The Timeline Is Playing Tricks on You

1888, 1889 & 1977 · Timeline oddities

Jack the Ripper’s notorious London murders occurred in 1888; Nintendo began making Japanese playing cards in 1889, just one year later. And the original Star Wars hit theaters in May 1977, months before France’s final guillotine execution in September 1977. Sometimes history’s overlap is the strangest part.

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