Trevor WholohanThis Day in History June 6th
June 5th 2007 22:50
1813 - The U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario.
1816 - 10" snowfall in New England, the "year without a summer"
1833 - Andrew Jackson became the first U.S. president to ride in a train. It was a B&O passenger train.
1924 - The German Reichtag accepted the Dawes Plan. It was an American plan to help Germany pay off its war debts.
1925 - Chrysler Corporation was founded by Walter Percy Chrysler.
1932 - In the U.S., the first federal tax on gasoline went into effect. It was a penny per gallon.
1933 - In Camden, NJ, the first drive-in movie theater opened.
1936 - The first helicopter was tested in a building in Berlin, Germany.
1942 - Japanese forces retreated in the World War II Battle of Midway. The battle had begun on June 4.
1944 - The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of Normandy, France. 400,000 Allied American, British and Canadian troops were involved.
1944 - Theodore Roosevelt Jr receives congressional medal of honor
1955 - Bill Haley & Comets, "Rock Around the Clock" hits #1
1960 - Roy Orbison releases "Only the Lonely"
1966 - NFL & AFL announce their merger
1971 - Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die
1971 - "The Ed Sullivan Show" aired for the last time. It was canceled after 23 years on the air. Gladys Knight and the Pips were the musical guests on show.
1972 - Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie Rhodesia)
1978 - "20/20" debuted on ABC.
1985 - The body of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was located and exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil. Mengele was known as the "Angel of Death."
1987 - NY Yankees play their 13,000th game
1988 - George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WWII Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
1995 - US astronaut Norman Thagard broke NASA's space endurance record of 84 days, one hour and 16 minutes, aboard the Russian space station "Mir."
1999 - In Iraq US and British warplanes struck military facilities after being fired on in the no-fly zone of southern Iraq.
2002 - The United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee announces it is probing Martha Stewart's ImClone stock sales.
2004 - The US military free 320 prisoners at Abu Ghraib leaving some 3,100.
2006 - The date reads 6/6/06, which many people are simply refering to as 666, the date commonly associated with the biblical beast of revelation.
Famous Birthday’s
1755 - Nathan Hale hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country(Died 1776)
1875 - Walter Percy Chrysler found Chrysler Corp (1925)
1949 - Robert Englund actor (Freddy Kreuger-Nightmare on Elm St, V)
1955 - Dana Carvey Missoula Montana, comedian (Church Lady-SNL, Waynes World)
1955 - Sandra Bernhard comedian/actress (Roseanne, King of Comedy)
Famous Death’s
1968 - U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died at 1:44am in Los Angeles after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was was shot the evening before while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination. (Born, 1925)
1976 - J Paul Getty oil magnate dies at 83 in London (Born 1892)
1979 - Jack Haley, American Actor, Played the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz(Born, 1898)
2005 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (born, 1931)
Joke of the Day
A man and a woman are sitting in their rocking chairs on the front porch on their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Without warning, the man punches his wife in the arm.
"What was that for" she asks? "That's for fifty years of bad sex."
The woman sits for a few minutes, rubbing her arm. She gets up and kicks the old man straight in the pivates.
"What was that for?" he wheezes. "That's for knowing the difference!"
Whats worse than finding a worm in your apple, Finding half a worm in your apple.
What do you call a fish with no eyes? Fshhhhhhh
World Records
Largest Company Merger
America Online, the world's largest internet company, announced a $350,000 million merger with media corporate Time Warner on January 10, 2000. Founded in 1985, America Online Inc (AOL for cyberspeakers) specializes in interactive services, web brands, internet technologies, and e-commerce services. In 1992, when the company went public, AOL employed 250 people taking in $30 million in annual revenues. Seven years later AOL had boomed to more than 12,000 employees and over $4.7 billion in revenues! In April 2001, AOL reached the 29 million-subscriber mark, making it the world's leading provider of online services CHECK it out! AOL Ladds a new member every six seconds!
Largest Employer
The world's largest commercial or utility employer is Indian Railways, with 1,583,614 regular employees in March, 1997.
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