#2084: FDR
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[Close-up of a form. Each field has a label (the first is assumed) and a handwritten entry. The name and country are each half visible. The numeral "4" has been only partially written before being scratched out.]
[NAME]
Randall Munroe
DATE
Dec 7, 194 12, 2018
COUNTRY
United States
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FDR was so good at speeches that I spend a whole month each year writing the date wrong.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:June 21st, 365, the date of the big Mediterranean earthquake and tsunami, lived in infamy for a few centuries before fading. Maybe the trick is a catchy rhyme; the '5th of November' thing is still going strong over 400 years later.