Might be a little necro here, but I have this little bit of gold that i've been working on for one of ten events for my trimester long project. I happen to think it's hilarious.
The Invention of the Ironclads-
March 9th, 1862 On March 9th, 1862, the world's first ironclad ships traded fire with one another. This, of course, drew the interest of other nations, but they don't

er because this isn't a World History class yet. The origin of these ironclad ships begins back in 1861, when a Union steam frigate, the Merrimack, sunk off the coast of Virginia in 1861. Determined to make the Union feel very, very silly, the Confederates took the sunken ship, plated bloody IRON on it, and got to work trying to make it float. Of course, once the Union secretary heard of this, he just had to copy it. I mean, the South couldn't be the only kid on the block with it's own steel floating DEATH MACHINE. The Union secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, ordered the naval engineer John Ericsson to design a ship like it.
Of course, John Ericsson might have just seen how strange this sounded in a satirical tone, so he went ahead and created a ship that apparently resembled a "gigantic cheese box on an immense shingle". He had to have realized that this seemed pretty ridiculous, but at this point he probably just didn't care.
On March 8th, 1862, the Merrimack attacked three wooden Union warships, sinking the first, burning the second, and driving the third to the ground. The Union collectively went "HOLY ****!" and sent their steel cheese box over to fight it. The fight ended with a draw, but also ended the era of wooden ships. Thankfully however, they didn't set the precedent for future ships. No

er how easy it would be to make fun of, a whole fleet of cheese-box based ships becoming the most powerful naval fleet ever would just make me feel kind of freaked out.
I have a few other ones sort of like this, but not as blatantly "oh [m'kay] this" oriented.