Monthly Archives: September 2020

September 20, 1881

Posted on September 20, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 20, 1881, Chester A. Arthur was sworn in as the 21st President of the United States after the assassination of James A. Garfield by crazy man Charles J. Guiteau. Guiteau believed that his imagined critical support of… Continue reading →

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September 19, 1959

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 19, 1959 Nikita Khrushchev was denied entry to Disneyland when his unrelenting stalking of Clarabelle Cow came to light. Ms. Clarabelle Cow said she just didn’t feel safe if Little Nikita was allowed within 500 yards… Continue reading →

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September 18, 2004

Posted on September 18, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 18, 2004, Pop star Britney Spears and backup dancer/gigolo Kevin Federline were married. Hardcore conspiracy theorists that tied modern day events to the ramblings of Nostradamus and John of Patmos declined to make… Continue reading →

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September 17, 1997

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 17, 1997, John Bell, age 115, of Baltimore, Maryland, received a new pacemaker. He had apparently outlived the battery of the one that was implanted when he was a young and spry 104. When asked if he wanted to… Continue reading →

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September 16, 1943

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 16, 1943, the Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD. He wasn’t sure at first, but when the fluorescent giraffe explained he was rowing on the wrong side of the bed, he knew he… Continue reading →

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September 15, 668

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 15, 668 CE, Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II died an ignoble death. While he was taking a bath in his mansion in Syracuse, Sicily, his chamberlain beat him to death with a wooden bucket. Why? It was because the… Continue reading →

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September 14, 2015

Posted on September 14, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 14, 2015, in Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory detectors detected gravitational waves for the first time. After checking and rechecking their data and instruments… Continue reading →

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September 13, 1503

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 13, 1503, Michelangelo began working on his magnum opus, his marble statue of David. Two years later when he finished and unveiled his masterpiece to the world and everyone came running to look at it, it is rumored… Continue reading →

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September 12, 1940

Posted on September 12, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 12, 1940, Marcel Ravidat, an 18-year-old apprentice garage mechanic took his dog, Robot, for a walk in the hills near his home in Montignac. Montignac is in the Dordogne region of southwestern France. While in the… Continue reading →

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September 11, 1226

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Joel Byers

On September 11, 1226, the Roman Catholic practice of the public adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (the wine and the wafers, or the grape juice and the crackers if you’re Baptist) spread from the ceremony of the Mass in the… Continue reading →

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