Trevor WholohanThis Day in History June 26th
June 25th 2007 22:50
1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the mouth of the Kansas River after completing a westward trek of nearly 400 river miles.
1917 - General John "Black Jack" Pershing arrived in France with the American Expeditionary Force.
1926 - A memorial to the first U.S. troops in France was unveiled at St. Nazaire.
1924 - After eight years of occupation, American troops left the Dominican Republic.
1941 - Finland enters WW II against Russia
1945 - The U.N. Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, CA.
1948 - The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
1951 - The Soviet Union proposed a cease-fire in the Korean War.
1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1963 - U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.
1964 - Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
1968 - Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1974 - Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
1979 - Muhammad Ali, at 37 years old, announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion.
1981 - In Mountain Home, Idaho, Virginia Campbell took her coupons and rebates and bought $26,460 worth of groceries. She only paid 67 cents after all the discounts.
1984 - Barbra Striesand records "Here We Are at Last"
1985 - Wilbur Snapp was ejected after playing "Three Blind Mice" during a baseball game. The incident followed a call made by umpire Keith O'Connor.
1987 - The movie "Dragnet" opened in the U.S.
1990 - 125 degrees F in Phoenix Arizona
1993 - The U.S. launches a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that made it illegal to distribute indecent material on the Internet.
1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws that allow for a ban on doctor-assisted suicides.
2001 - Ray Bourque (Colorado Avalanche) announced his retirement just 17 days after winning his first Stanley Cup. Bouque retired after 22 years and held the NHL record for highest-scoring defenseman and playing in 19 consecutive All-Star games
2002 - David Hasseloff checked into The Betty Ford Center for treatment of alcoholism.
Famous Birthday’s
1903 - Floyd "Babe" Herman Brooklyn Dodgers' slugger (.324 lifetime average)
1933 - Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Calif, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid)
Joke of the Day
Bragging Rights
Three boys are in the schoolyard bragging about their fathers. The first boy says, "My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a poem and they give him $50."
The second boy says, "That's nothing. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a song and they give him $100."
The third boy says, "I got you both beat. My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper, he calls it a sermon. And, it takes eight people to collect all the money!"
Row Boat
There was a blonde in the middle of a cornfield rowing a boat, when another blonde drove by. The blonde in the car got out and hollered to the other one, "It's blondes like you that give the rest of us a bad name. If I could swim, I'd come out there and teach you a lesson."
Paying Attention?
A professor is giving the first year medical students their first lecture on autopsies, and decides to give them a few basics before starting. "You must be capable of two things to do an autopsy. The first thing is that you must have no sense of fear." At this point, the lecturer sticks his finger into the dead man's anus, and then licks it.
He asks all the students to do the same thing with the corpses in front of them. After a couple of minutes silence, they follow suit.
"The second thing is that you must have an acute sense of observation: I stuck my middle finger into the corpse's anus, but I licked my index."
World Records
Highest annual earnings - magician
David Copperfield (USA) had the highest annual earnings of any magician in 2004 with $57 million according to the 2005 Forbes Celebrity 100 list released on June 15, 2005.
Largest Hollywood Home
“The Manor,” on Mapleton Drive, is the largest Hollywood home. The building occupies an area of 3,390 sq m (36,500 sq ft). Built by TV producer Aaron Spelling, the house includes a gymnasium, bowling alley, swimming pool, and skating rink.It is currently valued at $37 million .
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