Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/September 19

September 19: Talk Like A Pirate Day

The Beginning - The Great FSM creates all that is, including his chosen people, the Pirates.
1588 The Dread Pirate Wesley single handedly defeated the entire Spanish Armada in single combat.
1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States, budgeting 10,000 doubloons for defense, 5000 pieces of eight for social programs, and additional booty to highways.
1796 - George Washington makes his farewell address, saying "Aye me mateys, it were good being captain of this fine ship of state."
1957 - First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test is conducted, shivering timbers as far as 500 km. away.
1959 - After Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland, he threatens to "keel haul" a man dressed in a Goofy suit.
1970- Pirates the world over rejoice at Oldsmobile's launch of the Cutlass Supreme!
1982 - Feared corsair Patch-Eyed Pete posts first recorded instance of an emoticon, P-) to an online bulletin board.
1985- First pirate movie released. It is rated ARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
1989- Pirate Radio goes on the air and is fined for gratuitous use of the words "scalliwag" and "booty."
1995 - First Talk Like a Pirate Day. It rapidly replaces Talk Like a Ninja Day, which involved people saying nothing so as to conceal their presence.
2006 - with the War on Terror becoming increasingly bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Bush considers shifting focus to a War on Pirates.
2006- Patch-Eyed Pete is fined $100,000 for using a pirated emotiocon in 1982.