Trevor WholohanThis Day in History April 5th
April 5th 2007 00:02
This Day in History
1614 - Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe
1621 - Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England
1768 - 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (New York NY)
1792 - U.S. President George Washington cast the first presidential veto.
1896 - 1st modern Olympic Games officially open in Athens
1923 - Firestone Company puts their inflatable tires into production .
1925 - Babe Ruth collapses in North Carolina due to an ulcer at Dodgers/Yankees game.
1931 - Fox drops John Wayne from its roster of actors, LoneStar picked him up.
1933 - First operation to remove a lung was performed at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis
1936 - Tupelo MS virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die, 4th worst tornado in US.
1939 - Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory
1943 - Poon Lim(A Japanese fishing boat captain) found after being adrift 133 days
1944 - WWII: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town Kleisoura are executed by the Germans
1949 - A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, United States, kills 77 people.
1954 - Elvis Presley records his debut single, "That's All Right"
1955 - Winston Churchill resigns as British PM, because of failing heath.
1956 - Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba.
1963 - Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me)
1964 - 1st driverless trains run on the London Underground
1968 - US marine base Khe San Vietnam, overran
1969 - 100,000 antiwar demonstrators march in New York City.
1971 - Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1971 - US Lieutenant Wiliam Calley (My Lai Massacre) sentenced to life
1972 - North Vietnamese launch second front of Nguyen Hue Offensive
1973 - NFL adopts jersey numbering system (ie quarterbacks, 1-19)
1974 - Then tallest building, World Trade Center opens in NYC (110 stories)
1984 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)
1987 - Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
1990 - Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity
1991 - US begins air drops to Kurdish refugees in Northern Iraq
1996 - Marlon Brando makes anti-semitic remarks about hollywood on Larry King
2005 - ABC News anchor Peter Jennings informs his viewers that he has lung cancer. This was his final broadcast.
2006 - The first case of H5N1 avian flu was confirmed in the UK after tests on a dead swan found in Cellardyke, Fife.
Famous Birthday’s
1900 - Spencer Tracy Milwaukee WI, actor (Father's Little Dividend, Boy’s Town)
1908 - Bette Davis Lowell MA, famous eyes (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
1916 - Gregory Peck La Jolla CA, actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur)
1937 - Colin Powell Bronx NY, General/advisor to President George Bush
1957 - Vince Gill Norman OK, country singer (When I Call Your Name)
1963 - Jimmy Osmond singer (Donny & Marie Show)
Famous Death’s
1869 - Daniel Bakeman last surviving veteran of the Revolutionary War, dies at 109
1964 - Douglas MacArthur US General (Pacific theater-WWII), dies at 84
1975 - Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist Chinese leader, dies from a heart attack at 87
1976 - Howard Hughes reclusive billionaire, dies at 72
1992 - Sam Walton Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart), dies of cancer at 74
Joke of the Day
High-Tech
Three Ladies were in a hot tub-One German, One Japanese, and an American Hilbilly. Suddenly a beeping sound blared and the German woman pressed her forearm to stop the beeping. The others looked at her questioningly. "That was my pager", she said. "I have a microchip under the skin of my arm".A few minutes later, the phone rang. The Japanese woman lifted her palm to her ear and answered it. The other two woman gave her the same questioning look and she said, "That was my cell phone. I have a microchip in my hand". Well, the American hilbilly felt EXTREMELY low tech and not to be outdone by the other two, got out of the hot tub and went to the bathroom. When she came back, she had toilet paper hanging from her behind. "Look at that", she said. "I must be getting a FAX"!
Gathering Chickens
The farmer's son was returning from the market with the crate of chicken's his father had entrusted to him, when all of a sudden the box fell and broke open. Chickens scurried off in different directions, but the determined boy walked all over the neighborhood scooping up the wayward birds and returning them to the repaired crate. Hoping he had found them all, the boy reluctantly returned home, expecting the worst. "Pa, the chickens got loose," the boy confessed sadly, "but I managed to find all twelve of them." "Well, you did real good, son," the farmer beamed. "You left with seven."
World Records
Longest survival without food and water
The longest recorded case of survival without food and water is 18 days by Andreas Mihavecz(Austria), then aged 18. He was put into a holding cell on April 1, 1979 in a local government building in Hochst, Austria, but totally forgotten by the police. On April 18, 1979 he was discovered posted death.
Longest survival with heart outside body
Christopher wall(USA, born August 19, 1975) is the longest known survivor of the condition ectopia cordis, in which the heart lies outside the body at birth. The mortality rate is high, with most patients not living beyond 48 hours, but Wall still lives with this condition.
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