Trevor WholohanThis Day in History April 13th
April 13th 2007 00:32
[SIZE=2]1796 - 1st elephant arrives in US from Bengal India
1860 - 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento CA
1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates
1902 - James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1908 - Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's & Phillies)
1928 - 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von Hünefeld-Köhl)
1933 - The first flight over Mount Everest was completed by Lord Clydesdale.
1934 - 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments
1941 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1941 - German troops captured Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial.
1943 - James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest and Floyd G. Hamilton take part in Alcatraz escape attempt.
1945 - German troops massacre more than 1000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany. The atrocity is discovered two days later by Americans.
1954 - Hank Aaron debuted with the Milwaukee Braves.
1957 - Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in the US is temporarily halted
1959 - Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics from voting for communists
1960 - France becomes the 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
1963 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds got his first hit in the major leagues.
1964 - Sidney Poitier became the first black to win an Oscar for best actor.
1970 - Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" an oxygen tank explodes
1972 - The first strike in the history of major league baseball ended. Players had walked off the field 13 days earlier.
1976 - The U.S. Federal Reserve introduced $2 bicentennial notes and coins.
1980 - "TASS" denounced US boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics
1984 - Pete Rose becomes 1st in National League to get 4,000 hits in a career
1984 - U.S. President Reagan sent emergency military aid to El Salvador without congressional approval.
1986 - Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record
1992 - Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
1997 - Tiger Woods became the youngest person to win the Masters Tournament at the age of 21. He also set a record when he finished at 18 under par.
1998 - Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep, gave natural birth to a healthy baby lamb.
1999 - Jack Kervorkian was sentenced in Pontiac, MI, to 10 to 25 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Thomas Youk. Youk's assisted suicide was videotaped and shown on "60 Minutes" in 1998.
[B]Famous Birthday’s
1743 - Thomas Jefferson Shadwell VA, (D-R) 3rd US President (1801-09)Died 1826
1852 - Frank W Woolworth 5¢ & 10¢ King (Woolworths) Died 1919
1926 - Don Adams, actor/comedian (Maxwell Smart-Get Smart, Check it Out)Died 2005
1945 - Tony Dow Hollywood CA, actor (Wally-Leave it to Beaver)
1946 - Al Green Forest City AR, singer (Lets Stay Together)
1950 - Terry Lester, actor (Royce-As The World Turns, Jack Abbott-Young & Restless)
1970 - Rick Schroder Staten Island NY, actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, NYPD Blue, 24)
1992 - Jet Travolta daughter of John Travolta & Kelly Preston
Joke of the Day
Mailman’s Last Day
It was the mailman's last day on the job after 35 years of carrying the mail through all kinds of weather to the same neighborhood. When he arrived at the first house, he was greeted by the whole family who gave him an envelope stuffed with money.
At the second house, he received a box of cigars.
The third house gave him chocolates and all sorts of gourmet desserts and at the fourth house, he was greeted by a hot blonde in a very revealing neglige. She took him by the hand, gently led him to the bedroom, where she proceeded to make the most PASSIONATE love to him that he had ever had in his life. When they were done, she led him to the kitchen and treated him to homeade eggs, bacon, blueberry waffles, and steaming hot coffee. When he lifted his cup to take a sip, he noticed a dollar bill underneath. He said to the hot blonde, "That was the most amazing sex I have ever had, but I have to ask. What's the dollar for?" She replied, "Well...I told my husband that today was your last day on the job after 35 years and asked his advice on what to get for you.
He said, "Screw him, give him a dollar! And the breakfast was all my idea"!
Flies on a Log
Beth Vorhees of public TV fame said her daughter, Diana, a third-grader, was to give a demonstration speech at school. She planned to demonstrate how to make "Flies on a Log" which consists of peanut butter spread on a stalk of celery with raisins on it. The morning of her speech, Diana took out everything she needed and put it on the kitchen counter, ready to take it to school. Unfortunately, when the girl and her mother left for school, they forgot to take the items.
Diana's mother dropped her off and went home to get the stuff. The celery was gone. The raisins were gone. The peanut butter had been put away.
"Oh," said Diana's father. "I had that stuff for breakfast." Diana's faithful mother rushed to gather up more ingredients and rush them to school with an apology to the teacher and an explanation of what happened. "Gee," said Diana's teacher, "that's a first -- 'My dad ate my homework.'"
World Records
Longest journey by wheelchair
Rick Hansen, paralyzed from the waist down in 1973 as a result of a motor accident, wheeled his wheelchair 24, 901.55 miles(40,075km) through four continents and 34 countries. He started his journey from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on March 21, 1985 and arrived back there on May 22, 1987.
Greatest distance covered in 24 hours by wheelchair
Raphael Emilio de Leon Lebron(Dominican Republic) wheeled himself over 112.5 miles in 24 hours on December 13-14, 2001.
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