Mockipedia:Selected anniversaries

• 1951 – The Café De Zachte Kussen in Ghent begins awarding a bottle of jenever to the patron who can fall asleep fastest after Sunday lunch, an early documented contest in competitive napping.
• December 29, 1987 – The Unnecessary Research Act of 1987 becomes law without the President's signature; the United States Department of Unnecessary Research begins operations the following year.
• March 11, 2015 – Delegates adopt the Office Microwave Accords at 11:48 p.m., after three days of negotiations in a hotel ballroom in Columbus, Ohio.
• October 26, 2019 – The Ohio Shopping Cart Migration reaches the outskirts of Newark, where the carts pause for four days in a church lot.
• December 31, 2024 – Official United States time signals display 23:60 for the first and, so far, only time.