World's first fart joke is told.

Ancient Sumeria - 1900 BC

Greek tragedian Aeschylus dies after a bird drops a turtle on his bald head.

Sicily - 456 BC

Greek tragedian Sophocles dies from trying to recite a really long sentence from his play Antigone.

Athens, Greece - 406 BC

Philosopher Chryssippus dies laughing at a donkey eatings figs.

Athens, Greece - 206 BC

Atilla the Hun dies from a severe nose bleed.

Hungary - 453 AD

Louis the III dies after hitting his head on a door frame.

Saint-Denis, France - 882 AD

Wan Hu is the world's first astronaut.

Ming China - 1600s

Austrian soldiers mistaked their own hussars as Ottoman Turks, leading to a battle that killed 150 of their own men and wounded a thousand more.

Karansebes, Romania - 1788

After seeing a circus knife swallower, John Cummings starts swallowing knives himself. He died after swallowing a total of 38 knives.

Off the coast of France - 1809

Politician Clement Vallandigham accientally shoots himself while demonstrating how a man might have shot himself.

Ohio, USA - 1871

Italy loses the Italo-Ethiopian War. Italy was a nation equipped with rifles while the Ethiopians were equipped with swords and spears.

Ethiopia - 1896

Leopold Lojka takes a wrong turn.

Sarajevo, Bosnia - 1914

War is started when a Greek soldier chases after his stray dog across the border into Bulgaria. This leads to Greece paying 45,000 pounds to Bulgaria.

Petrich, Bulgaria - 1925

Italy wins the 2nd Italo-Ethiopian War, but through the use of gas attacks and chemical weapons.

Ethiopia - 1936

Tsar Boris the III, ruler of Bulgaria, dies. His six-year old-son then took power.

Sofia, Bulgaria - 1943

Chewing gum is banned.

Singapore - 1992

Bob Dole runs for president

USA - 1996

Dying is banned.

La Lavandou, France - 2000