Cavaliers overcame a 3-1 series deficit to defeat the heavily favored Golden State Warriors (who were 73-9, a historic feat in itself) and break Cleveland’s long championship drought.
Cubs overcame a 3-1 series deficit to defeat the Indians and break the 108-year championship drought.
Leicester City became the Premier League’s greatest underdog story ever (overcoming 5,000-to-1 odds on some bets) to win the title.
Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, when nearly all polls had her winning, and she commanded far greater experience, political pedigree, endorsements, etc.
Brexit: The UK surprisingly voted to leave the EU.
Colombian voters shockingly voted to **reject **a peace deal with the terrorist FARC that had been in negotiations a very long time, by the narrowest of margins (50.22% to 49.78%.)
Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
A PowerBall jackpot surpassed $1 billion.
Anything else? We’re not even through the year yet. What if England had won Euro 2016!
As I recall, there was a month with five Tuesdays in it or something, and a chain email was going around saying that only happens once every 974,098,442 years or something. Something like that, I forget the details.
This month has five Tuesdays, as did March, May, and August. 2017 will have four months with five Tuesdays. I am pretty sure this HAS to happen several times a year. Any month except February that starts on a Monday or Tuesday will have five Tuesdays, and a 31-day month can start on a Sunday and have five Tuesdays.
Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill met and issued a joint declaration, which is the first time the leaders of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches have met since the churches split in 1054.
Future generations will look back and see it as THE pivotal event that shaped the creation of their world. Lemmy is the real world meatspace version of Wyld Stallyns.
The day of the week that has January 1 (and, in leap years, January 2) will have five months in which that day of the week occurs five times; the rest will each have four.
Back on topic:
The San Jose Sharks finally make it to a Stanley Cup Finals (losing in six games to Pittsburgh)
Aside from the fact that five Tuesdays has to happen at least three times every year, there is also the fact that the calendar repeats exactly every 400 years. (If we are still using our absurd calendar, this will cease in 4000 CE and a different 400 year cycle will be established.)
What if England had won Euro 2016!