Did you know on this day in 1951 Fidel Castro was ejected from a Winter League baseball game after hitting a batter. He later gave up baseball for politics.

Or

in 1807 President Thomas Jefferson exposed a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest

Well you do now, which brings me neatly onto your quest for this week.

A while ago I started creating a series called On this day, which tried to use daily facts as source for 'teh funney' here's an example

On this day (1st March) by TheGovernor 3-01-10

1896 - French Physicist Henri Bequerel accidentally discovers radiation Mon Dieu! Monsieur Bequerel, zis Onion Soup has a bit of a kick! Note to self, Uranium salt not a substitute for table salt 1952 - Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain Wasn't as much fun as Legoland 1954 - US explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll Something tells me I should have gone higher than factor 30 sunscreen today.

I gave up after 5 days as I was trying to do the day I created the strip, which turned out harder than it looked.

This is where you guys come in, though I'll be a little more lenient with the format.

Pick a day, any day in the year, 366 of those beauties to choose from, and create a strip based on factoids that happened on that day,  these can be Historical from any country, Sports related, Musical, TV, or even personal to you, as long as it happened on the day in question.  

You can use as many panels as you like for your nuggets, though if you want to follow the format I used that's fine.

Pop the day you choose in the title or somewhere in the strip as a reference, other than that have at it.

Here's a couple of reference sites to get you started, though I reckon a quick google search would yield more

http://www.on-this-day.com/

http://www.reference.com/thisday/

Judging in about a week or so.

On This Day - October 4th by four_legged_tripod 1-22-14

Buster Keaton born - 1895 I don't understand it. The little guy won't say a word, but he sure loves the camera! "Leave it to Beaver" debutes - 1957 Finally! Something wholesome to watch, unlike that fucking Benny Hill! Janis Joplin found dead - 1970 Just goes to show you that watching silent films and marathons of Leave It To Beaver leads to heroine use!

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"Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer." ~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

CC549: ON THIS... ONE OF THE 1ST. 7 DAYS. [pt.1] by bigworm 1-22-14

God tried for a woman, but... Cut her hair and call her Adam. I wanna' better lookin' bitch than that.

CC549: ON THIS... ONE OF THE 1ST. 7 DAYS. [pt.2] by bigworm 1-22-14

So God tried again... C'mon now, you can do it! God approved... God created rubber boots, test drove and approved Adam's new partner. Now for some galoshes.

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RCL no. 3852 by RandomComicLayoutGuy 1-22-14

On this day in 2014... I see you got my memo, Gabe... Yes, and why did you send a memo that kicks people in the nuts??? ...I created another lame-ass "Gabe-gets-nailed-in-the-nuts" comic. Not people. Just you. Just ME??? WHY???? What? Studies show that people are moti-vated by different things... For example, you got a kick in the nuts; Phreaky got a spa treatment.. Ow! Ow! Ow!

Follow the Link!

On July 27, 2003, yours truly created http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/kaufman/sets/AugCal/, a full month's worth of "On this date"s. Submit CC 200 entry!

by kaufman, 1-22-14

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Wikipedia also has an article for each day of the year.

On January 22nd... by evil_d 1-22-14

1927: Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match. It was alright, but I think I'll keep going to the games. The wife doesn't like it when I act like a hooligan at home. 1973: The US Supreme Court delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion. Well, I suppose that settles that! Indeed! 1990: Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm. You're lucky. You'd have gotten a much harsher sentence if there were more than 45 computers on the internet.

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RCL no. 3853 by RandomComicLayoutGuy 1-22-14

On this day in 1998, Mrs. Rinkledbaum stepped out of her house for the first time since her husband died to rejoin society. But, fear of the unknown kept her on her stoop... Oh, my! On this day in 2001, Mrs. Rinkledbaum tried again to go out and rejoin society, and this time she actually made it to the end of her walkway, waving at the driver of a passing cement truck... You can do this! On this day in 2005, Mrs. Rinkledbaum defiantly decided to go rejoin society, and in a fit of irony, got runned over by a cement truck driven by the same driver she waved at four years prior! LOOK OUT, WORLD!!! MRS. RINKLEDBAUM COMIN' AT YA!!!

On this day, in 2005, I made this comic:

Saved by Scyess 1-22-05

Can I help you? I doubt it. Can you make my job stop sucking? Can you motivate me to get a life? Can you make the girl of my dreams love me??! No, but I can give you a "value meal" and save you $1.28. *sigh* I guess that'll have to do.

2005 was the only year I ever made a comic on January 22nd.  Go figure.

More as some ideas actually come to me.

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This might be my most historic comic ever:

CC 549: Not My Faulklands by Scyess 1-22-14

On January 22nd, 1771, Spain ceeded the Faulkland Islands to Britian. Fine, you keep the goddamned things. Righty-o. Haha! Now you are British. Fetch me some tea. CAW! Okay, now I get why Spain didn't put up much of a fight. Excuse me while I go found Argentina to peck annoyingly at your country over these islands for centuries.

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On this day tomorrow I made this comic gem:

I Vant to Suck Your Ashtray! by brycekain 1-24-13

BLAH! You have invited me into your house! Now I vill suck your blood! Dressed like that? Boobaluh, you make me verklempt! And would it kill you to call your poor old mother once in a while?! Ah crap, you're Jewish.

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...and if you liked that one, here's a link to my other stupid shit.

CC 549 On this day (tomorrow): Bill W, the founder of AA by brycekain 1-23-14

January 24th, 1971: Bill W, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous passed away at the age of 75. To this day Bill's AA program continues to help many people who have hardcore addiction problems. So how did he die? Funny story...

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...and if you liked that one, here's a link to my other stupid shit.

On January 23rd... by evil_d 1-23-14

393: Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year old son Honorius co-emperor. Your mother wants me to spend more time with you; maybe this will shut her up. Can you show me the sign to make when I want them to kill a gladiator? 1570: James Stewart, Regent of Scotland, becomes the first person to be assassinated by firearm. Sire! Have you any final commands? Enact... stricter... gun control... legisllllll...erk * 1912: The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. Aw man, I missed it? Oh well, I guess there's always next year's International Opium Convention. You have been seriously misinformed, my friend.

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Just because I really, really, really love Leap Day!

On This Day - Feb 29th

Dinah Shore was born - 1916 Congratulations! It's a girl! Thanks doc. I'm gonna name her after you!

by four_legged_tripod, 1-23-14

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RCL no. 3854 by RandomComicLayoutGuy 1-23-14

I can't believe you brought me here... What's wrong, Butch? Thirty years ago to the day, my parents abandoned me way out here in the middle nowhere! I WAS SO SCARED AND ALL ALONE!!AAAAAAAAAAA!!! I SHIT MY PANTS!! I can see how a traumatic experience like that could have given you loose stools when you were a child. No, I mean I just [*OOMPH* ] shit my pants recalling it! You mean that isn't someone cooking beef curry I'm smelling?

RCL no. 3856 by RandomComicLayoutGuy 1-24-14

On this day in 2001, Esmerelda, wanting to capitalize on the Starbucks coffee craze, opened up her own coffee shop... She called it, "Brew Hilda". The next day in 2001, it closed. DAMMIT!!

On January 24th... by evil_d 1-24-14

1848: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter's Mill, setting off the California Gold Rush. Don't go; you know hardly anybody is going to strike it rich. I'm not going there to prospect, I'm going there to sell prospecting supplies. 1908: Robert Baden-Powell organizes the first Boy Scout troop. Should we be concerned about the homosexual overtones? Eh, nobody talks about that kind of thing. 1986: L. Ron Hubbard dies. It's just as well; that Scientology nonsense was getting out of hand. Yes, thank goodness that's over with.

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Now a Major Motion Picture by kaufman 1-25-14

On February 2nd, one day ago, a tv weatherman woke up to Sonny & Cher on his hotel radio. o/` Babe, I got you babe! o/` Aaaargh, what an obnoxious song! On February 2nd, one and two days ago, a tv weatherman woke up to Sonny & Cher on his hotel radio. o/` Babe, I got you babe! o/` Aaaargh, what an obnoxious song! On February 2nd, one, two and three days ago, a tv weatherman woke up to Sonny & Cher on his hotel radio... o/` Babe, I got you babe! o/` NOT AGAIN!

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RCL no. 3862 by RandomComicLayoutGuy 1-25-14

On this day, fifteen years ago, Narcolepsy Ned fell asleep while cleaning the inside of a trash receptacle on a beach in California... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ While still asleep in the can, the high tide took him out to sea. WAY out to sea. At least two time zones away. Three, if you don't count daylight savings time. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ On a lighter note: Ned washed up on the shores of a tiny, little-known island in South Pacific. Inhabited by cannibals. Who immediately ate him, then used the trash receptacle for his bones. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

CC549: EARLY POLITICAL RECORDS by bigworm 1-27-14

On this day of Jan. 26, 1802, Congress passed an act calling for the establishment of a library within the U.S. Capitol. I hope to come upon a copy of 'Grey's Anatomy'. On the day the library opened, manual and spoken forms of praising God's work did become commonplace in the aisles of the great Library, despite the separation of church and state. The genleman from Wisconsin thanks God for these depictions! *jigga jigga... jigga jigga...* In the name of Jesus, I bind these dirty pages with the glory of my God-given spooge! *jigga jigga jigga... jiggahhh jiggaaah...*

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I was going to keep up with these over the weekend, but then I played video games instead.

On January 25th... by evil_d 1-27-14

1533: King Henry VIII of England marries his second wife, Anne Boleyn. ...until death do you part? Shhh! Don't give it away! 1890: Nellie Bly completes a journey around the world in 72 days. How you like me now, Jules Verne? 1919: The League of Nations is founded. We were going to call it "The League of Extraordinary Nations", but then Belgium joined.

On January 26th... by evil_d 1-27-14

1564: The Council of Trent issues its conclusions, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. Okay, so we have less guilt, and our ministers can marry? Right, but we get to keep the boss hats and the real wine. 1808: William Bligh, the captain against whom the HMS Bounty's crew had mutinied and now the governor of New South Wales, is overthrown once again, as the Rum Rebellion begins. When are you going to take the hint and retire? Shut up! I'm awesome! 1880: Douglas MacArthur, who would command the US Army in the Pacific theater during World War II, is born. I could swear I heard him say "I shall return." That's... deeply disturbing.

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And now we're caught up.  I can see why it was so hard to keep to a daily schedule.

On January 27th... by evil_d 1-27-14

1832: Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Jabberwocky, is born. I'm pretty sure this birth certificate refers to me as a "slithy tove". 1967: The US, UK, & USSR sign a treaty banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes. I'm always happy to sign treaties I couldn't break if I wanted to. I'm adding a clause saying that Martians can't be drafted. 2010: J. D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, dies. Or maybe it was five months ago. Dude was pretty secretive.

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On this day -

In 1860 Britain formally returned the Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua,  something tells me the clue is in the name as to the reason why. 

In 1980 The plot to Ben Affleck's Argo came to fruition.

In 2014 thegovernor judged comic contest 549

Thanks all for entering, some great comics, but the bowler hat of victory may only be worn by one suitor at a time; so it's time to decide.

Hons:

Brycekain - Bill W, founder of AA

Sycess - Not my Faulklands

Kaufman - August series from way back when

Four_legged_tripod - Feb 29th

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner:

EVIL_D

Some great entries, but this one tipped the hat

On January 25th... by evil_d 1-27-14

1533: King Henry VIII of England marries his second wife, Anne Boleyn. ...until death do you part? Shhh! Don't give it away! 1890: Nellie Bly completes a journey around the world in 72 days. How you like me now, Jules Verne? 1919: The League of Nations is founded. We were going to call it "The League of Extraordinary Nations", but then Belgium joined.

Congratulations, the honour of judging cc ??? (wherever we are in the numbering now, I'll leave that decision to you) is yours.

Thanks, Governor!  This was a great contest idea, and I obviously had a lot of fun with it.

Here's a bonus comic.  I didn't know you'd judge today and I already had the "Diet of Worms" panel ready.  Who could pass up a chance to make fun of the Diet of Worms?

On January 28th... by evil_d 1-28-14

1521: The Diet of Worms, during which Martin Luther would be asked to recant his heresies, begins. Aloysius is actually eating worms. I was going to tell him, but I couldn't stop laughing. 1820: Russian explorers discover Antarctica. Are you crying? It reminds me so much of home! 1896: Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding, for driving at a rate of 8 miles per hour. If I was speeding, then you must have had to speed faster to catch me! Yes; I had to walk rather more briskly than I should have liked!

New Comic Contest will start right... about... now.

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