Trevor WholohanThis Day in History June 27th
June 27th 2007 01:48
1847 - New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
1893 - The New York stock market crashed. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads had gone out of business.
1905 - The battleship Potemkin succumbed to a mutiny on the Black Sea.
1927 - The U.S. Marines adopted the English bulldog as their mascot.
1929 - First color TV demo
1940 - Robert Pershing Wadlow was measured by Dr. Cyril MacBryde and Dr. C. M. Charles. They recorded his height at 8' 11.1." He was only 22 at the time of his death on July 15, 1940.
1942 - The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
1944 - During World War II, American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the German army.
1950 - Two days after North Korea invaded South Korea, U.S. President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict. The United Nations Security Council had asked for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
1955 - The first "Wide Wide World" was broadcast on NBC-TV.
1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married. It only lasted 38 days.
1964 - Jan & Dean's "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" was released.
1967 - Two hundred people were arrested during a race riot in Buffalo, NY.
1973 - Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" that was kept by the Nixon White House.
1980 - U.S. President Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.
1985 - Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
1988 - MCA Records bought Motown Records for $61 million.
1988 - Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)
1990 - Jos‚ Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A's contract
1992 - The body of kidnapped Exxon executive Sidney J. Reso was found buried in a makeshift grave in a state park in New Jersey. Arthur and Irene Seale were later convicted and sentenced to prison for the crime.
1993 - Lyle Lovett and actress Julia Roberts were married. They were divorced in 1995.
1995 - Actor Hugh Grant was arrested in Los Angeles for engaging in "lewd behavior" with a prostitute in a rented BMW.
1998 - An English woman was impregnated with her dead husband's sperm after two-year legal battle over her right to the sperm.
2005 - In Alaska's Denali National Park, a roughly 70-million year old dinosaur track was discovered. The track was form a three-toed Cretaceous period dinosaur.
Famous Birthday’s
1880 - Helen Keller blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many, Died 1968
1907 - John McIntire Spokane Ws, actor (Wagon Train, Virginian, Turner & Hooch)
1927 - Bob Keeshan aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning Captain) Died 2004
1930 - Ross Periot Texas billionaire (tries to take over corps and ran for president)
1942 - Bruce Johnston rocker (Beachboys-In My Room)
1959 - Lorrie Morgan, born in Nashville, Tennessee, country singer, Out of Your Shoes
1959 - Trisha Yearwood, born in Nashville, Tennessee, singer, She's in Love With the Boy
1975 - Tobey Maguire, Actor(Pleasentville, Joyride, Spiderman 1, 2&3, Seabiscuit)
Famous Death’s
1971 - Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes), dies at 53
1987 - Jackie Gleason, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners), dies at 71
2001 - Jack Lemmon, actor, Grumpy Old Men 1 2, The Odd Couple, dies at 76
Joke of the Day
The Top Ten Things Men Understand About Women
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Keep the engine running
This 80 year old man marries a 20 year old woman, the following year she is in the hospital having their first child. The nurse comes and says to the man "My sir how do you do it at your age?" he replies "I just keep the motor running. The following year she is in having their second child and again the nurse says to him "Amazing how do you do it?" he just looks at her and says “I just keep the motor running". The third year she is having their third child and again the nurse comes out and says to the husband "I know you keep the motor running." He says "yes I do." The nurse looks at him and says" You better change the oil - it's black!
World Records Richest Cosmetics Tycoons
Leonard and Ronald Lauder, both from USA, and their family have a combined fortune of $7.8 billion. Leonard runs Estée Lauder, the cosmetics company founded by his mother. Ronald Lauder is Chairman of Clinique Laboratories and Estée Lauder International.
Richest Investor
Warren Edward Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is the world's richest investor, estimated to be worth $28 billion. He started playing the stock market with one of his sisters when he was 11, with the encouragement of his father Howard Buffett, a local stockbroker. Buffett started his own investment company in 1956.
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