Trevor WholohanThis Day in History May 21st
May 21st 2007 00:07
1819 - Bicycles were first seen in the U.S. in New York City. They were originally known as "swift walkers."
1832 - In the U.S., the Democratic Party held its first national convention.
1881 - The American branch of the Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton.
1908 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1914 - Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota
1917 - Great Atlanta fire of 1917, 73 city blocks and 2,000 homes burnt to the ground.
1917 - Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WWI
1927 - Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris France, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1932 - Amelia Earhart, because of bad weather, lands in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
1934 - Oskaloosa, IA, became the first city in the U.S. to fingerprint all of its citizens.
1941 - The first U.S. ship in World War II, the SS Robin Moor, was sunk by a U-boat.
1945 - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1945 - United States screen legend Humphrey Bogart marries actress Lauren Bacall.
1950 - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1955 - WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 - The U.S. exploded the first airborne hydrogen bomb in the Pacific over Bikini Atoll.
1956 - WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 - US begin intelligence flights above Laos
1968 - US nuclear-powered sub (Scorpion), with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1969 - Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
1970 - The National Guard was mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State University
1979 - Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Fransisco mayor Moscone
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in the USSR
1980 - The Star Wars movie the Empire Strikes Back is released into theaters.
1980 - Ensign Jean Marie Butler is first woman to graduate from US service academy
1982 - British troops lands on Falkland Islands
1990 - Last episode of "Newhart" airs on CBS-TV
1994 - Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
1998 - An expelled student, Kipland Kinkel, in Springfield, OR, killed 2 people and wounded 25 others with a semi-automatic rifle. Kinkel had killed his parents before the rampage.
2003 - In Iraq US forces captured Aziz Saleh Numan, former Baath regional command chairman for west Baghdad. He was No. 8 on the most wanted list.
2004 - Sherpa Pemba Dorje climbs Mount Everest in 8 hours 10 minutes, breaking his rival Sherpa Lakpa Gelu's record from the previous year.
2004 - American AC-130 gunships and tanks bombarded militia positions near two shrines in the holy city of Karbala, killing 18 fighters loyal to a rebel cleric.
Famous Birthday’s
1878 - Glenn Curtiss, American aviation pioneer, 1st pilot to get a licence (d. 1930)
1917 - Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
1947 - Richard Hatch Santa Monica CA, actor (Battlestar Galactica, Dynasty)
1952 - Mr T [Lawrence Tero] Chicago IL, actor (A-Team, Rocky III) I pity the fool
1957 - Judge Reinhold, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Beverly Hills Cop)
1960 - Jeffrey Dahmer, American serial killer, murdered 17 men & boys (d. 1994)
1970 - Dorsey Levens NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
Joke of the Day
Housework Challenged
One day my housework-challenged husband decided to wash his sweatshirt.
Seconds after he stepped into the laundry room, he shouted to me, "What setting do I use on the washing machine?"
"It depends," I replied. "What does it say on your shirt?"
He yelled back, "University of Wisconsin!"
Kangaroo Fence
A kangaroo kept getting out of his enclosure at the zoo. Knowing that he could hop high, the zoo officials put up a ten-foot fence. He was out the next morning, just sauntering around the zoo. A twenty-foot fence was put up. Again he got out.
When the fence was forty feet high, a camel in the next enclosure asked the kangaroo, "How high do you think they'll go?"
The kangaroo said, "About a thousand feet, unless somebody locks the gate at night!"
A Short Poem
Hickory hickory dock.
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one
But the rest got away with minor injuries
World Records
Most parachute jumps in 24 hours
Jay Stokes (USA) made 534 successful parachute jumps in a 24-hour period on November 11-12, 2003, at Lake Elsinore, California, USA.
Jay's amazing feat required him to make one parachute jump every two-and-a-half minutes from an altitude of 650 m (2,100 ft)! He also endured 10 hours of rain.
Bench Press, Most Weights In One Hour
The most accumulative weight bench pressed in one hour is 305,300 lb (138,480 kg). The record was set by Eamonn Keane (Ireland) at World Gym, Marina del Ray, California, USA on July 22, 2003.
He did 1,280 reps with 200 lbs and 493 reps with 100 lbs.
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