This Day In History

May 5

3251 BC - A nomadic tribesman in central Asia noted to another nomadic tribesman, that there traveling patterns were similar to their own lives. Remarking how the lack of permanence of their home life was similar to their own soul - always searching, without any answers. This would not be as expected, the first use of irony, as the comment had been made a day earlier. Rather, this was the first use of sarcasm, as that tribesman was mocking the other tribesman earlier comment.

112 AD - Choosing to build a road in Roman controlled Spain via the valley rather than the highlands due to the interpretation of bird entirely by a priest, caused the following reaction from a construction worker. "It seems priests are able to identify roads that would be less likely to be cursed, but they still can't find the cure for the common cold!" This would be the first usage of the now popular but they can't find the cure for the common cold joke.

1260 - The Italian entree meatballs rose in popularity over the more traditional, meatsquare.

1621 - Spanish explorers first envisioned the future for present day Tijuana, by paying local village women to have sex with donkeys.

1821 - In an eerie premonition, Jebediah Curtis, an actor in the Rochester, NY production of the local stage hit "Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah!" involuntarily yelled out "That's my momma!". It wouldn't be until 153 years later as Jebediah Curtis' great-great-great-great-grandson made that same fateful exclamation.

1953 - In an expected second coming of Christ at a remote church in Peru, Christian believers were initially disappointed in the appearance of Vishnu. Stating, "Sorry, Jesus couldn't make it so he asked me if I could show up". The Christians were appreciative for Vishnu providing delicious food from Vishnu's native India.