Trevor WholohanA Day in History, Jokes and World Records March 16th
March 16th 2007 01:18
1621 - Samoset, a Mohegan Cheif, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
1802 - The U.S. Congress established the West Point Military Academy in New York.
1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
1882 - The U.S. Senate approved a treaty allowing the US to join the Red Cross.
1916 - 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the border to join the hunt of Pancho Villa.
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty
1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 160
1945 - The Battle of Iwo Jima ends but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
1945 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in 20 min by bombers.
1950 - Congress voted to remove federal taxes on oleomargarine.
1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1964 - Paul Hornung and Alex Karras were reinstated to the NFL after an 11-month suspension for betting on football games.
1964 - Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
1968 - U.S. troops in Vietnam destroyed a village consisting mostly of women and children. The event is known as the My-Lai massacre. (450die)
1968 - Robert F Kennedy announces Presidential campaign
1972 - John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
1974 - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
1978 - Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 68.7 million gallons of oil off French coast 5th largest.
1984 - Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut, he dies in captivity
1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1985 - Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years
1988 - Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North & Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
1988 - US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1993 - A blizzard on the east coast of the United States kills 184
1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 - Miss. House of Rep. ratifies 13th Amendement-formally abolishes slavery
1998 - Rwanda began mass trials for 1994 genocide with 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders.
2001 - The only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves, according to a health survey.
Famous Birthday’s
1751 - James Madison Port Conway VA, (D-R), 4th US President (1809-17)
1905 - Marlin Perkins, American naturalist(Wild Kingdom) Died 1986
1926 - Jerry Lewis [Joseph Levitch]entertainer/fund raiser (MDA)(The Nutty Professor)
1942 - Chuck Woolery Kentucky, TV game show host (Love Connection)
1946 - Erik Estrada New York NY, actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)
Famous Death’s
1882 - Charles R Darwin English naturalist (Origin of species), dies at 73
1975 - T-Bone Walker blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64
1983 - Arthur Godfrey TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at 79
1991 - 7 members of Reba McIntire's band killed in a plane crash
Joke of the Day
A Frog on the Psychic Hotline
A frog telephones the Psychic Hotline and is told, "You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know everything about you."
The frog says, "This is great! Will I meet her at a party, or what?"
"No," says the psychic. "Next semester in her biology class."
Hotel Security
A friend and I stayed at a Chicago hotel while attending a convention. Since we weren't used to the big city, we were overly concerned about security.
The first night we placed a chair against the door and stacked our luggage on it. To complete the barricade, we put the trash can on top. If an intruder tried to break in, we'd be sure to hear him.
Around 1 a.m. there was a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" my friend asked nervously.
"Honey," a woman on the other side yelled, "you left your key in the door."
World Records
Longest spinning marathon
The record for the longest spinning(static bicycling) marathon belongs to Jennifer Johnston(USA) who bicycled for 73 hours 13 minutes continuously at the national fitness and racquet club, Klamath Falls, Oregon from November 8 -11 2003.
Most consecutive Texas skips
Andrew Rotz(USA) achieved 11,123 consecutive Texas skips at the national convention of the wild West arts club in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 11, 2003. The attempt took three hours 10 minutes to complete. A Texas skip is a vertical loop that is repeatedly pulled from one side of the body to the other, with each pass, the Roper jumps through the center of the loop.
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