Trevor WholohanThis Day in History July 25th
July 24th 2007 23:03
1850 - Gold was discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon.
1866 - The U.S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army (now called "5-star general") Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.
1941 - The U.S. government froze all Japanese and Chinese assets.
1943 - Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was overthrown in a coup.
1944 - World War II: Operation Spring - One of the bloodiest days for Canadians during the war: 18,444 casualties, including 5,021 killed.
1946 - The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device.
1946 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis staged their first show as a team at Club 500 in Atlantic City, NJ.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm off the New England coast. 51 people were killed.
1969 - Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Red's broke the National League record for consecutive base hits as he got a hit in 38 straight games.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space. She was aboard the orbiting space station Salyut 7.
1987 - The Salt Lake City Trappers set a professional baseball record as the team won its 29th game in a row.
1990 - Comedian Roseanne Barr grabs her crotch and spits on the ground when performing the "Star-Spangled Banner" at a San Diego Padres baseball game.
1994 - Israel and Jordan formally ended the state of war that had existed between them since 1948.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury regarding the Monica Lewinsky case. The subpoena was withdrawn when Clinton agreed to give videotaped testimony with his lawyers present.
1999 - Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France. He was only the second American to win the race. He won the race again in 2000.
2000 - A supersonic Concorde crashed outside Paris, France, killing all 109 people aboard and 5 on the ground.
2004 - Lance Armstrong makes history, winning his 6th consecutive Tour de France.
Famous Birthday’s
1894 - Walter Brennan Swampscott Mass, actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point)
1924 - Estelle Getty NYC, actress (Sophia Petrillo-Golden Girls)
1954 - Walter Payton NFL running back (Chicago Bears)Died 1999
1967 - Matt LeBlanc, actor, Joey Tribbiani-Friends
Famous Death’s
1974 - Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), died on his Birthday at 79 years old.
1995 - Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), dies at 62
Joke of the Day
Too Many Confessions Of Adultry
An old priest was getting sick and tired of all the people in his parish who kept confessing adultery. One Sunday in the pulpit he said, "If I hear one more person confess to adultery, I'll quit!" Everyone liked him, so the parishioners came up with a code word. Someone who had committed adultery would say they had "fallen". This seemed to satisfy the old priest and things went well, until the priest died at a ripe old age. About a week later, the new priest visited the Mayor of the town and seemed very concerned. The priest said, "You have to do something about the sidewalks in town. When people come into the confessional, they keep talking about having fallen." The Mayor started to laugh, realizing that no one had told the new priest about the code word. The priest shook an accusing finger at the mayor and said, "I don't know what you're laughing about. Your wife fell three times this week."
100 Years Old
A man asked his doctor if he thought he'd live to be a hundred.
The doctor asked the man, "Do you smoke or drink?"
"No," he replied. "I've never done either."
"Do you gamble, drive fast cars, or fool around with women?" inquired the doctor.
"No, I've never done any of those things either."
"Well, then," said the doctor, "what do you want to live to be a hundred for?"
World Records
Longest Railroad Straight-A-Way
The Australian National Railways Trans-Australian line over the Nullarbor Plain, is 297 miles dead straight, from Mile 496, between Nurina and Loongana, Western Australia, to Mile 793, between Ooldea and Watson, South Australia.
Longest Time Railway Ticket Bought in Advance
On Jan 19, 2000, Fakhruddin Takulla (India) traveled from Mumbai (Bombay) to New Delhi, using a ticket he had purchased on July 15, 1973 – 26 years and 6 months earlier.
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