September 13

September 13, 2005 - An glitch in the online video game World of Warcraft released an in-game plague, which affected and killed the characters of thousands of players. The in-game plague was not nearly as serious as the ensuing real world plague, caused when thousands of World of Warcraft players were forced to go outside for the first time in years and faced exposure to communicable diseases that the general population had built up a resistance to.