October 17th.

In Douglas Adams' novel "Life, the Universe and Everything", the universe is threatened by the killer krikkit robots. Having chosen to spend his time to the fullest being stranded on pre-historic Earth by going insane, the unfortunate Arthur Dent is sidetracked by the sudden reappearance of Ford Prefect. Prefect pulls him through an eddy in the space-time continuum (cleverly disguised as a sofa) and into Lord's Cricket Ground a day before the Vogons are to destroy the Earth.

Unfortunately, the pitch is about to be the scene of a shocking act of intergalactic terrorism. A ship lands and a squad of robots steal The Ashes while wreaking havoc in what seems to be an obscene parody of cricket. Somehow the crowd watching the game is too busy watching the cricket equipment to notice, giving rise too the notion of an SEP (somebody else's problem).