June 13, 1922

Posted on June 13, 2020 by Joel Byers

On June 13, 1922, Charles Osborne of Anton, Iowa started something that would outlast his first marriage. He started hiccupping at the age of 29 and wouldn’t stop until 68 years later on June 5, 1990. This is the longest documented case of a person hiccupping non-stop in the world. He was said to have hiccupped on average 40 times a minute when it first started and eventually slowed down to 20 times a minute over the last couple of decades of his life. It is estimated that he hiccupped over 430 million times during his ordeal. After it stopped, it is said that his only regret is that it didn’t last until June 13, 1991. Alas, neither did he, dying in May of 1991, eleven months after his last hiccup.

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Born in North Georgia and educated at some very fine public institutions. Real education started after graduating from college and then getting married and raising two boys. Has the ability to see the funny and absurd in most things and will always remark on it, even if it means getting the stink-eye from his victims.
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