Trevor WholohanThis Day in History 27th
August 26th 2007 23:01
This Day in History
1667 - Earliest recorded hurricane in US (Jamestown Virginia)
1776 - British defeat Americans under General George Washington in Battle of Long Island
1859 - Edwin Drake struck oil at 69 feet near Titusville, Pennsylvania--the world's first successful oil well.
1896 - Anglo-Zanzibar War: the shortest war in world history (9:02 to 9:40 , 38 minutes long) between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1912 - Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan
1921 - The owner of Acme Packing Company bought a pro football team for Green Bay, WI. J.E. Clair paid tribute to those who worked in his plant by naming the team the Green Bay Packers. (NFL)
1928 - Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, signed by sixty nations.
1939 - First flight of the Heinkel He 178, the first modern jet aircraft.
1939 - Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig.
1942 - The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese submarine damages the USS Saratoga
1945 - American troops landed in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government at the end of World War II.
1962 - Mariner 2 was launched by the United States. In December of 1962 the spacecraft flew past Venus. It was the first space probe to reach the vicinity of another planet.
1966 - Francis Chichester begins the 1st solo sail around the world
1966 - Race riot in Waukegan Illinois
1972 - In the heaviest bombing in four years, U.S. aircraft flatten North Vietnamese barracks near Hanoi and Haiphong as part of ongoing Operation Linebacker
1974 - NY Met Benny Ayala hits a home run in his 1st at bat
1975 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world
1983 - Marietta, GA wins 1983 Little League World Series
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the first citizen to go into space would be a teacher. She died in the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.
1992 - Federal troops were ordered to Florida for emergency relief due to Hurricane Andrew.
1996 - California Governor Pete Wilson signed an order that would halt state benefits to
illegal immigrants.
1998 - In New York city, Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali appeared in a U.S. Federal Court to face charges of bombing attacks at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
1999 - The final crew of the Russian space station Mir departed the station to return to Earth. Russia was forced to abandon Mir for financial reasons.
2001 - The U.S. military announced that an Air Force RQ-1B "Predator" aircraft was lost over Iraq. It was reported that the unmanned aircraft "may have crashed or been shot down."
2001 - Work began on the future site of a World War II memorial on the U.S. capital's historic national Mall. The site is between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial
2003 - American and Afghan forces killed about a dozen insurgents and recaptured a mountain pass in southeastern Afghanistan.
Famous Birthday’s
1906 - Ed Gein, Plainfield, Wis serial killer would skin his victims(d. 1984)
1908 - Lyndon B Johnson (D) 36th President of the United States (1963-1969)
1908 - Martha Raye [Margaret Reed], Butte Mont, actress (Martha Raye Show)
1910 - Mother Teresa, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1997)
1948 - Sgt. Slaughter, 6ft 3in 286lb WWF & AWA professional wrestler
1952 - Pee-wee Herman aka Paul Reubens, actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
Famous Death’s
1984 - Billy Sands actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan blues guitarist, dies in a helicopter crash at 35
Joke of the Day
6 Double Vodkas
A man walked into a bar and ordered 6 double vodkas. The bartender said
"Wow, you must have had a hell of a day!". The man replied "Yes, I just found out my oldest son is gay!"
Two days later, the same man came into the same bar and ordered another 6 double vodkas. Again, the bartender asked about his troubles. "I just found out my youngest son is gay too!"
Next day, in comes the same man who orders the same 6 double vodkas. The bartender says "Good Lord! Doesn't anyone in your house like women?"
The man replies, "Yea, my wife!"
The Biggest Scam
The Senate is investigating deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly and make them think they will receive a bunch of money, but in reality they never see any of it.
The most popular of these scams is called Social Security.
World Records
Largest Oyster In 1999, a common oyster taken from Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, weighed in at 8 pounds(3.7kg) and measured 12 inches long and 5 inches wide.
Largest Crocodile
The largest reptile in the world is the saltwater crocodile, which ranges throughout the tropical regions of Asia and the Pacific. The largest crocodile being over 23 feet long. There are several authenticated reports of specimens up to 33 feet in length.
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