tickman

Can't argue, Bobo. I've seeb a lot of coincidences while making this series. But this one takes the cake. It's nothing to have 3 air disasters on the same date: I could put that many in nearly every game--more for some games. But ferries? Not so much.

2 years ago

BoboLo

Well, at the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious, 26 September was a really bad day to be travelling on a ferry - extraordinary coincidence!

2 years ago

tickman

For more information on this date's historical significance, see the list on the topic at Wikipedia. Enter a date (e.g., January 12) into the search box, hit return, and you'll get lots of information. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org

Special thanks to my friend Makropulos for these additional suggestions of source information, which are also used in this series:

Infoplease.com page:
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

Library of Congress "This Day in History" page:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/

New York Times "On this Day" page:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/

Historyorb.com's "Today in History" page:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/

The map I use is is by Map by Pietro Calogero, and is originally from here:
http://calogero.us/Geography/WorldLands/Map.html

It has a GNU Free Documentation License (GPL). Details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License

Special thanks to my friend Slaaty, who modified the map and provided me the ancestor of the version I use here.

2 years ago