Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/August 10
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August 10: Vatican Mardi Gras / Cancer appreciation day
- 1479 - Pope Innocent VIII inaugurates Vatican Mardi Gras.
- 1675 - The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London was laid. It was happy all day.
- 1821 - Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state, New Hampshire leaves the U.S., stating that Missouri smells.
- 1822 - United States begins to look into whether it's possible to un-admit a state.
- 1829 - Pius VII initiates the tradition of throwing beads to nuns and screaming "Show us your tits!". With sexy results.
- 1846 - Founding of the Smithsonian Institution with a $500,000 grant from James Smithson. The first museum is the Air and Space Museum. Due to the limited technology of the day, the Air and Space Museum's exhibits consist of a kite, a feather, and a weird-shaped greenish rock that "looks kinda like it coulda come from space, or som'thin".
- 1914 - Pope Pius X killed in a collision between carnival floats. The driver had become distracted after Pius threw beads to a group of nuns.
- 1989 - Pope John Paul II flashes a crowd of thoroughly appalled onlookers in Rome. With sexy results.
- 1991 - Leo Fender, inventor of the musician, passes away. His death is marked by an international minute of silent rockin' out on the air guitar.
- 1992 - Girls Gone Wild: Cardinal Sins is released in the United States to critical acclaim. Gene Shalit declares it to be "one of the best movies released today." With sexy results.
- 1995 - An unknown bishop, John Ratzinger, gets into a freak accident involving a beer bong and a stripper. With sexy results.
- 2000 - Nothing much happened (with sexy results)
- 2001 - Glace Bay experiences a heat wave when temperatures reach 308°C. As a result the ocean boils and pavement melts.
- 2006 - Pope John Paul II gets bored in hell cause he can't attend this year's Vatican Mardi Gras
