Trevor WholohanThis Day in History April 2nd
April 2nd 2007 00:19
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This Day in History
1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain
1792 - Congress establishes Philadelphia mint; US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & $2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime
1865 - CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond VA
1866 - President Andrew Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia
1870 - Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US President
1877 - 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1902 - 1st motion picture theater opens (Los Angeles CA)
1912 - Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1917 - President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1931 - Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game.
1932 - Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
1941 - Aircraft carrier USS Hornet with Jimmy Doolittles B-25 departs from San Fran.
1944 - Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1945 - 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa
1951 - General Eisenhower assumed command of all allied forces in Europe & Asia.
1954 - Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced
1956 - "The Edge of Night" and "As the World Turns" debuted on CBS-TV.
1958 - The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA.
1958 - Wind speed reaches 279 mph(450 kph)in tornado in Wichita Falls TX (record)
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King began the first nonviolent campaign in Birmingham, AL.
1968 - Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
1969 - Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
1972 - Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine.
1972 - 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection", Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win
1973 - ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean presidential election
1978 - TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1978 - Velcro was 1st put on the market
1982 - In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH
1986 - On a TWA airliner flying a bomb exploded under a seat killing four Americans.
1987 - The speed limit on U.S. interstate highways was increased to 65 miles per hour.
1989 - An editorial in the "New York Times" declared that the Cold War was over.
1990 - Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons.
1992 - Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering.
1992 - John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos, Gotti gets life in prison.
1995 - The costliest strike in professional sports history ended when baseball owners agreed to let players play without a contract.
2005 - James Stewart Jr. becomes first African American to win a major motorsports event.
2006 - Over 60 tornadoes breakout, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.
Famous Birthday’s
1875 - Walter Chrysler founded Chrysler car company
1908 - Buddy Ebsen Belleville IL, actor (Jed-Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones)
1914 - Sir Alec Guinness, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Obi-Wan Kenobi-Star Wars)
1917 - Dabbs Greer Fairview MO, actor (Gunsmoke, Little House on Prairie)
1920 - Jack Webb Santa Monica CA, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet)
1954 - Ron Palillo Cheshire CT, actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter)
1965 - Rodney King Sacramento CA, black motorist beaten by Los Angeles cops
1975 - Adam Rodriguez, actor(Eric Delko in CSI: Miami, NYPD Blue, Law & Order)
Famous Death
2005 - Pope John Paul II dies at the age of 84. His funeral is broadcast to every corner of the globe through the modern media. Millions of Catholic pilgrims journey to Rome, Italy to pay final respects.
Joke of the Day
Debate About the Box
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are trying to set up a fenced-in area for some sheep, but they have a limited amount of building material. The engineer gets up first and makes a square fence with the material, reasoning that it's a pretty good working solution.
"No no," says the physicist, "there's a better way." He takes the fence and makes a circular pen, showing how it encompasses the maximum possible space with the given material.
Then the mathematician speaks up: "No, no, there's an even better way." To the others' amusement he proceeds to construct a little tiny fence around himself, then declares:
"I define myself to be on the outside."
Your Single
A woman was shopping at her local supermarket where she selected a half-gallon of 2% milk, a carton of eggs, a quart of orange juice, a head of lettuce, a 2 lb. bag of coffee and a pound of bacon. As she was unloading her items at the checkout counter, a drunk standing behind her said, "You must be single"! The woman, startled by this proclamation yet intrigued by the derelict's intuition (because indeed, she was single), looked at her six items and wondered how her purchases led him to his conclusion. Curiosity getting the better of her, she said, "You are absolutely correct but how on earth did you know that?" To which the drunk replied, "BECAUSE YOU'RE UGLY"!
World Records
Longest surviving headless chicken
On September 10, 1945, a chicken named Mike had its head chopped off but went on to survive for 18 months. Mike’s owner, Lloyd Olsen(USA), fed and watered the headless chicken directly into its gullet with an eye dropper. Mike eventually choked to death on a corn kernel in An Arizona motel.
Greatest ever life-saving operation at sea
The greatest ever rescue at sea was that of 2,735 people from the American aircraft carrier CV-2 USS Lexington on May 8, 1942 after it had been some between Australia and New Caledonia in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Greatest rescue at sea without loss of life
All 2,689 people on board the American vessel Susan B. Anthony survived when it was sunk off the Normandy France on June 7, 1944.
1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain
1792 - Congress establishes Philadelphia mint; US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & $2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime
1865 - CSA President Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond VA
1866 - President Andrew Johnson ends war in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee & Virginia
1870 - Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for US President
1877 - 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1902 - 1st motion picture theater opens (Los Angeles CA)
1912 - Titanic undergoes sea trials under its own power
1917 - President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1931 - Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game.
1932 - Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
1944 - Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1945 - 1st US units reach east coast of Okinawa
1951 - General Eisenhower assumed command of all allied forces in Europe & Asia.
1954 - Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced
1956 - "The Edge of Night" and "As the World Turns" debuted on CBS-TV.
1958 - The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA.
1958 - Wind speed reaches 279 mph(450 kph)in tornado in Wichita Falls TX (record)
1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King began the first nonviolent campaign in Birmingham, AL.
1968 - Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin
1969 - Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
1972 - Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine.
1972 - 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection", Gene Hackman & Jane Fonda win
1973 - ITT pleads guilty to asking CIA to affect Chilean presidential election
1978 - TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)
1978 - Velcro was 1st put on the market
1982 - In exhibition game A's pitcher Steve McCatty comes to bat using a 15" toy bat (under Billy Martins orders), protesting disallowing of DH
1986 - On a TWA airliner flying a bomb exploded under a seat killing four Americans.
1987 - The speed limit on U.S. interstate highways was increased to 65 miles per hour.
1989 - An editorial in the "New York Times" declared that the Cold War was over.
1990 - Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons.
1992 - Mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering.
1992 - John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos, Gotti gets life in prison.
1995 - The costliest strike in professional sports history ended when baseball owners agreed to let players play without a contract.
2005 - James Stewart Jr. becomes first African American to win a major motorsports event.
2006 - Over 60 tornadoes breakout, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.
Famous Birthday’s
1875 - Walter Chrysler founded Chrysler car company
1908 - Buddy Ebsen Belleville IL, actor (Jed-Beverly Hillbillies, Barnaby Jones)
1914 - Sir Alec Guinness, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Obi-Wan Kenobi-Star Wars)
1917 - Dabbs Greer Fairview MO, actor (Gunsmoke, Little House on Prairie)
1920 - Jack Webb Santa Monica CA, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet)
1954 - Ron Palillo Cheshire CT, actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter)
1965 - Rodney King Sacramento CA, black motorist beaten by Los Angeles cops
1975 - Adam Rodriguez, actor(Eric Delko in CSI: Miami, NYPD Blue, Law & Order)
Famous Death
2005 - Pope John Paul II dies at the age of 84. His funeral is broadcast to every corner of the globe through the modern media. Millions of Catholic pilgrims journey to Rome, Italy to pay final respects.
Joke of the Day
Debate About the Box
An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are trying to set up a fenced-in area for some sheep, but they have a limited amount of building material. The engineer gets up first and makes a square fence with the material, reasoning that it's a pretty good working solution.
"No no," says the physicist, "there's a better way." He takes the fence and makes a circular pen, showing how it encompasses the maximum possible space with the given material.
Then the mathematician speaks up: "No, no, there's an even better way." To the others' amusement he proceeds to construct a little tiny fence around himself, then declares:
"I define myself to be on the outside."
Your Single
A woman was shopping at her local supermarket where she selected a half-gallon of 2% milk, a carton of eggs, a quart of orange juice, a head of lettuce, a 2 lb. bag of coffee and a pound of bacon. As she was unloading her items at the checkout counter, a drunk standing behind her said, "You must be single"! The woman, startled by this proclamation yet intrigued by the derelict's intuition (because indeed, she was single), looked at her six items and wondered how her purchases led him to his conclusion. Curiosity getting the better of her, she said, "You are absolutely correct but how on earth did you know that?" To which the drunk replied, "BECAUSE YOU'RE UGLY"!
World Records
Longest surviving headless chicken
On September 10, 1945, a chicken named Mike had its head chopped off but went on to survive for 18 months. Mike’s owner, Lloyd Olsen(USA), fed and watered the headless chicken directly into its gullet with an eye dropper. Mike eventually choked to death on a corn kernel in An Arizona motel.
Greatest ever life-saving operation at sea
The greatest ever rescue at sea was that of 2,735 people from the American aircraft carrier CV-2 USS Lexington on May 8, 1942 after it had been some between Australia and New Caledonia in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Greatest rescue at sea without loss of life
All 2,689 people on board the American vessel Susan B. Anthony survived when it was sunk off the Normandy France on June 7, 1944.
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