Santa Cruz entering the field before a game in Belém
The Suicidal Tour took place when Brazilian professional football club Santa Cruz Futebol Clube toured the North Region of Brazil from 2 January to 29 April 1943. Over almost four months, they played either 26 or 28 friendly matches in six cities. The tour gained its name due to the misfortunes endured by the club. Looking to recover from a financial crisis, Santa Cruz arranged five matches in Belém, Pará. Traveling up the Amazon River for another round of matches, they first started experiencing problems in Manaus, where two players left to play for other clubs and seven members of the team's delegation caught dysentery. Two players went on to contract typhoid fever and died. Unable to return home through the sea, and needing to cover growing costs, Santa Cruz had to return to Recife by land, playing matches along the way to earn money. The return had further problems, including a fake arrest warrant for a player, a trip alongside thieves, and two train derailments. (Full article...)
... that the radio program Radio City Music Hall of the Air employed approximately 10,000 musicians during the first eight years of its broadcast history?
1781 – The crew of the British slave shipZong, running low on water, began the killing of more than 130 enslaved African people by throwing them into the sea to claim insurance.
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"Bananaphone" has seen use in many flash animations which have greatly increased its popularity (arguably being the source of its memetic attention on the internet to begin with).
"Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, BANANA PHONE! Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring, BANANA PHOOONE! I got this feeling, So appealing, For us to get together and sing, SING!" - Raffi. Or James Blunt? Oh well.
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