Conversation:

I set the first QI question in 2007 and I decided to do the same for 2012. (Lets hope they don't guess the answer on post#3 like they did that year)
No search engines, and three Klaxons.
Tell me what happened at Latitude 3 degrees 51 Minutes South, and 171 degrees 40 minutes West Longitude on Friday the 30th day of December 2011.

PS Maps are allowed.

I know this, so I won't give anything away just yet.

B

Someone got a rather nasty sunburn lazin' about on a tropical ? Wait, no... you said "uncommon". Someone got frostbite lazin' around on a tropical

nope, nobody got frostbite that day.

Oh, I probably know as well. Like Mu Beta, I will let the other players simmer a while

no guesses by clive yet?

I think I know it as well, but I believe your coordinates are 10° too far North.

I got those off Google earth. It is possible I copied them wrong.

OK let's try 13 Degrees South. See if that elicits any response.

Tell me what happened at Latitude 13 degrees 51 Minutes South, and 171 degrees 40 minutes West Longitude on Friday the 30th day of December 2011.

What Friday?

And as extra credit tell me what happened June 8th,1937 at
3 degrees ( not 13 degrees) South and 171 West

Reference post 12 -The one between Thursday and Saturday, the one when I was working

As I have somewhere to go, I will be suspending this game in five minutes and will return in about two hours time.

There wasn't a Friday there.

I've no idea.

It is to do with an I believe, and abolishing something?

MMF

See I was going to go the other way and suggest this something happened over an open stretch of water but quite what that something might be. I am uncertain.