# Guess the event from the date and place **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 14, 2024, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741 "2024-10-14T01:42:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/41 "2024-12-08T23:02:46Z")
Superman’s debut in _Action Comics_ #1 **May 6, 1937 New Jersey** ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/42 "2024-12-10T20:57:49Z")
This seems to have stalled so I’ll go again. The Hindenburg disaster Next event Sweden, February 30, 1712 (That’s not a typo) ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/43 "2024-12-10T21:18:37Z")
Sweden temporarily adopts February 30 as a day to adjust the Swedish Calendar back to the Julian calendar (they would go on to formally adopt the Julian calendar in 1753). **September 18, 1970, Notting Hill London** ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2025, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/44 "2025-01-04T04:33:52Z")
The death of Jimi Hendrix? That’s the right month and year. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/45 "2025-01-06T13:09:51Z")
Yes, that’s right. You may post your own date and place now. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/46 "2025-01-08T23:23:38Z")
November 3, 1957 Baikonur ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/47 "2025-01-08T23:27:33Z")
November 3, 1957 Baikonur Sputnik launch (It was a couple weeks after I was born and parents used that as a nickname for me on occasion lol) ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/48 "2025-01-09T13:45:55Z")
Be sure to post your own date and place… ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/49 "2025-01-11T05:05:04Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > November 3, 1957 Baikonur > > Sputnik launch Sputnik 1 was launched Oct 4, 1957. The date I gave was the launch date of **a** sputnik (which is just the Russian word for satellite). In particular it was Sputnick 2 also know as Muttnick which carried the first live animal into space. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/50 "2025-01-11T05:07:31Z")
Right, then. November 23, 1963, the United Kingdom ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/51 "2025-01-11T05:10:39Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > November 23, 1963, the United Kingdom I know that only because it’s the day after the Kennedy assassination. Dr. Who’s debut on TV. And assuming I’m right, I pass for now. If I come up with something before someone else I’ll post it. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/52 "2025-01-11T05:57:21Z")
You were right. Since you’re passing… September 7, 1996, Paradise, NV ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/53 "2025-01-11T22:03:58Z")
Sorry trying to use a spoiler here and forgot how ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/54 "2025-01-11T22:14:49Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > September 7, 1996, Paradise, NV September 7, 1996, Paradise, NV Are questions allowed? If so Is Paradise a suburb of Las Vegas? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/55 "2025-01-11T23:03:19Z")
An unincorporated area outside the city limits, yes. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/56 "2025-01-11T23:47:00Z")
Then I think it’s the Tyson fight against I can’t recall after which Tupac Shakur was shot. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/57 "2025-01-11T23:51:03Z")
The shooting of Tupac is what we were looking for. Proceed. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/58 "2025-01-12T01:22:43Z")
January 15, 1967 in Los Angeles, California ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/59 "2025-01-13T00:15:06Z")
The first AFL-NFL Championship game in US football between the Green Bay Packers, representing the NFL, vs the Kansas City Chiefs from the upstart AFL. After the merger of the two leagues in 1969 it acquired the retronym of _‘Super Bowl I’._ **June 4, 1944, the Atlantic Ocean approx. 150 miles west of the coast of Rio De Oro, Africa** _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741/60 "2025-01-13T00:57:30Z")
The capture of U-505! Got to see it in Chicago last year and take the tour. Being captured was probably the best thing that happened to the poor Germans who were stuffed into that overheated, smelly, cramped tin can. **August 12, 1990, Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-event-from-the-date-and-place/1008741.md?page=4)