Kevin's Watch

Well, since it seems we now have 1492 members, and that number immediately made me think of an important historical event, I introduce the "In the year..." game. Whenever the membership number changes, the first to notice it posts an historical event of at least some significance which happened in the year represented by the membership number.

As an example:

1492: On October 12, a sailor on the Pinta sights land, and the next day, the crews of Colombus's fleet land on the Bahamian isle of Guanahaní. The day historically marks the discovery of America.

tupac(no, not that one)the inca emporer died in 1493 and was superseded by huayna who reigned until 1527.

on october 13 1494 Chrissy Colombus set sail on his scond journey to the americas.the trans atlantic crossing lasted 21 days and covered 850 leagues. must have been fun.

King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. A few months later, he decides to return to France, and leaves Naples with most of his army, leaving a force under his cousin Gilbert, Count of Montpensier as Viceroy. (Feb 22)

A Spanish army under Hernandez Gonzalo de Cordoba lands in Calabria with the purpose of ousting the French and restoring Ferrante II to the throne of Naples. (May 26)

Friar John Cor records the first known batch of Scotch whisky. (June 1)

Courtesy of Wikipedia.org

Woodstock - 1969
Three Days of Peace, Love, and Music

(Damn, there's the Hippie in me showing again)

1501:

Alexander becomes King of Poland.

The Safavid kingdom was established in northern Iran.

Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt.

(Courtesy: Wikipedia)

December of 1979 I passed David Berkowitz on the freeway on the border of Maryland and Delaware and didn't know it till I saw his photo a year later

1999:
People panic about the Y2K bug,
fearing that it will destroy their computer data.

(note - I have an old IBM computer built in 1985
that has an internal calander that goes up to 2050.
Was not worried about Y2K because the year is formated to take 4 digits.)

1706-Benjamin Franklin is born. a great day for science.

1790 - Benjamin Franklin died, a bummer of a day for science.

3611 - Alpha Centauri secedes from the Galactic Union. The second Robot Uprising is quashed.

3611 - Kevinswatch fansite welcomes it's 1,000,000th member.

November 10, 1975
The Edmund Fritzgerald sank in a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members.
Event was told in a hit song by Gordon Lightfoot

Kevin's Watch Index now has 3620 members!

In the year 3620, the secret to turning dead rocks to living inhabitable worlds in less than two seconds is finally learned.

Kevin's Watch Index now has 3654 members!

In the year 3654 all of humanity uniformly adopts the life style and attitudes of America in the year 1954. The change goes smoothly as only 3 highly advanced but painfully bored humans remain.

Kevin's Watch now has 3807 members!

In the year 3807, we will FINALLY achieve "herd immunity" to every pathogen that can possibly exist!

1968 - I was born