Trevor WholohanThis Day in History March 21st
March 20th 2007 22:54
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This Day in History
1788 - Fire destroyed 856 buildings in New Orleans LA, almost entire city lost.
1790 - Thomas Jefferson reports to President Washington as Secretary of State
1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa.
1874 - US Grant's daughter Nellie marries in the White House
1906 - Ohio passed a law that prohibited hazing by fraternities after two fatalities.
1910 - The Senate granted ex-President Teddy Roosevelt a yearly pension of $10,000.
1918 - During World War I, the Germans launched the Somme Offensive.
1928 - Charles Lindbergh is givin the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight
1941 - The last Italian post in East Libya, North Africa, fell to the British.
1943 - Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops.
1944 - General Eisenhower postpones S France invasion until after Normandy
1945 - During World War II, Allied bombers began four days of raids over Germany.
1951 - 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
1952 - Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever
1955 - NBC-TV presented the first "Colgate Comedy Hour".
1956 - 28th Academy Awards: "Marty", Ernest Borgnine & Anna Magnani win
1957 - Shirley Booth made her TV acting debut in "The Hostess with the Mostest"(CBS)
1963 - Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1969 - John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)
1970 - The first Earth Day proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor J. Alioto.
1971 - Two U.S. platoons in Vietnam refused their orders to advance.
1974 - An attempt was made to kidnap Princess Anne in London's Pall Mall.
1980 - Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they wouldn’t be in the Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
1980 - On the TV show Dallas, J.R. Ewing was shot(Who shot JR).
1984 - A Soviet submarine crashed into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan.
1984 - NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
1991 - 27 lost at sea when 2 US Navy anti-submarine planes collide
1994 - Dudley Moore was arrested for hitting his girlfriend.
1995 - New Jersey officially dedicated the Howard Stern Rest Area along Route 295.
2002 - Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged in their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2005 - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
Famous Birthday’s
1906 - John D Rockefeller III billionaire philanthropist (oil)
1918 - Howard Cosell Winston-Salem NC, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1946 - Timothy Dalton Colwyn Bay Wales, actor (James Bond, License to Kill)
1962 - Matthew Broderick, actor (Inspector Gadget, Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
1962 - Rosie O'Donnell comedienne (League of Their Own, Flintstones, The View)
Joke of the Day
Things You'd Love To Say (But Don't Dare)
- Ahhh...I see the screw-up fairy has visited us again...
- I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
- You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
- I have plenty of talent and vision, I just don't give a darn.
- Visualizing? I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
- I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you being competent.
- Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.
- The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
- Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
- I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
- How about never? Is never good for you?
- I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.
- I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
- I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
- I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.
- I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
- It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying.
- I can see your point, but I still think you're full of cow poop.
World Records
Longest time spent in a balloon
The endurance record for a gas and hot air balloon in his 19 days 21 hours 47 minutes. It was set by Brian Jones(UK) Bertrand Piccard (Switzerland) from March 1-21, 1999.
Greatest height to jump into an air bag
August 7, 1997, Stig Gunther(Denmark) jumped from a height of 342 feet off a crane onto an airbag measuring 39 x 49 x 15 feet. His impact speed was about 90 miles an hour
Highest bungee jump by altitude
Curtis Rivers(UK) performed a bungee jump from a hot air balloon at 15,200 feet over Puertollano, Spain on May 5, 2002.
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