Trevor WholohanThis Day in History August 15th
August 14th 2007 23:09
This Day in History
1877 - Thomas Edison makes the first-ever recording - "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
1914 - The Panama Canal was officially opened to commercial traffic as an American ship sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
1935 - Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed in an airplane crash near Point Barrow,AK
1939 - "The Wizard of Oz" premiered in Hollywood, CA. Judy Garland became famous for the movie's song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
1943 - Because of his special talent to use food scraps in both unusual and appetizing recipes, the U.S. War Department awarded Sgt. Edward Dzuba the Legion of Merit.
1945 - The Allies proclaimed V-J Day a day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
1961 - East German workers began construction of the Berlin Wall.
1965 - Beatle's Shea Stadium concert
1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
1970 - Mrs. Pat Palinkas became the first woman to ‘play’ in a pro football game when she held the ball for the Orlando, FL, Panthers.
1971 - U.S. President Nixon announced a 90-day freeze on wages, rents and prices.
1974 - Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
1983 - Six-month-old Lisa Harap of Queens Village, NY became the youngest identifiable living person to appear on a cover of "TIME" magazine.
1987 - $100 million in damage was done in the Chicago area when 14 inches of rain fell.
1991 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
1992 - Four people were killed and 20 were injured in a shooting spree outside a club in Miami, FL.
1992 - Vietnam blamed Hollywood for creating the "myth" concerning the issue of U.S. servicemen still being held prisoner in Indochina.
1994 - Ilich Ramirez Sanchez was jailed in France. He was the international terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal."
1997 - The U.S. Justice Department decided not to prosecute FBI officials in connection with the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege in Idaho. The investigation dealt with an alleged cover-up.
2000 - A group of 100 people from North Korea arrived in South Korea for temporary reunions with relatives they had not seen for half a century. Also, a group of 100 South Koreans visited the North.
2001 - Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own. They had discovered two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.
2002 - Some 600 families of 9/11 victims files a $3 trillion lawsuit against Saudi princes, foreign banks, charities and the government of Sudan for funding the terrorist networks that launched the 2001 attacks.
Famous Birthdays
1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
1912 - Julia Child Pasadena Calif, chef (French Chef)Died 2004
1972 - Ben Affleck Actor(Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Daredevil)
Famous Death’s
1935 - Will Rogers, humoprist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55
1935 - Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
2005 - James Dougherty, first husband of Marilyn Monroe (b. 1921)
Joke of the Day
You might be a Wisconsinite if...
...snow tires come standard on all your cars.
...you refer to the Packers as "we".
...you have gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week.
...You know what cow-tipping is.
...you learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike.
..."Down South" to you means Chicago.
...a brat is something you eat.
...you have no problem spelling Milwaukee.
...you consider Madison exotic.
...you got a passport to go to Minnesota.
...you don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
...your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.
...your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed.
...you can actually pronounce Oconomowoc.
Late to work
Tom had this problem of getting up late in the morning and was always late for work. His boss was mad at him and threatened to fire him if he didn't do something about it.
So Tom went to his doctor who gave him a pill and told him to take it before he went to bed.
Tom slept well and in fact beat the alarm in the morning by almost two hours. He had a leisurely breakfast and drove cheerfully to work.
"Boss", he said, " The pill actually worked!"
"That's all fine" said the boss, " But where were you yesterday?"
World Records
Largest Aircraft Carrier
The warships with the largest full load displacement in the world are the Nimitz class US Navy aircraft carriers USS Nimitz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Carl Vinson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, John C. Stennis, Harry S. Truman and Ronald Reagan, the last five of which displace approximately 98,550< ton (217.2 million lb). They are 1,092 ft long, have 4.49 acres of flight deck, and are driven by four nuclear-powered 194,000 kW (260,000 shp) geared steam turbines. Top speeds can reach in excess of 30 knots 34.5 mph. The ships are powered by two nuclear reactors firing four engines. Measuring 1,092 x 252 ft, they're home to some 3,200 crew, plus 2,480 aircraft personnel. A standard Nimitz carrier will hold 85 aircraft, plus two or three Sea Sparrow missile launchers for use in conflict situations. The ships cost a whopping $4.5 billion each to build. Chefs on board the USS Nimitz prepare up to 20,000 meals a day!
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