Trevor WholohanThis Day in History May 31st
May 30th 2007 23:35
1879 - New York's Madison Square Garden opened.
1884 - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patented "flaked cereal."
1889 - In Johnstown, PA more than 2,200 people died after the South Fork Dam collapsed.
1927 - Ford Motor Company produced the last "Tin Lizzie" in order to begin production of the Model A.
1941 - 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
1941 - 41 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton)
1949 - Charley Lupica begins stay on 4-foot-square platform platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, and he comes down 117 days later)
1950 - Due to rain, Indianapolis 500 shortened to 345 miles, Johnny Parson wins
1955 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered that all states must end racial segregation "with all deliberate speed."
1961 - Chuck Berry's amusement park, Berryland in St Louis, opens
1962 - Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel. Eichmann was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in the Nazi Holocaust.
1962 - "Tell It To Groucho" last airs on CBS-TV
1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
1975 - Fred Newman makes 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition
1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline was finished after 3 years of construction.
1985 - 41 Tornados in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York & Canada kill 88 & injure 1,000
1988 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan arrived in Moscow in an effort to relieve Cold War tensions. He was the first president to do so in 14 years.
1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
1990 - Seinfeld starring Jerry Seinfeld, debuts on NBC as Seinfeld Chronicles
1991 - Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
1994 - The U.S. announced it was no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union.
1995 - Bob Dole singled out Time Warner for "the marketing of evil" in movies and music. Dole later admitted that he had not seen or heard much of what he had been criticizing.
2003 - In North Carolina, Eric Robert Rudolph was captured. He had been on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for five years for several bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing.
2004 - A foul-up during routine software update at the Royal Bank of Canada leads to a three-day misplacement of 10 million account balances.
2005 - W. Mark Felt admits in the magazine Vanity Fair that he is the anonymous source
Deep Throat in the Watergate scandal.
Famous Birthday’s
1912 - Barbara Pepper New York NY, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Rogue Tavern)
1930 - Clint Eastwood San Fransisco CA, actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor of Carmel CA
1941 - Johnny Paycheck Greenfield OH, singer (Take This Job & Shove It)
1950 - Gregory Harrison Catalina CA, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run)
1950 - Tom Berenger Chicago IL, actor (Major League 1&2, Sniper 1,2&3, Platoon )
1961 - Lea Thompson Rochester Minnesota, actress (Back to the Future, Caroline In The City, Casual Sex, Space Camp)
1965 - Brooke Shields New York NY, model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan)
1973 - Tyrone Williams NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
Famous Death’s
1962 - Adolf Eichmann war criminal, hanged for crimes against Jews in WWII at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56
1982 - Jack Dempsey former heavyweight boxing champion/actor, dies at 86
1997 - Rosie Will Monroe WWII icon (Rosie the riveter), dies at 76
Joke of the Day
A busload of politicians were driving down a country road, when suddenly the bus ran off the road and crashed into an old farmer's barn.
The old farmer got off his tractor and went to investigate. Soon he dug a hole and buried the politicians. A few days later, the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed bus and asked the old farmer where all the politicians had gone.
The old farmer told him he had buried them.
The sheriff asked the old farmer, "Lordy, were they ALL dead?"
The old farmer said, "Well, some of them said they weren't, but you know how them crooked politicians lie."
World Records
Most valuable tooth
An upper right canine tooth extracted from the mouth of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I of France), in 1817 sold for the hammer price of $19,140 at the Dominic Winter auction in Wiltshire, UK, on November 10, 2005. The tooth is believed to have been extracted due to scurvy (recorded in 1816) by the physician Barry O'Meara, during Napoleon's exile on the South Atlantic British island of St Helena following his defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Most Valuable Typewriter
Ian Fleming's gold-plated typewriter, which was commissioned by the writer in 1952, was sold for $89,229 at Christie's in London, UK, on May 5, 1995. Fleming is best known as the creator of James Bond, the suave spy-hero of his best-selling novels.
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