Myth

[mostoften]

Today is 06/06/06.

Did anything untoward happen on 06/06/1906

[jake-the-peg]

June 6 - Durham & South Carolina Railroad operates its first revenue train, Bonsal to Durham, North Carolina. The date, when written as a six-digit date and the zeroes removed, evaluates to the Number of the Beast (numerology) (666).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906

Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_June

That was torpedoed in 1915 sending the US into the first world war - you could build a conspiracy theory around that!

[Octavius]

spring 66 AD was a pretty bad time for the Zealots at Masada, and marked the beginning of the Jewish-Roman wars.

[Octavius]

Incidentally, did you know that Sir Isaac Newton predicted the end of life on Earth in the year 2060

[andyp]

Didn't Newton make that prediction after the Great fire of London in 1666?

[bob57]

excuse me but wasn't the great fire of london in 1066

[Hippy]

Oh, bob57, your real name must be Norman Hastings!