Historical clue formulations

• Went on the fritz — 2026-02-24
• Broke down — 2025-03-30
• Ran out of battery — 2024-10-23
• Ran out of juice — 2024-08-25
• Ran out of battery — 2024-05-06
• Went kaput, as a battery — 2024-01-22
• Fizzled out — 2022-11-01
• Laughed and laughed and laughed — 2022-09-24
• Ran out of battery — 2021-11-15
• "I literally ___" (millennial's overstatement) — 2021-06-11
• Fell off, as laughter — 2021-01-21
• Went pffft! — 2019-09-06
• Word on a gravestone — 2018-09-06
• Ran out of juice — 2018-08-20
• Broke down — 2017-10-27
• Stopped working — 2017-10-05
• Went kaput — 2017-07-10
• Went on the fritz — 2016-06-25
• Didn't make it — 2016-06-09
• Stopped working — 2015-12-14
• Was incredibly embarrassed, in slang — 2014-07-22
• Quit running — 2013-11-29
• Was mortified, hyperbolically — 2013-11-17
• Was overcome with embarrassment, in slang — 2013-08-08
• Burned out — 2011-11-20
• Conked out — 2011-10-24
• Went kaput — 2010-01-06
• Fizzled out — 2007-10-17
• Tombstone word — 2007-09-16
• Went out, as a fire — 2007-06-18
• Went kaput — 2006-01-04
• Went out, as a fire — 2004-06-21
• Stopped working, as an engine — 2004-02-16
• Went pffft — 2003-12-18
• Went out, as a fire — 2002-07-29
• Burned out — 2002-01-06
• Conked out — 1999-06-23
• Didn't get a single laugh — 1998-03-14
• Lost vitality — 1996-08-08
• Fizzled out — 1994-10-11
• Fizzled — 1994-02-10