Today Is...Howard Carter Find Entrance To Tutankhamun's Tomb

When the Egyptian boy King Tutankhamun was encased in his tomb in 1325bc he was buried along with a warning that said 'Cursed be he who moves my body. To him shall come fire, water, and pestilence' written in hieroglyphic's at the entrance which Howard Carter and his gang saw and then ignored because Owl, Owl, Squiggly line wouldn't have seemed that threatening in the early 20th Century.  
The journey which ended up with Carter dragging out the mummified corpse of an Egyptian King which had been snoozing in a sarcophagus of solid gold for over 3,000 years began when he teamed up with Lord Carnarvon to excavate the Valley of Kings but they were not getting anywhere until 1922 when a water boy stumbled on a stone that turned out to be the top of a flight of steps cut into the bedrock.
They dug it out until the top of a doorway was found, a door with Tutankhamun's insignia stamped on it along with the curse but they pressed on and ignored the statue of Anubis, the guardian of the dead, looking over the body but decided any curse would have expired by now and to show how much they disregarded it, when his anthropologist pal Sir Bruce Ingram visited, he presented him with a paperweight with a mummified hand inside it.
Ingram's house burned down soon afterwards, followed by a flood when it was rebuilt and Lord Carnovan's demise when he died of an infected mosquito bite was put down to coincidence and another expeditions financier's suicide was considered probably due to something else while George Jay Gould, dying of a fever shortly afterwards and Carters secretary dying was both purely a result of 1920's medicine.
The death of Carter's pal Aaron Ember and his family all dying in a house fire was pure coincidence and Lord Carnarvon's half-brother, Aubrey Herbert, going blind and dying from Sepsis was poor timing as was the death of the guy three days after X-raying Tuts Mummified body.
Admittedly, if you believe in these things then all those unfortunate events from fire and pestilence within 12 months of dragging the corpse out of a door which warned of deaths from fire and pestilence doesn't look good but as Carter lived out his life in luxury and died in a comfortable bed 20 years later, it wasn't a very good curse.