Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 23, 1992
October 22, 1992
October 24, 1992
Transcript:
Cormac and Sally sit at their school desks. Cormac asks, "Psst, Sally . . . What did you put down for the first question?"<BR><BR> Sally answers, "'What happened in 1816? How should I know? I wasn't there, but if I had been, I'd never admit it.'"<BR><BR> Cormac and Sally sit at their desks.<BR><BR> Cormac says, "I'll think of something else."<BR><BR>
The election of James Monroe as the fifth President of the United States, Indiana is admitted into the Union, the wreck of the French frigate Medusé (immortalised in the painting by Théodore Géricault), the thrones of Sicily and Naples are unified under King Ferdinand I, Shaka begins ruling the Zulu kingdom. This was also the “year without a summer”, where the northern hemisphere experienced severe cooling thanks to the eruption of Mt. Tambora in what is now Indonesia.