Comical Historical Events

[Bendicion]

Kinda dark but funny on some level. After killing Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip took a pill of cyanide and then jumped into a river. He didn't want to get caught. Turns out he lived with a bad stomach ache.

Ouch. But better to be alive than dead i suppose. But…no idea what Gavrillo wanted after he got that stomache, ust have been a total bummer.

[Heloin]

Kinda dark but funny on some level. After killing Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip took a pill of cyanide and then jumped into a river. He didn't want to get caught. Turns out he lived with a bad stomach ache.

No idea what you’re talking about since that wasn’t Princip. He was tackled to the ground after firing two shots into the Archduke and the Duchess.

[Bendicion]

Kinda dark but funny on some level. After killing Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip took a pill of cyanide and then jumped into a river. He didn't want to get caught. Turns out he lived with a bad stomach ache.

No idea what you’re talking about since that wasn’t Princip. He was tackled to the ground after firing two shots into the Archduke and the Duchess.

He wasnt executed right? Or was he? I cant recall honestly.

[Rusozak]

No idea what you’re talking about since that wasn’t Princip. He was tackled to the ground after firing two shots into the Archduke and the Duchess.

He wasnt executed right? Or was he? I cant recall honestly.

Died of TB in prison.

[Heloin]

He wasnt executed right? Or was he? I cant recall honestly.

Died of TB in prison.

Too young to be sentenced to death as well. Had he survived he would have been free in 1934 and likely early with the collapse if the Astro-Hungarian empire.

[Jewish Underground State]

Kinda dark but funny on some level. After killing Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip took a pill of cyanide and then jumped into a river. He didn't want to get caught. Turns out he lived with a bad stomach ache.

No idea what you’re talking about since that wasn’t Princip. He was tackled to the ground after firing two shots into the Archduke and the Duchess.

Sorry it must have been someone else. I learned it in Social Studies a few months ago. The guy ended up being caught.

[Bendicion]

Died of TB in prison.

Too young to be sentenced to death as well. Had he survived he would have been free in 1934 and likely early with the collapse if the Astro-Hungarian empire.

I wonder what he would have thought of the world he had caused because of his actions.

[Heloin]

Too young to be sentenced to death as well. Had he survived he would have been free in 1934 and likely early with the collapse if the Astro-Hungarian empire.

I wonder what he would have thought of the world he had caused because of his actions.

Apparently wholey blamed the Empires of Europe and didn't feel responsible for their war.

[Haganham]

I wonder what he would have thought of the world he had caused because of his actions.

Apparently wholey blamed the Empires of Europe and didn't feel responsible for their war.

apt tbh

[Heloin]

Anyways comical. In 1910 the airship America attempted the first transatlantic crossing. One passenger on this historic attempt was a cat named Kiddo. Kiddo fucking hated this idea. Apparently raising absolute hell so much so that the first ever wireless transmission from an aircraft would be the immortal line by aeronautics pioneer Melvin Vaniman, "Roy, come and get this goddamn cat." After a brief attempt to place Kiddo in a basket and lower him into a boat Kiddo settled down and the journey continued until America had to be abandoned off the coast of Bermuda with the flight mostly being a failure. Kiddo would become an international celebrity and lived the remained of his life in Washington DC.

[Western Fardelshufflestein]

idk if they were mentioned but

1.During the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Liechtenstein sent an army of 80 strong to guard the Brenner Pass but 81 came back

2.In the entire state of Ohio in 1895, there were only two cars on the road, and the drivers of these two cars crashed into each other.

are two of my favourite

That is one of the most Ohio things ever...no offense to Ohioans.

Liechtenstein's extra soldier does it for me. And the emu war. And Harrison's lengthy presidency.

[Concejos Unidos]

No idea what you’re talking about since that wasn’t Princip. He was tackled to the ground after firing two shots into the Archduke and the Duchess.

Sorry it must have been someone else. I learned it in Social Studies a few months ago. The guy ended up being caught.

You're thinking of Čabrinović, who was also in on the plot with Princip and made a failed assassination attempt on the same day as Princip.

[Shrillland]

Yeah. I know that Stonewall Jackson's arm was buried separately from the rest of him but never heard anything about President Jackson's arm.

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the Mexican cacique, held a state funeral for his leg, amputated after his wounding in a battle against the French. During the Mexican-American war an Illinois regiment "captured" his prosthesis, now on display in that state. The same regiment captured a second peg leg which is on display in a former Illinois governor's house/museum. A third Santa Anna prosthesis is displayed in Mexico City. The leg itself was reburied in Mexico City but later dug up and dragged through the streets by Santa Anna's political opponents.

We actually did offer to return both of them after that famous King of the Hill episode, but the Mexican Government politely declined...and the one in Springfield isn't on display anymore, it was stored away for a special bicentennial display and didn't come back out.

[The Blaatschapen]

Sorry it must have been someone else. I learned it in Social Studies a few months ago. The guy ended up being caught.

You're thinking of Čabrinović, who was also in on the plot with Princip and made a failed assassination attempt on the same day as Princip.

So Čabrinović is an incompetent loser. Can't assassinate other people, nor himself.

[Heloin]

You're thinking of Čabrinović, who was also in on the plot with Princip and made a failed assassination attempt on the same day as Princip.

So Čabrinović is an incompetent loser. Can't assassinate other people, nor himself.

I think he managed to blow up a car but my memories hazy on that. Doesn't help my searching when what comes up in google is a Serb football manager.

[The Archregimancy]

So Čabrinović is an incompetent loser. Can't assassinate other people, nor himself.

I think he managed to blow up a car but my memories hazy on that. Doesn't help my searching when what comes up in google is a Serb football manager.

It's worse than that - and arguably even more darkly comical in full.

Nedeljko Čabrinović was indeed one of the assassination team (Princip was merely the only successful member of a team of otherwise incompetent assassins).

Čabrinović's station was on the Archduke's motorcade route as it passed along the Miljacka River. He threw a bomb at the Archduke's car, but it bounced harmlessly off the lowered convertible cover, and into the street - where it exploded under the next car, injuring up to 20 innocent people.

His cover fairly spectacularly blown (pun intended) Čabrinović then attempted to commit suicide by swallowing his cyanide pill and jumping into the river. He would surely either be poisoned or drowned. Unfortunately for the would-be assassin, his cyanide pill was so old it merely induced mild vomiting, and due to the unusually hot and dry summer the river was less than 15cm deep. He was captured by a mob who almost beat him to death until the police were able to take him into custody.

Even Princip was lucky. The Archduke's motorcade took a wrong turn after leaving Sarajevo hospital, and as they were attempting to turn around on a back side street his driver stalled the car directly in front of Princip, who could hardly believe his luck. Princip mounted the car and shot the Archduke and his wife at point-blank range.

So the entire sequence of events was arguably a comedy of errors - though one with horrible consequences.

[Heloin]

I think he managed to blow up a car but my memories hazy on that. Doesn't help my searching when what comes up in google is a Serb football manager.

It's worse than that - and arguably even more darkly comical in full.

Nedeljko Čabrinović was indeed one of the assassination team (Princip was merely the only successful member of a team of otherwise incompetent assassins).

Čabrinović's station was on the Archduke's motorcade route as it passed along the Miljacka River. He threw a bomb at the Archduke's car, but it bounced harmlessly off the lowered convertible cover, and into the street - where it exploded under the next car, injuring up to 20 innocent people.

His cover fairly spectacularly blown (pun intended) Čabrinović then attempted to commit suicide by swallowing his cyanide pill and jumping into the river. He would surely either be poisoned or drowned. Unfortunately for the would-be assassin, his cyanide pill was so old it merely induced mild vomiting, and due to the unusually hot and dry summer the river was less than 15cm deep. He was captured by a mob who almost beat him to death until the police were able to take him into custody.

Even Princip was lucky. The Archduke's motorcade took a wrong turn after leaving Sarajevo hospital, and as they were attempting to turn around on a back side street his driver stalled the car directly in front of Princip, who could hardly believe his luck. Princip mounted the car and shot the Archduke and his wife at point-blank range.

So the entire sequence of events was arguably a comedy of errors - though one with horrible consequences.

The following 5 years afterwards are going to be really empty on the comedy front so we take what we can get. Well, I guess there is some humor in just the name "Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo" but that's really where it stops being funny.

I will disappoint anyone wishing to bring up the other fun Princip fact, the story of him eating a sandwich in the seconds before assassinating the Archduke is almost certainly pure historical fiction.

[Great United States]

Idk if its been said before,but there was that one Indian emperor that tried to physically move his capital city by making people carry it over their backs

[The Selkie]

The following 5 years afterwards are going to be really empty on the comedy front so we take what we can get. Well, I guess there is some humor in just the name "Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo" but that's really where it stops being funny.

I will disappoint anyone wishing to bring up the other fun Princip fact, the story of him eating a sandwich in the seconds before assassinating the Archduke is almost certainly pure historical fiction.

Well, WW1 wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs, I give you that, but there were certain moments.
For instance, and harkening back to my post about the Mile High Club, apparently German Fighter Pilot Oswald Boelcke might have been a member: He took a nurse to the sky with him. The logistics of it, seeing that his plane did not have an autopilot are, unclear (please insert innuendo concerning control sticks here) and it stands to reason, that he simply took the nurse out for a joyride, but... for one thing, imagine any modern day fighter pilot taking a lass out for a spin in his jet, he would be a bit more then just disciplined, for the other the fact, that we have our heads so deep in the gutter, that we imagine that and wonder about "How did they do it?"

If that is not considered funny, comical or otherwise humourous, tea bags. Like, the thing you throw into hot water when you don't make coffee.
A popular legend states, that their invention was purely coincidental: A merchant sent out little samples of his product in small cloth bags and instead of removing the leaves, they dropped the bags into the water.
If the legend is true, I do not know - I do find it funny, though.

[Heloin]

If that is not considered funny, comical or otherwise humourous, tea bags. Like, the thing you throw into hot water when you don't make coffee.
A popular legend states, that their invention was purely coincidental: A merchant sent out little samples of his product in small cloth bags and instead of removing the leaves, they dropped the bags into the water.
If the legend is true, I do not know - I do find it funny, though.

I will disappoint since I do know a bit about this. Patent records for tea bags first appear in the late 1890s if I'm recalling correctly. If someone is patenting a design then the idea of placing the bag in the cup is almost certainly the point of them. And before you ask, no I can't for the life of me understand why that information is knocking around in my head.

[The Selkie]

If that is not considered funny, comical or otherwise humourous, tea bags. Like, the thing you throw into hot water when you don't make coffee.
A popular legend states, that their invention was purely coincidental: A merchant sent out little samples of his product in small cloth bags and instead of removing the leaves, they dropped the bags into the water.
If the legend is true, I do not know - I do find it funny, though.

I will disappoint since I do know a bit about this. Patent records for tea bags first appear in the late 1890s if I'm recalling correctly. If someone is patenting a design then the idea of placing the bag in the cup is almost certainly the point of them. And before you ask, no I can't for the life of me understand why that information is knocking around in my head.

...thank you for destroying my illusion... next you'll tell me, that the Easter Bunny isn't real... ; )
Fun aside, thank you for the information. I believe, that this is one of those legends, which will stalk the minds of people for a long, long time.

[Australian rePublic]

How 'bout the king who joking suggested that he should give his listless horse whisky and literally died laughing from his own joke. I mean, don't get me wrong, death isn't funny, but it is definately it's definately obscure history

The oldest known joke is (a more verbatim version of) "A woman has never farted in her husband's lap"

And finally, we have Diogenes of Sinope. The crack pot philosopher whose antics always crack me up

[Perikuresu]

How 'bout the king who joking suggested that he should give his listless horse whisky and literally died laughing from his own joke. I mean, don't get me wrong, death isn't funny, but it is definately it's definately obscure history

What about a pope who loved watching horses fuck?

[The Archregimancy]

How 'bout the king who joking suggested that he should give his listless horse whisky and literally died laughing from his own joke. I mean, don't get me wrong, death isn't funny, but it is definately it's definately obscure history

What about a pope who loved watching horses fuck?

Can I gently suggest that, in circumstances like both of the above quotes, we actually try and put some details in. A name, a rough date, a place ... just about anything that would offer some context.

Otherwise these aren't 'comical events in history', but rather 'unsubstantiated detail-free anecdotes that aren't particularly funny'.

[Nationalist Northumbria]

The death of Ragnar Lodbrok. 'Tough' Viking warrior and he dies because a few adders bit him lol. Nowadays millions of people know about him because of a show in which he begs a Northumbrian monk to have sex with his wife.