Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/August 1

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August 1: Independence Day (Switzerland), Swiss Cheese Day (Everywhere Else)

• 1844 - The FBI executes a sting operation intended to disrupt turnip trafficking, apprehending turnip kingpin Baldrick (pictured).
• 1910 - Los Angeles suffers it first drive-by shooting from a car, a Ford Model T. However, the culprit is quickly apprehended by LAPD, who were chasing on foot.
• 1919 - The people of Zimbabwe elect their first Lord High Bison.
• 1923 - Calvin Klein proclaims himself Emperor of Cologne, Germania.
• 1957 - Rod Serling is ticketed in the Middle Ground between Light and Shadow for driving Noon in a Twilight Zone.
• 1979 - Australia's first kangaroo prime minister is elected. He later appoints marsupials to the judiciary, resulting in the establishment of kangaroo courts.