This day in strange history
The strange calendar
- January 15, 1919: The Great Molasses Flood
- January 30, 1962: The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
- February 4, 1912: Franz Reichelt, the Flying Tailor
- February 12, 1804: Kant's Last Words Were About a Drink
- February 25, 1942: The Battle of Los Angeles
- March 3, 1876: The Kentucky Meat Shower
- March 13, 1997: The Phoenix Lights
- March 20, 1848: The Dancer Who Helped Topple a King
- March 24, 1889: The Leatherman's Endless Walk
- April 1, 1957: The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
- April 4, 1943: The Bomber Found in the Desert
- April 7, 1786: The Paris Catacombs
- April 14, 1561: The 1561 Sky Battle over Nuremberg
- April 17, 1897: The Aurora, Texas Airship Crash
- April 24, 1964: The Socorro Landing
- April 30, 1943: The Man Who Never Was
- May 8, 1902: The Man Who Survived in a Jail Cell
- May 23, 1618: The Defenestration of Prague
- May 31, 1889: The Johnstown Flood
- June 6, 1816: The Year Without a Summer
- June 15, 1859: The Pig War
- June 17, 1871: The Lawyer Who Proved His Point
- June 18, 1815: Lord Uxbridge's Leg
- June 19, 1878: The Horse That Proved Hooves Leave the Ground
- June 30, 1908: The Tunguska Event
- July 14, 1518: The Dancing Plague of 1518
- August 9, 1945: Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Survivor of Two Atomic Bombs
- August 21, 1986: The Lake Nyos Disaster
- August 21, 1955: The Kelly-Hopkinsville 'Little Men' Siege
- August 25, 1835: The Great Moon Hoax
- August 27, 1883: The Loudest Sound in History
- August 30, 1904: The Strangest Olympic Marathon
- September 1, 1859: The Carrington Event
- September 10, 1945: Mike the Headless Chicken
- September 12, 1952: The Flatwoods Monster
- September 13, 1848: Phineas Gage and the Iron Rod
- September 14, 1927: Isadora Duncan's Fatal Scarf
- September 16, 1994: The Ariel School UFO Encounter
- October 8, 1871: The Peshtigo Fire
- October 10, 1913: Blowing the Gamboa Dike
- October 11, 1910: Theodore Roosevelt's First Flight
- October 12, 1810: Oktoberfest Began as a Royal Wedding
- October 13, 1307: The Arrest of the Knights Templar
- October 14, 1912: Theodore Roosevelt Shot Mid-Campaign
- October 16, 1869: The Cardiff Giant
- October 17, 1814: The London Beer Flood
- October 17, 1874: The Photographer Who Got Away with Murder
- October 24, 1601: The Strange Death of Tycho Brahe
- October 30, 1938: The War of the Worlds Broadcast
- November 2, 1932: The Great Emu War
- November 17, 1896: The Great Airship Wave of 1896-97
- December 4, 1872: The Mary Celeste
- December 6, 1917: The Halifax Explosion
- December 18, 1912: Piltdown Man
- December 26, 1980: The Rendlesham Forest Lights