History Schmistory: September 29. Stool ka-Boom!
Monday, September 29, 2025
1911: Italy declares war on the Ottomans. All they ever wanted was to be comfortable.
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History Schmistory: September 28. Perhaps we should have waited…
Sunday, September 28, 2025
1951: CBS makes the first color television available to the public, only to see it discontinued a few weeks later.
![By McCann-Erickson advertising agency for the Columbia Broadcasting System. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/CBS_Eye_Ad_Dec_1951.jpg)
By McCann-Erickson advertising agency for the Columbia Broadcasting System. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
History Schmistory: September 27. A good old-fashioned Polish whuppin!
Saturday, September 27, 2025
1605: The Polish-Swedish War: The Swedish army, in a matter of minutes, is utterly defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian calvary in the Battle of Kircholm, while in the kitchen the Swedish meatball miraculously holds ground against the Polish sausage. All was not lost.
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History Schmistory: September 26. I’m a Rocket Maaaaaan!
Friday, September 26, 2025
2008: Swiss Pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes the first person to fly across the English Channel in a winged jetpack of his own invention. Soon after, he flies over the Swiss Alps. Lucky he didn’t burn out his fuse up there alone…
His next mission? “To infinity and beyond!”
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History Schmistory: September 25. Always take the garbage out!
Thursday, September 25, 2025
1930:Â Marco’s favorite 20th century poet/songwriter/cartoonist/performer Shel Silverstein is born, presumably where the sidewalk begins.
History Schmistory: September 24. @cs.com, y’all!!
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
1979: Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which includes the first electronic mail service. They’re apparently still waiting for the interstate parties to catch on…
You checked your CS mail lately? Yeah neither have we. It’s been years. It’s probably all dusty and moldy and filled with venomous spiders.
CompuServe ad in Byte magazine, January 1983.
History Schmistory: September 23. Mario Kard?
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
1889: Nintendo is founded as a playing card company by Fusajiro Yamauchi, and soon introduces Hanafuda, a flowery card deck with a number of applicable games, including Tyson’s Punch-Out! 🙂
![I, Aldaron [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/800px-Koi-Koi_Setup.jpg)
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History Schmistory: September 22. Act now!
Monday, September 22, 2025
1598: Playwright Ben Jonson, a contemporary of Billy Shakespeare, is arrested for killing an actor in a duel. Naturally, the actor only had his prop gun.
![By Joost J. Bakker from IJmuiden (Space Pilot X Ray Gun Uploaded by Oxyman) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/800px-Space_Pilot_X_Ray_Gun_made_by_Taiyo.jpg)
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History Schmistory: September 21. The original prequel?
Sunday, September 21, 2025
1937: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published. No Hobbits were harmed during the making.
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History Schmistory: September 20. Spain’s Ba-a-a-ad Boys.
Saturday, September 20, 2025
1920: Spain establishes the Spanish Foreign Legion, an elite unit of the Spanish Army. It’s mascot? A goat… Really?
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