Trevor WholohanThis Day in History May 25th
May 25th 2007 00:03
1721 - John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
1876 - 1st tie in National League history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
1900 - Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in the Olympics
1922 - Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an umpire
1927 - Ford Motor Company announced that the Model A would replace the Model T.
1928 - Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
1935 - Babe Ruth hit his final homerun, his 714th, and set a record that would stand for 39 years
1935 - Jesse Owens tied the world record for the 100-yard dash. He ran it in 9.4 seconds. He
also broke three other world track records.
1953 - In Nevada, the first atomic cannon was fired.
1961 - America was asked by U.S. President Kennedy to work toward putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade.
1967 - John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
1968 - Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"
1968 - The Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, MO, was dedicated.
1977 - An opinion piece by Vietnam verteran Jan Scruggs appeared in "The Washington Post." The article called for a national memorial to "remind an ungrateful nation of what it has done to its sons" that had served in the Vietnam War.
1978 - "Star Wars" released
1979 - An American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. 275 people were killed.
1981 - Al Unser becomes 1st Indianapolis 500 winner to be disqualified
1981 - Daredevil Daniel Goodwin scaled Chicago's Sears Tower, while wearing a "Spiderman" costume, in 7 1/2 hours.
1983 - "The Return of the Jedi" opened nationwide. It set a new record in opening day box office sales. The gross was $6,219,629.
1985 - Bangladesh was hit with a hurricane and tidal wave that killed more than 11,000 people.
1986 - Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York
1992 - Jay Leno debuted as the new permanent host of NBC's "Tonight Show."
1992 - New York Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inning, beat Mil Brewers 13-7
1997 - U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond became the longest-serving senator in U.S. history (41 years and 10 months).
2000 - The Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Inc. signed a long-term deal that ended a dispute over the airing policies of Time Warner. Time Warner had blacked out Disney programs for a 39 hour period the previous month due to the lack of an agreement.
2001 - Erik Weihenmeyer, 32, of Golder, CO, became the first blind climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2004 - U.S. warplanes helped Afghan forces pound Taliban militants in the mountains of southern Afghanistan, killing some 20 suspected insurgents at a recently discovered camp
Famous Birthday’s
1918 - Claude Akins Nelson GA, actor (BJ & Bear, Movin' On, Lobo) 1936 - Tom T Hall Olive Hill KY, country singer/writer (Harper Valley PTA) 1939 - Dixie Carter McLemoresville TN, actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night) 1963 - Mike Myers Canada, comedian (Saturday Night Live, Wayne's World)
Famous Death’s
1974 - Pam Morrison wife of Door's vocalist Jim, dies of drug overdose
1990 - Vic Tayback actor (Mel-Alice), dies of a heart attack at 60 1996 - Buck dog (Married with Children), dies at 13
Joke of the Day
A pompous minister was seated next to a hillbilly on a flight across the country. After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken. The hillbilly asked for a whiskey and soda.
The flight attendant then asked the minister if he would like a drink. He replied in disgust,
"I'd rather be savagely raped by brazen whores than let liquor touch these lips."
The hillbilly then handed his drink back to the flight attendant and said,
"Hell, me too. I didn't know we had a choice."
Curious Questions
If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack? Why do "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing? Why do "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing? Why do "tug" boats push their barges? Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there? Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?
World Records
Most Valuable Christmas Card
The most valuable Christmas card in the world was sold at auction in Devizes, Wiltshire, UK on November 24, 2001. The card, measuring 5 x 3 in was hand-coloured by the London illustrator John Calcott Horsley and sent by Bath's Sir Henry Cole to his grandmother in 1843. It was bought by an anoymous bidder for $28,000.
Most Valuable Fish
A Russian sturgeon weighing 2,706 lb was caught in the Tikhaya Sosna River in 1924. It yielded 540 lb of best-quality caviar, which today would be worth nearly $289,000.
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