Trevor WholohanThis Day in History July 31st
July 30th 2007 22:56
This Day in History
[SIZE=2]1792 - The cornerstone of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, PA, was laid. It was the first building to be used only as a U.S. government building.
1912 - US government prohibits movies & photos of prize fights (censorship)
1922 - 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world's 1st water skis (Minn)
1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas."
1932 - Enzo Ferrari retired from racing. In 1950 he launched a series of cars under his name.
1938 - NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd
"hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club"
1942 - German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1948 - U.S. President Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field.
1953 - Dept of Health, Education & Welfare created
1954 - Mil Braves' Joe Adcock sets record of 18 total bases (4 hrs, 1 double)
1955 - Marilyn Bell of Toronto, Canada, at age 17, became the youngest person to swim the English Channel.
1961 - The first tie in All-Star Game major league baseball history was recorded when it was stopped in the 9th inning due to rain at Boston's Fenway Park.
1971 - Men rode in a vehicle on the moon for the first time in a lunar rover vehicle (LRV).
1976 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1
1980 - John Phillips of the Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges
1981 - The seven-week baseball players’ strike came to an end when the players and owners agreed on the issue of free agent compensation.
1988 - Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame
1989 - A pro-Iranian group in Lebanon released a videotape reportedly showing the hanged body of American hostage William R. Higgins.
1990 - Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th major league pitcher to win 300 games
1991 - U.S. President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
1995 - The Walt Disney Co. agreed to acquire Capital Cities/ABC in a $19 billion deal.
1997 - In New York City, NY, police seized five bombs believed to be bound for terrorist attacks on city subways.
1998 - Nicolas Cage received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - The spacecraft Lunar Prospect crashed into the moon. It was a mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface. The craft had been launched on January 6, 1998.
2004 - Thirteen insurgents died in overnight clashes with U.S.-led forces in Fallujah while
Famous Birthday’s
1946 - Gary Lewis Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring) 1962 - Wesley Snipes, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Money Train, Blade 1&2
1980 - Fictional character Harry Potter
Famous Death’s
1875 - Andrew Johnson 17th pres, dies in Tennessee at 66
1964 - Jim Reeves Country singer.(He'll Have to Go, Four Walls) Plane crash
1977 - Stacy Moskowitz shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20
Joke of the Day
Mental Hospital
Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end.
He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him.
She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out.When the director of Nursing became aware of Edna's heroic act, she considered her to be mentally stable.
She went to tell Edna the news and said, "Edna, I have good news and bad news."
The good news is you're being discharged; since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of another patient, I have concluded that
your act displays a sound mind." The bad news is that Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself in his bathroom with the belt to his robe right after you saved him. I am sorry, but he's dead."
Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?"
Sister in the Army
A man was bragging about his sister who disguised herself, as a man and joined the army.
"But, wait a minute," said the listener, "She'll have to dress with the boys and shower with them too. Won't she?" "Sure," replied the man.
"Well, won't they find out?" "And who's gonna tell?"
World Records
Oldest Steam Locomotive Still In Use
The Fairy Queen was built in 1855 by Kitson, Thompson & Hewitson, of England. Used until 1909, it was restored in 1966, and between October 1997 and February 1998, it made several trips along the 89-km line between New Delhi and Alwar, India.
Worst train disaster
Although no official death toll is available, at least 800 and possibly as many as 1,500 people were killed when a packed passenger train, called Queen of the Sea, was swept off its tracks near the Sri Lankan village of Telwatta by the tsunami of December 26, 2004.
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