Trevor WholohanA Day in History
November 18th 2006 01:50
This Day in History Saturday November 18th
1820 US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer discovers Antarctica
1883 Standard time zones established by railroads in US & Canada
1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
1913 Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1940 George Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb
1949 Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, named NL's MVP
1954 Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1966 US RC bishops did away with rule against eating meat on Fridays
1970 Singer Jerry Lee Lewis divorces his third wife, Myra Gail, after 12 years.
1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon
1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak 58 games
1976 Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
1987 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed major legislation provided the death penalty for drug traffickers who kill.
1990 NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
1990 Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
1991 France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
1991 Muslim Shites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
1993 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
1993 North-Siberia record cold for November (-55 degrees C or -67 degrees F)
1999 In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a huge bonfire under construction collapses.
1999 In Jasper, Texas, 24-year old Shawn Allen Berry is sentenced to life in prison, becoming the third person convicted in the racially-motivated death of James Byrd, Jr..
2001 The Nintendo GameCube was released
2005 Robert Blake was found liable for the wrongful death of his wife in a civil trial. The jury has ordered him to pay $30 million.
2005 Domino day 2005, 4,002,136 pieces falled down.
Famous Birthday’s November 18th
1923 Alan B Shepard Jr East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3, Ap 14)
1942 Linda Evans Hartford, actress (Dynasty, Big Valley, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1962 Kirk Hammett rock guitarist Metallica
1968 Owen Wilson, actor(Armageddon, I Spy, Wedding Crashers, Starsky & Hutch)
Famous Death’s
1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., politician an John, Robert and Ted’s father (b. 1888)
1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader suicide (b. 1931)
1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907)
2002 - James Coburn, actor(The Great Escape, Mavrick, Payback) (b. 1928)
Joke of the Day - A Male Blonde Joke
A BLONDE GUY GETS HOME EARLY FROM WORK AND HEARS STRANGE NOISE
UPSTAIRS IN THE BEDROOM. HE RUSHES UPSTAIRS TO FIND HIS WIFE NAKED
ON THE BED, SWEATING AND PANTING. "WHAT'S UP?" HE SAYS.
"I'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK," CRIES THE WOMAN. HE RUSHES
DOWNSTAIRS TO GRAB
THE PHONE, BUT JUST AS HE'S DIALING, HIS 4-YEAR-OLD SON COMES UP
AND SAYS
"DADDY! DADDY! UNCLE TED'S HIDING IN YOUR CLOSET AND HE'S GOT NO CLOTHES ON!"
THE GUY SLAMS THE PHONE DOWN AND STORMS UPSTAIRS INTO THE BEDROOM, PAST HIS SCREAMING WIFE, AND RIPS OPEN THE WARDROBE DOOR.
SURE ENOUGH, THERE IS HIS BROTHER, TOTALLY NAKED, COWERING ON THE CLOSET FLOOR.
"YOU ROTTEN S.O.B.," SAYS THE HUSBAND, "MY WIFE'S
HAVING A HEART ATTACK AND YOU'RE RUNNING AROUND NAKED SCARING THE KIDS!!
World Records - Smallest Newspaper Back in the 1930s, Brazil's Leonidas Schwindt had a burning ambition to make it big in the world of newspapers. His tiny micro journal Vossa Senhoria became big news in South America, and the paper's diminutive dimensions soon began making headlines. The original editions measured 7 x 10 cm (2.75 x 3.94 in), but when Leonidas' daughter took over the paper in 1985, she shrank it further still, to a tiny 2.5 x 3.5 cm (0.98 x 1.38 in). The weekly newspaper has a circulation of around 5,000 copies, and each edition has around 16 pages.
Fastest Eater(Mammals)
The fastest eater amongst mammals is the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata). Research published in February 2005 by Dr Kenneth Catania (USA) at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA, recorded an average `handling time' of 230 milliseconds with the fastest time being 120 milliseconds.
1820 US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer discovers Antarctica
1883 Standard time zones established by railroads in US & Canada
1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
1913 Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1940 George Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb
1949 Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, named NL's MVP
1954 Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1966 US RC bishops did away with rule against eating meat on Fridays
1970 Singer Jerry Lee Lewis divorces his third wife, Myra Gail, after 12 years.
1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon
1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak 58 games
1976 Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
1987 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
1988 - U.S. President Reagan signed major legislation provided the death penalty for drug traffickers who kill.
1990 Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
1991 France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
1991 Muslim Shites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland
1993 Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness
1993 North-Siberia record cold for November (-55 degrees C or -67 degrees F)
1999 In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas A&M University when a huge bonfire under construction collapses.
1999 In Jasper, Texas, 24-year old Shawn Allen Berry is sentenced to life in prison, becoming the third person convicted in the racially-motivated death of James Byrd, Jr..
2001 The Nintendo GameCube was released
2005 Robert Blake was found liable for the wrongful death of his wife in a civil trial. The jury has ordered him to pay $30 million.
2005 Domino day 2005, 4,002,136 pieces falled down.
Famous Birthday’s November 18th
1923 Alan B Shepard Jr East Derry NH, Rear Adm USN/astro (Merc 3, Ap 14)
1942 Linda Evans Hartford, actress (Dynasty, Big Valley, Beach Blanket Bingo)
1962 Kirk Hammett rock guitarist Metallica
1968 Owen Wilson, actor(Armageddon, I Spy, Wedding Crashers, Starsky & Hutch)
Famous Death’s
1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (b. 1829)
1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., politician an John, Robert and Ted’s father (b. 1888)
1978 - Jim Jones, American cult leader suicide (b. 1931)
1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907)
2002 - James Coburn, actor(The Great Escape, Mavrick, Payback) (b. 1928)
Joke of the Day - A Male Blonde Joke
A BLONDE GUY GETS HOME EARLY FROM WORK AND HEARS STRANGE NOISE
UPSTAIRS IN THE BEDROOM. HE RUSHES UPSTAIRS TO FIND HIS WIFE NAKED
ON THE BED, SWEATING AND PANTING. "WHAT'S UP?" HE SAYS.
"I'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK," CRIES THE WOMAN. HE RUSHES
DOWNSTAIRS TO GRAB
THE PHONE, BUT JUST AS HE'S DIALING, HIS 4-YEAR-OLD SON COMES UP
AND SAYS
"DADDY! DADDY! UNCLE TED'S HIDING IN YOUR CLOSET AND HE'S GOT NO CLOTHES ON!"
THE GUY SLAMS THE PHONE DOWN AND STORMS UPSTAIRS INTO THE BEDROOM, PAST HIS SCREAMING WIFE, AND RIPS OPEN THE WARDROBE DOOR.
SURE ENOUGH, THERE IS HIS BROTHER, TOTALLY NAKED, COWERING ON THE CLOSET FLOOR.
"YOU ROTTEN S.O.B.," SAYS THE HUSBAND, "MY WIFE'S
HAVING A HEART ATTACK AND YOU'RE RUNNING AROUND NAKED SCARING THE KIDS!!
World Records - Smallest Newspaper Back in the 1930s, Brazil's Leonidas Schwindt had a burning ambition to make it big in the world of newspapers. His tiny micro journal Vossa Senhoria became big news in South America, and the paper's diminutive dimensions soon began making headlines. The original editions measured 7 x 10 cm (2.75 x 3.94 in), but when Leonidas' daughter took over the paper in 1985, she shrank it further still, to a tiny 2.5 x 3.5 cm (0.98 x 1.38 in). The weekly newspaper has a circulation of around 5,000 copies, and each edition has around 16 pages.
Fastest Eater(Mammals)
The fastest eater amongst mammals is the star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata). Research published in February 2005 by Dr Kenneth Catania (USA) at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA, recorded an average `handling time' of 230 milliseconds with the fastest time being 120 milliseconds.
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