On This Day in Weird, May 19...
1780: Members of the Connecticut General Assembly declare a
sudden darkening of the sky to be a sign of the biblical "end times."
In fact, the cause is a combination of cloud cover and smoke from an
approaching forest fire. Earth endures.
1998: Television premiere of Gargantua, in which
Polynesian islanders capture a baby sea monster, prompting Mama to appear and
wreak havoc to liberate her offspring. A thinly disguised pastiche of Gorgo (1961),
shifted from Britain to the Pacific.
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