Trevor WholohanThis Day in History August 6th
August 5th 2007 23:26
1787 - The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia began. The articles of the U.S. Constitution draft were to be debated.
1870 - White conservatives suppresed black vote & captured Tenn legislature
1890 - The electric chair was used for the first time when Auburn State Prison in New York executed convicted murderer William Kemmler.
1914 - World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic - Two days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium.
1926 - NY's 19 year-old Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel.
1926 - Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping.
1941 - A curfew is imposed on US gas stations in preparation for the upcoming war.
1942 - Queen Wilhelmina is the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
1944 - Deportation of 70,000 jews from Lodz Poland to Auschwitz begins
1945 - World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Little Boy", is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 140,0,000 people were killed.
1952 - Satchel Paige, 46, became the oldest pitcher to complete a major league baseball game.
1960 - Cuban Revolution: In response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1964 - Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, ranging from 4900 to 5000 years-old, is cut down.
1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, outlawing the literacy test for voting eligibility in the South.
1971 - The last remaining troops of the 4th Battalion, 503rd Infantry begin to leave Vietnam
1974 - Explosion & fire destory Great Northern RR yard in Wenatchee, Wash
1983 - Minn Vikings beat St Louis Cards 28-10 in London, England (NFL expo)
1984 - 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1985 - The 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing brought tens of thousands of Japanese and foreigners to Hiroshima.
1986 - William J. Schroeder died. He lived 620 days with the Jarvik-7 manmade heart. He was the world's longest surviving recipient of a permanent artificial heart.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council ordered a worldwide trade embargo with Iraq. The embargo was to punish Iraq for invading Kuwait.
1996 - The US Naval Academy at Annapolis expelled 15 midshipmen, 12 men and 3 women, for drug use that included LSD and marijuana.
1997 - Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer.
2001 - US intelligence told Pres. Bush that al Qaeda might try to hijack American planes. The document "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" was presented to Bush while he was on vacation in Crawford, Texas
2004 - There was intense fighting in Najaf. The U.S. military said 300 militants were killed in the past two days. Assailants in Iraq killed 3 US servicemen
Famous Birthday’s
1861 - Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 2nd wife of Theodore Roosevelt
1911 - Lucille Ball Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy, Mame)D. 1989
1917 - Robert Mitchum Bridgeport Ct, actor (Winds of War, North & South) D. 1997
1927 - Andy Warhol pop artist (or 08081930) D. 1987
1976 - Soleil Moon Frye actress (Punky Brewster)
1990 - JonBenét Ramsey, American murder victim (d. 1996)
Famous Death’s
1914 - Ellen Louise Wilson, first wife of President Woodrow Wilson (b. 1860)
1945 - Maj. Richard Bong, Superior, Wisconsin, America's all time highest-scoring air ace, having shot down 40 Japanese aircraft during World War II
1978 - Pope Paul VI, became the first pope to visit six continents (b. 1897)
2004 - Rick James, died of drug overdose, musician(Super Freak) b. 1948
Joke of the Day
Driver's Eye Test
A Polish immigrant went to the DMV to apply for a driver's license. First, of course, he had to take an eyesight test.
The optician showed him a card with the letters 'C Z W I X N O S T A C Z.'
'Can you read this?' the optician asked.
'Read it?' the Polish guy replied, 'I know the guy.'
Something's Going Around the Convent
Mother Superior called all the nuns together and said to them, 'I must tell you all something. We have a case of gonorrhea in the convent.'
'Thank God,' said an elderly nun at the back. 'I'm so tired of chardonay.'
World Records
Heaviest Building Moved Intact
The heaviest building moved intact is the Fu Gang Building at West Bank Road Wuzhou, in the Guangxi Province of China. It was successfully relocated by the Guangzhou Luban Corporation on November 10, 2004.The building weighs 15,140.4 metric tones (33.3 million lb) and is 34 m (111 ft) tall. The building was moved 35.62 metres horizontally and it took eleven days to complete the relocation.
Highest Concrete Dam
Grande Dixence, on the river Dixence in Switzerland, is the highest concrete dam in the world. It was built between 1953 and 1961 to a height of 285 m (935 ft), with a crest length of 700 m (2,297 ft)
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