Day 105 of Godzilla romping through history March 10 2000 – The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62
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Day 104 of Godzilla romping through history March 9 1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
Day 103 of Godzilla romping through history March 6th 1836–Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured
Day 102 of Godzilla romping through history March 3rd 1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
Day 101 of Godzilla romping through history March 2 1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick Maclean in Windsor. Maclean's motive was purportedly a curt reply to some poetry that he had mailed to the Queen.
Day 100 of Godzilla romping through history March 1st 1932 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12.
Day 99 of Godzilla romping through history February 28 1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 110 million viewers.
Day 98 of Godzilla romping through history February 27 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
Day 97 of Godzilla romping through history February 26 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the island of Elba.
Day 96 of Godzilla romping through history February 25 1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.[
Day 95 of Godzilla romping through history February 24 1946 – Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
Day 94 of Godzilla romping through history February 23 1974 – Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but commits suicide after being wounded by police.
Day 93 of Godzilla romping through history February 21 1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations.
Remember that time when the president of the USA declared himself king and we all just went to work the next day. That was weird.
Day 92 of Godzilla romping through history February 20 1939 –Madison Square Garden Nazi rally: The largest ever pro-Nazi rally in United States history is convened in Madison Square Garden, New York City, with 20,000 members and sympathizers of the German American Bund present. Godzilla not pleased
Day 91 of Godzilla romping through history February 19 1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps. Not our finest hour. Never again.
Day 90 of Godzilla romping through history February 18 1885 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
Day 89 of Godzilla romping through history February 17 1969 – American aquanaut Berry L. Cannon dies of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair a leak in the SEALAB III underwater habitat. The SEALAB project was subsequently abandoned.
Day 88 of Godzilla romping through history February 16 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. An international agreement that committed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Day 87 of Godzilla romping through history February 15 1898 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing about 274 of the ship's roughly 354 crew.[13] The disaster pushes the United States to declare war on Spain.
Day 86 of Godzilla romping through history February 14 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
Day 85 of Godzilla romping through history February 13 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
Day 84 of Godzilla romping through history February 12 1894 – Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
Day 83 of Godzilla romping through history February 11 660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. In Japanese mythology, he was a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, as well as a descendant of the storm god Susanoo.
Day 82 of Godzilla romping through history February 10 1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
Day 81 of Godzilla romping through history, February 9 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.
Day 80 of Godzilla romping through history February 8 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce
Day 79 of Godzilla romping through history, February 7 1894 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado. State militia was called in to support miners. progressive.org/latest/Cripp...
Day 78 of Godzilla romping through history February 6th 1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York aboard the "Liberian Mayflower" to start a free settlement in present-day Liberia.
Day 77 of Godzilla romping through history, February 5th 2016 – New Zealand Minister for Economic Development Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber dildo in a Waitangi Day protest. Dubbed "dildo-gate". Godzilla says normalize chucking dildos at dicks.