1950 -- The present day, in radiocarbon dating terms. Every day since may be considered to exist in the future.
1967 -- Debut appearance of Ronald Reagan as `Governor' in State of California, which he would perform for a run of eight years.
1861 -- Delaware decides not to secede from the Union, mainly for sentimental reasons.
1865 -- New York Stock Exchange moves to a larger space. It occupies increasing amounts of room during the 20th century, before repeatedly shrinking in the next.
1974 -- Highest temperature recorded in Antarctica. U.S. schoolchildren are no longer taught that a new ice age is approaching.
1661 -- An attempt to install King Jesus in London is unsuccessful.
1959 -- In a classic bait-and-switch, Fidel Castro waits to come out as socialist until after his government is recognized by the United States.
1835 -- U.S. national debt is zero, as the result of a hiatus between wars. This has been assured to never happen again.
1839 -- The daguerreotype process, in which the subject is duplicated and immobilized in a time-frozen two dimensional form, is introduced to a horrified world.
1946 -- The United Nations General Assembly begins its yearly sessions, to which all members bring words.
1927 -- Film industry insiders are lured to a private dinner party, at which they are initiated into a cabal later responsible for creating and curating the Academy Awards.
1967 -- James Bedford becomes the first man cryonically preserved. Having died several hours before, he will likely remain in that state if ever thawed.
1953 -- Stalin accuses doctors of plotting to kill high-level officials including himself. He later dies due to lack of medical care, after which the doctors are reinstated.
2005 -- Europe lands a probe on one of Saturn's moons, in the first step toward colonization.
1943 -- Pentagon building dedicated in Virginia. Although there was no formal ceremony, special security clearance was required for the after-party.
A.D. 550 -- Rome is captured by simply bribing the defenders, after attacking them repeatedly proves ineffective.
1377 -- An attempt to return the papacy to Rome is followed by a wider schism, the death of the pope, and a new series of antipopes with decreasing charge.
1896 -- X-ray machine makes its formal debut, launching new trends in fashion photography.
1977 -- Snow falls in Miami, Fla., causing a quick but brief reinstatement of approaching ice age theory in U.S. schools.
2007 -- First non-Soviet visitors to the original South Pole of Inaccessibility station are greeted by Lenin.
1861 -- Jefferson Davis resigns from the U.S. Senate, after downsizing of the Union makes his position obsolete.
1506 -- The Swiss Guard begins its fierce, faithful and stylish defense of the Vatican.
1968 -- USS Pueblo begins its ongoing occupation of North Korea.
2003 -- U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security officially begins securing freedom, with the help of duct tape and other devices.
1858 -- Mendelssohn's Wedding March becomes a Victorian fad which fails to die along with the era.
1992 -- Russia ceases to aim its nuclear weapons at U.S. cities, pointing them to the suburbs instead.
1951 -- Lunaforming of Nevada Test Site begins, using nuclear weapons for expediency. The area is later used for films promoting moon colonization.
1909 -- U.S. occupation force departs from Cuba, leaving Guantanamo Bay Naval Base as the lone future outpost of democracy.
A.D. 904 -- Start of the reign of Pope Sergius III, involved in a complex formula of both a slain pope and antipope, re-execution of a dead pope, and the birth of a future pope, with the final sum of zero.
1661 -- Dead Charles I of England finally gets his revenge on dead Oliver Cromwell via post-mortem post-mortem execution.
1990 -- The first McDonald's restaurant in the Soviet Union opens, hastening its downfall.
