I receive the Coastzone Newsletter from coasttocoastam.com each day in my mailbox. Each issue contains a ‘Today In Strangeness’.
This is the one for today, Febuary 10, 2012:
Today in Strangness (sic):
On this date in 3641 B.C. the world was created, according to one Mayan calendar. PT Barnum staged the wedding of little people Gen. Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren (1863). Chess champ Gary Kasparov was defeated by Deep Blue, the IBM computer (1996).