Trevor WholohanThis Day in History June 7th
June 6th 2007 23:26
1775 - The United Colonies changed their name to the United States.
1912 - US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1914 - The first vessel passes through the locks of the Panama Canal.
1917- World War: Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches in Mesen Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops.
1932 - Over 7,000 war veterans marched on Washington, DC, demanding their bonuses.
1942 - The Battle of Midway ended. The sea and air battle lasted 4 days. Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser, and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties. The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann, 145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.
1942 - Japan landed troops on the islands of Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians. The U.S. invaded and recaptured the Alutians one year later.
1944 - Off of the coast of Normandy, France, the Susan B. Anthony sank. All 2,689 people aboard survived.
1955 - "The $64,000 Question" premiered.
1955 - 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1965 - Sony Corporation unveiled its brand new consumer home videotape recorder. The black and white only unit sold for $995.
1965 - In the U.S., the Gemini 4 mission was completed. The mission featured the first spacewalk by an American.
1968 - In Operation Swift Saber, U.S. Marines swept an area 10 miles northwest of Danang in South Vietnam.
1968 - Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City
1976 - "The NBC Nightly News", with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, aired for the first time.
1979 - Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
1981 - Israeli F-16 fighter-bombers destroyed Iraq’s only nuclear reactor.
1982 - Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
1982 - Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1998 - James Byrd Jr., at age 49, was murdered in Jasper, TX. Byrd had been dragged to death behind a pickup truck. On February 25, 1999 William King was sentenced to the death penalty for the racial crime while two other men charged awaited trial.
2001 - The US and China agreed on a final plan for the removal of the US spy plane from China
2004 - US and South Korean officials announced plans to withdraw a third of 37,000 US troops from South Korea by the end of next year.
Famous Birthday’s
1909 - Jessica Tandy,London, actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included) Died 1994
1940 - Tom Jones Pontypridd Wales, singer (What's New Pussycat)
1943 - Ken Osmond actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave it To Beaver)
1958 - Prince [Rodgers Nelson], rocker/actor (1999, Purple Rain)
Joke of the Day
Three tortoises
Mick, Alan and Les, decide to go on a picnic. So Mick packs the picnic basket with beer and sandwiches. The trouble is the picnic site is ten miles away so it takes them ten days to get there.When they get there Mick unpacks the food and beer. "Ok Les Give me the bottle opener.""I didn't bring it, " says Les. "I thought you packed it."Mick gets worried, He turns to Alan, "Did you bring the bottle opener??
"Naturally Alan didn't bring it. So they're stuck ten miles from Home without a bottle opener. Mick and Alan beg Les to go back for It, but he refuses as he says they will eat all the sandwiches. After two hours, and after they have sworn on their tortoise Lives that they will not eat the sandwiches, he finally agrees. So Les sets off down the road at a steady pace. Twenty days pass and he still isn't back and Mick and Alan are starving, but a promise is a promise.Another five days and he still isn't back, but a promise is a promise.
Finally they can't take it any longer so they take out a Sandwich each, and just as they are about to eat it, Les pops up from behind a rock and shouts........"I KNEW IT!......I'M NOT GOING!"
World Records
Largest Retail Firm
In 2001, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. of Bentonville, Arkansas, USA, had revenues of $191,329 million and profits of $6,295 million for the fiscal year ending January 31, 2001.Sam Walton is the star of the Wal-Mart success. He began making money by opening up several variety stores in Arkansas, but at age 44, he came up with the idea to turn them all into one big chain with ultra-cheap prices. Before he knew it, he was head of the Wal-Mart empire! He even made his family visit shopping malls as part of their holiday! In 1985 Sam hit the fame stakes when he was named the wealthiest man in America. In 1991 Wal-Mart overtook Sears as the USA's biggest retailer, and in January 2001 the company reported the largest revenues for a retail firm – a staggering $191,329 million.
CHECK THIS OUT...Sam Walton was a computer wiz too! Today Wal-Mart's computer database is so cunning that it's second only to the Pentagon's in capacity.
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