Trevor WholohanThis Day in History August 17th
August 16th 2007 23:00
This Day in History
1790 - The capital city of the U.S. moved to Philadelphia from New York City.
1863 - Federal batteries and ships bombarded Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC, harbor during the Civil War.
1877 - F.P. Cahill became the first person to be killed by "Billy the Kid."
1894 - John Wadsworth of Louisville set a major league record when he gave up 28 base hits in a single game.
1903 - Joseph Pulitzer donated a million dollars to Columbia University. This started the Pulitzer Prizes in his name.
1915 - Mob lynches Jewish businessman Leo Frank in Cobb County, Ga after death sentence for murder of 13-year-old girl commuted to life
1933 - Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1940 - Hitler orders total blockade of Great-Britain
1943 - U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17O at attack on Regensburg/Schweinfurt
1955 - Hurricane Diane, following hurricane Connie floods Connecticut River killing 190 & doing $1.8 billion damage
1960 - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1961 - The Communist East German government completed the construction of the Berlin Wall
1962 - 18-year-old Peter Fechter was killed by East German border guards when he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector.
1962 - Beatles replaces Pete Best with Ringo Starr
1976 - An earthquake and tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1979 - 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1985 - A year-long strike began when 1,400 Geo. A. Hormel and Co. meat packers walked off the job.
1987 - Rudolph Hess died after apparently committing suicide. Hess was the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle.
1993 - Jack Kevorkian was charged in Wayne County, MI with assisting in the suicide of Thomas Hyde. Kevorkian was later acquitted.
1996 - A military cargo plane crashed in Wyoming killing eight crewmembers and a Secret Service employee. The plane was carrying gear for U.S. President Clinton.
1996 - Ross Perot was announced to be the Reform Party's presidential candidate. It was the party's first-ever candidate.
1998 - U.S. President Clinton admitted to having an improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
1999 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Izmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2003 - Mazen Dana, Reuters cameraman, was shot dead by US troops in Iraq while he filmed outside Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad. Soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
2004 - Britain brought terrorism charges against 8 al Qaeda suspects tied to recent alerts about US financial sites
Famous Birthday’s
1786 - Davy Crockett US, frontiersman/adventurer/polit ician, Died 1836
1892 - Mae West Bkln, actress (Go up & see her sometime), Died 1980
1921 - Maureen O'Hara Dublin Ireland, actress (Miracle on 34th St)
1929 - Francis Gary Powers US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)Died 1977
1943 - Robert De Niro NYC, actor (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Backdraft, Cop Land )
1959 - David Koresh, Waco TX, American Cult Leader/Criminal, Died 1993
1960 - Sean Penn actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Famous Death’s
1915 - Leo Frank lynched for raping 12 year old in Georgia
1920 - Ray Chapman hit in the head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch, dies
1979 - Vivian Vance actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 71
1987 - Rudolph Hess Nazi, dies at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison
1988 - Franklin D Roosevelt Jr (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies on 74th birthday
1990 - Pearl Bailey broadway actress/singer, dies at 72 from a heart attack
Joke of the Day
A Smart Move
Four guys are driving cross-country together. One is from Idaho, one from Iowa, one from Illinois and one from Wisconsin. A bit down the road, the man from Idaho starts to pull potatoes from his bag and throws them out the window. The man from Iowa turns to him and asks, "What the hell are you doing?" The man from Idaho says, "Man, we have so many of these damned things in Idaho, they're laying around on the ground - I'm sick of looking at them!" A few miles further down the road, the man from Iowa begins pulling ears of corn from his bag and throwing them out the window. The man from Wisconsin asks "What are you doing that for?" The man from Iowa replies, "Man, we have so many of these damned things in Iowa, I'm sick of looking at them!" Inspired by the others, the man from Wisconsin opens the car door and pushes out the man from Illinois.
Deep Thoughts about Pigs & Sheep
- Do you think sheep know when you're pulling the wool over their eyes?
- Does the person who inventories sheep often fall asleep on the job?
- If a pig is sold to the pawn shop is it then called a ham-hock?
- If we make sweaters out of a sheep's hair, what do the sheep use to make sweaters?
- If you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear what can you make with it?
- If you pushed a pig down a hill would he be a sausage roll?
- What do pigs say when they don't want to do something? Would it be 'Yea when humans fly'?
- What do sheep count when they can't get to sleep?
- Why can't pigs look up into the sky?
- Why do pigs have curly tails?
- Why do we call them guinea pigs when they are neither from Guinea nor are they pigs?
- Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
- Why is it that only pigs and humans can get sunburn?
- Why is it that the first thing we try to do after killing a pig is to cure it?
- Would a small pig be called a hamlet?
World Records
Largest passenger liner (cruise ship)
The largest passenger liner (cruise ship) is Royal Caribbean International's Freedom of the Seas, which made its maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York, USA on May 3, 2006. At over three times the size of Titanic (46,000 grt), the 154,407-grt ship is 209 ft high, has a length of 1,112 ft (or 54 ft longer than the Eiffel tower), a beam (width) of 183.7 ft and space for 4,328 passengers and 1,412 crew. All 1,817 cabins have internet access and a plasma-screen TV, and there is even the first ever onboard surf-park, and the tallest onboard climbing wall at 208 ft above sea level! The liner was ordered in September 2003 and built at Aker Finnyards drydock in Turku, Finland to an approximate cost of $947 million it will be based in Miami, Florida, USA, for cruises around the Caribbean.
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