Trevor WholohanThis Day in History August 20th
August 19th 2007 22:59
This Day in History
1619 - The 1st African slaves arrived to North America aboard a Dutch privateer. It docked in Jamestown, Virginia, with twenty human captives among its cargo.
1781 - George Washington began to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis.
1804 - Sergeant Charles Floyd dies three months into the voyage of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the only death on the Expedition.
1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declared the U.S. Civil War over.
1866 - The National Labor Union in the U.S. advocated an eight-hour workday.
1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe P,goud-France)
1914 - German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium during WW I
1918 - Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1920 - The first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Mich.
1938 - Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam - a record that still stands.
1939 - The National Bowling Association was founded in Detroit, MI.
1940 - France fell to the Germans during World War II.
1945 - Tommy Brown of the Brooklyn Dodgers became the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league ball game. Brown was 17 years, 8 months and 14 days old.
1949 - Indians and White Sox played at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland before the largest crowd, 78,382 people, to see a nighttime major-league baseball game.
1953 - It was announced by the Soviet Union that they had detonated a hydrogen bomb.
1955 - Col. Horace A. Hanes reached a speed of 822.135 miles per hour in a Super Sabrejet.
1958 - Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1960 - USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
1964 - A $1 billion anti-poverty measure was signed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
1969 - All four Beatles were together in the recording studio for the final time as they finished the Abbey Road LP.
1974 - Congress votes to reduce aid to South Vietnam from $1 Billion to $700 Million.
1974 - Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1977 - Voyager 2 was launched, the spacecraft was carrying a 12 inch copper phonograph record with greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
1986 - Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead & then himself.
1988 - Iran-Iraq War: A cease-fire is agreed to after almost eight years of war.
1989 - Jose and Kitty Menendez were shot to death by their sons Lyle and Erik.
1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
1998 - U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches 50 cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a 25 cruise missile attacks on suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
2002 - A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein took over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and giving up.
Famous Birthday’s
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
1833 - Benjamin Harrison(23rd President)was born. He was the grandson of former 9th President William H. Harrison, who died one month into his term in 1841.
1907 - Alan Reed NYC, actor (Mr Adams & Eve/voice (Fred Flintstone)
1923 - Jim Reeves, country/pop singer( Adios Amigo, Welcome To My World) d. 1964
1931 - Don King boxing promoter, shocking hairstyle
1942 - Isaac Hayes, composer, singer, songwriter, and actor (Shaft)
1946 - Connie Chung TV newscaster (Connie Chung Tonight, NBC, CBS Evening News)
1948 - Robert Plant rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
Joke of the Day
Thoughts On Aging
- The aging process could be slowed down if it had to work its way through Congress.
- You're getting old when you're sitting in a rocker and you can't get it started.
- You're getting old when you wake up with that morning-after feeling, and you didn't do anything the night before.
- The cardiologist's diet: if it tastes good, spit it out.
- Doctor to patient: I have good news and bad news: the good news is that you are not a hypochondriac.
- It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
- You know you're getting old when you stop buying green bananas.
- Last Will and Testament: Being of sound mind, I spent all my money.- When you lean over to pick something up off the floor, you ask yourself if there is anything else you need to do while you are down there.
- You find yourself in the middle of the stairway, and you can't remember if you were downstairs going up or upstairs going down.
Mary Lou
Lisa came up behind her husband while he was drinking his morning coffee and slapped him on the back of the head.
"Ow!" Larry exclaimed. "What was that for?"
"I found a piece of paper in your pants with the name 'Mary Lou' written on it," she said angrily. "You better have a good explanation!"
"Calm down, honey," Larry said. "I was at the dog track last week and that was the name of the dog I bet on."
Later that same day, Lisa walked up to her husband and smacked him hard on the forehead when he walked in the door from work.
"What the heck was that for?" he demanded.
"Your dog just called."
World Records
Largest Spider
The largest known spider is a male goliath bird eating spider collected by members of the Pablo San Martin expedition at Rio Carvo, Venezuela in April 1965. It had a record Lake span of 11 inches(28 cm) sufficient to cover a dinner plate. It had fangs 1 inch long.
Oldest Tortoise
The greatest age recorded for a tortoise is at least 188 years old, achieved by a Madagascar radiated tortoise that was presented to the Tonga royal family by Captain Cook(UK) in either 1773 or 1777. The animal died in 1965.
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