Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/September 16

USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) no bloody A, B, C, or D!

September 16: Talk Like Scotty From Star Trek Day

• 1897 - Scrooge McDuck invents the Scots accent during a rousing game of hopscotch.
• 1903 - While investigating the breakdown of a prototype airplane engine, Orville Wright exclaims "Mah bairns! Mah poor bairns."
• 1912 - When urged by Captain Edward Smith to increase engine power to avoid an iceberg, the head engineer of the RMS Titanic replies, "I've giv'n her all she's got, Cap'n, an' I cannah give her no more!!"
• 1962 - After John F. Kennedy says "I am a doughnut" in German instead of "I am a Berliner", the mayor of West Berlin whispers to him, "Laddy, don't you think you should be rephrasing that?".
• 1970 - While preparing for reentry after their journey back to Earth, Astronaut Jack Swigert informs mission pilot Jim Lovell that "the energizer's bypassed like a Christmas tree, so don't give me too many bumps."
• 1972 - After hilltopping and getting into general mayhem in Hazzard County with the General Lee, Uncle Jesse warns the Duke boys, "She won't take much more of this!!"
• 1988 - Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev defeats President Ronald Reagan in a game of Pac-Man. Tension brews between the two nations as a result. Henry Kissinger notes, "Tis nothing a little Saurian brandy can't fix".
• 1993 - During the O. J. Simpson trial, Judge Ito declares, "This jury-rigging won't last for long, Cap'n!"
• 1993 - Nick Jonas, the bane of teenage existence, is born.
• 2000 - Osama bin Laden tells Saddam Hussein about his plan to hijack planes, to which Hussein responds, "Are ye daft lad?!"
• 2005 - When asked by the United States to return its diplomats to the Six Nation Talks, North Korea's Kim Jong-Il replies, "Diplomats! The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank."
• Star date 12.14.21 - Scotty says "Aye, Cap'n" so many times that he likes the sound of it and starts a mutiny.