Thursday, September 23, 2010

Almanac of Absurdities September 23, 2010

On this date in 1889, the Nintendo Koppai company was founded in japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to market the card game Hanafuda. The name was later shortened to simply Nintendo. On this date in 1952, Richard Nixon gave the iconic “Checker's Speech”, which was delivered from the stage of the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. (I didn't know that either) Birthdays for Augustus Caesar, Kublai Khan and Julio Iglesias.

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