Trevor WholohanThis Day in History May 18th
May 17th 2007 23:18
1852 - Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
1860 - Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
1917 - The U.S. Congress passed the Selective Service act, which called up soldiers to fight in World War I.
1931 - Japanese pilot Seiji Yoshihara crashed his plane in the Pacific Ocean while trying to be the first to cross the ocean nonstop. He was picked up seven hours later.
1933 - 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair
1934 - The U.S. Congress approved an act, known as the "Lindberg Act," that called for the death penalty in interstate kidnapping cases.
1942 - New York ended night baseball games for the duration of World War II.
1944 - The US 163rd Infantry Regiment (General Doe) lands on Insoemar Island and advance to capture Wadke airfield.
1951 - The United Nations moved its headquarters to New York City.
1951 - US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
1953 - The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.
1956 - Mickey Mantle hits homerun from both sides of plate for record 3rd time
1960 - Eileen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turns (for > 30 years)
1969 - Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
1972 - John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
1974 - India became the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
1974 - "The Streak" by Ray Stevens hits #1
1980 - Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. 57 people were killed and 3 billion in damage was done.
1986 - Chung Kwung Ying does 2,750 "atomic" hand-stand push-ups
1986 - David Goch finishes swimming 55,682 miles in a 25-yd pool
1990 - Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
1990 - East and West Germany sign a monetary union treaty
1998 - The U.S. federal government and 20 states filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., saying the computer software company had a "choke hold" on competitors which denied consumer choices by controlling 90% of the software market.
1998 - U.S. federal officials arrested more than 130 people and seized $35 million. This was the end to an investigation of money laundering being done by a dozen Mexican banks and two drug-smuggling cartels.
2004 - In Afghanistan U.S. forces killed 3 Taliban commanders and arrested five more members of the hardline militia.
2004 - Before dawn U.S. troops killed nine fighters loyal to al-Sadr in Karbala. Ten Iraqi fighters were wounded in the clashes near the city's Imam Hussein and Imam Abbas shrines. At least five Iraqi insurgents were killed during clashes in Karbala later in the day
Famous Birthday’s
1912 - Perry Como Canonsburg PA, singer/TV host (Perry Como Show) Died in 2001
1918 - Pope John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla] 264th Roman Catholic pope (1978-2005)
1946 - Reggie Jackson "Mr October" baseball rightfielder (Yankees, A's)
1952 - George Strait Pearsall TX, country singer (All My Ex's Live in Texas)
1971 - Craig Hentrich NFL punter (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1978 - Jennifer Streblow Oshkosh WI, Miss America-Wisconsin (1997)
Famous Death’s
1992 - Lawrence Welk bandleader (L Welk Show), dies of pneumonia at 89, Born 1903
1995 - Elizabeth Montgomery actress (Bewitched), dies of cancer at 62, Born 1933
Joke of the Day
A teacher was doing a study testing the senses of first graders using a bowl of lifesavers.
The children began to say:
"Red....cherry," "Yellow...................lem on," -- "Green....................."l ime"
"Orange.....................o range,"
Finally the teacher gave them all honey lifesavers. After eating them, none of the children could identify the taste. "Well," the teacher said, "I'll give you all a clue, it's what your mother may sometimes call your father."
One little girl looked up in horror, spit her lifesaver out and yelled: "Oh My God!!!! They're assholes!"
Sexual Harassment
Every day, a male co-worker walks up very close to a lady standing at the coffee machine, inhales a big breath of air and tells her that her hair smells nice.
After a week of this, she can't stand it anymore, takes her complaint to a supervisor in the personnel department and asks to file a sexual harassment grievance against him.
The Human Resources supervisor is puzzled and asks, "What's sexually threatening about a co-worker telling you your hair smells nice?"
The woman replies, "Its Keith, the midget."
World Records
Largest Credit Card Collection
Walter Cavanagh (b 1943) of Santa Clara, California, USA has 1,397 individual valid credit cards. The cost of the cards’ acquisition to "Mr. Plastic Fantastic" was nil, but their total credit worth is more than $1.65 million.
Largest Fundraising Charity
The Salvation Army, USA, has raised more funds annually than any other charity for eight consecutive years. In the year ending September 1999 it raised $1,402 million, the highest amount of money it has ever raised.
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