The G1 makes its not-hyped-at-all debut in a few hours, which got some of us, that is, me, thinking: what else happened on this glorious date, September 23? I know the Heavens themselves are scheduled to open any minute now, but surely other important things happened on this date?
1780: Some British guy was arrested, exposing Benedict Arnold for the traitor he was. No G1 for him, that traitor.
1845: The very first modern baseball team, the Knickerbockers, was founded in New York. Years later, the Yankees would habitually suck and the Mets would choke at every opportunity.
1889: Nintendo was founded! That’s halfway relevant to us here!
1952: Richard Nixon gave his famous Checkers speech, showing his human side for one of the few times in his life.
2002: The very first public release of Firefox was released, only back then it was called Phoenix, and it was easy to use.
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List compiled, just barely, mind you, by ripping off Wikipedia.
