Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/April 18

April 18: Dependence Day (Canada)

• 1485 - A conductor accidentally invents jazz music when the orchestra's metronome goes on the fritz.
• 1524 - The world's first Spanish restaurant is founded by Hernán Cortéz in Tenochtitlan.
• 1958 - The Supreme Court of the United States bans poetry and evicts all known poets from the country.
• 1972 - First state laws mandating public toilets passed in Texas. In protest, Texans urinate in public.
• 1983 - A suicide plumber floods the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
• 2002 - The internet is officially declared "useless and beyond redemption" by the Norwegian military.
• 2007 - The same orchestra who played jazz band music in 1485 faces the horror of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes."

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