Trevor WholohanThis Day in History August 21st
August 20th 2007 23:34
This Day in History
1858 - 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1878 - American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
1901 - Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching & spitting on an ump
1922 - Curly Lambeau & Green Bay Football Club granted NFL franchise
1929 - The Chicago Cardinals traveled out of town for training camp. They were the first professional football team to do this.
1931 - Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR (Yanks beat Browns 11-7)
1943 - Japan evacuated the Aleutian island of Kiaska. Kiaska had been the last North American foothold held by the Japanese.
1945 - U.S. President Truman ended the Lend-Lease program that had shipped about $50 billion in aid to America's Allies during World War II.
1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state. U.S. President Eisenhower also issued the order for the 50 star flag.
1963 - In South Vietnam, martial law was declared. Army troops and police began to crackdown on the Buddhist anti-government protesters.
1971 - Laura Baugh, at the age of 16, won the United State's Women's Amateur Golf tournament. She was the youngest winner in the history of the tournament.
1972 - Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs
1972 - US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
1975 - Rick & Paul Reuschel become 1st brothers to pitch a combined shut out
1982 - Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
1984 - Clint Eastwood was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1986 - In Cameroon, a nation in West Africa, toxic gas erupted from a volcanic lake. The gas killed more than 1,700 people.
1987 - A U.S. Marine was convicted for spying for the first time. Sergeant Clayton Lonetree was giving secrets to the KGB while working as a guard at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He served eight years in a military prison.
1992 - Randall Weaver, a neo-Nazi leader, opened fire on U.S. marshals from his home in Idaho. Weaver surrendered 11 days later ending the standoff. During the standoff a deputy marshal, Weaver's wife and his son were killed.
1993 - NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft. The fate of the spacecraft was unknown. The mission cost $980 million.
1997 - Hudson Foods Inc. closed a plant in Nebraska after it had recalled 25 million pounds of ground beef that was potentially contaminated with E. coli 01557:H7. It was the largest food recall in U.S. history.
1998 - Samuel Bowers, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted in Hattiesburg, MS, of ordering a firebombing that killed civil rights activists in 1966.
2003 - The US military reported that Ali Hassan al-Majid ("Chemical Ali"), No. 5 on the list of most-wanted Iraqis, had been captured.
2004 - Pakistani officials said they had arrested at least five al-Qaida-linked terrorists who were plotting suicide attacks on government leaders and the U.S. Embassy.
Famous Birthday’s
1906 - Friz Freleng animator (Bugs Bunny-Emmy 1982)
1930 - Princess Margaret England (Sister of Queen Elizabeth)
1936 - Wilt Chamberlain NBA great center (LA Laker, 5 time MVP)
1938 - Kenny Rogers singer (Lady) actor (Coward of the County)
1959 - Jim McMahon NFL QB (Chicago Bears, SD Chargers, Phila Eagles)
1962 - Matthew Broderick actor (Ferris Buehler, Biloxi Blues, Inspector Gadget)
Joke of the Day
If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was and always will be yours.
If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.
If it just sits in your living room and messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money and never behaves as if you actually set it free in the first place -- you either married it or gave birth to it!
(For the Farmers)Signs that your Cow has Mad Cow Disease
- Your cow quits the family dairy business and applies for a job at Burger King.
- She starts giving you Milk of Amnesia.
- Your cow joins the Hell's Angels because, hey, it already has a cool leather jacket.
- Your cow starts smoking its grass rather than eating it.
- Your cow spends half the day sitting in the Lotus Position chanting "MOO" backwards.
- Your cow insists that it can give you chocolate milk if you started feeding it Hershey bars
- Your cow asks you to brand it again but only if you'll wear something sexy this time.
- Your cow purposely blinds itself with a dart and yells "Bullseye"!
Ethical Dilemma
A lawyer charged a man $1,000 for legal services. The man paid him in cash with crisp new $100 bills. After the client left, the lawyer discovered that two bills had stuck together -- he'd been overpaid by $100. The ethical dilemma for the lawyer:
Should he tell his partner?
World Records
Longest Canoe
The Maori war canoe Nga Toki Matawhaorua, which was shaped with adzes at Kerikeri Inlet, New Zealand, in 1940, is 117 ft 1 in long and 6 ft 7 in wide. It can carry a total of 135 people – 80 paddlers and 55 passengers.
Tallest Mast On A Ship
The 246.7 ft long luxury yacht Mirabella V, which was launched in November 2003, has a single carbon fibre mast 295 ft tall. The largest ever single-masted yacht, or sloop, Mirabella V was built by Vosper Thornycroft in Southampton, UK, and is available for hire at a rate of $250,000 per week.
Largest Yacht
The largest yacht is the Saudi Arabian royal yacht Abdul Aziz, which is 482 ft long. Built in Denmark and completed on June 22, 1984, at Vospers Yard, Southampton, England, it was estimated in 1987 to be worth over $100 million.
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