Trevor WholohanThis Day in History June 12th
June 11th 2007 23:36
1667 - The first human blood transfusion was administered by Dr. Jean Baptiste. He successfully transfused the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy.
1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend. However, evidence indicates that the game of baseball was played before 1800
1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.
1918 - The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurred on World War I's Western Front in France.
1923 - Harry Houdini, while suspended upside down 40 feet above the ground, escaped from a strait jacket.
1931 - Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen were indicted for violating U.S. Prohibition laws.
1935 - U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
1942 - Holocaust: Future essayist Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1951 - Twenty-five sailors were killed when the destroyer USS Walke struck a mine.
1963 - "Cleopatra" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
1971 - Tricia Nixon and Edward F. Cox were married in the White House Rose Garden.
1978 - David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer in New York, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for six killings.
1982 - 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were there.
1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1991 - The Chicago Bulls won their first NBA championship. The Bulls beat the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one.
1992 - In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Russian Boris Yeltsin stated that in the early 1950's the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes and held 12 American survivors.
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles. O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of the killings, but he was held liable in a civil suit.
1997 - The U.S. Treasury Department unveiled a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant.
2003 - In Arkansas, Terry Wallis spoke for the first time in nearly 19 years. Wallis had been in a coma since July 13, 1984, after being injured in a car accident.
2004 - A 3 pound chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries.
Famous Birthday’s
1924 - George Herbert Walker Bush (R) 43rd VP (1981-89) 41st Pres (1989- )
1929 - Anne Frank was born in Germany. She wrote in her diary about growing up in occupied Amsterdam during World War II. She died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945.
1932 - Jim Nabors Sylacauga Al, actor/singer (Gomer Pyle) 1943 - Marv Albert NYC, "Yes!" sportscaster (NBC-TV)
1957 - Timothy Busfield, Known as Danny on West Wing or Eliot on thitysomething
Famous Death’s
1957 - Jimmy Dorsey, U.S. orchestra leader, dies at 53
1980 - Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75
1994 - Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of OJ Simpson at 27
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ, murdered at 35 (probably by OJ
2003 - Gregory Peck, actor, To Kill a Mockingbird, dies at 87
Joke of the Day
A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this in. At last she said, "Grandma I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"
I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it was. She would tell me, and always she was correct. But it was fun for me, so I continued. At last she headed for the door, saying sagely, "Grandma, I think you should try to figure out some of these yourself!"
World Records
Biggest Stamp Collecting Organization
With over 55,000 members in more than 110 countries, the American Philatelic Society is the largest non-profit society in the world for stamp collectors and postal historians. It is supported entirely by membership dues, gifts and the sale of its publications and services. The APS was founded in 1886.
Largest Soaps And Cosmetics Company
The largest soaps and cosmetics firm in the world is Procter & Gamble, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. It had a market capitalization of $79.3 billion in May 2000 and revenues of $38.1 billion in 1999.
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