Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes and World Records March 15th
March 15th 2007 01:04
44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
1867 - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1887 - Michigan appoints 1st salaried game & fish warden in US(William Alden Smith)
1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1913 - 1st Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1916 - General Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-months
1934 - Henry Ford restored the $5 a day wage.
1937 - 1st blood bank is established (Chicago IL)
1938 - Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1939 - German forces occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and part of Czechoslovakia.
1944 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino - Allied aircraft bomb the Nazi-held monastery and stage an assault.
1945 - Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
1952 - Greatest 24-hour rainfall begins; 73.6 in (187 cm) at La Réunion, Indian Ocean
1954 - "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1957 - 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 - In Montreal, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were married, it was her 5th.
1965 - LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote
1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1968 - The U.S. mint halted the practice of buying and selling gold.
1968 - LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1971 - CBS television announced it was going to drop "The Ed Sullivan Show."
1972 - Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama
1977 - The first episode of "Eight is Enough" was aired on ABC-TV.
1988 - NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1989 - The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
1990 - Gulf War: Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
1990 - The Ford Explorer was introduced to the public.
1991 - Four Los Angeles police are charged in the beating of Rodney King.
1998 - Titanic beats Star Wars for the #1 place at the box office, grossing $471 million.
2002 - In the U.S., Burger King began selling a veggie burger. The event was billed as the first veggie burger to be sold nationally by a fast food chain.
2002 - In Texas, Andrea Yates received a life sentence for drowning her five children.
Famous Birthday’s
1767 - Andrew Jackson Waxhaw SC, General/(D) 7th President (1829-37)
1927 - Carl Smith Maynardville TN, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1933 - Roy Clark country singer (Hee Haw)
1935 - Jimmy Lee Swaggart evangelist
1935 - Judd Hirsch Bronx NY, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People)
1941 - Mike Love, rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beach Boys-In My Room, Surfin' USA)
1955 - Dee Snider Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
1961 - Fabio [Lanzoni] Italy, romance novels model (Fabio After Dark)
Joke of the Day
Road Repair?
The road by my house was in bad condition. Every day, I dodged potholes on the way to work, so I was relieved to see a construction crew working on the road one morning.
Later, on my way home, I noticed the men were gone and no improvement in the road. Where the crew had been working stood a new, bright-yellow sign with the words, "Rough Road."
Hunting Flies
A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Hunting Flies," he responded.
"Oh!, Killed any?" she asked.
"Yep, 3 males, 2 Females," he replied.
Intrigued, she asked. "How can you tell?"
He responded, "3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone."
World Records
Longest joke telling marathon
Mike Hessman(USA) told 12,682 jokes in 24 hours on November 16-17, 1992
Longest ironing marathon
Euemia Statler(Switzerland) ironed continuously for 40 hours while standing at an ironing board on September 16-18, 1999. She ironed a total of 228 shirts.
Longest sustained ball controlled by a female
Claudia Martini(Brazil) juggled a regulation soccer ball for seven hours five minutes nonstop using her feet, legs, and head without the ball ever touching the ground on July 12, 1996.
Longest ski marathon
Christian Fluhr(Germany) skied nonstop for 168 hours at Westendorf, Austria on March 8-15, 2003. During that time she skied up combined distance of 4,101 miles.
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