Today is ...

... the day Wikipedia writes about "InChI=1S/2C5H5.Rh/c2*1-2-4-5-3-1;/h2*1-5H;/q2*-1;+2 Key: IWAKCRNSZSPDTB-UHFFFAOYSA-N InChI=1/2C5H5.Rh/c2*1-2-4-5-3-1;/h2*1-5H;/q2*-1;+2 Key: IWAKCRNSZSPDTB-UHFFFAOYAC", the day pibbur doesn't know where his sitting-at-the-computer-glasses are, and another day in Edinburgh

0037: Roman emperor Caligula (who remained an emperor of Rome for 4 years (wow!) before being assassinated) accepted the title of Principate.
0193: Roman emperor Pertinax was assassinated after 3 months in office during the year of 5 emperors.
0364: Roman emperor Valentinia 1.0 employs his brother as co-emperor. Which seems to have been a wise choice, as this emperor lasted for an unheard-of period of 11 years.
0845: Ragnar Lodbrok sacks Paris and later accepts a lot of gold for leaving. He was Danish.

According to Wikipedia nothing happened on this day for the next 931 years. The dark ages, I presume.

1776: Juan Bautista de Anza finds the Presidio of San Francisco. Whioch reminds me: Has somebody seen my glasses?
1795: Duchy of Courland ceases to exist, according to Wikipedia, and becomes part of Imperial Russia. How can something that doesn't exist become part of something that does? JemyM, You're the philosopher here - care to explain? :) (You don't have to, but if you do, I promise I'll say something nice about Sweden in the near future)
1802: Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers the second astertoid known to man: 2 Pallas, a planet wannabe. But ultimately boring as it doesn't seem to collide with earth in the near future.
1871: Paris is established in Paris
1979: Three Mile Island event

Notable pwnings:
1794: Prince of Coburg pwns France
1809: France pwns Spain
1854: France and the UK wants to pwn Russia
1862: The unions pwn confederates at the Glorieta pass.
1986: Lady Gaga

Notable first time appearances:
1930: Istanbul and A nkara
1942: Conrad Schumann: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Conrad-schumann.jpg

Notable last time appearances:
1930: Constantinople and Angora

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened"

6,020,000,000 googles for 41
5,960,000,000 google3 for 42
5,660,000,000 googles for 43
 
… the day pibbur goes to Strasbourg with no intenion of staying there. And the day he gets to travel by both Eurostar and TGV.

1638: New Sweden discovered in Delaware
1792: Gustav 3.0 of Sweden dies and is replaced by Gustav 4.0 Adolf, who stays in business exactly 17 years
1809: Gustav 4.0 of Adolf of Sweden abdicates after staying in business for exactly 17 years
1990: Hyphen war in Czechoslovakia uaka Czecho-Slovakia
2011: Spider-Man climbs Burj Khalifa

Notable first time appearances:
1871: Royal Albert Hall
1882: Knights of Columbus aka Knights of the Old Republlc who may or may not have said "nih"…
1886: The Real thing
1957: The Highlander
1964: Michael Jackson
1968: Xena
1999: 10000 dow joneses celebrate the internet boom

Notable last time appearances:
2004: Ireland: Smoking in work places, including bars and restaurant

26000000 carrots for google, one of them is http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/. 2 googles for "the unmentionable sport" +australia
 
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… the day pibbur goes to Berlin and is amazed by the Hauptbahnhof. And Wikipedia has a pair of (men's size 10) sandals as it's picture of the day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Men's_size_10_Sandals.jpg


1814: 6th Coalition goes to Paris
1822: US goes to Florida
1855: Border Ruffians goes to Kansas
1863: A Dane goes to Greece
1867: Alaska goes to the US for 4.19USD/square km. Worth it?
1909: Manhattan goes there and back again. "There" being Queens.
1939: Heinkel He 100 goes somewhere at 746 kmph.
1954: Yonge Street subway goes to Eglinton
1981: John Hinkley Jr. goes to extremes to impress Jodie Foster
1982: STS-3 goes to White Sands

Notable first time appearances:
1326: Ivan II of Russia, rather lenient compared to his grand grand grand grand grand son
1746: Goya
1842: Anesthesia (ether which is only remotely related to ethernet) during surgery.
1864: Van Gogh
1914: Sonny Boy, a name fondly(?) remembered by Bertie
1950: Hagrid
1968:
1973: One quarter of Dirty Sanchez

>12000 pibburs at google
 
… a day pibbur stays in Berlin. And Chavez (no, not that one, I think) Day in several of the US

0307: Emperor Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of retired, but still alive (retired, but alive - now that's a first) emperor Maximian.
1917: US buys islands from Denmark for 25 000 000USD, thrice the nominal amount paid for Alaska. Worth it?
1970: The return of Explorer 1.0

Notable first time appearances:
1596: The thoughts and therefore the being of Rene Descartes
1718: Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain. Of course she was an infant. Humans usually are when they're born. Just ask Temptress, she knows these things.
1847: The man who knew how to represent \int \frac{x+A}{\sqrt{x^4+ax^3+bx^2+cx+d}}\, dx by logarithms
1889: Eiffel tower, 97 years before the corresponding programming language
1890: William Bragg, British physicist and Nobel laureate. He was born in Australia, therefore they've got one as well.
1910: Stoke-On-Trent
1918: Daylight saving time@us
1943: Christopher Walken http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM1fkHQP_Pw
1948: Carla Tortelli
1971: Obi-Wan Jr.
1972: Ze Frank, who according to Wikipedia "was educated at a Montessori school and also has a sister". Despite these disturbing facts he seems to have managed quite well as an internet personallity.
1985: Wrestlemania (believe it or not)
1994: A complete Australopithecus afarensis skull

Ungefähr 32.400.000 Ergebnisse für Placebo
 
... the day pibbur goes home.

1340: Niels Ebbesen kills a bald German and is for this regarded a Danish hero
1845: CharlesDickens.HardTimes is according to Wikipedia serialized. Dunno - this was years before xml....
1933: English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out. Yay?


Notable first time appearances:
1826: Internal combustiuon engine, according to Samuel Morey
1871: Tramway to Brill, eventually limited to Steam. Wow!
1891: Wrigley of chewing gum fame
1918: RAF
1946: A Small faced, psychedelic flanging bass player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzcF0v1eOE)
1957: Spaghetti tree, according to BBC
1969: First generation Harrier jet
1976: Apple
1976: Perceptible reduction of gravity on earth due to aignment of Jupiter and Pluto. According to BBC.

This is also the day I take a break from the thread. I've been writing dayly during my expedition in the region receiving 1,190,000,000 googles, and it's time to do other things for a while. Like work.
 
NO!!!!!!!! I won't know what day it is, or what is happening here if I don't read this thread. You're NOT allowed to stop; that is an ORDER!!!! :)
 
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... the day pibbur is home, and somewhat confused.

1955: American Civil Liberties Union for Ginsberg!
1860: Lucky Luke completes first successful United State Pony Express expedition.

They came:
1885: The Daimler Engine
1922: General Secretary Stalin
1973: The first gadget from hell
2000: United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. A thumb, huh?
2007: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record: 574.8 kmph. Yay from pibbur who travelled by TGV on this very line, but at a somewhat more relaxed 320 kmph during his european expedition.

And they went
1559: War in Italy
1975: World Chess Champion Bobby Fisher. Common man Bobby Fischer continues.

495 000 000 for yesterday at google
 
You evil thing! Now I have to think about that option!!!!

//Insert smiley

Seriously, I'm visiting her again in the autumn during a long wekend. I'll be flying then.
 
But he'd still have a shorter travel...... a wise man once said. It is not the destination but traveling that is the goal!
 
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I've not changed my mind, I've just changed my opinion.... Hmmm, that sounds actually wiser and deeper than I thought. It sounded much more stupid when I first heard it, in Norwegian. And now, someone's going to point out that everything sounds stupid in Norwegian (google has 815 results for "stupid in Norwegian", which no doubt be increased by one minutes after I've finished this).

//inserte internet insult?

GG: A wise man indeed. But I have to admit it, when I go by train, I like to go by really fast trains. YAAAAAaaaaay (simulated doppler yay).
 
Google obviously took a SLOW train!! :)
 
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