Trevor WholohanThis Day in History April 6th
April 5th 2007 23:47
1722 - Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
1832 - Black Hawk War - The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the US.
1841 - John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States.
1868 - Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
1896 - In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
1909 - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1912 - Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
1916 - German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1916 - Charlie Chaplin became the highest-paid film star in the world when he signed a contract with Mutual Film Corporation for $675,000 a year. He was 26 years old.
1917 - US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1924 - Four planes leave Seattle on the first successful flight around the world.
1930 - Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
1931 - 1st Scottsboro (Alabama) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
1941 - Operation Castigo begins; Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.
1943 - British & US offensive at Wadi Akarit, South-Tunisia
1945 - Massive kamikaze-attack on US battle fleet near Okinawa
1953 - TV Dinner is 1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1958 - Arnold Palmer wins 1st major golf tournament-the Masters
1965 - L.B.J. authorized the use of ground troops in combat operations in Vietnam.
1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in orbit.
1967 - In South Vietnam, 1,500 Viet Cong attacked Quangtri and freed 200 prisoners.
1972 - In Vietnam, American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments
1973 - Roberto Clemente Day, Pirates retire his number
1974 - Yankees 1st home game at Shea Stadium, beat Indians 6-1
1980 - Post It Notes are introduced
1985 - William J. Schroeder became the first artificial heart recipient to be discharged from the hospital.
1987 - Dennis Levine began a two-year jail term for insider trading.
1987 - Sugar Ray Leonard took the middleweight title from Marvin Hagler.
1991 - Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1992 - Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
1994 - Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home
1999 - Carmen Electra filed for a divorce from Dennis Rodman. They had only been married six months.
Famous Birthday’s
1866 - Butch Cassidy [Robert Parker] US desperado (Wild Bunch Passage)
1914 - George Reeves Ashland KY, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind)
1931 - Ivan Dixon, actor (Car Wash, Sgt. James "Kinch" Kinchloe on Hogan's Heroes)
1937 - Billy Dee Williams, actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back, Double Dare) 1937 - Merle Haggard, country singer (Okie from Muskogee, Bar Room Buddies) 1945 - Bob Marley reggae musician/singer (Whalers-No Woman)
1967 - John Ratzenberger Bridgeport CT, actor (Cliff Clavin-Cheers, Made in America)
Joke of the Day
Did You Ever Wonder?- If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
- Why do we say something is out of whack? What's a whack?
- If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
- If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? Or do you get change?
- Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?
- Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.
- Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person drives a race car not called a racist?
- Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
- Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
- Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one?
- If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn'tit follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
Driving Home Very Drunk
It seems a gentleman had too much alcohol at a party, was heading home, and was pulled over by a state trooper. Upon being tested, the fellow couldn't walk a straight line any more than he could drive one, so the trooper wrote out a ticket and had just given it to the driver before an accident in the opposite lane took his attention to more important matters.
The inebriated driver, figuring that the trooper wasn't coming back to him, drove home and went to bed. he was awakened in the morning by a knock at the door, created by two more state troopers. "Are you Mr. Johnson?" the asked?
He admitted that he was. "Were you pulled over at Main Street last night for driving under the influence?"
Again, the man admitted that was he. "And what did you do then," the troopers asked." The man replied that he drove his car home and went to bed. "Where is your car now?" the troopers enquired.
The man answered that it was in the garage. "May we see the car?" asked the troopers.
The man answered, "Sure," and opened the garage. Inside the garage was the state troopers car.
World Records
Most valuable guitar
A Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by a host of music legends fetched US$2.7 million (then £1.57 million) at a charity auction for Reach Out To Asia at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Doha, Qatar, on November 17, 2005. Stars who signed the guitar included Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page and Brian May
Most valuable pair of jeans
An original pair of Levi Strauss & Co (USA) 501 jeans aged over 115 years old were sold by Randy Knight (USA) to an anonymous collector (Japan) for $60,000 (£33,230) through internet auction site eBay on June 15, 2005.
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