# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 153
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3041 "2011-01-06T15:06:50Z")
**Annie Xmas** , you skipped #12 and Repeated #3 Newsmakers of 1911 1. William Howard Taft – U.S. President 2. Frank “Home Run” Baker - Philidelphia Athletics 3rd baseman and World Series hero. 3. Roald Amundsen - Norwegian polar explorer. 4. Inaugural running of the Indy 500 which was won by The Marmon Wasp 5. Inventor Franz Reichelt leaped to his death from the Eiffel Tower testing his “overcoat/parachute” 6. Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act). 7. The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre 8. Sun Yat-sen returns to China to found the Republic of China 9. Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu. 10. Kaiser Wilhelm botches the Agadir Crisis 11. Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, owners of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory 12. King George V of England crowned. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3042 "2011-01-06T15:10:42Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > **Annie Xmas** , you skipped #12 and Repeated #3 However, I’d already put in #12: Newsmakers of 1911 1. William Howard Taft – U.S. President 2. Frank “Home Run” Baker - Philidelphia Athletics 3rd baseman and World Series hero. 3. Roald Amundsen - Norwegian polar explorer. 4. Inaugural running of the Indy 500 which was won by The Marmon Wasp 5. Inventor Franz Reichelt leaped to his death from the Eiffel Tower testing his “overcoat/parachute” 6. Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act). 7. The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre 8. Sun Yat-sen returns to China to found the Republic of China 9. Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu. 10. Kaiser Wilhelm botches the Agadir Crisis 11. Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, owners of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory 12. Theodore Roosevelt - announces as a candidate for President, against his own successor and former protege Taft. 13. King George V of England crowned. ETA might as well stick with Annie’s category: Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3043 "2011-01-06T15:12:57Z")
Sorry about that! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3044 "2011-01-06T15:14:44Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3045 "2011-01-06T15:27:40Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3046 "2011-01-06T16:11:26Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3047 "2011-01-06T16:24:58Z")
1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti 5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3048 "2011-01-06T16:32:11Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti 5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 6. Hurricane Katrina and it’s aftermath ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3049 "2011-01-06T17:11:44Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti 5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 6. Hurricane Katrina and it’s aftermath 7. Red Sox win the World Series ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3050 "2011-01-06T17:28:10Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti 5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath 7. Red Sox win the World Series 8. Election of Barack Obama ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3051 "2011-01-06T17:43:46Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti 5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath 7. Red Sox win the World Series 8. Election of Barack Obama 9. Contested 2000 US Presiential election ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3052 "2011-01-06T17:54:47Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti 5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath 7. Red Sox win the World Series 8. Election of Barack Obama 9. Contested 2000 US Presiential election 10. Death of Michael Jackson ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3053 "2011-01-06T18:31:48Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti 5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath 7. Red Sox win the World Series 8. Election of Barack Obama 9. Contested 2000 US Presiential election 10. Death of Michael Jackson 11. General Motors and Chrysler bailouts/bankruptcies/recoveries ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3054 "2011-01-06T19:35:50Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti 5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath 7. Red Sox win the World Series 8. Election of Barack Obama 9. No significant Y2K bug problems The big story that _didn’t_ happen. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3055 "2011-01-06T20:04:37Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. No significant Y2K bug problems > > The big story that didn’t happen. Y2K problems are just now manifesting itself into the computers of select Doper’s computers. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3056 "2011-01-06T20:25:10Z")
I don’t consider naked-supermodel popup images a “problem.” Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti 5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath 7. Red Sox win the World Series 8. Election of Barack Obama 9. Contested 2000 US Presiential election 10. Death of Michael Jackson 11. General Motors and Chrysler bailouts/bankruptcies/recoveries 12. No significant Y2K bug problems ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3057 "2011-01-07T00:58:42Z")
Biggest news stories of the 2000’s (so far): 1. 9/11 terrorist attacks 2. Invasion of Iraq 3. Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico 4. Earthquake in Haiti 5. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 6. Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath 7. Red Sox win the World Series 8. Election of Barack Obama 9. Contested 2000 US Presiential election 10. Death of Michael Jackson 11. General Motors and Chrysler bailouts/bankruptcies/recoveries 12. No significant Y2K bug problems 13. Virginia Tech Shooting New Category. > **[Renáta Jamrichová](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A1ta_Jamrichov%C3%A1)** > > Renáta Jamrichová (born 20 June 2007) is a Slovak tennis player. > She has a career high WTA singles ranking of 629 achieved on 28 November 2022. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 1132 achieved on 19 December 2022. > In 2022, she won 2 gold medals at the EYOF, winning in singles and mixed doubles. Jamrichová and her partner Federica Urgesi won the 2023 Australian girls' doubles title beating Hayu Kinoshita and Sara Saito in the final. Pages that you get when you hit the “Random Page” link (above) on Wikipedia (linked) 1. [Baranyai Decsi János](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baranyai_Decsi_J%C3%A1nos) ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3058 "2011-01-07T01:30:09Z")
New Category. > **[Renáta Jamrichová](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A1ta_Jamrichov%C3%A1)** > > Renáta Jamrichová (born 20 June 2007) is a Slovak tennis player. > She has a career high WTA singles ranking of 629 achieved on 28 November 2022. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 1132 achieved on 19 December 2022. > In 2022, she won 2 gold medals at the EYOF, winning in singles and mixed doubles. Jamrichová and her partner Federica Urgesi won the 2023 Australian girls' doubles title beating Hayu Kinoshita and Sara Saito in the final. Pages that you get when you hit the “Random Page” link (above) on Wikipedia (linked) 1. Baranyai Decsi János 2. [Gert Engels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Engels), a German Soccer Player and Coach that was unknown to me. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3059 "2011-01-07T01:55:29Z")
> **[Renáta Jamrichová](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A1ta_Jamrichov%C3%A1)** > > Renáta Jamrichová (born 20 June 2007) is a Slovak tennis player. > She has a career high WTA singles ranking of 629 achieved on 28 November 2022. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 1132 achieved on 19 December 2022. > In 2022, she won 2 gold medals at the EYOF, winning in singles and mixed doubles. Jamrichová and her partner Federica Urgesi won the 2023 Australian girls' doubles title beating Hayu Kinoshita and Sara Saito in the final. Pages that you get when you hit the “Random Page” link (above) on Wikipedia (linked) 1. Baranyai Decsi János 2. [Gert Engels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Engels), a German Soccer Player and Coach that was unknown to me. 3. [Knight of Kerry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_of_Kerry) - one of three Anglo-Irish hereditary knighthoods. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/3060 "2011-01-07T02:17:28Z")
> **[Renáta Jamrichová](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A1ta_Jamrichov%C3%A1)** > > Renáta Jamrichová (born 20 June 2007) is a Slovak tennis player. > She has a career high WTA singles ranking of 629 achieved on 28 November 2022. She also has a career high WTA doubles ranking of 1132 achieved on 19 December 2022. > In 2022, she won 2 gold medals at the EYOF, winning in singles and mixed doubles. Jamrichová and her partner Federica Urgesi won the 2023 Australian girls' doubles title beating Hayu Kinoshita and Sara Saito in the final. Pages that you get when you hit the “Random Page” link (above) on Wikipedia (linked) 1. Baranyai Decsi János 2. [Gert Engels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gert_Engels), a German Soccer Player and Coach that was unknown to me. 3. [Knight of Kerry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_of_Kerry) - one of three Anglo-Irish hereditary knighthoods. 4. [Gogogogo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogogogo), a village in SW Madagascar that is not, apparently, known for its dancers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=152) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=154)