What happened on this day in History? Time Marches On! Let me give you a one paragraph rundown on today's significance throughout the entire vast panoply of Recorded events! Famines! Battles! Births! Catastrophes! Weird occurances! Imagine how much more wise you'll be when you make your daily visit! Unfortunately you're going to have to visit timemarcheson.wordpress.com, because I've moved the blog.
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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