Write about love day. Apparently. Which means that I may have to talk to the wife.

0845: Nominoe pwns bald Charlie
1307: Simon (in the shape of pope Clement V) says that all templars should be arrested
1837: Simon (Willy Mackenzie) says that canadians should rebell against the UK
1864: Willy Sherman goes to sea?
1869: So does Cutty Sark
1942: Simon Friedrich Paulus says that Germany's 6th army is surrounded
1975: Simon Franco said Juan Carlos should be king of Spain
1963: Assasination of US president Kennedy
1986: Mike Tyson pwns Trevor Berbick Using His.Fists;
1987: Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by a still unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom and mumbling nonsense
1988: Stealth of B2- Spirit stealth bomber failed in Palmdale@California

Notable first time appearances:
1574: Juan Fernández Islands off Chile
1710: Another Bach. This time it's Wilhelm Friedmann. How many are there of those? We have Johann Sebastian, Carl Phillip, now Wilhelm. And Offen.
1808: Another Cook
1858: Denver@Colorado
1890: Charles de Gaulle
1908: Albanian Alphabet
1928:da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da …
1932: Napoleon Solo
1940: Terry Gilliam
1950: Tina Weymouth
1958: A Horse
1961: Randal Flag.. eh Schwartz, Perl man
1977: BA London - NY Concorde service
1995: Toy Story

Notable last time appearances
1718: Blackbeard, pwnd by Robbie Maynard
1990: UK Prime minister Margaret Thatcher

There is no Google
 
Last edited:
... not the day to buy Arcania

534BC:First actor in a play on stage. No Academy Award.
1876: Corrupt Tamary Hall leader enters NY@US after arrest in Spain. Dte?
1971: People's republic of China enters UN security council
1976: Jaquers Mayol enters sea level - 100m
1990: First all female expedition to the south pole. Baby, it's cold outside.
2001: Convention on Cybercrime signed in Budapest@Hungary

Notable first time appearances
0912: Otto the hopefully not so great at this particular moment
1804: Hawkeye
1859: Billy the kid
1860: Hjalmar Branting, a Swede
1887: Boris Karloff, Frankenstein impersonator
1888: Harpo Marx
1889: The jukebox.
1936: Life, nothing else.
1955: Cocos Islands@australia, a place to play cricket, obviously
1963: The Doctor.

Notable last time appearances
1844: Schleswig-Holstein@Denmark
1910: Last person to be executed in Sweden.
1955: Cocos Islands@uk
2007: MS Explorer

340000 googles for "my hovercraft is full of eels".
 
A day when there's no cricket match for Pibbur to watch, so why hasn't this thread been updated for awhile??!! :)
 
Joined
Aug 31, 2006
Messages
12,816
Location
Australia
… along with yesterday and the day before and before … and probably also tomorrow, a day when Pibbur is feeling low, and therefore isn't in the mood. So no update about the when and where and what.

Except for this:

1998: The Australian Cricket Board's cover-up of Shane Warne and Mark Waugh's involvement with bookmakers is revealed.

2010: Jan Eggum turns 59 years.

I don't know how popular Pibbur is with google these day. But I will be back.
 
… along with yesterday and the day before and before … and probably also tomorrow, a day when Pibbur is feeling low, and therefore isn't in the mood.
Don't worry: When the world ends in 2012 you will never have the hassle with updating this thread again…

:end:

Edit: Isn't that the same year, when Sarah Palin becomes first female president of the USA, and isn't that no coincidence?
 
Joined
Dec 26, 2007
Messages
1,791
… a day for a short event list, since I'm not including cricket

1819: Southern men join the US
1911: Norwegians reach Southern Pole
1958: Soviets reach Southern Pole of relative inacessibility
1999: Tongans join the UN
2008: Journalist loses his shoes. Not due to drinking beer.

Notable first time appearances:
1503: As predicted by himself, Nostradamus
1958: The Waterboy

Notable last time appearances:
1836: Toledo war, sort of
1972: The man on the moon

407 000 000 results for nothing on Google
 
… a day completely dedicated to yesterday

1598: Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point
1761: Seven Year War: Pyotr Rumyantsev pwns Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg.
1773: It hurts my very lefty political views, but here it is: Boston Tea Party
1907: Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world, resulting in 48 episodes hosted by weird Aussies on Animal Planet.
1997: Pokemon induces seizures in hundreds and hundreds of Japanese children.
2003: Pres i dent G**orge W. B-u.s-h s.I.gns the C.A.N.-.S.P.A.M. Act @f 2003 into law.

Notable 1st time appearances:
1770: Ludwig van Beethoven, German musician
1946: Benny Andersson@ABBA, Swedish musician
1961: Bill Hicks
1958: The boy from Silent Hill
1967: Eowyn

Notable last time appearances:
1937: Theodore Cole@Alcatraz and Ralph Roe@Alcatraz

Now >10000 googles, not counting pibber and growing!

PS: One today event is worth mentioniong: The DC-3, described as "a collection of parts flying in loose formation" turns 75. The aircraft is still in use. DS.
 
Last edited:
… the day the wife reaches level 57

0546: King Totila pwns Rome in the upcoming "Gothic War".
1577: Francis Drake leaves the UK on a secret mission to the Americas. According to Wikileaks.
1583: Ernest of Bavaria pwns Gebhard Truchess von Waldburg during a war about (Eau de) Cologne.
1718: The UK wants to pwn Spain
1777: The French recognizes the US. How about that?
1989: First Simpsons episode

Notable 1st time appearances
1706: Émilie du Châtelet,
1842: Sophus Lie
1900: Mary Cartwright

Notable last time appearances
1538: Henry VIII@Catholic church

Pibbur is down 13%
 
Joined
Aug 3, 2008
Messages
8,249
Location
Kansas City
… dedicated to the photo: Earthrise taken by astronaut William Anders orbiting the moon 24 dec. 1968. This image is part of LIFE magazines "100 photographs that changed the world" feature, some of them is available on LIFE's webpage

In 2006 a HD full earthrise photo was taken by the Japanese KAGUYA lunar explorer sattellite. This image is part of a video. You can read all aboout it on JAXA, the Japanese aerospace agency.

At 928000 googles "earthrise" is 97.5 times more popular than Pibbur
 
Pibbur's birthday!! :)

It is also the day when Pibbur is found in 10100 google places

And…

1721: Approximately 8 years before Madame de Pompadour met the doctor.
1891: James Naismith invented Basket Ball. Which beats cric….. Sorry, I will remain polite today.
1959: Richard Feynman gave birth to nanotechnology
1812: US Constitution pwned Java using (c)sharp ammunition.
1996: Pibbur turned 42
1998: Khmer Rouge leaders realize they shouldn't have killed 1 million Cambodians in the 1970s

For the first time:
1845: Texas.
1851: YMCA
1937: Ireland
1965: 2001: A Space Odyssey film rolls
1966: Penny Lane tracks

For the last time
1937: Irish free state
1997: 1.25E+6 Chickens@Hong Kong
2001: Akkala Samin language

56 is
… a semiperfect number
… the maximum determinant in an 8x8 matrix of 1s and 0s.
… atomic number of Barium, which coincidently is used as a radiocontrast agent
… the number of curls on the top of young Shirley Temple
… the number of occurences of "Yeah" in "Man on the Moon"
… the number of occurences of "Yeah" in Litium
… a number referenced 2 460 000 00 times on Google.
 
... a day for receiving geese. Six of'em, apparently

And in-between:
1853: A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon
1919: Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student.
1948: Cole Porter wants to be kised by Kate.
1981: <SportsReporterMode>Inthe39thgameofhis3rdNHLseasonWayneGretzkyscores5goalsgivinghim50ontheyearsettinganewNHLrecordpreviouslyheldbyMauriceRichardandMikeBossywhoearlierhadeachscored50goalsin50games</SportsReporterMode>
2010: Pibbur turns 56.0027

First time appearances
1922: CCCP
1924: Other galaxies, according to Edwin Hubble
1950: Stroustrup++
1961: Only to please some of our conservatives and it WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN: Sean Hannity
1982: Lana Lang
2005: Tropical Storm Zeta. Yet another weird american university fraternity.

Notable last time appearances
1947: King Michael@Romania
1986: Coal mine canaries
2009: Kodachrome

Notable last time appearance wannabes
1977: Ted Bundy

There are more than 6 googles for geese, actually 8 990 000 of'em. Pibbur is down to 9410, after an all-time high yesterday.
 
… who cares!

0406: Vandals cross the rhine into Gaul and starts breaking windows, setting fire to tires and graffitiing all over the place. Along with the Alans and the Suebians.
0535: Belisarius pwns Syracuse@Sicily
1229: J. Aragorn conquers Majorca
1638: Natives@Ontario blames Jesuits for the lunar eclipse. According to Wikipedia for no valid reason.
1695. England starts taxing Windows, causing widespread crashes.
1923: Big Ben is broadcasted
1992: Velvet revolution: Czechoslovakia splits peacefully into Czech Republic and Slovakia. Which actually is quite impressing.
2007: Great fireworks in Bocaye@Phillipines
2010: Anthony Hopkins turns 73. The day will be celebrated with Fava beans and a nice Chianti. Of course.

Notable first time appearances:
1759: Guinnes
1857: Ottawa as capital of Canada
1862: West Virginia and Virginia
1943: Kagan of Bloodrayne, The Movie fame.
1944: Since we love it so much: Codex Narrator@Mass Effect 2
1959: Mad Martigan
1963: Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe wannabe
1969: Are Kalvø
1977: Donal Trump jr. Still not fired and a nice hairdo.
1983: AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, and Cincinnati Bell
1999: Panama Canal@panama
2004: Worlds tallest building@Taipei

Notable last time appearances:
1862: Virginia
1960: Farthing
1963: Cantral African Federation
1983: Bell Systems
1991: CCCP
1999: Panama Canal@us

Disclaimer: The above text may suffer from spelling- and grammatical errors, and some minor inaccuracies for which the author accepts absolutely no responses except favourable ones. Any connection to anything is semi-incidental.

9500 googles for Pibbur, a 0.956% increase from yesterday. 72000000 lawyers.
 
1695. England starts taxing Windows, causing widespread crashes. ??

Here's the original Wikipedia quote, before I .. added a more personal touch to it. Which may have made it a bit more confusing. Which can only be a good thing:

1695 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax.
 
... New Year's day.

1514: Pope Leo X condemns slavery
1784: End of war between US and UK. Tea, please?
1814: Denmark gives Norway to Sweden. Thievesss. We hatesss them forever!
1933: Bodyline cricket tactics peaks. I don't want to know what this is about.
1937: Ken Higgs add mass to English cricket
1938: Queen Maud's land does not belong to Queen Maud, but to Norway. The only people living there are the Norwegian Royal family, apparently. And a troll.
1972: Queen Margrethe II of Denmark becomes the first Danish Monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513
1973: Aloha from Hawaiiiii.
1999: Snow paralyzes Toronto. Cool!

Notable first time appearancesw
1129: The Knights templar
1131: Valdemar 1 of Denmark, one of the Monarchs not names Frederick. Or Christian. Or Magerette. Or Pibbur.
1684: Jean-Baptiste
1705: Jean-Baptiste
1870: Sir George Pearce. Australian politician. Probably also cricket player.
1875: Albert Schweitzer.
1941: Bonnie.
1944: Graham Marsh. Apparently they play golf downunder, too.
1950: MIG 17
1952: Today. Strange, I thought I didn't start this thread until last year. But if Wikipedia said it, that settles it.
1954: American Motors Corporation
1954: Jim Duggan. HE'S NOT REAL!!!!
1967: Reba McClane
1967: Zak Wylde, Stoned and drunk, but not stillborn.
1969: A horrible boss
1970: Gene Snitsky. HE'S NOT REAL!!!!
1981: A Snoop Dog named Pitbull
1986: Numa Numa Guy
2005: Huygens@Titan

Notable last time appearances:
1954: Hudson Motor Car company
1954: Nash-Kelvinator Corporation

Almost last time appearances:
1858: Napoleon III

12200000 googles for Napoleon XIV, 1140000 for Napoleon III. 123456578 for Pibbur.
 
... Armed forces day in Nigeria. Great profits for small contributions..

0069: Otho becomes emperor of Rome, then decides to kill himself. All during the year of 4 emperors. Which says something about life expectancy of Roman emperors.
1559: Who's queen?
1582: Russia cedes Estonia to Poland. Temporarily.
1966: Nigerian first republic is overthrown. Great profits for small contributions.
1967: Green Bay Packers pwns Kansas City Chiefs
1991: Australia is allowed to institute it's own Victoria Cross. According to Queen Elizabeth, second edition. I don't see the connection to cricket, but I'm sure it's there.
1993: The beast is found and arrested in Sicily.
2009: Flight 1549 lands at the Hudson River due to a conflict of interest with a couple of geese.

Notable first time appearances:
1777: British Museum
1870: A cartoon of a donkey as a symbol of the Dermocratic party. Sorry about that, dte.
1889: Coca Cola Company@Atlanta
1892: The rule of basketball. Sorry, the RULES of baskeball.
1908: Alpha Kappa Alpha
1943: Pentagon@Virginia
1965: Adam Jones
1975: 9th wonder
1987: Kelly Kelly. SHE'S NOT REAL!
1981: The rapper Pitbull. According to Wikipedia, he was also born yeasterday (in 1981), but they seem to have changed their minds. Can't wait until tomorrow.
2001: Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia.
2010: Finn Zanni, YOUNG international superstar. According to Wikipedia, who however admits that the page does not exist.

Notable 4th last appearances:
1493: Christopher Columbus@Americas

There are 351 googles for "Pibbur" and "scam"
 
Back
Top Bottom