This may be Michael Cera‘s greatest role! From College Humor, the Drunk History series features reenactments of history as told by a lush in a drunken stupor. This one is particularly funny in that the said lush asks for a bucket midway through. Best of all, Cera portrays one of my favorite founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. Enjoy.
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- June 2, 1924: Congress granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians.
- June 2, 1941: Baseball great, Lou Gehrig died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, a rare type of paralysis now referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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- June 2, 2003: The European Space Agency launched the Mars Express probe. Contact with the lander Beagle 2 was lost in December.
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