Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/May 12

May 12: Barry Manilow Appreciation Day, International Zombie Awareness Day (US, Canada)

• 1854 - Outbreak of zombie attacks, causes many deceased voters to form their own party. There was no beer and many people died.
• 1877 - Oscar Wilde pens his poem Sonnet to Liberty, advocating socialism and decrying many contemporary fashion trends.
• 1881 - In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate, and thus enjoys its last noteworthy moment for nearly 100 years, until the filming of Star Wars there in 1977.
• 1943 - Barry Manilow is born. He will become a feral child raised by a biker gang.
• 1973 - Manilow forms KISS but leaves due to creative differences and makeup allergies.
• 1974 - Depressed mood ring commits suicide. (pictured)
• 1985 - The Book of the Dead is discovered by a 12-year-old child in London and sold for 3 baseball cards and a Jefferson Starship cassette tape.
• 1987 - The Book of the Dead is set to music by Barry Manilow; more mood rings commit suicide.
• 2003 - Pocahontas sells her memoir Hokey Pokey: Frolicking, Singing, and Doing a White Guy to Disney, which is subsequently made into a popular children's movie.
• 2004 - The zombie of Walter Cronkite rises from the ground to report on the Alabama Tri-County Kitten Pageant.
• 2009 - The late great Dr. Emmett Brown travels back in time to warn America of the future communist dick-tater El Presidente "Bha-rock Obomb-ba" or as we know him as, Presidenture Barack Obama. No one listens to him and our fate has been sealed.
• 2011 - Zompocalypse. Only the nerds were prepared as hordes of Bieber Fans zombies take over the meat factories.
• 2012 - Star Wars Kid rolls an 8. Zombies die (for real this time).