Trevor WholohanThis Day in History July 26th
July 25th 2007 23:10
1775 - A postal system was established by the 2nd Continental Congress of the United States. The first Postmaster General was Benjamin Franklin.
1933 - Joe Dimaggio ends 61 game hitting streak in Pacific Coast League
1945 - Winston Churchill resigned as Britain's prime minister.
1947 - U.S. President Truman signed The National Security Act. The act created The National Security Council, the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
1948 - Babe Ruth was seen by the public for the last time, when he attended the New York City premiere of the motion picture, "The Babe Ruth Story".
1948 - U.S. President Truman signed executive orders that prohibited discrimination in the U.S. armed forces and federal employment.
1953 - Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in East Cuba. Castro eventually ousted Batista six years later.
1958 - Army launches 4th US successful satellite, Explorer IV
1968 - Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
1969 - Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
1981 - NY Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
1982 - Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket
1984 - Expos Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single
1987 - Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball HOF
1989 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
1990 - U.S. beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
1990 - President Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
1990 - General Hospital tapes its 7,000th episode
1991 - Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) is arrested in Florida, for exposing
himself at an adult movie theater
1992 - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for 23rd consecutive seasons
1993 - Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
2000 - The US Navy reported that an F-14 Tomcat jet crashed in Saudi Arabia during a training flight.
2005 - Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission (STS- 114) after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.
Famous Birthday’s
1902 - Gracie Allen SF Calif, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)
1943 - Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones Lead Singer
1944 - Kiel Martin Pitts Pa, actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues)
1949 - William M Shepherd Oak Ridge Tenn, Capt USN/astronaut (STS-27, 41)
1956 - Dorothy Hamill, born in Riverside, Connecticut, figure skater 1976 Olympics gold
1959 - Kevin Spacey, born in South Orange, New Jersey, actor(K-Pax, Superman Returns)
1964 - Sandra Bullock, born in Washington D.C., actress, Speed, Net, Love and War
Famous Death’s
1863 - Samuel Houston, 1st President of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70
1984 - Ed "Psycho" Gein,Plainfield WI, mass murderer (Psycho based on him), dies at 78
Joke of the Day
The Blondes Who Finished The Jigsaw Puzzle
A group of blondes walk into a bar. One of the women tells the bartender to line up a row of drinks for all of them. The gals lift their glasses and toast, "Here's to 51 days!" and they proceed to down their drinks. Once again, they tell the bartender to "line 'em up", and once again they toast 51 days and down their drinks.
The bartender says, "I don't get it. Why in the world are you toasting 51 days?"
One of the blondes explains, "We just finished a jigsaw puzzle. It had written on the box '2-4 years,' but we finished it in 51 days!"
Follow my Footsteps
A physician was taking her 4-year-old daughter to preschool. The little girl picked up the stethoscope, which the doctor had left on the car seat, and began playing with it.
"Be still, my heart," thought the doctor. "My daughter wants to follow in my footsteps!"
Then the child spoke into the instrument, "Welcome to McDonald's. May I take your order?
World Records
Longest road train
The record for the longest road train is 4,836 ft 11 in where a single Mack Titan prime mover semi, driven by John Atkinson (Australia), towed 113 trailers for a distance of approximately 490 ft in an event sponsored by Hogs Breath Café, in Clifton, Queensland, Australia on February 18, 2006.
Longest Train Ride Without Changing Trains
The world's longest run without changing trains is 6,346 miles, from Moscow, Russia, to Pyongyang, North Korea. One train a week takes this route, which takes almost eight days.
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