Mashup at least two different people, events that happened on this day in history.
For example, on October 12, Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean, thinking his driver of his Model T drove him to Asia (it was the millionth model produced by Ford, also on October 12). No wonder Chris looks confused.

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