Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/September 23

September 23: Take a Venomous Animal to Work Day, National Australian Pavlova Is Ours Day

• 41 CE - Emus invent the Pavlova. However, millions die from spoiled whipped cream topping and the recipe is lost for centuries.
• 1143 - Pope Innocent II rejoins God after taking his wife to work.
• 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer, dies after taking a rattlesnake to work.
• 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705) expires after taking a lionfish to work.
• 1949 - Bruce Springsteen is born in the USA; his disappointed parents were hoping for a pony.
• 1972 - The French word "capitulate" is added to the OED (the French themselves have been using the word since 600 BC).
• 1974 - Two whole words, both alike in dignity, "Capulet" and "Montague", are added to the OED.
• 1979 - Olympics held in Wigan for the second time.
• 1986 - Ozzy "Ozzy" Osbourne catches a crazy train. Is late for work.
• 1989 - Songwriter Irving Berlin dies when the platypus he brings to work strikes him with its venomous leg spines.
• 1990 - First "cow catapult" launch observed in controversial computer game "Nuclear War".
• 2002 - Revolution in Webbrowserland leads to crowning of Phoenix I by Mozilla rebels. This ignites the FireFox War, version 1.0.
• 2006 - A homeless man in Australia is beaten senseless by a giant used tampon. Police reports show that the tampon was 'Carefree'.
• 2007 - Rhys Jones is caught in a drive-by on the way to a Used concert. His collapse to the ground causes the biggest earthquake on human record which in turn brings on doomsday.
• 2009 - Australia rejoices as government scientists prove that New Zealand forged the pavlova recipe, meaning that Australians now have another reason to mock their cousins across the Tasman.