Trevor WholohanThis Day in History July 2oth
July 19th 2007 23:05
This Day in History
1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
1859 - Brooklyn and New York played baseball at Fashion Park Race Course on Long Island, NY. The game marked the first time that admission had been charged for to see a ball game. It cost $.50 to get in and the players on the field did not receive a salary (until 1863).
1868 - Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed.
1881 - Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn, surrendered to federal troops.
1917 - The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
1944 - U.S. President Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term of office at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1965 - Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" was released.
1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
1976 - America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful landing on Mars.
1979 - Electric Light Orchestra took out advertisements dedicating the release of "Don't Bring Me Down" to Skylab.
1984 - Hank Aaron broke Ty Cobb’s record, as he appeared in the 3,034th game of his career.
1985 - Treasure hunters began raising $400 million in coins and silver from the Spanish galleon "Nuestra Senora de Atocha." The ship sank in 1622 40 miles of the coast of Key West, FL.
1990 - All of Colonel Oliver North's convictions for perjury and other offenses in the Iran ontra affair are overturned by an appeals court.
1997 - Seven people were arrested after New York City police found scores of deaf Mexicans kept in slave-like conditions and forced to peddle trinkets for the smugglers who had brought them to the U.S.
1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.
2003 - In India, elephants used for commercial work began wearing reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during night work.
2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent.
Famous Birthday’s
1938 - Natalie Wood [Natasha Gurdin], SF, (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause)Died 1981
1944 - T.G. Sheppard country singer (Only 1 You, Without You)
1946 - Kim Carnes singer (Bette Davis Eyes)
1947 - Carlos Santana Mexico, musician (Santana-Black Magic Woman)
1964 - Chris Cornell Wash, rock drummer (Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger-A udioslave)
1968 - Chris Kennedy actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
Famous Death’s
1923 - Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexican rebel, murdered at 55
1973 - Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], actor (Enter the Dragon), dies at 32
Joke of the Day
Blind Man In Texas
There once was a blind man who decided to visit Texas. When he arrived on the plane, he felt the seats and said, "Wow, these seats are big!" The person next to him answered, "Everything is big in Texas." When he finally arrived in Texas, he decided to visit a bar. Upon arriving in the bar, he ordered a beer and got a mug placed between his hands. He exclaimed, "Wow these mugs are big!" The bartender replied, "Everything is big in Texas." After a couple of beers, the blind man asked the bartender where the bathroom was located. The bartender replied, "Second door to the right."
The blind man headed for the bathroom, but accidentally tripped over and skipped the second door. Instead, he entered the third door, which lead to the swimming pool and fell into the pool by accident. Scared to death, the blind man started shouting, "Don't flush, don't flush!"
Money for the Preacher
After the church service a little boy told the pastor, "When I grow up, I'm going to give you some money."
"Well, thank you," the pastor replied, "but why?"
"Because my daddy says you're one of the poorest preachers we've ever had."
World Records
Fastest Railroad
The highest speed recorded on any national railroad is 320.2 mph by the French SNCF high-speed train, TGV (Train a Grande Vitesse) Atlantique, between Courtalain and Tours, France, on May 18, 1990. The Train a Grande Vitesse, which means high-speed train, first entered commercial use in 1981, between Paris and Lyon in France. At the time it was the world's fastest train, with a top speed of 236 mph, but it has since been superseded by newer generation TGVs.
Heaviest Freight Train
The heaviest-ever train weighed 99,732.1 ton’s (220 million lb) and was 4,568 miles long. Assembled by Australia's BHP Iron Ore, the train travelled 171 miles from the company's Newman and Yandi mines to Port Hedland, Western Australia, on June 21, 2001 The train had 5,648 wheels, and was assembled to test out a new train control system, which essentially allows the driver in the front locomotive to control the other seven engines simultaneously, even though they are spaced at intervals of nearly a mile along the length of the train.Wisconsin
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