Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes and World Records March 14th
March 14th 2007 01:45
1794 - Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1870 - California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
1900 - The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing US currency on the gold standard.
1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.
1918 - 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, San Francisco
1923 - Warren G Harding became 1st President filing income tax report and pay taxes
1939 - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1940 - 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX
1941 - Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1943 - Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.
1947 - The U.S. signed a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines.
1947 - Moscow announced that 890,532 German POWs were held in the U.S.S.R.
1951 - U.N. forces recaptured Seoul for the second time during the Korean War.
1958 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1960 - Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
1967 - John F. Kennedy's body was moved from a temporary grave to Arlington.
1971 - South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1971 - The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1972 - NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to Kansas City
1978 - An Israeli force of 22,000 invades south Lebanon.
1979 - A Britsh Hawker-Siddeley jet crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing 200 .
1980 - Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are on the US amateur boxing team)
1983 - OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1989 - Imported assault guns were banned in the U.S. under President Bush.
1992 - NY Mets Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
1995 - 1st time 13 people in space
1995 - Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space in a Russian rocket.
2002 - 125 vehicles are involved in a massive pile up on Interstate 75 in Ringgold, Ga.
2003 - Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail. Blake had been jailed for the murder of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley.
2004 - Pope John Paul II becomes the second-longest serving pope in history.
2004 - Vladimir Putin is re-elected president of Russia,
Famous Birthday’s
1854 - Thomas Riley Marshall (D) 28th Vice President (1913-21)
1864 - [John] Casey Jones RR engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones)Died 1900
1879 - Albert Einstein Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel Prize 1921)
1914 - Lee Petty, Nascar race car driver, he won the first Daytona 500 (d. 2000)
1933 - Michael Caine [Maurice J Micklewhite] London England, actor (Blame it on Rio, Alfie, Educating Rita)
1947 - Billy Crystal Long Beach NY, comedian (Saturday Night Live, City Slickers)
Joke of the Day
The Amazing Claude
It was entertainment night at the Senior Center and the Amazing Claude was topping the bill. People came from miles around to see the famed hypnotist do his stuff. As Claude went to the front of the meeting room, he announced, "Unlike most hypnotists who invite two or three people up here to be put into a trance, I intend to hypnotize each and every member of the audience." The excitement was almost electric as Claude withdrew a beautiful antique pocket watch from his coat . "I want you each to keep your eye on this antique watch. It is a very special watch. It's been in my family for six generations." He began to swing the watch gently back and forth while quietly chanting, "Watch the watch, watch the watch, watch the watch..." The crowd became mesmerized as the watch swayed back and forth, light gleaming off its polished surface. Hundreds of pairs of eyes followed the swaying watch, until the Amazing Claude said "You will follow my instructions and do everything I say", suddenly, the watch slipped from the hypnotist's fingers and fell to the floor, breaking into a hundred pieces.
"Shit" said the Hypnotist.
t took three days to clean up the senior center.
PMS and Lightbulbs
Q. How many women with PMS does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. One. ONE!! And do you know WHY it only takes ONE? Because no one else in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb. They don't even know the bulb is BURNED OUT. They would sit in this house in the dark for THREE DAYS before they figured it OUT. And once they figured it out they wouldn't be able to find the light bulbs despite the fact that they've been in the SAME CUPBOARD for the past SEVENTEEN YEARS. But if they did, by some miracle, find the light bulbs, TWO DAYS LATER the chair that they dragged from two rooms over to stand on to change the STUPID light bulb would STILL BE IN THE SAME SPOT!!!!!!! AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE CRUMPLED WRAPPER THE STUPID LIGHT BULBS CAME IN. WHY??? BECAUSE NO ONE IN THIS HOUSE EVER CARRIES OUT THE GARBAGE!!!! IT'S A WONDER WE HAVEN'T ALL SUFFOCATED FROM THE PILES OF GARBAGE THAT ARE 12 FEET DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE. THE HOUSE!! THE HOUSE!!! IT WOULD TAKE AN ARMY TO CLEAN THIS...
World Records
Heaviest ship pulled by teeth
Omar Hanapiev(Russia) pulled the 1,269,861 pound tanker Gunib a distance of 49 feet 2.4 inches using a rope connected only to his teeth on November 9, 2001 in
Russia Heaviest boat pulled
David Huxley(Australia) pulled the Delphin, weighing in at 2,217,847 pounds with a cargo of 175 cars plus passengers over a distance of 23 feet on November 19, 1998.
Greatest weight balanced on teeth
Frank Simon(Hungry) lifted a 136 pound motorcycle above his head and balance that on his teeth for 10 seconds in Madrid Spain on October 4, 2001
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